Confessions of a FILM FOX
Hello, hello, back again hot to trot and ready to drop... Dick Clark has purchased the film rights to Margaret Truman’s first literary effort, titled, Murder In The White House. Will Richard Nixon star? Call dial-a-prayer... Also on the Big Book beat, dean Stein’s biography of the late Edie Sedgwick, a Warhol person from the 60’s, was finished recently with the help of George Plimpton. Can there be a celluloid project much far behind?
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Confessions of a FILM FOX
Hello, hello, back again hot to trot and ready to drop... Dick Clark has purchased the film rights to Margaret Truman’s first literary effort, titled, Murder In The White House. Will Richard Nixon star? Call dial-a-prayer... Also on the Big Book beat, dean Stein’s biography of the late Edie Sedgwick, a Warhol person from the 60’s, was finished recently with the help of George Plimpton. Can there be a celluloid project much farbehind?
John Derek has taken out a million-dollar insurance policy on his wife’s body, and producer Frank Bresee has done the same for his wife, Bobbie Bresee.. .all together now, cluck cluck...
Showing her the Way (around HoUywood), Peter Frampton and Barbara Gold. Meryl Streep, who’s turned down interviews with just about every magazine in the country (except Ladies’Home Journal—coool, Meryl!), accepted an offer to attend the Royal Command Performance of Kramer vs. Kramer with Dustin Hoffman, Justin Henry, Bob Benton, and Stanley and Leo Jaffe. But will she actually speak with the Queen? Only her hairdresser knows for sure...
Lucie Arnaz inherited the role that Deborah Baffin never got a chance to play opposite Neil Diamond in The Jazz Singer... oh poor baby! British humor has noflouride dept.: Ian Whitcomb will conduct a course, “British Comedy On Film,” atUSC. It is not known whether or not Hugh Cornwell or George Harrison will attend...
Ursula Andress is pregnant by who?... Loraa Luft is releasing a rock ’n’ roll album under the thumb of Chapman/Chinn, and who cares?
Life In The Theatre Can Be Expensive Report: Popcorn in a theatre in New Yuk costs somewhere in the vicinity of three dollars... David and Angie Bowie’s marriage ended with less than 60G’s going to A-Angie... New World Pictures and Orion Pictures have completed casting for their joint endeavor Battle Beyond The Stars. Slated forbig roles are Richard Thomas and George Peppard... Rumors abound that Universal has Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds signed to costar in The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas. Like they say, in Texas, bigger is better...
Elton John (who?) is being considered for the lead rote in Film Ventures International’s Hard Rolling. Eltone would play the “hard-nosed leader of a rock group,” who get their kicks by terrorizing citizens of a small town. Better than terrorizing true rock fans...
Gae Exton, mother of Christopher Reeve’s son Matthew, is finally free to marry Superman. What took so long was that her previous hubby, engineering tycoon David Iveson, was injail on a charge of smuggling cocaine, and was not able to negotiate the divorce properly...
George C. Scott, Marlon Brando and Marthe Keller to star in MGM’s The Formula... Back together again are Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero (Guinevere and Lancelot), after a five-year split... Jane Fonda’s health spa is doing sooo good, she’s planning franchises.. .snoresville... John Lennon and Yoko Ono have purchased a million-dollar pad in Palm Springs, described as being an “ocean-side mansion.” Yeah, only mad dogs and Englishmen...
Steve McQueen married New York model Barbara Minty in Santa Paula, where Steverino bought a “honeymoon” ranch... Brigitte Bardot is back with sculptor Miroslav Brozek.. .anyone for tennis?
Lots of news in the Roger Corman camp this month, with Roger chasing Nick Nolte around tinsel-town, trying to persuade the Big Blond to star in Don’t Open The Door!Roger already has Bobbie Bresee contracted for the femme lead... Rog is also busy expanding his New World Pictures. He’s adding a publishing wing, and rumor has it there is a New World Bank in store for them, also. What a guy—my hero!...
Bette Midler is busy penning her world tour memoirs, entitled Views From A Broad... Bantam Books has gone into the second printing of Bobby Vinton’s autobiography The Polish Prince...
Aaaaaayy, Da Four's leather was recently donated to the collection of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Will Laverne’s monogrammed sweaters be the next to follow?... Frank Sinatra recently raised two million dollars in a benefit for the Palm Springs’ Desert Hospital, by hosting a $1500-a-plate din-din.
The evening was titled “Frank, His Friends and His Food.” The hospital is namingthe new wing “Sinatra Towers”...
Willie Nelson had a few visitors at his Forum show in Inglewood, those persons being Jane Fonda, Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, and Maijoe Gortner Welcome to the movie biz, Willie... Producer Michael Cimino talked Jospeh Cotten into doing the prologue to his newest, Heaven’s Gate... Hedy Lamarr is opening a beauty and rejuvenation spa on Aruba... Barbra Streisand and Jon Peters are back together again, to absolutely no one’s surprise... And how’s your love life?
