Confessions of a FILM FOX

Confessions of a FILM FOX

We always knew Hollywood was a joke but a comic strip? Steve Krantz has acquired film rights to the Marvel Comics Spider Man cartoon strip, and assigned the English script writer Brian Clemens (The Avengers) to come up with a live action feature treatment, Another strip, straight off the presses is Brenda Starr that is slated for TV next season; starring as LaStarr is Jill St. John... Bette Midler ain't the only warbler who can (?) act. Producer Al Ruddy is scouting about for just"the right "property" for Aretha Franklin's film acting debut. And producer-director Bob , McCahon's hot after Linda Ronstadt to make her movie debut with a lead role in his screen version of Brian Garfield's What ,of Terry Conniston?...This cat's not gonna get upstaged. Morris the Cat is reading the fine print of his contract carefully to see if his new costar on his catfood commercials, Marty Ingels, will be drawing a bigger salary than his. Ingels signed a three year pact for a minimum of $110,000 which isn't kitty litter.. .The family that plays together... Mark Jones, Tom Jones" son, serves as one of his famous dad's bodyguards. Seems Mrs. Jones hired him.. .Orson Welles" latest film* The Other Side of the Wind, will feature somebody familiar to all you CREEM' readers, ■= frequent contributor Cameron Crowe has a walk on part where he plays a drunk. Well move over, Gerritt Graham, maybe the day has come when rock critics hit the, celluloid, what with Lester Bangs'1 stint in the Firesign Theatre flick... *Even Mark Spitz wants to get in the swim of things. He recently flew to Rome to star in a movie for Franco Cristaldi (producer of Amarcord). Maybe Mark will act better in Italian... That nigger is still crazy. Richard Pryor is starring iri\ Two Scared Niggers in a Haunted House, where he'll play one of two black cops, who go down to the Deep South and meet up with a bigoted ghost...Hard times in Hollywood. Ann-Margret said the hardest part of Tommy /was playing mother to a boy, Roger Daltry, who is actually only three years younger than she...Did you know that Peter Fonda buys his blue jeans by the dozen? Pete watches his money, especially his 32 per cent share of Easy Rider that still earns him about $20(j),000 a year...The Back In The Saddle Department; Roy Rogers will make his first movie in 21 years, starring in a contemporary western (natch) ...Temper, Temper! Freddie Prinze kicked a hole through a wall in Chico and The Man's rehearsal hall in Burbank "out of sheer frustration."" Maybe Raquel wouldn't kiss him on the first date...Tony Orlando was approached by a waiter who asked him if he was Geraldo Rivera. Geraldo Rivera (whose real name is said to be Jerry Riverstein) was reported to have been approached (by Raquel?) on the street, and asked if he was Tony Orlando. What?... Maybe Woody rather be dead than in Philadelphia, but there's nothing Rod Steiger would rather do than play the title role in W.C. Fields, based on the book W.C. Fields and Me... Little Lisa Presley tells her friends that papa Pelvis "sleeps all the time" when she visits him. Mom Presley seems to be in the best of health these days. She confessed that she became a vegetarian 3 months ago and feels great, and also lost five pounds, while her Mike lost 15. Elvis isn't suffering the split either, his new girlfriend is Playboy Bunny Sheila Ryan, who he just bought a new sports car. He must be feeling extra generous these days, because he is planning to buy his dad, Vernon a new toy to get his/ mind off his marital problems (Vernon recently split from Elvis" step-mother). It's a Boeing 707 jet...Ringo is being considered for a co-starring role with Roger Moore in the next James Bond movie, Ringo will be a bad guy, and no it won't be called The Return of Goldfinger, Mr. Starr has certainly been star-struck. Barbra Streisand's and Jon Peters re-make of A Star Is Born now includes an English pop star and the duo are itching to sign Ringo for the role. Sam Peckinpah has also zoomed in on Ringo and Keith Moon as his stars for his new brutality bonanza. Last and least, look for Ringo to star with Burt Reynolds in an as yet untitled pic in the fall...

Britt Ekland will be in Manila for her co-starring role with Ben Gazzara in the film titled High Velocity. Before she left she helped new Heart throb, Rod Stewart find a Malibu Beach pad for the summer. Meanwhile, after 4 years of togetherness, Lou Adler let Britt off the ,hook nicely, giving her a $26,000 Mercedes, and gave their son Nickolai $2 million worth of property, including 2 shopping centers and a hotel in Hawaih Lou is weathering the split well, condoling himself with Lauren Hutton..•.That other face turned actress, Cybill Shepherd and her honey (?) arrived at the Dallas Film Festival separately. When Peter B. was asked why he doesn't marry Cybill, he replied: "Because she won't marry me.".: .Faye Dunaway has been selected by Alfred Hitchcock to star in his. latest movie tentatively titled 53rd Movie, and she's not even a blonde.