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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1982)
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Englund says he's also pur chased rights to the Ron Settles story— Set ties, a Long Beach State University star halfback, was recently arrested, and later found hanged in his (ail cell Not a suicide Gainfully Employed * A IKPLASE'S ROBtRT HAYS I ins up W ith ai sufiennan s Margt« Kidder in Trench coat a comedy mvsten from Disney filming in Malta and San Francisco Bee Gee Barn Gibb will star in Myron about the romantic English poet and his role in Greece s struggle for independence from Turke\ Gene Flackman stars m Eureka, a murder mystery locationing in British Col umbia and Jamaica, directed b\ Nicholas Roeg (Don’t Look Sou . Terfurmance) William Hun won t be making any movies for awhile-. he s playing Richard II on stage in New York Richard Prvor will star in Color Man. turned down bv Bill Murray, it's about a "color" sportscaster (a TV term for the jock interview er, commentator) Dus tin Hoffman stars in Tootsie as a transvestite soap opera actor in New York, which may or may not interfere with the rumor that Hoffman is first choice to star in Gorky Hark Cariy Simon will make her acting debut in a CBS cable movie, she’ll plat a dual role, one a Forties torch singer, the other a mod ern thrush There will be more link Panthers, even without Peter Sellers Ted Vi ass (formerly Danny of Soap) will be the new Clouseau Kenny Rogers stars in Six Pack, to be directed by Daniel Petrie (Re surrection Fort Apacbe. the Hronx) in Ai lanta The Billy Crystal Show (he was Jody on Soap ), a one hour comedy variety show will emerge on NBC soon if not already Michael McKean. Lenny of Du erne and Shirley is starring in Young Doctors in Dot e. (another ABC feature film) which marks the directorial debut of producer Garry Mar shall ( same show , among others), for which no one has been waiting with hated breath Mary Steenburgen will plav Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (author of The Yearling, one of the most affecting bcjoks youthful Americans are encouraged to read) in Cross Creek, to film in Florida Two best sellers of a few years ago are finally headed into film: Dee Brown's Amerindian Saga Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee will be a five part TV ministries; The Snub Wave, Eugene Burdicks' novel of American politics, w ill be a feature We Heard It Through the Grapevine, Too CHERit records out of Detroit recently started showcasing some of its acts in that city's Hotel Pontchartrain in order to lure major labels into distribution deals At lantic had already snapped up Jerry Carr ( This Must Be Heaven”), but so far no deal for their ace artist, Barrett Strong, one of the first artists ever signed to Motown, co writer of Money' and I Heard It Through the Grapevine His new album is all fin ished, waiting for a distribution deal; titled Love Is You, it features all new Strong songs What’s Bruce Springsteen Up To? ackstreets, devoted to news of Springsteen and band, tells us that Big Bruce will be producing an EP for Dick Dale, once known as King of the Surf Guitar back in the dawn of the Sixties Dale, who once liarbored dozens of wild animals in his suburban C<ista Mesa, California yard, was, according to backstreets, the first rock n roller to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show Anyone interested in subscribing to backstreets should send inquiries to Stephen Rvan. 1S(X) Coachwood Street, La Habra. CA 90631 Still Busy rw/VGS a ft t touch all <>vm is the next Cheech & Chong him. and here's the big scoop no dope Just one small reference to the devil weed Their wives (Rikki Marin and Shelbv Chong b\ name) also appear in the him. as French women, while C&C por tray themselves and .Arabs All directed b\ Tom Avildsen, cousin to director John, and hlmed in Las \egas and Chicago Snrvi tesich wtio wrote fireakntfi Auer, Fveu'ttness arid Four Friends is now hn ishing UVealberrnan about a Chicago TA weatherman who becomes politically in fluential Robert Bedford wili supposedly star, but don't hold your breath. Bedford s last him. The Verdut is proceeding without him Tesich has also completed his first novel Summer Crossing wluch occurs in the same time and place as lour Friends (Tesich admits to a strong autobiographical bent) Sea Wave Old Enuff for Comebacks S Hanoi siNNAMON is going public again For those who missed the first go-round Ms Sinnamon was a rising star on I. A s New U ave scene two years ago Capacity crowds at tier Troubadour appearances Tougti girl charisma Producer Mike Chap man. then cresting on successes w ith the Knack (' My Sharona") and Blondie ( Heart of Glass ), but currently unable to get him self arrested, lagged Shandi as his next disc-overy But the record flopped. An Hour Later, They W anted to Hear Again n a kh im ntip to c.hika. director John V^/ Landis screened The lilnes Brut hers Movie for curious film industry people They were impressed by the intricate work with miniatures required for the movies several dozen car crashes Then the> were dumbfounded to learn that those were all real life-sizers, crunching at tfie rate of sen eral thousands of dollars [>er second They dug Aretha f ranklin, those Chinese fiipsters. but couldn't connect any sigmfi cance to the various blues, country and rock music scenes They said it all sounded alike to them,'' reports Landis W here Are They Now & Who Cares? Dept. r john, the infamous Night Tripper, JL/ has laid down a soundtrack of bar relhouse boogie-woogie piano for Cannery how that’s probably the best thing aln jut the flick Root Bos Slim, whose bid for stardom entitled Boogie Till You Puke did not In come an I'M radio staple, is recording for Moonlight Records. Arthur Brown, as in The Crazy World of, is waxing tracks for Lone Star Records
