Confessions of a FILM FOX

FILM FOX

Glen 'Three The Hard Way' Campbell, boomeranging dangerously from sometime-gal Tanya Tucker, showed up at a Friars' Club dual birthday bash for Brooke Shields (16—and not a moment too soon), and Tom Jones (41 and not counting) with a Radio City Music Hall dancer on his arm. His beguiling blonde (how do you spell H-U-S-S-Y?) date was 23, a cruel year younger than the at-looseends Tanya. 01' Tom Jones, by the way, just bought up the Burger King corporation for the entire U.K., causing some to hope we'll see more meat from the Welsh crooner...

Ms. Fox truly doffs her fedora for this one: Rick and Kristin Nelson have split again, this time it looks to be final as Kristin has filed for divorce. OK, that's it—we shall retire to the den for Ozzie & Harriet reruns, milk and Nilla wafers and a good cry.

'Think of me now as an author,' says Britt Ekland, who must be reading her daughter's Zippy comics. We're thinking* we're thinking... Britt's glasses-steaming boudoir memoirs, True Britt, have sold so well Stateside that she's being prodded to write a sequel. Doubtless Rod Stewart will be thrilled...although in truth, Britt writes about him in glowing terms (comparatively speaking), describing his sexual prowess in, er, legendary terms. Despite the fact, we gasp, that he wore her underwear...)

Predictably, Hollywood types are falling all over each other in their frenzy to produce films on the death of IRA activist Bobby Sands. 'Tis said A1 Pacino and Dustin Hoffman are in the running for the lead in one production; we can only hope Robert De Niro isn't told... Of course, it would be one way to shed those troublesome LaMotta pounds... Speaking of Bobby, he's currently forking mostacciolli with Italian film siren Stefania Sandrelli, and screening old Ernie Kovacs TV shows for his new Scorsese flick King Of Comedy. Jaimie Lee Curtis set to play the late Dorothy Stratten in a TV biopic depicting the Playboy pinup's tragic murder... Won't be the first time Jaimie's tatyen a dive on film... A thief (no doubt inflamed by a recent showing of Moment By Moment on TV) recently swiped 2,000 feet of the latest John Travolta pic Blow-Out when the film was en route from New York to L.A. Director Brian De Palma re-shot the sequence—a 'Liberty Day parade' in Philadelphia—but somewhere a repentant robber is puking over footage of Revolta careening through the parade in a jeep. The wages of sin...

Forget Superman II—Superman III is in the works! The lovely Christopher Reeve is the only actor firm to reprise his role, though; Margot Kidder (Lois Lane) is on the outs with the Superman producers, but who knows...maybe the big man will go gay...? (attention Jimmy Olsen...)

What's with all these nouveau comix going legit? Not only is John Belushi performing a straight dramatic role in Continental Divide, not only is Steve Martin really singing and dancing in Pennies From Heaven, not only is the inimitable, reviewed-positivelyonly-in-CREEM Jerry Lewis co-starring in the aforementioned King Of Comedy (with Robert De Niro getting all the laughs), but Richard Pryor is playing a Vietnam vet in the dramatic Some Kind Of Hero, on the up-and-up. At least Rodney Dangerfield isn't selling out, guys...

Aw shucks: Angie Dickinson and old-enough-to-be-everybody'sdad Harry Reasoner seen billing and cooing in various tinseltown dives...

Just when the airwaves had been rendered free of it, the dreaded 'Pina Colada Song' rears its ugly head on CBS-TV...as a 'Movie of The Week,' no less. Rupert Holmes is a shoo-in for the lead, but can they get Nova Pilbeam to co-star?

Bo Derek joins rock's New Romantic movement as she dons a pirate costume (side-slit, dare we hope?) to play lady buccaneer Anne Bonet. Hubby John Derek will write the script, produce and knock candy bars out of his naughty wife's hands.

Stop yer sobbing: Annette and Frankie are back! No, not on Prisoner: Cell Block H./.this is the incredible, rocking, surfing, beach partying twosome Funicello & Avalon, the reigning monarchs of the sand 'n' sex epics of the 60's. Annette and Frankie are polishing a night club act to wow audiences coast to coast...

The Evita lady, Patti LuPone, is currently running around NY with Kiss boy Paul Stanley. It's said Paul's so proud of going out with a .well-known-person (after Gene ^immons' much-publicized amours with la Cher and la Diana) that he planted this item. Furthermore, Gene has brought his CREEM subscription up to date, adding fuel to the not-oft-quoted rumor that Kiss is planning to re-emerge musically sans kabuki makeup.

Literary Guild take note: In i response to the incredible outpouring of mail from Macomb, Illinois,

; the New American Library is putting out Richard Dawson and Family i Feud by Mary Ann Norbom, undoubtedly the oiily living American writer who could do it. Review copies are no doubt making their way by bus to this office... Linda Ronstadt laid a big one on the Great White Way when she bypassed this year's Tony Awards. Seems the Oreo queen never attends an awards bash, 'even if she wins.' Well sniiiiiiff. (Tho' mercifully, she didn't win at the Tonys.) Bigwig Broadway producer Alexander Cohen (who also produced the Tony Awards show) was ticked off that Linda accepted tickets for the event and then didn't show. You gotta understand, Alex, Linda's used to the rock biz, where it's 'put me on the list and maybe you'll get to kiss my ass...'

Til next month: wash those doubleStufs down with Yoo-hoo, and go away...