Confessions of a FILM FOX

Confessions of a FILM FOX

More overbite? Paul Morrissey has decided to get in the swim of things — shooting a new fractured flicker on location at the Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla and off the coast of Japan. Working title: Andy Warhol’s Jaws. The plot concerns a methadone crazed shark which takes a strategic bite out of Joe Dallesandro...As for Andy, he says all he wants to do is redo Tommy with Diana Ross in Ann-Margret’s role,Lou Reed as Tommy, and Mark Volman as Daddy.

It ain’t All In The Family .A “quasidocumentary” has just opened featuring footage on Squeaky Fromme (as Variety says: “a girl with a Ford in _ her life, Sandra Goode, chief prosecutor Vincent T. Bugliosi, and of course the mad Maestro,Charles Manson.

Looks like Alice Cooper will be showing his cheerios. He’s been offered to play the part of BunnyvHoover in Robert Altman’s movie adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champ-

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Tatum has been grounded. To her chagrin, she’ll no longer be one of the Hollywood Swingers. Papa O'Neal finally realized that things were getting out of control, so he ordered Tatum to stop stuffing her training bra, wipe off the Maybelline, and give back the credit cards. Her spendihg sprees (usually supervised by Cher) were running as high as $2,500 a week! Altho her nitelife in tinsel town has been curtailed, Tatum is making a comeback at age 11/ She’ll star in The Bad News Bears, playing a girl pitcher on an all boy Little League teanm Terrible twosome? Tanya Tucker revealed to CREEM that she’d like to team-up with Tatum. Alotta weinerschnitzel watching, dr Kraftwerk gets kinky: The average German male spends about $8 a year on some form of porn. Hang on to your knockwurst , here’s some more: Ludwig Kerscher, a former Bavarian applegro wer has rights to 300 feet of film of Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler , taken by a camera hidden above the door in Adolf’s bedroom.

The film is said to “discount the story that Hitler was impotent.”

A case of mistaken identity. There’s a scene in The Man in The Qlass Phone Booth where the MDs are supposedly examining an X-ray of Maximillian Schell’s shoulder, except the doctors in the house have identified the X-ray ’as being of a woman’s pelvis, complete with IUD!

King Kong Koriked. Paramount Pics no sooner announced their remake of KK than they were lambasted with a 25 million dollar suit by Universal which . claimed an exclusive contract with RKO to produce and distribute a re^ make of the 1933 classic , and that was too much ape shit to tangle with. , There’s a sucker born every minute, and in this case there’s two. Two British candy companies are battling in court over the right to use Telly Savalas’ Kojak name on their lollipops. The Taverner Rutledge Caricy Company claims they purchased the rights from MCA for their Kojakpops which have already sold over 11 million in the Isles, and they’re demanding a ban of the rival Trexapalm company’s selling of their suckers as Kojak Lollipops.

Do blondes still have more fun? Ask Doris Day, she was having a wonderful time in Los Angeles, where she sat in the very first row at another peroxided pal’s concert. You got it, John Denver. Doris admits that she’s his biggest fan.

No more kung fu fighting for David Carradine. He’s been signed to play Woody Guthrie in the autobiographical film Bound for Glory. All washed up? Joii Peters (color me Barbra’s boyfriend) is planning a TV series called Hairdo, which Peters insists was well in the works before Warren Beatty’s Shampoo was even dried. If that isn’t enough to make Warren’s hair curl, The World Amusement Company plans to make a flick called Black Shampoo. Warren ~ baby is a little tiffed, but director Greydon Clark insists that Beatty should like Black Shampoo because “We both make the same statement — brotherhood.” But I thought the movie was about. .. And Warren’s promising more of the same in his next film, revealing that Shampoo was only a warm-up. The buzz is, beautiful Beatty will star in what wiftbe the first legitimate porno moviev “It’ll have the real thing. None of that Last Tango simulated stuff.”

The joker is wild. Peter Sellers will go to any links to get a laugh. He handcuffed himself to a NYC cop for publicity.