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FILM FOX

Rick Johnson and others of his sex can rest easy—Pamela Sue Martin didn't wed her big bucks S. American b.f. Manuel Rojos after all...yet!

Richard Thomas—forever in our hearts as John-Boy Walton—is to play Hank Williams, Jr. in an NBC movie of the week chronicling Bocephus's wild life. Richard will try hard to fake the "booze 'n' babes" scenes... Joan Collins, who plays the dishiest floozy on the tube, Dynasty's Alexis, has got Dallas and the other prime time soapers runnin' scared. The real, untold reason Flamingo Road was canned is more likely that paper tigress Morgan Fairchild has a bit of learning to do before she attains true Collins bitch goddess stature. Dallas lags along with the weepy Linda Gray, just the too sweet 'n' bazoomy Victoria Principal, and "little" Charlene Tilton, who packs too much Oreos-turnedto-flesh to vamp around much at all—forget slinking. A few seasons ago Sue Ellen/Linda Gray laced her lemon verbena accent with a hefty shot of Southern Comfort, but it'll take more than S.C. to get her going now. Word has it that Dallas is looking for some fresh blood, sweet-talking Nastassia Kinski and Britt Ekland for proposed roles. Now, as cute as Britt is/has been her particular brand of Swedish pancake glamour is just too milk-product bland for what the anxious Dallas producers are looking for. And Nastie? Too young to throw her weight around and chew the scenery, plus who could understand what the hell she was hissing at J.R., anyway? Too much money for English lessons; money that could be used to send Charlene to the Golden Door. Meanwhile, Joanie C. polishes off her memoirs for a U.S. release and prepares to seduce hunkaceous Dypasty son-in-law Jeff (John Janies) in next fall's episodes! Can't wait!

A Man Called Horse is back, for more torture!...Not of the leading character, but of audiences forced to follow star Richard Harris's roller-coaster dilly-dallying with the English language! The flick, Triumphs Of A Man Called Horse, is being filmed in (where else?) Mexico... (Dare we hope for more? Secrets Of A Man Called Horse, Slaves Of A Man Called Horse, A Man Called Horse, Special Edition...?)

That Vockcrit fave Albert Goldman hasn't been resting on his Elvis laurels.. .trekking off to Hong Kong, where there might not be any hamburgers, Goldman is busy researching "the definitive story of Bruce Lee" for Penthouse boss Bob Guccione, who is also in the book publishing biz. "Unlike Elvis," sputtered the Truman Capote-lookalike, "Bruce was the creator of what he did; a genuine force, not a reflection of his publicists."

Finally, a role has been found which exploits Loni Anderson's epic coif to the fullest—Burt's gal Loni is set to play a country singer in an upcoming TV movie entitled Country Gold! Now Loni can flaunt her architectural wonder, her decade-defying, mile-high vanilla ice cream cone!

Now we know you hard-living CREEM readers out there have a certain image to maintain, and going to foreign movies just might not cut it, but the recent smash Scottish flick Gregory's Girl features chirpy Clare Grogan of smash Brit hitmaker Altered Images. No, she doesn't hop around in mary janes singing "Happy Birthday," it's a real live acting job for our Clare, it is.

We were saddened to note Hugh Beaumont's passing in the late spring; Mr. Beaumont, of course, . played Ward Cleaver in Leave It To Beaver, and flags flew at half mast in Mayfield...

Has "young rebel" Princess Stephanie of Monaco really gotten her locks chopped off into an Anti-Nowhere League-type of "punk-haircut," infuriating mama Grace, as the National Enquirer would have us believe? We'll just have to wait for the pictorials from the paparazzi... maybe next month!