Confessions of a FILMFOX

FILMFOX

Jaan Uhelszki

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When the cat's away.. .the mouse just sulks. At a recent Queen press party in Hollywood, Rod the overgrown Mod was caught by the local paparazzi having a bit of a tete a tete with Susan George. (Rod does seem to have a penchant for summer blonde actresses.) You know, just chit chat — he says — but Britt saw the cozy conversation as something a little more lethal, and stormed out of the Mandarian, never returning home that night. Rod stayed up alone, waiting for his ladylove. An aide of Stewart's was overheard grumbling "It serves the wench right, she's just an overgrown groupie, anyway." And to think only last month the columnists were betting that the lovebirds were secretly married, after Rod — so overwhelmed with Britt-baby's performance in the High Velocity pic — took a planeload of pals to San Diego for the sneak preview.

Sean Connery has turned down some big bucks to make another comeback as Bond.. .two million to be exact.

It s just another tequila sunrise: Bing Crosby is in "great spirits"; in addition to hisO.J. interests, he's recently become a tequila importer.

Six Million Dollar Man to bow as comic: No, not as in yuks, but as in comicbooks. Let's see how the Bionic Man competes against the Fantastic Four in newsstand sales.

OK, so a couple of months ago we said Marianne "As Tears Go By" Faithfull was slinging hash in a Blighty eatery — now she's coming back up in the world. The latest report is that she has a n ew love interest: Russell "KICK ASS, HITLER'Mael of Sparks. Seems the two are not only working on a new,album together, but enjoy "playing together" (Translation: fooling around) after a hard day's work, Sigh, ain't love grand.

Our favorite space faggot, darling David Bowie, seems to be slipping down the straight and harrow. He revealed that, "I'll be middle of the road before long." Angie baby may have other ideas. If we're reading her right,

Mrs. Bowie told us that she and David will soon be enjoying a lot more togetherness — "Professionally, that is."

No they're not trying to compete with the Sonny-Cher-Gregg tryst. "Or that we're going to start doing a Paul and Linda McCartney," she insists.

"That's ouf. But we do have a project in mind. It's so obvious and brilliant i

and David thought of it. " Maybe she's talking about the film script she's written about Ruth Ellis, a convicted m urderess and the last woman to be hanged in England. Last we heard, she was mumbling something about starring in said film, with hubby directing.

AH in the family or tube for two:

Bobby Vinton's recent White House visit netted him a fan — the boss's* daughter. Susan Ford now collects all of his platters, and is — to put it simply — infatuated with the pretty Polack. It's obviously mutual since Vinton is after her to guest on )iis syndicated TV series. And we thought Betty was the only TV celebrity after her 30-second stint on the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Cleaning up their act: Fearing some flack from the Ecumenical Council,

Brut Productions has changed the name of their film starring Glenda Jackson from Nasty Habits to The Abbess.

Jimmy Page is in the Colonies . mixing the sound track to the long-inpreparation Zeppelin film. The film will be ready in August, or as Jimmy's buddy Bobby Plant promises, "at the same time as the opening of the next soccer season. The film features more than just us on stage. It has a few tastes of spice (ooo-la-la) from everybody's imagination, sort of humorous in parts. It ain't all music anyway, it touches on some of the things that m ake up the personalities in the group Contrary to what Gregg told me about his spouse's prowess in the kitchen,

Cher's mom says her sheiky daughter *

can't even boil water, much less whip up a bunch of burritos as Greggy-poo claims. ,

Did father really know best? Paul Newman's daughter, Nell, was originally offered the role Linda Blair played in The Exorcist, but Poppa Paul nixed the deal.

Well I'm exiting stage right until we meet again next month for the latest blab from Glitter-central. Kissyface & bye-bye.