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Robert Logan, who succeeded Edd “Kookie” Byrnes as the valet parking attendant on the famed ABC detective show 77 Sunset Strip and starred as the dad in a series of return-to-nature adventure movies, has died. He was 82.

Logan died May 6 of natural causes in Estero, Florida, his son, Anthony Logan, told The Hollywood Reporter. His family chose to wait until this week to announce his death.

After Gerald Lloyd Kookson III was promoted from parking attendant at Dino’s Lodge — a nightclub owned by Dean Martin — to partner and private investigator at the detective agency next door, the Brooklyn-born Logan joined Warner Bros. Television’s 77 Sunset Strip to play his replacement, another hipster named J.R. Hale.

On the swanky series that starred Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Roger Smith as the crime solvers Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer, respectively, Logan portrayed Hale on 50 episodes of the show’s final two seasons,...

Busta Rhymes is bringing together the producer Mount Olympus for his upcoming LP. On Monday, Busta announced that Swizz Beatz, Timbaland, and Pharrell Williams will be joining him to produce his upcoming LP, Blockbusta, which drops on Nov. 24.

“I’m so grateful that you chose me to be a part of your legacy,” Timbaland said in a video where the team discussed the album. “Timeless.”

“You really feel illuminated. This illumination is good because I think people are going to be able to get and feel that,” Pharrell added.

After the quick Zoom-like chat,...

By Tom Lisanti

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Gail Gerber passed away on March 2, 2014 due to complications from lung cancer. Gerber was born on October 4, 1937 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and began studying ballet at age seven. Extremely talented, at fifteen she became the youngest member of Les Grandes Ballets Canadiennes in Montreal. Quitting the ballet troupe in the late 1950s and abandoning a husband who was a jazz musician, she moved to Toronto to work as an actress. She appeared on stage and in many live CBC television dramas. As part of the act of legendary vaudeville entertainers Smith and Dale (who were the basis for The Sunshine Boys), she appeared on The Wayne and Schuster Show and The Ed Sullivan Show. Moving to Hollywood in 1963, the talented blonde with a flair for comedy quickly snagged the lead role in the play Under the Yum Yum Tree...

Former '60s starlet Gail Gerber who co-starred in such movies as Girl Happy, Beach Ball, and Village of the Giants  will be the special guest at the Darinka Prose & Poetry Reunion this Tuesday May 5th at Dixon Place in New York City's East Village.  She will be reading passages about meeting writer Terry Southern on the set ofThe Loved One  and about why Rip Torn did not make it into Easy Rider  from her upcoming memoirTrippin' with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember .  Click here http://www.dixonplace.org/index2.html for more details.   Web site: www.sixtiescinema.com  ...

By Tom Lisanti

To get in a warm weather mood with summer not approaching fast enough, here is a look at Hollywood surf movies from a different and albeit biased perspective. Gay men are always looking for gay subtext in movies and TV, and I am no exception. Am I reading more into these films? Probably—but it was sure a lot of fun doing the research.

The Sixties beach movie craze began with Gidget (1959) starring Sandra Dee and James Darren, a fictionalized look at teenager Kathy Kohner’s surfing escapades in Malibu during the mid-Fifties. It was groundbreaking as the movie contributed to the mass dissention of surfers on the beaches of Malibu and started a series of surf-theme films such as Gidget Goes Hawaiian and Ride the Wild Surf. The surf movie soon morphed into the beach-party film, whose heyday was from 1963 through 1965, where surfing was only used...