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Confessions of a FILM FOX

Why do you think they call it Holly weird? It could be because of the gentlemen like CHiPs star Erik Estrada who reportedly forced his wife of less than a year to have lesbian relationships, take drugs, have sex with a gun stuck in her mouth, and worst of all, watch his crappy show.

December 1, 1980

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Confessions of a FILM FOX

Why do you think they call it Holly weird? It could be because of the gentlemen like CHiPs star Erik Estrada who reportedly forced his wife of less than a year to have lesbian relationships, take drugs, have sex with a gun stuck in her mouth, and worst of all, watch his crappy show. Yes, this spells D-I-V-O-R-C-E...

And if you think that’s sick, Britt Ekland and her punk rock boyfriend of two years Philip Lewis may be getting hitched. Icky-poo! No thanks, I just bathed: Suzanne Somers is busy putting the finishing touches on yet another book of poetry she wrote (believe it when you see it) called Touch Me.

Cheryl Tiegs and estranged hubby Stan Dragoti to try it again? For what reason? Huh? Funny guy Alan King’s chomping at the bit to get moving on his most serious project to date, another movie on Vietnam called Night Lite, which he’ll produce...

Producer Irving Cummings ig seeking to pair Glenn Ford and Charles Bronson in the rrtovie John Wesley Hardin—Killer! Of course, Bronson’s to play Hardin, and Ford will portray J. L. Armstrong, the Texas Ranger who brought him to trial...

Joe Namath and Priscilla Presley have been spotted around Tinseltown, and insiders claim there’s love in their eyes. No truth to the rumor that Priscilla happened upon Joe in a swamp while researching subjects for Those Incredible /^nimals...

Jack“Anjelica who?”Nicholson and Carol Burnettto star in Ray Stark’s production of Annie? Pass...

Michael Caine on the controversial film .Pressed To Kill: “I only took the role so my wife, Shakira, could have my costumes.”

Farrah “But will it stick to the roof of my mouth?” Fawcett and Ryan O’Neal have announced their engagement, to absolutely no one’s surprise. Inspired by the announcement (and still married to Farrah), Lee Majors has retaliated by squiring around Canuck ballerina Karen Kain...

Arnold Schwarzenegger, tennis star Martina! Navratilova and Franco Colombo to star; in Komrades, a flick about three Polish astronauts who land in Texas and think they’re on another planet. No truth to the rumor that Marlon “Make that double sour cream” Brando and Jerry Vile will play the State of Tex,as...

Just when you thought it was safe to open your , eyes again: Dudley Moore and Susan Anton are getting very serious about each other, what with the tall blonde dogface with one red shoe following poodle-by-proxy Dudley over to England and elsewhere...

Joyce DeWitt and hef live-in b.f. of seven years Ray Bnktenica have split, and according to Joyce: “I didn’t have time to clean the house and fix dinner and wait on him hand and foot. I , don’t intend to do that for any man. ”

Sez Glen Campbell: “I gave God a prayer... and he gave me Tanya Tucker. ” Don’t tell us, Glen, try Roky Erickson.

In an unrelated incident, Linda McCartney said of her husband in Gossip magazine: “He’s good to his woman, likes a pint, picks his nose—very normal.”

In a related incident, the recently divorced Chevy Chdse had this to say: “Every time I get pregnant, I blow it one way or another ” CREEM staffer Dave “I Am Woman” DiMartino later commented, “I know how he feels.

Brotoke “Panti” Shields and Christopher Atkins tottar in a sequel to the Blue Lggoon?. All this fox wants to know is what for?

Since Marlon Brando isn’t working on the film Komrades, he’s starring in The Formula, a story about ah oil mogul. Fitting that Brando should portray a fat cat...

Will John Q. Public have to wait ,until the beginning of the next millenium to view Frederic Forrest in Hammett, a film about the late, great pulp writer Dashiell Hammett? Only Fancis Ford Coppola knows for sure, so you know what that means.

New concept in religion dept.: In Farmingtoh, Utah, there’s a church being erected named “Church of Jayne Mansfield of the New Atomic Age.” All together now... HUH!?!

Just a final reminder—Utah is stranger than fiction...