Confessions of a FILM FOX

Confessions of a FILM FOX

Former cover lass Lois Chiles, who's emoted in The Great Gatsby as golf champion Jordan, and was an item with ex-Eagle Don Henley for a while (her most challenging role), will hit the TV screen this season in Dallas. La bella Isabella Rossellini, who's been splashed across as many mag covers as Nastassia Kinski (and bears more than a passing resemblance to the gal), has finally filed for d.i.v.o.r.c.e. from director Martin Scorsese . . . seems Marty didn't warm to the idea of Isabella's modeling and acting career taking off (and at the mature age of 30!). And where have our fave fun couple, Bobo and John Derek been, after storming the country last year with Tarzan the Ape Man? Scouting locations for Eve and That Damned Apple, what else? Seems the hard-working duo have fixed on New Zealand as their locale, as they convinced officials of that green and verdant land to allow them to bring their five-meter boa constrictor "actor" (to portray The Snake) into the snake-less country (once they'd assures the officials that the snake would not reproduce, being male). At least this time the Dereks won't have to strain credulity by having Bo prance around naked...the role doesn't force her to play a Victorian maiden, or some such... How many noticed Panda Springsteen's name in the credits for Fast Times At Ridgemont High? Indeed, the young actress's brother is our own Bruuuuuuuce,-so look out, aspiring Lotharios...

Joan Collins was hopping mad when she discovered that Dynasty producers had lined up a 37-year-old actor to portray her long-lost son... Joanie was worried people would think she was older than her voluptuous 49 years, to play the mama of such a mature guy, so the producers hit on the perfect Hollywood solution: tell the press he's 25! Meanwhile, Joan's nixed the U.S. printing of her memoirs, out in England for some time—boo! Seems she doesn't want to revive the storm of furor kicked up by the Blighty publication... Power of the Press: the Nat'l Enquirer pats itself on the back for breaking the Andy Gibb breakdown story before he went on Good Morning America and really spilled the beans. Then, after US Magazine (runners-up in the sleaze press sweepstakes) broke a story on the anniv. of Marilyn Monroe's death by private investigator claiming foul play, Los Angeles authorities announced that they were re-opening the files on the Monroe case. Sheesh! Next they'll be investigating Moon Martin on Rick Johnson's say-so! Lesley-Anne Down gave in and finally married proud poppa (of her newborn), William Friedkin... FOX BOOK BEAT: What with the plethora of Jacqneline-Snsanninspired "trashy novels'' clogging up the newsstands, is there any way a person can put their hands on a real piece of sleaze, without risking brain ceil meltdown? Right-e-o, little campers, dig into The Only Place To Be, by Joan Jnlie Buck, which boasts an ill-concealed profile of Anjelica Huston, takes the character through "swinging London" and a David Baileystyle photographer, dishes an assortment of Hollywood and/or international characters, including magazine publishers (no!), fading movie stars, aging socialites, and details every nip *n' tuck, every colored pill popped down a rich gullet. A little heavy on brand-names—must we know that a hot-to-trot female journalist douses herself with Jicky before jumping a movie star's bones? But then, we suspect the fans of these reads go for this intense product identification...P.S. Thisvolpine dearly wishes the world would stop gushing over the aforementioned Susann's novels—besides an intense childhood attachment to Valley Of The Dolls, we couldn't get into her undoubtedly taperecorded prose.

Let this Fox hasten to correct an item of a few months back re baby bitchess Morgan Fairchild and Detroit Tiger Kirk Gibaon... seems Morgan and Gibby share the same PR firm but not much else, and the strapping Bengal is feathering his new suburban Detroit nest with his college girlfriend, a patient lass...

Now y'all be patient, 'till next month...