CONFESSIONS OF A FILM FOX

CONFESSIONS OF A FILM FOX

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Would you call Sue "Lolita" Lyon a prisoner of love? She recently married a Colorado con... More Jailhouse jive: Burt Reynolds has lined up a con chorus for his next picture, The Longest Yard. Georgia State Prison has approved the temporary employment of nine homosexual inmates as "cheerleaders" in the film. They will make their debut cheering Burt Reynolds" football team, attired in clinging leather hot pants and gorgeous gold form-fitting seaters, hot pink knee flirting boots. Sis Cum Bah!... Whatever happened to Myra Breckenridge? Gore Vidal, who created the him-her fiction has a sequel coming up. No, not Bride of Breckenridge — but closer The sequel will pick up where Myra left off, but will feature the fantasies of "Myron", the male alter ego of Ms. Breckenridge... Hold on to your hankies, ladies, your favorite soaper is on the skids. After twenty tear-jerking years, The Secret Storm is going to be replaced by a game show... Fringe benefits. For his role in Westworld Dick Benjamin not only gets $100,000 and a percentage but also the hat, chaps, spurs, boots, and cowboy vest he wears in that picture... Backers were beginning to become disenchanted with The Exorcist. A strange fire on the set, unexplained difficulties with a cold-making machine, mysterious movements of the sets, that's for starters. A feud between author William Peter Blatty and director Billy Friedkin resulted in Blatty's being barred from the set. The budget rose from 2 million to 5 million to 10 million. That's a lot of cash, but swivelling heads, vomiting on target and levitation don't come cheap. Here's hopes that The Exorcist doesn't get repossessed... Did you hear the one about Tatum O'Neal having an ulcer. Yeah, everyone from Peter Bogdanovich to Vogue magazine is trying to claim credit... Bobbie Gentry has made her biggest contributionto pop culture since Ode to Billie Joe. She was asked by the Smithsonian Institute to donate her rhinestone blue jeans to the world famous museum. Why? The curators are going to use Bobbie's blue jeans in their permanent display, right next to Martha Raye's garter belt... Now a word on Bobbie's beau. Elvis is looking for a good movie script. One stipulation: he'd like to play the villain... Things you didn't ask: Mark Spitz's Suzie admits the Olympic champ "loves pea soup!" Maybe that's his secret, sports fans. Another devastating disclosure comes from Jacqueline Bisset who complains: "It's a drag to be pretty!" Beauty and the Beasts: Andy Warhol fresh from filming Frankenstein and Dracula wrapped up a BIG part in Elizabeth Taylor's newest movie, In the Driver's Seat. Andy plays a nutty professor. . . Another nutty professor, Jerry Lewis is being wrapped up... permanently, in wax, by the Movieland Wax Museum... Some news from the nudes: Sophia Loren admits, "I blush when I see myself in one of my early films!" Yul Brynner was asked if he'd ever do a nude scene: "I do one every time I take off my hat.".. . Even Barbra Streisand has to cope with the beef crisis. In her latest movie, For Pete's Sake, Barbra has to play a scene with a "stand-in." In a scene where she's basting a large prime sirloin, it's really a chuck roast. That's all for this month; until we meat again...