Böcker av Gary Gerani

What appears on the surface as a featherweight teenage romp is in reality a hotbed for social and political debate. Patty Duke's Billie is celebrating its 50th birthday as a pop culture oddity. And there's no better time to explore this neo-musical's unique thesis on social change, political activism and gender identification disorder... all to the infectious Beat of mid-'60s rock and roll! Authors/debaters Gary Gerani and Casey Bond take readers through every stage of Billie, from its beginnngs as Broadway's celebrated Time Out for Ginger to its current status as a cult classic. Along the way social experts and college professors weigh in with their views pertaining to this study's central question: Is super-athlete Billie a role model for feminism or, because of her final, fateful, give-up-sports-and-put-on-that-pink-dress decision, a betrayer of same? Even Billie herself, Patty Duke, shares her thoughts on the subject. In addition to thematic analysis and behind-the-scenes revelations, rare photographs, many never before published, add to the overall fun of Patty Duke as Billie: Role Model or Sell-Out? So get in the game, readers... and take a stand!

On March 3, 1969, audiences were captivated by the television "COLOR" broadcastof an intelligent, erotic, stunning motion picture, from Universal MCA and NBC TV. Doctor David Sorell, Psychiatrist, investigates the story of a young tortured woman; bedeviled, seduced, and violated; being pulled over to the lip of Hell. How can you fight the unreal? The unseen?? The unbelievable??? "Broadcast once - Then... gone! The first made-for-televison horror film... As if blown away by a demon wind in the night, this intriguing teleplay has vanished! Forgotten by most and now only a speculative memory from another era!! In this book, you will read, you will bring back the memory and the story that once was!! Between these pages, it lives again!!! Rakashi lives yet again!!!! You will relive, and try not to "FEAR NO EVIL."Also contains commentary by Gary Gerani on early television horror films.