Confessions of FILM FOX
World citizen Adam Ant turned down a role in the London production of Pirates of Penzance, that steady employer of lightweight pretty boy singers everywhere. Said deep thinker Adam: It would be going backwards. Ive been through the pirate thing already."
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Confessions of FILM FOX
World citizen Adam Ant turned down a role in the London production of Pirates of Penzance, that steady employer of lightweight pretty boy singers everywhere. Said deep thinker Adam: It would be going backwards. Ive been through the pirate thing already."
Was (Not Was) co-conspirator Don Fagenson set to score an upcoming Paul Morrissey flick... There are plans, it seems, to reissue the Fab Fours A Hard Days Night this summer in a new, expanded form, newly-endowed with Dolby sound. This Fox saw the original 11 times, but as scenes cut from the original are going to be put back in, guess well go see it a few more times.
NEWS FLASH! The sweetheart of all male CREEM editors, Marie Osmond, has reportedly signed for the lead role in an ABC-TV docu-drama on the courtship of Lady Di and Princey! Oh, wow, boys! Think Marie can fill our Dis infamous black taffeta evening
gown? Can she fake" the pregnancy scenes?
Diana Ross: We saw where you were, we know what you bought. CREEM spies, who are everywhere, sniffed out the hometown girl just a block from here in a furniture store, where the unsuspecting RCA chanteuse gave an autograph to a staffer. Di was in town to sub for Frank Sinatra at a Super Bowl concert, and sing the national anthem for the game itself. Also part of the ladys baggage: a certain Mr. Bat Lizard, who was spotted monitoring her concert from the wings.
Brian De Palma, undaunted by the critical screams that greeted Blow-Out, is recklessly forging ahead with a new film. Seems Bri has optioned William Appels thriller" Housebound, the suspenseful story of a writer who never leaves his house because he suffers from agoraphobia... Hey! Any one of our writers could sink his choppers into that role...
Do idiotic American ca ca/doo doo flicks make it overseas? Well Stripes is raking in the bucks, breaking house records in three major cities in Holland. Thats Van Halen land, bozos...
A new Beaver? A Lumpy for the 80s? Thats what Universal Television maybe foisting upon us. Though the plans are still in the talking stage," since Leave It To Beaver is one of the most popular comedy series in syndication ever, the original producers. Universal, are considering a new version of it. Although John McEnroe as Eddie Haskell might be fun, we cant imagine how*the innocence of the original could ever be recaptured in these post-modernist times. Larry Mondello could not survive the 80s!
We are told there are actually movies called A Little Sex and Ohio... ? Is there a Riegelian connection here? Would our kind readers shed some light on this, if they can?
Kristy McNichol, still apparently resisting puberty, is nonetheless playing canasta with Christopher Atkins, who didnt need a double in Blue Lagoon.
Brooke Shields, who did, has not refuted her kiddie nude scenes, her mom, her horse, Revlons Blush-On and life as we know it, in the name of s-t-n. Not yet. Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes are all 6ver the tube these days—last year they were on SCTV, and in late December they appeared in the soaper All My Children playing themselves." Were holding out for Black Flag or Circle Jerks to liven up As The World Turns... Audrey n Judy Landers to lens a TV movie titled Can Machines Think? Details to follow...
