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Confessions of a FILM FOX

Mick Jagger will not portray Rooster Hannigan in the film version of Annie. Mr. Lips was edged out by non-thesp Tim Curry, the ex-teenage transvestite from Transylvania. Not to worry, tho—Mick’s currently licking his wounds in the Amazon jungle, starring in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, co-starring in the flick are Jason Robards and Claudia Cardinals...

May 1, 1981

Confessions of a FILM FOX

Mick Jagger will not portray Rooster Hannigan in the film version of Annie. Mr. Lips was edged out by non-thesp Tim Curry, the ex-teenage transvestite from Transylvania. Not to worry, tho—Mick’s currently licking his wounds in the Amazon jungle, starring in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, co-starring in the flick are Jason Robards and Claudia Cardinals... Speaking of non-entities, John Travolta’s busy denying rumors that he’ll play Jim Morrison in the biopic of the great singer. Certainly producer Aaron Russo can do much better than that!

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