CONFESSIONS OF A FILM FOX
John Kay (Steppenwolf) has written the screenplay for Cherry Terry the Rockin’ Robin, starring Elliot Gould, as a frantic 50’s rock DJ making a comeback in the 70’s ... Christopher Lee (a/k/a The Count) currently in Dracula A.D. 1972, is filming Dracula Is Dead — and Well and Living in London.
CONFESSIONS OF A FILM FOX
John Kay (Steppenwolf) has written the screenplay for Cherry Terry the Rockin’ Robin, starring Elliot Gould, as a frantic 50’s rock DJ making a comeback in the 70’s ... Christopher Lee (a/k/a The Count) currently in Dracula A.D. 1972, is filming Dracula Is Dead — and Well and Living in London. “One, two, three, four” . .. Kris Kristofferson, shooting Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid with James Coburn, is also set for a comedy, Blume in Love, with George Segal. Hope he sticks to the screen . . . Onofrio Latona With all the hoopla over The Great Waltz, (everyone from Richard Roundtree to Adam [Batman] West showing for premieres) WMCA will host a dance contest over the radio. Each caller taps a 30-second dance over the phone and the winner receives a quart of BaskinRobbins ice cream every week for a year ... The French Connection II is in the works with James Poe (Around the World in 80 Days and Lilies of the Field) writing the script ... In the usual hanky-panky fashion, all three press screenings for the Bob Dylan-Howard Aik movie, Eat the Document have been cancelled. Shown once last year at the Academy of Music in NYC it will open for public and press shortly — maybe . . . Joan Baez, B.B. King and the Voices of East Harlem performed at Sing Sing on Thanksgiving for a feature documentary titled A Prison Portrait. .. Veteran actors James Mason and Robert Preston star with Beau Bridges (Hammersmith Is Out) in Child’s Play, based on the award-winning Broadway play ... Award-winning Gene Hackman is the lead in The Conversation for Francis Ford Coppolo’s (The Godfather) new Director’s Company ... A full-length comedy movie on smog starring The Osmonds is titled Oh Say Can You See .. . Universal is releasing Ssssssss, a horror story of a man-turned-cobra. Besides a lot of real snakes, make-up man-turned-producer, Dan Striepke (Planet of the Apes) has designed a snake-man costume for Alice Cooper, who’s considering the part .. . Another innovation in Drive-in theatres is Cinema Radio. Car radios and rented transitors will receive a specified frequency for the film sound to eliminate speakers and poles ... Richard Harris currently filming Riata in Spain then shooting Patman in Toronto has submitted a recorded poem he wrote to Prime Minister Heath and Pope Paul. A plea for peace in North Ireland, it’s about Jesus returning to Earth via Belfast. A volume of Harris’ poetry — I, in the Membership of My Days (Random House) will soon be released ... That’ll Be The Day on location in The Isle of Wight, England is a musical movie with an all-star cast: Ringo Starr, Jack Bruce, Nilsson, The Everly Brothers, Keith Moon, Pete Townshend and Stevie Winwood. It’s about the evolution of pre-Beatles rock’n’roll.
