Confessions of a FILMFOX

Confessions of a FILMFOX

CREEMEDIA

Now that Prince Charles and Lady Diana have gone and done the good thing, we can get on with other things...like trashing Brooke Shields some more. Can anybody sit through endless, Endless Love without laughing, having seen Catherine O’Hara’s devastating Brooke send-up on NBC’s SCTV Network 90? O’Hara portrayed Brooke as a petulant, toenailchewing teen with her own talk show, refusing to talk to Tip O’Neill (John Candy), sassing her mother and singing a highpitched, squealy “Whip It” wearing a 3-D designer creation. Brooke’s Real Boyfriend has come forward it seems: a strapping 18-year-old “star linebacker” (aren’t they all?) from the Englewood, New Jersey high school team, named John Boag. is the lucky chap, thus dismissing all those Brooke/ John Travolta rumors as the mere crush (on Brooke’s part) that they were. Our boy Elvis—Presley this time—is the subject of yet another biography, Elvis by Albert Goldman (didn’t he write about rock for Esquire decades ago?). Seems the film rights have already been sold, but we’d guess that few actors could top Kurt “Eastwood” Russell’s TV movie Elvis. More Books: Op the stands as you read this will be Full Moon: The Amazing Rock and Roll Life of the Late Keith Moon from Morrow, and it’s not hard to guess what sort of anecdotes it will feature... Wow! Who else but Roger Corman is planning an epic called The Ultimate War Of The Planets, with, Roger hopes, Paul Newman, Marion Brando and Robert Redford as stars... Meryl Streep is definitely signed to play the title role in the film version of William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice, just as we predicted.oh so many months ago.. .The lead male role will go to (surprise!) Kevin Kline, from Broadway’s The Pirates Of Penzance. Kevin beat out a slew of better-known names like Robert De Niro... Julie Christie still spurning the marital invitations of longtime journalist b.f. Duncan Campbell (late of London’s Time Out, now defunct)...

Sneaky Bill Murray is now a newlywed, having rushed through his promotion tour for Stripes to tie the knot with NBC talent coordinator Mickey Wright. Hopefully Mickey won’t be required to wash Murray’s two-sweatshirt wardrobe...

Bianca Jagger revealed to a breathless world that the secret of her beauty is herdiet—nothing but raw fish and fresh fruit passes the considerable lips of La Bianca... Nubile Brunettes Dept.: Smoothskinned Amy Irving has replaced sloe-eyed Jane Seymour (newly married to business manager David Flynn and expecting a baby in December) in the Broadway play Amadeus...

Speaking of prime female nubility), Jamie Lee Curtis, having finished her starring role in the Dofothy Stratten Story for NBC (to be aired this fall), is now devoting her energies to a CREEM DREEM photo session lensed by none other than Bob “It’s A Job” Matheu, so stay tuned, pin-up fans...

STOP THE PRESS! Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer are currently filming a popcorn commercial as the Howells, the wacky rich couple from Gilligan’s Island...

What’s David Bowie been up to lately, besides making RCA Records nervous about his future there? Bowie just finished a Canadian/ American flick called The Easter Egg Hunt, directed by Bob “Who Cares About The Dialogue” Altman...

It’s Not Easy Being Rich: Just after completing a commercial for American Express (the “Do You Know Me?” series) Star Wars megastar Mark Hamill applied for the little green card... and was turned down!

Richard Pryor is busy penning his autobio...and lucky us: America finally gets a chance to buy George Harrison’s I, Me, Mine book— you know, the one that was going for a couple hundred dollar^ in England (signed editions, don’t you know...)

Til next month: don’t trash others; . write an autobiography, trash yourself, and make millions!