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ion from the transaction will Ire counted as profit for the stock-holders. Davis will remain as head of Arisia with the new owners. Once near the pinnacle at (ailumhia Records, Davis fell from grace with that label because of business prac tices disputes, but his acknowledged bril liance won Davis a second chance. Much of Arista's sutress has come with fully de veloped artists who had escaped stagnant situations with their previous labels — (iraham Parker, Lou Reed, Dionne Warwick and the Kinks being standout examples. Arista now has a respectable twelve albums in Billboard's Top 200 and Davis predicts the label will continue to grow. Smith Draws intellectual Crowd READ1NC EOETRY AT THE FOX VENICE Theater on the eve of her recent I..A. concert. Patti Smith drew an audience the likes of which even her mystic sense couldn't have foreseen. Smith wanted io read from The Ticket That Exploded and asked if anyone present had a copy. “Oh, wow.” a woman in the twelfth row exclaimed. "I’ve got it at home. Can you wait while I get it?" Moments later her date put forth this observation: "The reason we're full of shit is because we're only here right now!" loiter, a panel of gag writers agreed they couldn't create such pure nonsense at any price. \fcah. But Who Plays The Blonde? Moviola, anb-hour miniseries for NBC based on the not-yel-published book by Garson Kanin, will present some factual reminiscences of real-life Hollywood giants. No one has been cast as Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, or David Selznick. but the inside Garbo track is reportedly crowded with Dominque Sanda, Isabelle Adjani and Marthe Keller, not one of whom is Swedish. Strange Bedfellows Dept. Barry Manilow and Ian Hunter. Strange enough combination for you? “Ships," taken from the ex-Mott the Hoople limey rocker’s recent hit l.P, You’re Never Atone with a Schizophrenic, will be woven into the sweeping romantic schlock of Barry Manilow's next release, One Voice. It may even be the first single released. Hunter might find it hard to face his friends afterward, but at least he’ll be able to af ford darker sunglasses. #1 with a Bullet Morbid people may recall the January, 1978 case of Brenda Spencer, a San Diego miss accused of wasting two people and wounding eight children with rifleshots at a local elementary school because she was in a stormy Monday mood. The flam boyant Hoomtown Rats wove Spencer’s quote —“I don’t like Mondays”— into a song of the same name. Now, with the song Number One in Kngland and being con sidered for the Rats’ next U.S. album, attorneys for Spencer want it stopped. "It adds hre to a very volatile situation,” says attorney Michael D. McGlinn, "It makes fun of a tragic case.” Bob Geldof, ex-rock critic mastermind of the Boomtown Rats, claims the song “does not exploit” the Spencer incident, but rather attempts “to understand why it happened.” Actually, it neither adds hre, makes fun nor attempts to understand. It tells Spencer’s story in a most oblique fashion, not mentioning names or gunfire, framed by choruses of "Tell my why/I don't like Mondays.” Still Working Robert Sticwood. the Australian music/movie mogul, will produce four films in New Ybrk over the next 18 months, with a total budget of $25 million. Stiggie will oversee the productions from his yacht Sartna, anchored in New Ybrk harbor (such a rough life). I he films: Times Square, a "youth-oriented contemporary drama with a heavy emphasis on music”; The Fan, star ring Lauren Bacall, based on the best selling Broadway thriller; Angel, about a girl in Spanish Harlem, to be directed and choreographed by Patricia Brich, who de signed the dance steps in Grease; and Stayin' Alive, a familiar phrase from a Nor man Wexler sc reenplay (he wrote Saturday Night Fever : get the connection?). Oh yes, RSO will release four soundtrack albums, no surprise. Paul Michael Glaser, Starsky of TV fame, finally found a movie he wants to make, called Phobia, to film in Canada, di rected by John Huston, with a screenplay by Ronald Shusett, who co-wrote A hen. Yfcs, it's supposed to be scary. Mariel Hemingway is currently working out with a UCLA track coach to prepare for her upcoming role of Olympic track star in Personal Rest, with script by Robert low lie (Shampoo, Chinatown). Harry Reems, the porno actor who was arrested and tried (later acquitted) in Memphis for his performance in Deep Throat a few years back, has finally landed a f ully-clothed role in a lion-porno Hick. In The Squad, to be filmed in Montreal, Reems' character. Mr. Clean — leader of a police vice squad — will be a parody of the Memphis district attorney who busted Reems. Stay out of Tennessee, Harry. Brian de Palma, who last perpetrated The Fury, will next direct Dressed to Kill, yet another thriller/murder mystery. James Garner has already signed up for another N BC series when his Rockford Files runs its gamut. If this season is Rockford's last, Garner will take a year off and return with an as-yet-unannounced series. Meanwhile, Garner has separated from wife L/m and taken up with Lauren Bacall; they co-starred in Robert Altmans Health. Random Newts The Cars have a STRANGE cleanup cam paign: Any girl who wants to get backstage and next to a Car must First take a shower with the group. Does any of this have a purpose? “Just to see if the girls will go for it," said a bemused Elektra spokesman. Perhaps the Cars think VD can be washed away. Nicaragua will be a film based on the four-year diary of a Nicaraguan journalist, set against the background of the recent revolution. And who better to star in a Film about Nicaragua than an actual Nicara guan, Bianca Jagger? Warren Zevon, reportedly still on the wagon, recently came in second place for the “Best Poet" Balrog Award at the World Fantasy Convention. Veteran tale-spinner Ray Bradbury nosed Zevon out. Balrogs, Tolkein fans will remember, are a form of Lord of thf Kmgs creepy-crawly. Skates on the skids?? Seen passed out, mid-day, on a bus bench at Hollywood and Vine: a bum, thirty-ish, in a dirty t-shirt, a stabbed heart tattoo —and roller skates! Re-associated The Association is re-forming with all its original members (except the late Brian Cole): Terry Kirkman, Russ Giguere, Jules Alexander, Jim Yester, Ted Bluechel, Larry Ramos. One of the Sixties’ most suc cessful groups (Cherish, Along Comes Mary) and one of the most effective vocal groups of any decade, the Association’s original members have been pursuing solo careers for several years while an ersatz group cal ling itself the Association still tours the country. According to Jim Yester, “Ted Bluechel was the last to leave; he leased the name to that other outfit. We’ll get him for that." tester said they decided to regroup last Christmas when they reunited for a Home Box Office Artists of the Sixties show. “It sounded so good, we all decided to give it a shot.” They’re rehearsing now, with several labels anxious to hear the re sults. As for that other Association: “We’ll have to work that out; we may have to end up calling ourselves the Original Associa tion or something like that.”
