Confessions of a FILM FOX

Confessions of a FILM FOX

Luscious-lipped Linda Ronstadt is set to make her debut in Dino DeLaurentiis’ screen adaptation of the best-selling novel, Ragtime. Talk has it that Linda got the role because Dino’s son is hot-hot-hot for the little lady.

Alice Cooper going straight? The film version of Kart Vonnegat’s Breakfast Of Champions promises to feature the Coop in the role of a gay piano player. He’ll no doubt take time out to have his day in court as well, sihee his former live-in lady, Cynthia Lang, has filed suit against him for $90,000 annual support. According to her attorney, Ms. Lang’s entitled to at least half of Cooper’s worth (close to $ 10 million) for reportedly having helped him become the star he is today.

Lesley Hornby (aka Twiggy), who climbed to fame as the world’s biggest model with the world’s smallest bust, recently tied the knot with American actor Michael Witney, who’s 17 years her senior.

Cariy Simon took time off from having babies recently to sing a few bars of Marvin Haaslisch’s “Nobody Does It Better” for the latest James Bond fun flick, The Spy Who Loved Me.

Production has begun on Jaws 2, which will make its U.S. premiere in mid-June of next year. Due to the fact that the lead fish, “Bruce,” ate most of the cast last lensing, only Roy Scheider survives for the sequel.

Connie Francis, who stated emphatically that under no circumstances would she return to singing, does just that when she blasts back in old grease bailer Dick Clark’s upcoming TV special

MCA and Universal Alms have announced that The Who will fun and frolic their way across the movie screen in the upcoming The Kids Are All Right, to be released sometime around Christmas.

Elvis Preeley’s cat may be let out of the bag soon, if the King’s former secretary’s memoirs prove to be as juicy as rumored. Becky Yancey, after working for the legend for over a decade, decided to call it a day and retire to her typewriter... to the joy of many a Presley fan.

Siesy Spacek (who leveled a high school for the hell of it in Carrie) may need to call upon her powers once again when she appears opposite singer-still-trying-to-be-an-actor Art Garfunkel in I Try To Live, currently filming in Morocco.

Steve Marriott’s new American bride, Pam Stevens, (a model—but aren’t they all?) turned up 15 minutes late for their wedding because her dog ran away from home.' All the same, he finally returned to the hearth, and the wedding went off as planned. (The Marriotts are already happy parents.)

If they can pull it off, the movje version of Broadway’s The Wiz may well receive a special commendation for turning an over-30 mother of three into a 14-year-old-youngster (also known as "What Berry Gordy Wants, Berry Gordy * Gets”). Diana Ross, attempting the original movie role of Dorothy, will be joined by comic Bill Cosby and singer Michael Jackson.

New York director Hal Prince to stage and direct Robert Stigwood’s West End London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita, to open in the spring.

Now that Peter Frampton is “Penny-less, it’s open season on the pretty thing. No one’s talking, but if s rumored that the Framp is oh-so pleased with his single status, now that he’s, officially divorced from ex-model (ho-hum) Mary.

Robert Stigwood’s movie production (yes, another one) of Grease includes appearances by Olivia (fig) Newton-John, Frankie (population explosion) Avalon and John (you have to ask?) Travolta. The original score’s be ing penned by Panlf he’s too short to poke fun at) Williams.