Confessions of a FILMFOX

Confessions of a FILMFOX

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Spring has sprung, the grass is green, hello, how are ya, where have you been? Yes, it is spring again, and where does a young man’s fancy turn to? Love, of course. And where does an old man’s fancy turn to? Love, you big dummy! Famed octogenarian Fred (I ain’t no Travolta) Astaire recently let it be known to John Q.

Public that he plans to marry lady jockey Robyn Smith...

Ole stone face Clint Eastwood has been offered the lead in The Devil Came From Dublin, and Clint is reportedly to write,his own check. Must be nice.

What happened to Twiggy, you ask? Well, it seems the ex foliage look-alike feels that her monicker “Twiggy” is too dopey fpr a well rounded 30-year-old and will revert to using her real name of Lesley Hornsby. Can Cheetah Chrome be far behind?

A sequel is being planned for the controversial movie Joe. The flick will deal with Joe’s life after he gets out of prison, with Vic Tayback being fingered to play the lead. Will Joe go on a binge of shooting punk rockers this time? Could we be so lucky? „

Who the hell is Eugene O’Conner?

Barbara Eden recently escaped serious injury when a speeding maniac collided with the exdream inspiring Jeannie. Rub that lamp one more time, with a little more feeling...

And you thought they had no taste dept:

Meryl Streep is tp star in The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Meryl beat out Jane Fonda for the role. No need to say, butMs. Streep is tres hot in tinsel town...

Did you know that Nick Nolte and the person he portrays in Heartbeat by the name of Neal Cassady share the same birthday?

Everyone’s favorite drinker Oliver Reed was so inspired by the grape one night, that he climbed on the roof of a pub and poured soot down the chimney onto the hapless barmaids below. What a suave guy.

Bring on the nubiles dept: Roman Polanski was considering returning to the U.S. if he would be guaranteed that the most punishment he would receive is probation. No wap, said the courts of this wonderful country. What1 s the matter Roman? Can’t you get your ’lude script filled in Europe? Ah shucks....

Did You Know that Susan Blakely ate onions before her smooching scenes with Peter Strauss in Rich Man Poor Man? Is that what she meant when she said, “kiss me where it stinks”...? Life is a horror dept: Stephen King, writer of Carrie, The Shining etc., will team up with George A. Romero for the production of King’s The Stand. Yummy, yummy, this fox can’t wait...

Wife of bottle blond Rod Stewart, Alana Hamilton, may be cast in The Boarder, which-.also stars Jack Nicholson and Valerie Perrine.

Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson to star in a movie called Songwriter. Anyone who knows what a songwriter is, is asked to contact Willie and Kris respectively....

Rumors, rumors, everywhere rumors. We hear that Bianca Jagger is in love with 20 year old “thespian” (aren’t they a//?) Rupert Everett. Will young Rupert give her a hard time?...

Vidal Sassoon and Real People’s Sarah Purcell?!?! A hot item!?!?! Huh?

Sophia Loren has bought ap apartment in New York City. There goes the neighborhood.,. Frank Langella was informed by his wife Ruth that they will be parents in the fall...

Bo Derek, of funny hairstyle fame, is not the only, uh, actress in her family. Seems her sister Kelly Collins is in line for Shelly Hack’s job on Charlie’s Angels. Seeing as how Shelley’s job was to impersonate primeval ocean life, Kelly should be on E-Z Street with her bland sis in no time...

American funny-guy Jerry Lewis (no relation to Jerry Vile), long considered one of the top comediansln France, has had a high honot bestowed upon him by the French people. They setting aside April 9th in his honor, calling it “Jerry Lewis Day.” Can you imagine the results if we sent Tom Snyder to the snail eaters?

Who’s going to play the part of Frank Sinatra in his movie bio? Robert DeNiro, if old Blue Eyes has his way. Why this talk of a biographical film when he’s not dead yet? Frank just wants to be sure that they “don’t screw it up” after he’s dead . What Sinatra wants, Sinatra gets. Gotta hand it to Frank—could you imagine what the movie would be like if he had not planned ahead and let them tell the real story? Marlon Brando playing the lead, mumbling his way through “That’s Life,” fat and surly, making offers that you couldn’t refuse, no matter how ridiculous, and obeying them like he was some sort of god, with butter all over his pudgy little fists? What do ■ you call it, Frank, when you choose DeNiro over Brando? What’s a mook, Frank?