CONFESSIONS OF A FILM FOX

CONFESSIONS OF A FILM FOX

Feeling as Foxy as me this month? There’s lots of exciting sneak preview news and you’re the very first to hear it all... The Poseidon Adventure turned rightside up financially as the biggest block-buster in ’73 so far with a fat $90,731,642... On the way to the premiere of Live and Let Die, Roger Moore’s limo was smacked with a ripe tomato. His reply? “They must have seen the picture.” Moore will soon star in The Golden Gun. . . ABC-TV will bring you the same Wide World of Entertainment I Paar / Cavett / In Concert/ Thrillers combo come fall.^ Some of their programming is thrilling. Top-flight movies — Funny Girl, Airport, and Rosemary's Baby for instance. Not many changes in prime time shows with Kung-Fu, Streets of San Fran, FBI among others repeating. Adams Rib, a newie, is a lame Spencer/ Hepburn attempt with husband and wife playing defense and district attorneys; plus, there’ll be1 another cop-series to replace Mod Squad. Can’t remember anymore... Diana Ross was the first woman in 2600 years to be invited to tea by the Empress of Japan during the opening of Lady Sings the Blues in Tokyo.. . While The Last Fox Trot in Burbank is filming here, German authorities report these titles among many recently registered: Last Tango from Vienna, First Tango from Berlin, Butter Tango from Rammelsdorf and The Last Boogie from Rome. . . Secretaries the Triple Crowner, is singed with the William Morris Agency by owner Penny Tweedy. My Friend Secretariat? National Secretariat?.. . Judith Crist bumped from The Today Show after 10 years by Gene Shalit whose cultural surveys duplicate her reviews. Besides, Today adds, her critiques weren’t for their audience. Another personnel change puts King Caustic, John Simon, in the movie critic’s seat at Esquire. . . Much ado since Supreme Court’s obscenity decision leaving it up to local jurisdiction. One devastating result: Russ Meyers blue money out the window with wife Edy Williams. He says “I’m not sure I can deliver what my name promises. I can’t believe people will stand still for censorship. I think go fishing.” A drive-in owner claims youngsters who come for sex in their cars are so distracted by Meyers’ films they watch the screen instead!. .. Crazy Joe stars Peter Boyle, Rip Torn and Eli Wallach. No word ort what it’s about yet... Clark’Gable’s 19 acre ranch is being divided into the Clark Gable Estates with 37 luxury homes and his $200,000 2 acre home. .. Several Southern movie theatres would rather offer nothing than Jane Fonda movies. . . George Segal and Joan Hackett in Michael Crichton’s The Terminal Man. . . Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn’s The Dark Tower... Lee Marvin and Gary Grimes in Harry Spikes.. . Toshiro Mifune, biggest Japanese star before Bruce Lee, attempting to lure Ann-Margaret from Hollywood to Tokyo to do TV hosiery ad. What’s good enough for Steve McQueen and his cycle ads is good enough. . . David Bowie promises us two films next year. . . Have you noticed that Maria Schnieder and Marc Bolan look alike?. . . Phantom of the Fillmore a r ‘n’ r horror story by AIP starts filming soon. Reports that Bill Graham will star are unofficial. . . The Kennedy Assasination Movie — Executive Action - stars Burt Lancaster and the late Robert Ryan, based on Mark Lane’s (Oswald’s lawyer) book and written by Dalton Trumbo {Johnny Got a Gun). . . Warren Beatty and Cicely Tyson have replaced founders Gregory Peck and Jack Valenti at the American Film Institute Board of Trustees. . .Detroit 9000 was Motown 9000 — (a Plice SOS signal) till Motown sued the movie company. . . Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is soon to be a major (four hours long!) motion picture controlled by Indians. Is this the film Marlon is making instead of the Godfather sequel? The Amazons (AIP of course) is about the “plight” of a society without men, starring 100 well-endowed women representing nations. Filming was like building The Tower of Babel - orders were given in five languages by director Terence Young {Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Thunderball, and Wait Until Dark). . . See ya’ll real soon. XOXOX