Arte Johnson

            On Friday morning I worked out the chords for the chorus and the first line of the first verse of “Hey Mister Zippo” by Serge Gainsbourg. 

            I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the first of two sessions. I think the action is getting too high and so I might have to take it back to The Twelfth Fret for a set-up. 

            I weighed 87.4 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I sanded another quarter of my bathroom ceiling. What a mess and a pain in the neck! I had to change my shirt and socks afterwards. I had a surgical mask and sunglasses on but the rest of my face was white when I was finished. That’s half the ceiling. Once I get to the walls it will be easier. 

            I weighed 87.7 kilos before lunch. In the afternoon I took a bike ride and extended it to Vistek to ask about cameras to upgrade my video taking capability from the Nikon Coolpix. I went to Yonge and Bloor, then south to Dundas, west to Parliament, south to Queen and west to Vistek. They also had the Sony ZV-E10 and I was surprised they had it on sale. Downtown and Henry’s gave me the impression that the price on that Sony product is set and no one can sell it for other than what Sony says, which is $1000. But Vistek is an authorized Sony dealer and the sale price of $898 is also set by Sony so I made a good choice to come to Vistek last. After tax I paid $1014.74. It came with a memory card and I don’t know if it was a mistake but I got two identical battery packs. I told the salesperson that I bought my last film camera there over thirty years ago. She said they don't even sell film cameras anymore. 

            I weighed 87.3 kilos at 18:00, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the evening since April 3. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 19:15. In the Movie Maker project for the song “Joanna Dancing (Electric)" I finally managed to synchronize the Audacity audio with the video. Next I’ll save a copy as “September 3, 2023 Song Practice B” just in case there are any other songs from that date I want to make videos from. Then in “Joanna Dancing (Electric)” I’ll cut out all the other songs. I haven’t fully decided if I’m going to upload the electric version of the song to YouTube. I’ll see what I can do with the audio balance and the effects first. If it doesn’t sound horrible I might as well upload it. 

            In the Movie Maker project for my song “Angeline” I tried to edit the copy of the silent film Torrent at the end of the timeline but it froze and went black. Nothing from the main video crashed but just that movie. I figured it might be a memory issue and so I shut down Google Chrome and it seemed to work. I was able to cut out some parts of the film that have no mimed singing. 

            In the story so far Greta Garbo’s character is a very good singer but also a girl who loves the simple life with her family in their little house in Spain. She is in love with a young man whose mother has foreclosed on the mortgage of the family home. The family has decided to take advantage of the opportunity of their homelessness to take Greta’s character to Paris to seek her fortune as a singer. 

            I had a potato with gravy and four pork ribs while watching the last two episodes of the first season of Bewitched. 

            In the first story Samantha takes her mother to lunch at a place called Mario’s. Endora says it’s the best Italian food she’s had in the 20th Century. Mario tells them that his business is failing because of pizza. Pizza is so popular that it is pushing all of the other great Italian dishes out of the public consciousness. Samantha decides to help by using magic to add an extra page to the next day’s paper. The full page reads “Eat at Mario’s” with the address at the bottom. But Darrin’s client William H. Baldwin of the Perfect Pizza chain sees the ad and feels ripped off because all he got was a quarter page ad. Then Samantha is watching the TV spot that Darrin arranged for Perfect Pizza when Endora makes the announcer also advertize for Mario’s. But when Baldwin sees that he says he’s going to sue and he’s also canceling his contract with McMann and Tate. Larry Tate tells Darrin that he has a fear of being rejected and he’s been in therapy to treat it for seven years. When his psychiatrist told him he was cured and didn’t need to see him anymore he felt rejected. Baldwin goes to see Mario to find out the name of his advertizing agency. Mario says he has none and when he finds out Baldwin sells pizza he throws him out. Samantha and Endora decide to use witchcraft to save Darrin from losing the Perfect Pizza account. They follow Baldwin when he’s walking on the street and put sandwich boards on all the pedestrians to advertize for Perfect Pizza. Then they use sky writing. Then they even have a dog asking an ice cream vendor for Perfect Pizza. Samantha tells Baldwin that it’s part of a McMann and Tate campaign and so he renews his contract. 

            In the second story we are introduced to Samantha’s cousin Edgar who is an Elf. In this weird world Elves are apparently related to witches. Edgar doesn’t speak and his only power seems to be invisibility. He has always looked out for Samantha and now he considers the fact that she is married to a mortal as her being in trouble. He starts playing tricks on Darrin and the worst of them are played to sabotage the Shelley Shoes account. Darrin is made to fall, to fumble and to cause Mr. Shelley to fall as well. Samantha tries to drug Edgar with sleep inducing hot chocolate to keep him out of Darrin’s hair but he switches the mugs and causes Samantha to fall asleep instead. Finally Samantha appeals to Edgar’s desire to make Samantha happy and convinces him that Darrin is her happiness. Edgar proceeds to play the same tricks on McMann and Tates’s competitor. He also changes Darrin’s ads to an Elvin theme and Shelley loves it. 

            This was the only appearance of Edgar in the series. He was played by Arte Johnson, who was using Art E. Johnson when someone misunderstood and billed him as “Arte”. He liked it and kept it. He got his first job by stepping into an audition lineup for a Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and won a small part. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Radio Journalism. He worked for Viking Press and performed in New York nightclubs. He was in the cast of the short-lived sitcoms Sally and Don’t Call Me Charlie. He co-starred on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973 and later Baggy Pants and the Nitwits. He created over sixty comical characters. He starred in the first season of the children’s show Hot Fudge. He was a regular celebrity guest panelist on The Gong Show. He did the voice of Mister Jaw on The Pink Panther Show and Rhubarb on The Houndcats. He hosted the short-lived game show Knockout. He co-starred in Love at First Bite. He played Finian O’Toole on General Hospital.

May 4, 1994: Tom, Steve and Arjan backed me up onstage

Thirty years ago today 

            On Wednesday evening I took my daughter with me to the Fat Albert’s open stage. Tom Smarda, Steve Lowe, and Arjan backed me up and they each did their own sets as well.

Marilyn Hanold

            On Thursday morning I memorized the fourteenth verse of “Les frères” by Boris Vian. There is one verse left to nail down. 

            I finished memorizing “Hey Mister Zippo” by Serge Gainsbourg. Tomorrow I’ll search for the chords but I doubt if anyone has posted them and so I’ll start working them out. 

            I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice for the final session of four. 

            I weighed 87.4 kilos before breakfast. 

            My daughter hinted a few months ago that a rice cooker would be very convenient for her. So with her birthday approaching I searched on Amazon and found one that also does some other things too. I spent a little over $180 and it’s being shipped to arrive in Montreal on Saturday. 

            I applied for the Federal dental plan. 

            I weighed 87.3 kilos before lunch. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and stopped at Henry’s Cameras to enquire about upgrading from the Nikon Coolpix for a camera to shoot the videos of my song practice. The guy I spoke with agreed with the guy I talked with yesterday at Downtown Camera that the Sony ZV-E10 is the best option at my price range. I’ll check Vistek tomorrow and if they don’t convince me otherwise I’ll probably buy the Sony ZV-E10 there and then. The price is set by Sony so it will be $1000 wherever I go.

            I stopped at Freshco on my way home where I bought five bags of grapes, two packs of strawberries, some bananas, a pack of five-year-old cheddar, a pack of frozen chicken kebobs, a box of spoon size shredded wheat, salsa, two packs of Full City Dark Coffee, and hair conditioner. 

            I weighed 86.9 kilos at 18:45, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the evening since last Thursday.

            I was caught up on my journal at 19:30. 

            In the Movie Maker project for “Joanna Dancing (Electric)” I almost got the Audacity audio synchronized with the video. But then I realized that I was lining them up for only the first take and that I didn’t do a complete version until the third take. So I edited it so the video begins just before the third take but that put the audio way out of sync again. So I worked on lining them up once more and was just a split second off before dinner. I should have it done tomorrow. 

            I grilled pork ribs but there were too many for the oven pan and so I cooked seven of them in the frying pan. I had three ribs with a potato and gravy while watching season 1, episodes 33 and 34 of Bewitched. 

            The first story begins with Darrin asleep on the couch while Samantha is watching him. Endora appears and starts criticizing his appearance. Samantha argues that he looks just fine but Endora uses magic to change Darrin to show how he could be improved. She straightens his nose and changes his hair, then Samantha joins in and gives him a moustache. Before she can change Darrin back to normal she runs to the kitchen to deal with an overflowing coffee pot. Then the doorbell rings and Endora disappears. Darrin wakes up and answers the door to greet Gladys Kravitz but when Gladys sees Darrin’s changed face she starts to scream and runs away. Then Darrin looks in the mirror and freaks out. Samantha changes him back and tries to explain but the incident leaves him feeling insecure about his appearance. Samantha knows that it won’t help for her to reassure him because he’ll think she’s biased. So she transforms into a voluptuously beautiful French woman and approaches Darrin where he is having a drink at the bar. She tells him her name is Michelle and she starts to praise his appearance. Then she invites him to her studio but he turns her down because he is married. But it turns out that Darrin knew all along that Michelle was really Samantha. The next day when he asks for a secretary to take dictation and a woman he’s never seen before named Barbara walks in, he thinks that is Samantha as well. He kisses her just when Samantha walks in and has to explain that he knew about Michelle and thought Barbara was another trick. Darrin asks Samantha what if Barbara had responded positively to his kiss. Samantha asks, “What would she want with a funny looking guy like you?” 

            In the second story Ed Wright is running against John Cavanaugh the incumbent counselor for Morning Glory Circle. Ed is somewhat Kennedyesque in his manner and he is running on the platform that Cavanaugh is corrupt. All of the projects he has undertaken as counselor have been worked on only by his own companies and they have failed. Darrin is impressed with Wright and helps him with an ad campaign. Wright makes Darrin his campaign manager. Wright is focusing on the new watermain project, which he assumes is corrupt as well. He demands a gubernatorial investigation of the project but then a representative from the governor’s office addresses the issue during a TV debate and says he found nothing wrong with the watermain project. It looks like that news will ruin Wright’s campaign. But then Samantha and Endora use magic to appear in Cavanaugh’s office and look through his files. The files are evidence that Cavanaugh is a crook and that the watermain project was the only honest thing Cavanaugh has ever done. Endora decides to help by causing a watermain to burst at Elm and Forest and to instigate a small flood. She says this will cause the investigation into Cavanaugh’s watermain project. She is right and it causes Cavanaugh’s other crimes to be uncovered as well, resulting in Wright beating him in the election. Later after Wright is elected he meets Endora, who says his campaign was the greatest thing she’s seen since the Lincoln-Douglas debate. Darrin says he’d give anything to have Cavanaugh in the palm of his hand and so Endora makes it happen as Darrin hears a little voice inside his fist. 

            In the first story, the sexy Michelle was played by Marilyn Hanold, who started as a legal secretary in New York. Later she joined a chorus line in Las Vegas. She became a member of the Scandalettes and then a showgirl at Ciro’s. She moved to Hollywood to work as a showgirl at the Moulin Rouge where she was spotted by a William Morris agent and cast in George Gobel’s Riviera Revue. She was Playmate of the Month in the June, 1959 issue of Playboy. She had supporting roles in several movies and TV series. She played Doe, one of the henchwomen of the villain Chandell in two episodes of Batman. She co-starred in Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster. She married oil tycoon Rulon Keaton Neilson and had three daughters. She was married to Neilson for 26 years until he died.

May 3, 1994: While I was posing for an art class my daughter reached up and briefly grabbed my penis

Thirty years ago today

            On Tuesday I took my daughter to Central Technical School with me and she was there on the stage while I worked from 9:00 to 15:00. I was posing nude and at one point while I was doing a standing pose she reached up and briefly grabbed my penis. I laughed and thought nothing of it but I found out a week and a half later that one of the adult students complained. 

            We went home where a little later Tom Smarda, Steve Lowe, Mike Martin, and Arjan came over to rehearse my songs for our May 11 feature at Fat Albert’s. 

            That evening I took her with me to the Gladstone Hotel where I hosted my weekly Orgasmic Alphabet Orgy writers open stage in the Art Bar. Mary Milne my co-host, Phil Onious and Theresa were there.

Dick Balduzzi

            On Wednesday morning I memorized the third verse of “Hey Mister Zippo” by Serge Gainsbourg. There’s only one verse left to learn and I’ll probably have it nailed down on Thursday. 

            I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice for the third session of four. It took a long time to get it in tune and it’s been that way since the humidity has increased. 

            I weighed 87.3 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I went up the street to Freedom Mobile and paid for my May phone plan. Then I called Topcuts to find out my stylist Amy’s schedule for next week. I haven’t had a haircut for about five months. 

            I weighed 87 kilos before lunch. I had saltines with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of raspberry lemonade. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown but not on my usual route. This time I rode east on Queen to Bay, went south to King, east to Church and then north to Queen again. I went to Downtown Camera to enquire about upgrading from my Nikon Coolpix to a better video camera. The camera specialist gave me a lesson in sensors and lenses. Smaller sensors like that of the Coolpix are capable of more zoom. A larger sensor like on most cameras would require an enormous lens to have as much zoom. I’m more interested in video quality anyway and he said the best upgrade for me from the Coolpix in terms of video quality for $1000 would be the Sony ZV-E10. The video quality is three generations better than the Coolpix and the microphone is better as well. I could also upgrade the lens later on. I said I’d look at a couple more places before making my decision. He told me that Sony is the Apple of cameras, meaning that no matter where you go the price for any particular Sony model will be the same. I’ll check out Henry’s next and then Vistek , so I might have a new camera by the end of the week. 

            I stopped at Freshco on the way home to buy two bags of grapes. Priscilla the cashier did a price match for me so I paid a lot less than the Freshco price. 

            I weighed 86.7 kilos at 18:30. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 19:42. 

            In the Movie Maker project for “Joanna Dancing (Electric)” I worked on synchronizing the Audacity audio with the video. But progress is slow because Movie Maker has started getting tired again. When I split the audio timeline and remove an earlier part, I can’t drag the later part to the beginning. All I can do is save it then shut down Movie Maker, then return to drag the later part, then listen, split, cut, shut it down and start it up again and so on.

            I made pizza on naan with Basilica sauce and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 1, episodes 31 and 32 of Bewitched. 

            In the first story we learn that from time to time Samantha and Darrin meet at the President Hotel to have a romantic evening away from the normal routine. Samantha is on her way to meet Darrin at the hotel and tries changing her hair colour to brunette. After they meet in the lobby, Darrin’s friend and boss Larry Tate happens to be there and sees Darrin from a distance with a brunette who he doesn’t recognize as Samantha. Larry smiles and seems to think it’s great that Darrin is cheating on his wife and even admires him for it. That night Darrin wants to finish reading the mystery novel he’s been reading and which Samantha was supposed to have packed in their luggage. She uses magic to pop back home and get it but while she is there the doorbell rings and it’s Larry. He had talked with his wife Louise on the phone and she’d said she was going to visit Samantha. Later Larry knocks on Darrin’s hotel room door and Samantha disappears because she saw Larry at home twenty minutes ago and he wouldn’t believe she got to the hotel as fast as he did by driving like a maniac. The only thing Darrin can do is pretend to Larry that he caught him cheating on Samantha. Later at Larry and Louise’s place she is complaining about his reading a girlie magazine and says, “I’ll bet Darrin doesn’t ogle girls!” Larry tells her about Darrin meeting another woman. The next day Louise calls Darrin and tells him to meet her so she can talk some sense into him. They meet at the President and once again Larry happens to be passing through when he sees Darrin with Louise and now he thinks she’s the brunette he’s been seeing. The next day at work Larry punches Darrin and gives him a black eye. Later Louise comes to see Larry and finds him upset. Then they hear a woman giggling in Darrin’s office and go there to see Darrin kissing a brunette. Then they see it’s Samantha and Louise is thrilled to learn that her husband was so jealous that he punched Darrin. 

            In the second story Gladys and Abner Kravitz have a big fight and she throws him out of the house after thirty years of marriage. Abner shows up at Samantha and Darrin’s house and Samantha invites him to stay in the guest room. He snores very loudly, makes brussels sprouts stuffed with anchovies and has many other annoying habits. When Abner goes to get his paper Gladys is standing in the door dressed like a geisha but Abner ignores her. She tries to make him jealous by asking a salesman to kiss her but he says he’d rather she just slammed the door in his face. Samantha and Darrin are desperate to get him and Gladys back together so they can have peace. Finally Samantha causes them to each dream of the day that Abner proposed and Gladys accepted. Then she wakes them up and they go running in slow motion into one another’s arms. 

            The salesman was played by Dick Balduzzi, who was a familiar face on television from the early days of the medium. He studied at the Goodman Theatre School in Chicago and then moved to New York where he acted in off-Broadway plays. While working in a restaurant he met the casting director for The Jackie Gleason Show who hired him to perform minor characters in skits. His career consisted mainly of guest appearances on sitcoms.

May 2, 1994: If my daughter took a nap I made some calls

Thirty years ago today

            On Monday it didn’t rain and so I would have taken my daughter outside, probably to Kew Gardens or for a walk on the nature trail. If she took a nap during business hours I would have taken advantage of the free time to make phone calls to drum up some modelling gigs.

Beverly Adams

            On Tuesday morning I memorized the second verse of “Hey Mister Zippo” by Serge Gainsbourg. 

            I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice for the second of four sessions but I had to shorten my rehearsal because at 8:00 I needed to start getting ready to leave for The Graduate School of Periodontics for my root plaining procedure. 

            I left at 8:30 and got there with about ten minutes to spare. I had to pay $277 up front. The person who called me seemed like a dental hygienist in manner but I don’t know if that’s her official title. She was middle aged and so was the assistant from last time and so I think some people there are not residents but rather seasoned professionals. I didn’t know what to expect from the procedure but I assumed from the phrase “root plaining” that she was going to actually perform surgery on my gums. That’s actually the next stage if this deep cleaning procedure doesn’t stimulate the healing of the pockets. What she did was actually very much like a cleaning except much more uncomfortable and quite a bit more painful. Before she started she swished some freezing gel around my gums and then a very gentle guy came in and gave me about ten freezing needles, most of which I couldn’t feel at all. They were discussing music because she was playing Chopin and he used to play it. He noticed that the player in the recording made a wrong note. Even after the freezing the cleaning hurt in places. It took about an hour. She told me I’ve been doing a very good job of cleaning my teeth. That was surprising but good news. She gave me a new toothbrush and some toothpaste for my gums. She told me not to eat until the freezing went down. 

            Since that didn’t feel like it would happen for a few hours I took advantage of being downtown and went looking for Aden Camera. It used to be right on Yonge and the address is 382 Yonge but it’s hidden now. I walked around downstairs at that address through a maze of shops, then I walked through all three floors of Ikea. I asked a security guard but he said he wasn’t from here. Finally I asked at the Bank of Montreal which is directly under the 382 Yonge address and an elderly security guard guided me up the street and pointed to the side of the building. At Aden camera I asked about upgrading both my picture and video cameras into one camera that is better than both but he told me that my price range of $1000 couldn’t achieve that goal. He said that the Nikon Z50 takes only marginally better videos than the Coolpix that I already have and a marginal upgrade isn’t worth paying $1500. He also said that with the lens it comes with the Nikon Z50 is inferior at taking pictures to the Coolpix. If I wanted to take the Nikon Z50 far beyond the Coolpix as either a shooting or video camera or both I would need to spend an additional $2000 for a better lens, and so that’s at least $3,500. There are three more places to check but this store at least had some solid information unlike what one would get from Worst Buy. 

            I weighed 86 kilos at 12:21, which is the lightest I’ve been at midday since March 29. 

            I weighed 86.5 kilos at 17:00. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 17:18. 

            In the Movie Maker project for the song “Joanna Dancing (Electric)” I tried to isolate that song from the other September 3 songs. But every time I cut off the beginning of both the video and audio timelines at the exact same time they would go out of synch. As long as they are cut in the same place they should stay lined up but I remembered that the September 3 Song Practice project was problematic because the audio format is MP3, which Movie Maker is less compatible with. If I cut them in the same place the audio would jump to an earlier position than the video. Then I remembered that what I did last time was to get the video at the exact place I wanted it to begin and then work on cutting the audio timeline until they are synced. Hopefully I’ll have them lined up tomorrow. 

            I downloaded the 1926 silent Greta Garbo film Torrent and then tried to convert it to WMV with Total Video Convertor but it wouldn’t work with this movie. I had to convert it on Cloud Convert instead. Then I imported it into my “Angeline” Movie Maker project and copied Torrent to the end of the timeline. I started watching it and editing it as the story unfolded. I’m only keeping the parts where Garbo is pretending to sing.

            I finished scanning the fourth to last box of slides. They were a combination of early baby pictures of my daughter, some pictures of buildings, and a photo shoot I did of my daughter’s Aunt Susan. I scanned the first 11 slides from the third to the last box. 

            I had a small potato with gravy and the last two porkchops while watching season 1, episodes 29 and 30 of Bewitched. 

            In the first story Darrin accidentally leaves the front door wide open on his way to work. Gladys Kravitz walks in just as Samantha is levitating some pictures to place on the wall. Gladys faints and when she comes to Samantha convinces her that it was her that levitated the pictures and that she has telekinetic powers and esp. But this creates a monster out of Gladys because she becomes obsessed with using the powers she now thinks she has. She tries to turn on the sprinklers with the power of her mind and then when it suddenly starts to rain she believes she caused it. Abner waits all morning for his breakfast because Gladys is trying to turn on the stove with her mind. Samantha tries to convince her that those kinds of powers may be temporary but she doesn’t listen . Finally Samantha arranges for a séance to scare Gladys into giving up the supernatural. Samantha makes a zombie appear but Gladys thinks it’s her Uncle Harold. When Abner complains, Gladys tells him to dry up. Samantha takes that opportunity to turn Abner into a pile of dust. Gladys swears she’ll give up her powers if Abner comes back, so Samantha changes Abner back to normal. 

            In the second story Darrin gets up earlier than Samantha on a Sunday and goes out to get the paper. Outside he meets his next door neighbour Pleasure O’Reilly’s little sister Danger. Danger is house sitting for Pleasure while she is on her honeymoon, I assume with Thor Swenson who threatened to kill her. Just then the wind blows Darrin’s front door shut and he didn’t bring his keys. Danger tells Darrin he should let Samantha sleep and just come over to her place for blueberry pancakes. When Samantha gets up she is looking for Darrin, then she looks out of her kitchen window to see Darrin sitting in Danger’s kitchen and eating breakfast. She calls Darrin and he says he’ll be right home but suddenly Danger’s dishwasher starts to flood the kitchen. He feels duty bound to help Danger even though he and Samantha had planned a Sunday outing. Samantha spends the day playing solitaire and her mother Endora tries to save her. She goes to see Samantha’s old boyfriend George the warlock and convinces him that Samantha needs rescuing. He comes to her in his raven form and then changes to himself. Samantha tells him he’s wasting his time. She scares him away with her wedding ring. Then back in his raven form he meets Danger. She says hello to the bird and then “Bye bye birdie”. The inside joke is that her house is the same one they used to shoot the movie musical “Bye Bye Birdie”. George then flies to where Darrin is working on a campaign for the Feather Touch typewriter. When Darrin and Larry see the bird they suddenly realize it’s the perfect model for their campaign. Darrin brings George home in a cage and Samantha has to reveal to Darrin that it’s her ex-boyfriend. Then Danger knocks on the door to ask for help because her oven door is broken. George volunteers to help and convinces Danger that he majored in oven doors at Oxford then goes over there. He fixes the oven when Danger isn’t looking. He tells her he’s a warlock and she thinks at first that “Warlock” is a religion. He performs some magic but she thinks they are just tricks. They hit it off and then decide to celebrate their relationship by taking champagne over to Samantha and Darrin. 

            Danger was played by Canadian actor Beverly Adams, who was born in Edmonton but her family moved to California when she was a child. She won the Miss Photogenic pageant in Burbank at the age of 17. She became a legal secretary for a while and had a weekend job at a dress shop. One time when they had a fashion show she modeled some of the clothes and was spotted by an advertizing man who invited her to do a commercial on a local station. While she was there she was spotted by Ozzie Nelson who cast her for a guest appearance on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. She played Lovey Kravezit in three Matt Helm movies. She played Cassandra in How to Stuff a Wild Bikini. In 1967 she co-starred in The Torture Garden during the filming of which she met the hair stylist Vidal Sassoon. They married and had four children. She became a spokesperson for Vidal Sassoon Inc. She and Vidal wrote books together such as A Year of Beauty and Health. She gave up acting to raise their children but they divorced after 14 years. She changed her last name to Sassoon when she married Vidal and kept it after their divorce even during her subsequent marriages. She has a business called The Beverly Sassoon Pet Care System.