Confessions of a FILM FOX
Mick Jagger will not portray Rooster Hannigan in the film version of Annie. Mr. Lips was edged out by non-thesp Tim Curry, the ex-teenage transvestite from Transylvania. Not to worry, tho—Mick’s currently licking his wounds in the Amazon jungle, starring in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, co-starring in the flick are Jason Robards and Claudia Cardinals...
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Confessions of a FILM FOX
Mick Jagger will not portray Rooster Hannigan in the film version of Annie. Mr. Lips was edged out by non-thesp Tim Curry, the ex-teenage transvestite from Transylvania. Not to worry, tho—Mick’s currently licking his wounds in the Amazon jungle, starring in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, co-starring in the flick are Jason Robards and Claudia Cardinals... Speaking of non-entities, John Travolta’s busy denying rumors that he’ll play Jim Morrison in the biopic of the great singer. Certainly producer Aaron Russo can do much better than that!
The ever unpredictable Roger Corman has set aside seven million clams for his next project titled Shopping Center. Even stranger, the Doobie Brothers are starring in it. Watch this space for further developments...
Heaven’s Gate, the controversial flop thus far, has been pared down to two hours, 15 minutes from the original almost four hours. When it’ll be available for public viewing is another matter, of course...
Will Francis Ford Coppola’s Omni Zoetrope Studio fold? No one knows for sure, but this Fox thinks Francis should go back to Roger Corman for some advice on how to wrap a flick in less than two years...
Erik Estrada and Beverly Sassoon to tie the knot in March? Hope for her sake Erik’s changed his ways...
Margot Kidder and James Brolin may be paired again in Clyde, a flick about coal mining in Kentucky. Their last joint effort was The Amityvllle Horror... {
Squareheads Unite! Keith Carradine,
James Keach, Edward Albert and Jerry Vile lookalike Randy Qnaid have been signed to star in Redwood Highway...
New hot couple in Hollyweird are James Brolin and Susan Sarandon...
Reports filtering back from Spain claim that all is not well between Salvador Dali and his wife Gala. Rumor has it that there might be a divorce in the works...
Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek to star in Missing: Presumed Dead?Nooooo....
Debbie Reynold’s son Todd Fisher's going to ball ’n’ chain hell with Donna Freberg...
And speaking of weddings, the former Mrs. Peter Wolf, Faye Dunaway, has a June wedding date set with Terry O’Neill in New Yuk...
Jackie Cooper on Joan Crawford in his autobiography Please Don’t Shoot My Dog: “She was a wild woman... I was learning things that men don’t learn until they’re much older, if at all!” Hot item in Tinseltown are Kathryn Crosby & Dr. Maurice Sullivan...
Mr. One Trick Pony Paul Simon has a new g.f. in Carol Kane. Is Carrie Fisher permanently out of the picture? No one knows...
Amy Irving in Rons Barrett’s Hollywood magazine: “If you have a pretty face and big tits, you can go a long way in Hollywood—maybe.
But you could also be Sarah Bernhardt reincarnated and, without the breaks, you’ll get nowhere.”
Johnson Was Right Dept.~: Burt Reynolds in Hollywood magazine: “I consider reviews to be like a good bowel movement. No matter how healthy it is for you, somebody is going to think it stinks.” And don’t forget to wipe, Burt!
Morgan Brittany, who portrayed the late Vivien Leigh in the Movieola mini-series, has filed suit against former Mod Squadder Michael Cole for “assault and battery” and Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg for “negligence” in a half-million dollar lawsuit. Seems things got a bit hairy while on the set of Fantasy Island...
Victoria Principal*s looking to divorce hubby Christopher Skinner after less than two years of marriage...
CREEM fave Barely Manilow had this to say of the movie biz: “The movie business can’t even spell my name. They think I’m just a piano player.”player.”Pauvrepussycat...
McLean Stevenson recently married Tonight Show talent co-ordinator Ginny Fosdick... Cher’s mom Georgia Holt’s still trying to crack the “lucrative singing biz” by recording a “country rock” song “Sure Don’t Want To Love You”
Urban Cowgirl Debra Winger's replaced Raquel Welch on the set of Cannery Row after only a few weeks of filming. Apparently Raquel and director David Ward didn’t quite see eye-to-eye...
If you can’t see eye-to-eye with Raquel, maybe you’re looking too far south!
