PATTERNS AND TONES

Me and Tura Satana at Cinemania Photo Credit: Jon von It's not everyday you get to meet and greet a celebrity you really admire. But I not only got to meet my idol but was quickly flipped on my back and pinned down by the legendary pussycat  Tura Santana  in three seconds flat! I met her at  Cinemania , one of the most incredible cult video stores in Northern California. They were known to host actors at their shop and in the summer of 1995 they had booked the screen siren Tura Satana!  Early in her acting carreer, Ms. Satana had appeared in a cameo as a Parisian prostitute in the Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine romantic comedy " Irma la Douce ". She was then cast as an exotic dancer in the Dean Martin, Carol Burnett and Elizabeth Montgomery comedy " Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed ". But it was her role as Varla in Russ Myer's 1965 cult classic " Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill !" that brought fame and notoriety. Cinemania was run b...