Confessions of a FILMFOX

Confessions of a FILMFOX

Altho old Pres is putting on some excess baggage, his pretty ex, Priscilla is in fine shape. She’s no longer doing the karate boogaloo with her former live-in Kung Fu teacher, but she still is maintaining her “civil defense.” In fact she recently purchased a fox fur case for her 7 inch blackjack.

All in the Family , or We Can’t Make Room For Daddy: Did you know that Chastity Bono is billed as one of the talent coordinators on Cher’s show? She earned the tag because she selected some of Mom’s recent guests, like Captain Kangaroo and the Hudson Brothers.

Speaking of Cher, she just signed a juicy deal for the manufacture of a “Cher doll” complete with a built-in voice. You pull the string and she says: “Let’s get hitched. ” Pull it again, and she says.. .Somebody must have pushed John Denver’s button at Tahoe, where he told the audience “I was going to marry Cher since I had a week off, but I came here instead.” Modesty will get you nowhere. Mick Jagger recently insisted that: “I don’t have any ambition to be the world’s biggest movie star. I’ve gone through that once before.” But that didn’t stop him from accepting some of the current celluloid spotlight. He will play Paul Newman’s son in the screen version of the bestseller, Ragtime. Even Mrs. Mick wants to get in the picture (pictures?). She recently tested for the part of a dyke in Triple Portrait, and for a role in the spaghetti spectacular Casanova. They told Bianca that they’ll call her.

You oughta stay in pictures: With Tommy and Listzomania under his belt, Roger Daltrey has won ABC Theaters’ Award for New Star of the Year. His next roll will be in On A Clear Da\; I Can See For Miles.

Peter Wolf had to get in the act, too. At the screening of his movie star/ spouse Faye Dunaway’s latest film, rhree Days of The Condor, Mr. Dunaway tried to steal some of the thunder by announcing that he and the Geils Band had two movies in the can. He was a little vague, but admitted that: “One’s a science fiction Western that takes place in 1905 and 1983, and the other is called Shakedown AKA Postcard; another flick in the Hard Day’s Night mold, about the band onstage and off.

Old mush mouth has decided to take the marbles out and make his own sweet music. Brando baby will sing (well actually hum) in his new pic The Missouri Breaks. The song is “Mountain Road” (which Linda Ronstadt has previously recorded), and will feature harmonies from Jack Nicholson and Harry Dean Stanton and Luca Gabrazzi.

So we finally get to find out why Billy Joe jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge in Max Bear’s movie about Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode To Billy, Joe.” Billy bails out because his first sexual experience is homo in nature. You know out of the closet, and over the bridge.

Nigel Olsson has put aside his drum set for a while, to plunge into the moving pictures .Nigel is costarring in The Exterminators, which is kind of a Rung Fu rock adventure, which will feature members of the Sadistic Mika Band in cameo roles. Pretty Boy Olsson was originally offered the role as a member of the rock band, but he turned down because he didn’t want to become typecast. Now he’s playing the band’s roadie, while that effervescent evangelist, Marjoe has snared the role of the rock and roll superstar. No, not Jesus Christ S.S., stupid.

Barely known facts: Johnny Carson confesses that: “I have a terrible fear of running backward naked, at full speed, into a doorknob.”