CONFESSIONS OF A FILM FOX

CONFESSIONS OF A FILM FOX

Back again for more news, spews and clues to what’s happening world round in the Movie Maze ... Vincent Price, presently seen in Theatre of Blood, is making his twenty-second movie for AIP, The Revenge of Dr. Death. Can’t wait ... Warren Beatty stars with Paula Prentis in Alan J. Pakula’s (Klute) The Parallax View. Wonder if Warren will tear Paula from hubby Rich Benjamin or stick with Liv Ullman? . . Hair is set for film, of course, to make another 73 million bucks. Ronnie Dyson, who sang Aquarius in the original cast, is negotiating a part in The Frankie Lyman Story . . . Either Righteous Brother Bill Medley or David Clay ton-Thomas is singing the theme of Emperor of the North Pole, starring Ernie Borgnine and Lee Marvin . . . Fantasy. Films acquired screen rights to Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo ’s Nest. Figures . . . The Outfit is crawling with stars like: Bob Duvall, Karen Black and Robert Ryan . . . Jim Brown’s Slaughter II signed James Brown to compose the score . . . Darling Diana Ross will be in Peter Pan, A Couple of Swells and another to be announced soon, we hope . .. Forty year old Tony Perkins found his true love in photographer Berry Berenson, sister of Cabaret’s Marisa Berenson . . . More PR on Cat Dancing: Cat Dancing will be played by 17 year old novice actress, Debra Harper, a Chippewa, not Marlon Brando’s squaw friend who’s show biz debut was as Miss Vampire USA. Honest! The once World Champion Cowboy, Larry Finley has a role and so does Jay Silverheels (Tonto in The Lone Ranger) . . . Peter Falk and John Cassavetes team up for Mickey and Nickey, a tale Elaine May wrote, will direct and produce. Also, they just did A Woman Under the Influence which Cassavetes scripted and directed . . . Screaming maniac Richard Pryor and funny man Mel Brooks wrote Black Bart with Alex Karras joining Slim Pickens and Count Basie . . . John Wayne, George Kennedy and Summer of 42’s discovery Gary Grimes in Cahill, United States Marshall. It’s written by the Finks who’ll do Magnum Force, the Dirty Harry sequel starring none other than Clint Eastwood . . Brigitte Bardot’s last tango in movies is a 12th century French comedy Colinot, The Petticoat Lifter . . . Speaking of tangos: Marvelous Maria Schneider is starring with Peter Fonda in Carlo Ponti’s Technically Sweet . . . Richard Chamberlain plays Richard Burton’s friend in Under the Volcano, about an alcoholic diplomat . . . Earl Scruggs is scoring Where Lillies Bloom set in Appalachia . . . Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, Michael York, and Oliver Reed signed for Richard Lester’s {Help, A Hard Day’s Night) remake of The Three Musketeers . . . Barbra Streisand’s rolling along with Roller Skates and Ingmar Bergman’s The Merry Widow. Do you suppose it’s the flic she makes with former husband Elliot Gould? .. . Robert Mitchum stars in and directs Rip Off with James Brown singing and making a cameo appearance along with Oakland A’s Reggie Jackson . . . Stella Stevens and Roddy McDowall together again for Bing Crosby’s Family Plot. Curiouser and Curiouser . Robert Redford with George Roy Hill for barnstorming The Great Waldo Pepper. . . Joe E. Levine was trying to get Richard Attenborough, Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin and Pablo Picasso for Ghandi. One down . . . Stay tuned next month, same mag, same place, same movies.