confessions OF a FILM FOX
Hollywood is all a flutter with the remake of A Star is Bom. You would never guess who have been cast as leads, so I'll spill the canollis — James Taylor and Carly Simon (incidentally their little star should be born by the time you read this). And to think all this time we thought it was going to be Liza Minelli and Desi Jr... by Peter Sellers... uh Eddie Albert Jr.... Unremotely controlled.
confessions OF a FILM FOX
Hollywood is all a flutter with the remake of A Star is Bom. You would never guess who have been cast as leads, so I'll spill the canollis — James Taylor and Carly Simon (incidentally their little star should be born by the time you read this). And to think all this time we thought it was going to be Liza Minelli and Desi Jr... by Peter Sellers... uh Eddie Albert Jr.... Unremotely controlled. The robots are giving us a run for the money. Westworld grossed a cool mil in NYC in one week. Does that compute, compute, compute... "Give "em the bird." Did you know that Jonathan you Livingston Seagull starred 150 seagulls (their agent-is Alfred Hitchcock). .. Play girl Magazine asked Bob Hope to be their X-mas issue nude centerfold. He declined suggesting that they give Bing a ring. Speaking about Bob, he quipped when he saw the Lennon Sisters do their strip tease number at a tinsel t6wn function: "When Lawrence Welk saw these girls he started bubbling at the mouth."... Everybody is a Star. James Brolin isn't the only one in his family doing TV "these days — look for his pet cougar, Cleo — She has just been slated to do commercials for Mercury;.. More catty remarks. AIP's newest is The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat'f The Cat in the Hat Comes Back?).... ALL ARE NOT IN THE FAMILY: Sally Struthers and Rob Reiner will move out of their in-laws house this year when Rob graduates and gets a job... The You Don't Have to Be Jewish Department (or do you?). Israel has banned a documentary on Adolf Hitler, explaining that the film featured Adolf as being too much of a Mr. Nice Guy... So you wanna be a dream date — a word of warning: Burt Reynolds confesses that a real turn-off is a girl who says "right on," "heavy," and "far out." All I can say to that is right on, heavy, and far out... Sex is sure getting a spin. Yoko Ono was part of a panel discussing Sex and the Single. Other members of that panel included Marty Thau (manager of the NY Dolls) and Lorraine Alterman (rock critic)... Five is a crowd. Mick Jagger is a little hot under his tangerine chiffon scarf these days about reports that his South. American spouse, Bianca, has been seen out and about with Ryan O'Neal and Elliot Gould — separately. One nite, however, they made it a quartet. Bianca, Ryan, aiid Elliot met Donald Sutherland at a London club. Sorry Mick, you weren't invited... I just want to see my picture on the cover of the... Newsweek? Marisa Berenson said She couldn't understand why they put her on the cover of Newsweek so soon, since she is only JUST making her most important film for Stanley Kubrick, tentatively titled 2001 and or Son of H.A.L. Incidentally, Marisa is also being romanced by that divine duo, Ryan and Elliot (they get around). Sorry Bianca, you weren't invited... Believe it or not, more mail is received on the Sonny and Cher Show regarding Cher's navel than any other subject... speaking of navels, Sonny's been taking acting lessons and is hoping his spaghetti bred (stick?) background will win him a role in Godfather II. If the Godfather can do it again, so can The French Connection. F.C. II will be released early this yegr starring Gene Hackman again. The Wops, not to be outdone, are getting their mozerella in the act with The Italian Connection... A Danish film company is planning a film called The Love Life of Jesus. Joe Don Baker and Maria Callas will star... Playboy Magazine isn't going to be running any more reviews of Peter Bogdanovich's movies. Would you if Peter's girlfriend, Cybil Sheperd, were suing you for ten million dollars?... The Campbell Kid meets Curly Top. Andy Warhol will turn his photographic efforts towards a whole book devoted to Shirley Temple. It'll be called Remember Shirley. Andy said he was inspired to take on the project after hearing Twentieth Century Fox Records" new album of early Shirley songs... A theater in Benton Harbor, Michigan which was showing Dillinger was held up, not once but twice... by the same bandit... Martin Scorses, when asked if the success of his new film, Mean Streets had changed his family any, he replied: "Yes, now my mother reads Variety every week to check the grosses." Well, my mom, she reads CREEM.
