Hello!

This week marks the debut of what will surely be a promising new feature at Trailers from Hell — a ‘video column’ from director, sage and TFH uber-guru Allan Arkush.

Whether taking about film, music or TV, Arkush has always been a gotta-like raconteur; we’ve checked out all of his older TFH video blogs. Contributing more inside insight and wisdom, the first ‘episode’ of The Last Reel With Allan Arkush is a mini-essay on the old-fashioned moviegoing experience, with a tour of the theater offerings to be had in Hollywood back in the early 1970s, when Arkush first came to town.

Some of the video column was filmed on site … I think ace film editor Arkush may be creating it himself. Episode One’s title is, You Still Going to the Movies?

And correspondent “B” comes ups with a column item that we at first thought was a gag — a link to an article about an unsold pilot for a TV series based on the Billy Wilder movie  Some Like It Hot.

The article is by Mark Evanier on his ‘News From Me’ page. The pilot TV show was made in 1961, didn’t sell and then disappeared just like dozens of other failed pilots adapted from popular movies.

The weird thing here is that stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon help launch the pilot, playing their characters from the movie. After one scene, they are transformed into actors Vic Damone and Dick Patterson.

Sounds like a big mistake, or a rumor waiting to be disproven. But the pilot is real …. Mark Evanier’s article contains a link, so we can all see it for ourselves …

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson