Confessions of a FILMFOX
I Got You Babe... again. Need a program to keep track of the players? For a late update, my scorecard reads that Gregg Allman has been permanently sent to the showers for having his backfield in constant motion. Surprisingly OI' Dixie's favorite son didn't buck the decision, and threw in his towel by filing for the Big D (yes folks, as in D-I-V-O-R-C-E), and from the sidelines it looks like that Wonderful Wop, Sonny Bono is off the bench and back calling the shots.
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Confessions of a FILMFOX
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I Got You Babe... again. Need a program to keep track of the players? For a late update, my scorecard reads that Gregg Allman has been permanently sent to the showers for having his backfield in constant motion. Surprisingly OI' Dixie's favorite son didn't buck the decision, and threw in his towel by filing for the Big D (yes folks, as in D-I-V-O-R-C-E), and from the sidelines it looks like that Wonderful Wop, Sonny Bono is off the bench and back calling the shots. Resulting in a reteaming of Sonny and Cher. Professionally that is. Mr. Bono was delighted (eager, even) to rejoin his former leading lady for the remainder of the season's Cher Show, for CBS-TV, 'l' who incidently are picking up the duo's option for next year, which has been tentatively tilted The Cat in The Hat Comes Back... But do I speaketh too soon? Can it be that the goat is returning to the pen just as we go to press? Do you care anymore? Do they?
Breaking up isn't hard to do, continued. Valerie Harper says she'd like to get a divorce. I mean from David Groh in her Rhoda series. She thinks being a divorced lady would lend a great deal to her characterization and make Rhoda meatier. Which nixes the prenatal portion of that program. Previously, Rhoda was going to bring a bundle of joy to CBS — another costar, but now she is emphatically denying that: "Rhoda for sure is not having a baby this year, and I don't think next. And if I, Valerie, get pregnant,\jt will not coiacide with Rhoda's getting knocked up. I'm not having a baby for America!"
Before plunging into the filming of Exorcist II, Linda Blair has been trying out a new role — rock fan extraordinaire (Jim Dandy swore in People mag that lovely Linda was no groupie). She followed Black Oak Arkansas from sea to shining sea in her very own Volvo during their last tour, showing up at everysingleshow
and hoofing it to the Holiday Inn at night — and yes, she paid her own tab. She wa^also spotted giving Steven Tyler of Aerosmith the eye, at the after-concert press party — to which she requested (and got) 16 tickets and backstage passes.
What do you mean autobiographical? Raquel Welch plays a "sweater girl" in the upcoming Mother, Jugs, &
Speed. (She doesn't play Speed or Mom.) She's also pulling a Barbra Streisand, because her designerbeau will design all her sweaters/ What else does Raquel have under her sweater, I mean up her sleeve? She's to star as Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.
No, it's not a You-Tarzan, Me-Jane affair. The producers are saying:
"This is a story about a Ph.D. who is the sole survivor of an expedition and learns to obtain the necessities of life from the jungle. " No, Raquel doesn't gang bang any gorillas, this is going to be G-rated, so don't expect any juicy bestiality. _
No, Seven Nights in Japan isn't a slant sequel to Three Days of the Condor. Incidently, Faye Dunaway walks away as the winner of the "If you want me just whistle" award for the best quip of the year, when she assures her costar ^Robert Redford that: "You can always rely on the old spy-fucker." RR is the spy'.in real life, the ravishing Mr. Redford finds himself ever so entertaining, confessing that: "When I'm driving " alone, I getso high I talk to myself." So that's the way it is in the Redford School of Social Abuse.
MaijoeGortner, evangelist-turnedactor, who's portrayed a murderer, a gun-toting preacher, a psychotic army reservist and other equally theological characters, has the lead in the H.G. Wells story The Food of the Gods.
Ol' Marjoe shouldTeel right at home. Everybody knows that as a tyke he used to mix his Tang with holy water. Bow-wow? When David Bowie taped a segment of Soul Train, one of the cameramen solicited an autographed pic for a most unlikely fan — June Lockhart. Now I don't want to hear any Diamond Dog Meets Lassie quips, or I'll cut ofTyour Kennel Ration.
Talking about that very taping, Bowie confessed he was rockin' and reelin' drunk because he was so nervous.
She sure could whistle, but she couldn't carry a tune. Andy Williams dubbed all Lauren Bacall's on-screen singing voices.
Maybe that "ihyou want me just whistle" technique worked on Bogie, but you can pucker up from now until next Thursday while performing the complete works of The Electric Light Orchestra, but I won't be back until next month.
