Confesssions of a FILM FOX

Confesions of a FILM FOX

MOVIES

Hollywood has put its clothes back on. Cindy Williams, from American Graffiti is featured in the November Playboy... fully clothed! (Watch Wayne Robins uncover her in an upcoming CREEM interview) .● Raquel Welch turned down a starring role in Irving Wallace’s The Fan Club, because of her no-nude policy. That’s the same strict grasp on clothes that Jennifer O’Neill demands, and director Gilbert (Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams) Cates wants to give Jenny a part in his next movie, a lesbian love story. It involves two women, 26 and 35, who run off together. We predict no soap. V Those who are: Helen Reddy and Jeff Wald considering a nude centerfold for Viva. ® Daredevils never die: If Evel Knievel can try so can Jack LaLanne. To celebrate his 60th birthday, Old Muscles intends to swim across shark-invested San Francisco Bay to Alcatraz Island with both hands and feet? shackled.. .The film rights tQ the documentary about the life and career of Janis Jpplin have finally been acquired by Universal. The film will include concerts, interviews, rehearsals, recording session, even dips from a high schobl reunion she attended in Texas a month before her death. Nothing is included about death or drugs in the film. Wonder how Janis will affect the release of the fictionalized Hollywood version starring Sharon Farrell .0Brut Productions says that Jimmy Osmond will be the voice of their new animated film, Hugo the Hippo-, Marie will have a bit part: She’ll play Twitty the Mouse. . .A reversal of roles: Vincent Price gave a pint of blood on TV for a promotion of the Actor’s Fund Blood Donor Day. Old Vince wouldn’t let down his mask like that, seems he isn’t so scarey anymore. He was mugged in Genoa while making his latest, Journey Into Fear, ® Cwazy Madeline Kahn of Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles fame will next play a neurotic go-go dancer in the screen version of Boom, Boom, Boom. . It seems Xaviera Hollander has turned her biggest trick. She’s completed R-rated Pleasure Is My Business in Toronto. When questioned about her financial success (she’s raking it in from Happy Hooker royalties as well) she said: “I’m now making more money vertically than I ever did horizontally.”. wUrsula Andress toyed with the lead in Hooker but then refused. Tina Louise is next choice. WKissy Face: Warren Beatty gave Michelle Phillips his Sigma Chi Fraternity pimmeanwhile Dinah Shore admitsBurt Reynolds’ nickname for her is Granny.®Joan Baez was spotted on the French Riviera with revolutionary writer Regis Debray, and .Loretta Swit (MASH) has been seen on the arm of Tony Orlando but they’re not tying any knots, yellow ribbon or otherwise. . .“Faye’s a great neurotic. ®” or that’s what Bob Evans (Chinatown) thinks. Roman Polanski admitted he wished he was slapping her around in that scene where Jack Nicholson did. That’s popularity! Faye has her favorites too: it took her 3 days to get up the nerve to introduce herself to Fred Astaire (on the set of upcoming The Towering Inferno), and when a photog snapped them talking together, she immediately requested a copy. W If you happen to be having Paul Anka’s baby, you’ll no doubt know about the problems he’s having with his hair. Recent transplants have caused him to wear bandages on his head. If you didn’t know, you heard it first. ®Jane Fonda will make a directorial debut with My Secret Garden, based on Nancy Friday’s book of women’s sexual fantasies, W Phantom of the Fillmore (Bill Graham wouldn’t allow that); I mean The Phantom of the Opera (Universal Pics said they’d sue that); uh, The Phantom (King Features said that was their comic book character); and/or Phantom of the Paradise should be opening any day now that the suits against its title have been exhausted, w Steve McQueen and ^Ji McGraw have hit a couple snags. Steve swilled a beer while “letting” Alice carry their huge bags of groceries to the car from a Malibu market; and in a private Hollywood club, because of the foul language they used, both were asked to leave. As they stomped out the door, the remaining customers applauded. No wonder Ali’s in analysis 5 days a week.wSee you next month, same time, same couch.