FLASHES

Now showing at the Holiday Inn! The latest movie market: closed circuit TV in hotels. Already two companies are vying for control — Trans-World Communications (Columbia) and Computer Cinema (Time/Life). A network of NYC hotels will soon show Klute, Carnal Knowledge, Catch 22 and X, Y and Zee. By 1974, 160,000 rooms in 25 different cities will offer the flick service.

Dustin Hoffman may join First Artists Production Co. owned by Barbra Streisand, Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier and Steve McQueen.

Freda Payne, of “Band of Gold” and “Bring the Boys Home” fame, is in Dallas for her film debut in Book of Nowhere.

Live and Let Die, the next James Bond film, which will be released this fall, is not the last, as rumors have it. According to United Artists there is no end in sight.

Chicago’s Police Dept, has slapped an “X” on Portnoy’s Complaint despite the MPAA’s “R.” However, MPAA isn’t complaining.