CONFESSIONS OF A FILM FOX

CONFESSIONS OF A FILM FOX

Wondering what things you should know but haven’t heard about Hollywood’s honeys lately? Read on! Earl Wilson’s deadline may beat CREEM’s release but he didn’t catch all these scoops sitting in Sardi’s... Here’s one you folkies may be hot about: Leadbelly, a picture based on the famed black blues singer, Huddie Ledbetter has begun principle photog with Gordon Parks Sr. (Shaft) directing... Ossie Davie’ Third World Cinema is starting its first project for 20th Cent. Fox — Claudine stars Diana Sands and James Earl Jones in Harlem playing a welfare mother of six and a divorced sanitation worker in love... A juicy tidbit: Peter Bogdonovich brings Last Picture Show's female stars together again in Daisy Miller. The tale of a saucy American girl flitting around Europe with a young American expatriate, stars Cybill Shepard (of course), Cloris Leach man and Eileen Brennan plus the promising Barry 7 Brown (Bad Company)... 99 And 44/100% Dead which I may have mentioned last month as the movie version of Get Smart stars Richard Harris and Chuck Conners... Burt Reynolds in prison riot pic The Longest Yard... Jim Brown in The Slams — the last of three movies MGM is making for six months. Too busy building motels?. .'. Rumor has it that Jagger is starring in Merlin and I’m not telling... Peckinpah’s newie is called Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and it’s not a western. Dylan and Mort Sahl are villains and Peter Falk was gonna be the father who wants (already-dead) Alfredo’s head for getting his daughter pregnant. Falk has Columbo commitments however, and there seems to be a problem in casting... Did you know? that Clint Eastwood replaced Frank Sinatra in Dirty Harry when the Voice sprained his wrist... Jon Voight’s wife had a baby boy, James Haven... Patty Duke and John AStin’s new child is Mackenzie Alexander... Michael Landon’s 19 year old stepdaughter was the sole surivior in an auto crash... Candice Bergen has private lessons to slim her gams because she burps while exercising. How awful... Bridget and Bernie are in love in real life too... Lou Adler brings Gore Vidal’s An Evening with Richard Nixon to the London Stage with Peter Sellers playing Dick as soon as the third act is rewritten to include Watergate... The reason for the Sellers/Minelli split, according to some sources is due to a fist fight Peter’s wife had with Lizi, in case you’re interested. Seller’s latest flic is Soft Beds and Hard Battles. Indeed... Remarried Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner cancelled their Couple of Swells to have their first baby... Abel and Adidge (Let the Good Times Roll) are doing Ciao Rudy for Carlo Ponti starring Marcello Mastrianni as Rudolf Valentino... Max Julien (The Mack) and Vonetta McGee / Super fly) are filming a western — Thomasine and Bushrod... David Niven in a new Dracula spoof called Vampira (changed from “Vampirella”)... Tango has only grossed $32,300,000 so far... George C. Scott in The Bank Shot.... Robert Altman (McCabe and Mrs. Miller among others) recently completed Thieves Like Us and is also producing/directing The Great Southern Amusement Co... Charles Bronson stars in Mr. Majesty... Accompanying 1937’s Reefer Madness and Sex Madness follows Cocaine Madness... Otto Preminger’s latest “masterpiece” is The Implosion Conspiracy... Barbra Streisand has jumped into July Pork Bellies on the heels of her Roller Skating Movie. The name excapes me... Jack Nicholson and Jiflie Christie star in Fatal Exit soon to be released. Or is the lead Maria Shcnieder? Faye Dunaway? Susan George?... Remember when I asked who could possibly play Camille after Garbo. Well, Liza Minelli is... Bridget Bardot who claims she has left acting for good will try singing again. Good Luck BB... That’s about all that’s happening for now. See you next month...