Confession of a FILM FOX
With Spring just around the snowdrift, it seems to be the time for new projects and old backbiting. Here’s one for all you paper-straight, thin-haired darlings out there: bet you’re just gloating over the latest misfortune of Cher (ancheralike), who obviously put too much store in those nancy boys on TV whose insistent: “Our perm will turn them on” cooings sent her licorice locks to the floor.
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Confession of a FILM FOX
With Spring just around the snowdrift, it seems to be the time for new projects and old backbiting. Here’s one for all you paper-straight, thin-haired darlings out there: bet you’re just gloating over the latest misfortune of Cher (ancheralike), who obviously put too much store in those nancy boys on TV whose insistent: “Our perm will turn them on” cooings sent her licorice locks to the floor. Well, if they ever do a remake of Peter Pqn ... In other Cher-croppings, ex-hubby No. 2, Gregg Allman, recently poo-pooed all those nasty rumors that hisbottle habit caused the marriage to goon the rocks. Gregg insists th^t it was Cher’s penchant for cavorting ’round the rec room en deshabille .. . And what of ex-hubby No. 1? DespiteSotany Bono’s hot ’n’ heavy hankering for Susie Cuelho, Sonny & Cher will be back as the pizza-slinging, belly-belching duo that may yet force Chastity underground. A more welcome TV return is anticipated for Soupy Sales. The king of the kiddie double entendre is now taping a number of shows in L. A., to be syndicated through Gene Autry’s Golden West Television. Can’t wait to hear White Fang and Black Tooth inquire once again of their zany master, “What’s for lunch today, Soupy?” It’s beginning to look like Paul Schrader’s An American Gigolo production is becoming as tenuous as the livelihood it portrays: Lauren Hutton was officially cast as the female lead ppposite John Travolta after Jul^e Christie turned the role down. Shortly thereafter, Paramount execs postponed the flick to search for a stronger actress for old disco-toes to play off of; Moments later, Travolta decided to walk out of the production himself, citing the recent death of his mother and lousy critiques of his N, current flick, Moment By Moment, as his reasons fQr taking a powder. So Hutton is still on the roster and Hector Elizondo is hot to fill John* John’s sweaty shoes. . . Speaking of gigolos, /you might be wondering what’s become of David Bowie’s big screen outing, Just A Gigolo: Well, the flick did premier in London and Berlin a few months back, but was so thoroughly panned that it was sent back to be re-cut and edited before being tossed to the dogs again..
\ Once a radical, now a regular biz-wiz! Abbie Hoffman wasn’t kidding when he titled his autobiog Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture—the movie rights have already been snapped up, and you can bet your Country Joe & The Fish albums old Abe ain’t protesting that move...
Don’t miss Supersuit, starring Marlon Brando. According to Zodiac News, pops slapped a suit against Warner Bros, for $50 million, claiming he didn’t get the percentage of gross from Superman that he wa£ promised. (Just can’t trust those pale faces!)
It’s not the blob, the slob, or even big foot, but could it be the whippet? The eek! of ’79 will no doubt be the foe of thje upcoming Star Trek flick, described as “a cloud of electronically-charged whipping cream” that devours space ship£ in a single slurp . .. Speaking of lip smackers, Mick dagger is being joined by Amy Irving (Steven Spielberg’s coochy-coo) and Giancarlo Giannini in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Suffer Or Die epic. But for some strange reason, Buck Henry was implored to rewrite the Anthony Burgess screen screenplay. Hmmm ... Too bad someone decided against recasting Mate, a London West End play starring •super pooper Britt Ekland. When the production folded after a record (short) two-week stand, Britt rationalized, “Well, some people never make it to the West End. And I’m hot Dame Britt yet.” No shit, Dick Tracy. Come Live With Me And Be My Cow could be the working title for a hefty little pile of memoirs if John & Yoko Lennon were serious when they purchased his-and-hers typewriters ' recently. .. And You Think You’ve Got Problems Dept.: Country crooner George Jones tried to pull a Richard Pryor by gunning down his car recently. (He, too, was arrested.) Add to that the suit against him by ex-wife Tammy Wynette for lack of child support and you’ve got one singer counting his sheckles right into 2001.
.. . And who said love wasn’t in the air? This Spring’s Canadian election may reunite Pierre Trudeau and his little Magpie. Margaret the T reportedly Informed her estranged preemie that she’ll come back to roost only if he loses the election. Two losers don’t make a winner, kiddo ... ’Til next month, don’t let the plumbing back up.
