Confessions of a FILM FOX
Greetings all you celluloid junkies and welcome back to the show that never bends... Dustin Hoffman will marry Lisa Gottsegen, 24, this summer. Aren’t you excited? We’re sure ole Dusty is, because his fiance is 18 years his junior... Dopes in Rio de Janeiro shelled out $55 apiece at a carnival just to look at the lovely Bianca Jagger?
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Confessions of a FILM FOX
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Greetings all you celluloid junkies and welcome back to the show that never bends...
Dustin Hoffman will marry Lisa Gottsegen, 24, this summer. Aren’t you excited? We’re sure ole Dusty is, because his fiance is 18 years his junior...
Dopes in Rio de Janeiro shelled out $55 apiece at a carnival just to look at the lovely Bianca Jagger? Maybe money does grow on trees... ,
Bianca has dropped thespian Rupert Everett in favor of Queen Elizabeth II’s first cousin John Bowes-Lyon. Poor Rupert— he tried so hard...
Les Chappell lookalike Yul Brynner is so popular with the rest of ihe cast of The King and I in London that they place tacks outside his dressing room door. Can’t you hear the barefooted Yul stepping on the tacks: “OUCH etcetera, etcetera, etcetera...”
Famed Playboy model Suzanne Somers had her mother read aloud from a cookbook when she was a child. Her favorite dish? A candlelight salad with a banana ticking up from it...
Robert Redford claims he doesn’t sleep much because of terrible nightmares. Here’s a little advice, Robert—try sleeping with your hands above the covers...
Horror film magnate John Carpenter recently had the devil scared out of him when a bat flew down the chimney of his home. The day was saved by his wife, Adrienne Barbeau, who simply opened the door of the house and let the gapless creature fly out. John, you bigscaredy cat...
And you used tp wpnder why she was fired dept: Shelly “32A” Hack was hit on the bean by a falling pipe shortly before her exit from Charlie’s Angels. Most thespians get dropped on their heads as babies, Shelley... Phyllis Diller feels that she should be the replacement for Ms. Hack on the program. Phyllis sez that they need an attractive woman with a sense of humor, and this fox agrees...
Susan “No one knows what to expect from me” Anton hasheen seen towering above her new boyfriend Dudley Moore at restaurants and nightclubs around Tinseltown. Meanwhile, her ex-sweetie, Sylvester Stallone, must be shedding a tear Since the big blonde changed the huge diamond he gave her into a pendant. All’s fair in love and showbiz...
Shocking hews! Roman Polanski’s been seen with an older woman! That’s right, dogface Roman’s new flame is a 17-year-old American actress Dawn Dunlop! But how can Roman take all those wrinkles? Does she take Geritol yet? Huh? Answers next month.
Close Encounters of One Day at a Time dept: Steven Spielberg has been dating Valerie Bertinelli. What happened to Stevie’s last love Amy Irving? It seems Willie Nelson has replaced Spielberg in Amy’s heart...
Headlines of the month, courtesy of Gossip magazine: JAMES CAAN: YOU CAN CALL ME A TRANSVESTITE! and SAMMY DAVIS, JR. CAN’T SWALLOW LOVELACE STORY?!
Jodie Foster is slated to star as a freshman student in a flick called The Petting Zoo. Little did the producers know, but the location they chose is minutes away from Yale where Jodie’s enrolled as a first year student...
What was it that inspired the Unknown Comic (aka Murray Langston) to become America’s favorite half-wit? Tiny Tim! It seems the Bagged One was watching Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In one night and decided that if a no-talent like Tiny Tim could make it big in showbiz, so could he. Maybe one of the Unknown Comic’s girlfriends gave him the idea for the cute costume he wears...
Who in hell are Ernie Fosselius and John V. Fonte? They’re a pair of film-makers who are currently in working on their own movie Porklips Now, which is a send-up of Francis Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. The two youngsters claimed that there were no heart attacks on the set, only heartburn from a wild pizza...
Burt Reynolds says that if he was stuck on a desert island the only woman he’d want is Carol Burnett. You figure that one out...
Elizabeth Taylor unloaded a 70-carat diamond she’d been trying to sell for three years to an Arab oil baron for three million dollars. ;
Maybe now Elizabeth can afford a maximu m-security fat farm...
. On another diamond-studded scene, Bob Dylan reportedly gave his back-up vocalist Debbie Gigson a $25,000 sparkler. Maybe the old goat’s heading to the altar again?
From The Hollywood Reporter: “U.S. Government bonds paying 11%%, and due in 2010, will be known as“BdDereks”—really!” Really, indeed...
Don Arden, manager of Britt Ekland, has parted company with her, saying that handling Britt would take up too much of his time. Maybe Don was inspired by the ad copy for the Amity ville Horror...
A sequel to the horrendous Grease is in the works, with Andy Gibb starring. John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John will appear briefly in the film—subliminally, hopefully. Also embarrassing themselves with Gibb will be Martin Mull, Jane Curtin, and Robert Klein. With a release date of mid-’81, you have plenty of time to run for coOer...
Robert “Ginsu-mau!” DeNiro is reportedly all hot-to-trot over Marsha Hunt...
Steve McQueen and wife Barbara are expecting a baby in September.. .Steverino’s first-born heir...
Singer Dorothy Squires has won a lawsuit against Cosmopolitan magazine who called Marianne Faithfull “Britain’s most famous wreck since Dorothy Squires.” No comment from Marianne...
Nick Lowe’s father-in-law Johnny Cash lost 50 pounds a short while ago. Cash’s doctors were not available for comment on whether or not the flab was lost because the old guy was worried about his image, or was he worried about his daughter...
And you think you have problems! W
