Gene grew up on the Broadway stage and was a featured performer and lead dancer in several original Broadway shows, including GYPSY, FLOWER DRUM SONG, HIGH SPIRITS, HENRY SWEET HENRY, GEORGE M! and OH KAY! He wrote, directed & choreographed nine shows for DR PEPPER & seventeen for PRINCESS CRUISES and won for BEST DIRECTION, BEST CHOREOGRAPHY and BEST MUSICAL for his production of ON THE TOWN for the San Jose CLO. He directed & choreographed several Off-Broadway shows including: THE WONDERFUL WIZARD Of SONG/Harold Arlen, TIN PAN ALLEY; BABALU-CY. He also choreographed LOVE DIVIDED BY, DIETRICH...
Hysterical
Frederic Lansing (Bill Hudson) is a writer who hopes to find inspiration while vacationing in Hellview, Oregon; however, the lighthouse in which he's staying is haunted by the ghost of Venetia (Julie Newmar), who had killed herself 100 years ago and now wants to use Lansing as a vessel for her dead husband, Captain Howdy (Richard Kiel). When Howdy's ghost starts killing people, two bumbling scientists (Brett Hudson and Mark Hudson) are brought in to investigate the history of the lighthouse and solve the case. A burned out writer retreats to a northwest town called Hellview to write the great American novel. Unfortunately for him, the lighthouse he is renting is inhabited by the spirit of a woman who killed herself there one hundred years before and now wants him to replace her lost love, Captain Howdy. When Captain Howdy is resurrected, two daring adventure seekers are brought in to solve the case and find out the secret of the lighthouse. Among the many classic lines in this movie and one that is repeatedly mentioned herein is, "What difference does it make?" This particular line ( a question) has been found in almost 70% of all black and white films of the 1930's. Now in the 21st century it has been made famous in politics.
