Joan Collins with Darren McGavin and Kathie Browne behind the scenes of ZERO TO SIXTY.
Gary LeMel (Warner Bros) tapped me for my first full length theatrical feature gig, and it was a First Artists film for director Don Weis and producers Kathie Browne and Darren McGavin. ZERO TO SIXTY was a slapstick repo comedy that starred Darren, Joan Collins, Denise Nickerson, Dick Martin, Sylvia Miles, the Hudson Brothers, Vito Scotti and Lorraine Gary.
The big band I had was amazing, from a rhythm section that was Abe Laboriel, Lee Ritenour, Tim May, Ralph Humphrey and Bill Mays, to Gene Cipriano, Ronnie Lang, Don Ashworth, Fred Selden and John Mitchell on saxes to trumpets Stu Blumberg, Gary Grant, John Rosenberg (contractor) and… I’ve forgotten the trombones, sorry. (If you were on this gig, let me know.) John Caper Jr. was the music editor. The guys on recording and dub stages were great. The whole experience was tremendously exciting. The movie went nowhere, but I did.
