Confessions of a FILM FOX
This summer's movie houses will bust loose with Lorimar Productions' Americathon, billed as "a futuristic political comedy" and aimed at the pop-rock set. The film will feature Elvis Costello (who's also penning part of the music score) and big boy Meat Loaf.
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Confessions of a FILM FOX
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This summer's movie houses will bust loose with Lorimar Productions' Americathon, billed as "a futuristic political comedy" and aimed at the pop-rock set. The film will feature Elvis Costello (who's also penning part of the music score) and big boy Meat Loaf. Set in the year 1998, it will include a production niimber cl la Busby Berkeley.
And if last month's cover story didn't tell you everything you wanted to know about the Blues Brothers, the Rock Island, Illinois siblings (aka John _ Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) will invade the silver screen again (after 1941), this time to tellthe/r-story . . . Time permitting, Belushi's also slated to co-star with the deeuine Ms. Midler in an upcoming comedy, financed by Bette's manager Aaron Russo.
Last month we scooped you on the fact that Maggie Trudeau wanted to go home to Canuckland (&Pierre), but talk has it that once the Preemy gets a load of his spouse's upcoming bio, Beyond Reason (where she supposedly paints a pretty vivid picture of her extra-marital activities), he'll give her a return ticket. . . And speaking of activities, Biitt Ekland's currently penning her memoirs. True Britt promises to feature intimate details of her.dsoapades with Rod, Peter Sellers, Lou Adler, etc. etc. etc. etc. By the time you read this, Stephen Stills will probably have slipped down the aisle to wed wife ^2 (formerly known as Mac's Wrath in her MacMillan & Wife TV days), actress Susan St. Janies. Apparently smitten beyond belief, Stephen went so far as to pen a song for the little lady, entitled "Susie Jane." . »
Is there no end in sight? Elvis Presley movies are cropping up like the plague, and no exception is Palomar Pictures' upcoming two-parter, based on the singer's biography by Albert Goldman . . . And speaking of Presleys, Priscilla's reportedly been offered the lead in Crown International's Mulholland Drive, and . word has it that Ringo Starr's hot to co-star with her.
It's no secret that Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters are still stuck on each other but now you'll get to see it for reel: The couple will star in Universal's upcomingflick,The Jerk, and all we want to know is . . . who plays the title role? Martin, by the way, will hit the book stalls in June with his( collection of anecdotes called Cruel Shoes (published by Putnam).
When it was reported that Rod Stewart (ontqur in Aussieland) was spending time with a former Miss Australia (Belinda Green), a Stateside Alana Hamilton apparentlydiopped theTirst jet to check out the rumors, though denying that she was at all concerned. "If I got upset every time a groupie tried to get her picture taken with Rod," she sniffed daintily, "I'd go nuts."
In the Mating For Dollars Dept., the courtroom antics surrounding the Lee Marvin vs. Michelle Triola case has resulted in a number of suits being Bled in filmland: Peter Frampton's being taken to court by longtime live-in . lookalike Penny McCall , who hopes for big bucks . . . Likewise, Flip Wilson is being sued by former lady Kayatana Harrison, a dental assistant who plans to drill Flip for half of his $2 million assets/
The Tubes' Fee Waybill will co-star in Marquee Films' "surrealistic fantasy feature, " Simon, set to roll later this year, with the soundtrack being composed by Todd Rundgren. We'll drink to that! New York now boasts an after-hours club, recently purchased by mad-cappers John Belushi & Dan Aykroyd, called (what else?) The Bar . . j Meanwhile, another Saturday Night Live cut-up, Bill Murray (Linda Ronstadt's Other Squeeze), will portray writer Hunter Thompson in Where The Buffalo Roam, upcoming from Universal Pics, followed by yet another flick, Meatballs. ~
Who sez blondes have more fun? Blondie's Debbie Harry sports brunette tresses when she co-stars with Robert Fripp in Alphaville, a remake of the '66 spy flick, now in production. Relax, she'll go back to blonde ... Bowie acting homo? David Bowie's reportedly been approached to play the lead role in a musical based on the autobiog of Quentin Crisp (referred to^as "Britaih's stately homo"). Also rumored to be on his roster: the title role in The Life Of Buster Keaton, directed by David (Just A Gigolo) Hemmings. Well, if at first you don't succeed . . . 'Til next month, don't forget to wipe twice—or pay the price!
