Confessions of a FILM FOX
Neil Diamond will wander across your TV screen this fall via his Free Man In Paris special, loosely based on the singers life. Written by actress/director Jeanne Moreau (and how they ever got together is anyones guess), the film also co-stars Brigitte Bardot.
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Confessions of a FILM FOX
Neil Diamond will wander across your TV screen this fall via his Free Man In Paris special, loosely based on the singers life. Written by actress/director Jeanne Moreau (and how they ever got together is anyones guess), the film also co-stars Brigitte Bardot. Another singer to play producer these days is tinsel towns most eligible bachelor, Bob Dylan. Hes just wrapped up whats said to be “a most serious and secretive project. " The catll be out of the bag soon when Bobby holds his special critics screening (is this boy asking for it?).
A modern day shoot-em-up, The Voices of Guns, based on the Symbionese Liberation Army, may become a TV series this fall. Richard Lorimar, producer of the sugar-coated Waltons, says the series will trace the backgrounds of good kids gone bad. No move was made to solicit Patty Hearsts talents for the proposed series.
PaulKantner, when not recording albums or touring with the Jefferson Starship, dabbles in motion pictures. His latest project features himself and Starship lady Grace Slick in a film based or his concept album, Blows Against the Empire.
The outrageous Monti Rock HI has been inked by Robert Stigwood to appear as a disc-spinner in the upcoming film, Saturday Night Fever Another RSO project, Grease, may credit Olivia Newton-Johns “debut," but dont you believe it.
Seems the Aussie song-spitter appeared in a British sci-fier in 1970 entitled Toomorrow (disassterous) which was shelved because it smelled. (Hope Liv has better luck this time!)
Bats in er belfry, rocks in er head...
The divine (but dingy?) Ms. Butte Midler gave movie producers a no-no when they waved a $15 thou a week offer under her nose to appear in Happy Ending, now in production.
The Grateful Dead have released a movie based on the groups touring
habits. The flick will be shown cross-country this fall, with ads that promise to reveal the real side of the G. Dead. (All together now—Whoooo cares?)
Jon Peters has strayed from roomie Babs (Streisand) long enough to take up with actress Faye Dunatfray—professionally, that is. The lady now demands one million per pic, and will reportedly get just that when she lenses for Peters Eyes.
It aint the blue bird of happiness.. .Paul Williams took out an ad in a show biz trade recently that read: “Mr. and Mrs. Paul Williams, in response to Anita Bryants crusade, have stopped drinking screwdrivers." Clothes dont make the man, but here s hoping theyll help Marie. Cutesy faced Ms. Osmond has picked up Chers costume designer, Bob Mackie, in the hopes that he can zip up her wardrobe. (Now if we could just get that dentist to make house calls...) Since Beatlemania is breaking records on Broadway, the shows backers, Leber-Krebs, are hinting about a followup. Blueprints have been drawn for Desperado, a musical-western based on the music of (and by) the Eagles. Also being considered is a musical based on the groups current
hot LP, Hotel California.
The remake of oldie National Velvet (retitled International Velvet) will star Tatum ONeal in the role made famous many moons ago by Elizabeth Taylor.
Darth Vader, king of the nasties in Star Wars, is planning a return flight to movie theatres if 20th Century-Fox has its way. Part two of the box office blockbuster is already underway, and will premier in 1979—providing the sci-fi craze is still in full force.
TV viewers beware: Barbi Benton may be out of Hugh Hefners hair, but shell sashay her way across the tube this fall in producer James Komacks new series, Girls, Girls, Girls.. .sort of a musical Charlies Angels.
