THE BEAT GOES ON
Carly: Fear Of Flying On her most recent album cover, she's posed like a salacious tigress baiting her prey. A leggy feline hedonistically inspired with blissful erotic fantasies. Well, at least that's what the big boys at Columbia Pictures thought when they chose Carly Simon for the much sought after lead in their upcoming "Fear of Flying", the celluloid interpretation of Erica Jong's best seller.
THE BEAT GOES ON
Carly: Fear Of Flying
On her most recent album cover, she's posed like a salacious tigress baiting her prey. A leggy feline hedonistically inspired with blissful erotic fantasies.
Well, at least that's what the big boys at Columbia Pictures thought when they chose Carly Simon for the much sought after lead in their upcoming "Fear of Flying", the celluloid interpretation of Erica Jong's best seller.
But to their dismay "care-, ful" Carly declined the coveted role. Manager Arlene Rosenthal explained why. "I felt that Carly could portray that character convincingly, but all the creative elements weren't particularly right for that particular vehicle." Specifically she mentioned that "the woman (Julia Phillips) who was going to direct had never directed anything."
Suggesting that if celebrated director Mike Nichols had been at the helm, their response might have been - altered, Ms. Rosenthal also added that "if this had been a role where she wouldnV have been "the" performer responsible for carrying the whole picture, it might have been a different story." In other words, she would have grabbed it: