...after the screening of her movie "Die! Die! My Darling!" during the Sedona Film Festival.
After the film was presented, on stage Miss Powers had quite a few interesting and funny little anecdotes about her co-star in the film Tallulah Bankhead, and went on to talk for about an hour about her years under contract during the studio era at Columbia, MGM and 20th Century Fox. Being the President of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, she also touched upon that aspect of her life.
Have to say it had been years since I've watched "Die! Die! My Darling!" and had forgotten much of the film(it also features a very young Donald Sutherland) and was actually somewhat impressed with how well the very young at the time Miss Powers seemed so natural in it, And, even though Miss Bankhead really hams it up in it, a la Bette Davis in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane", a film which Miss Powers would mention inspired the Hammer Production of "Die!..", overall I thought it well directed by Silvio Narizzano, who's best known work would probably be "Georgy Girl".
Later, and after Miss Powers finished her talk on stage, she welcomed her fans in the theater lobby, and so my wife asked her if it would be okay if her husband had his picture taken with his "first crush", to which which Miss Powers said, "Oh, so YOU'RE him, eh?!", and to which I replied, "Yeah, among the million of other men my age who remember daydreaming of dating "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E." while sitting in their high school classes."
(...my hair was "a little" darker back in those days)
