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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1982)
May, 1982 & QUT ,_pHE QTHER" Dennis Wilson —bis brother 's dealer ' cently grown to $10,000 worth of nose candy in a two-month span Love and companion Rushton Pamplin went out to “confront” Dennis Wilson about the matter Their meeting was short on good vibrations The Beach Boy drummer was chased through his own h<iuse, Love whaling the bejeezus out of him all the while with fists, feet and a telephone, meanwhile smashing windows and furniture Fortunately, a ma|ority of the blows landed on Wilson's head, an object that's been of no use for several years Richard Pryor has spun his burning flesh ex periences into some four minutes of stand-up comedy Dennis Wilson lives in "constant fear of further attack ” Lou Gossett is free on $2,MX) bail after just one night in the slammer John Belushi is finally off drugs may he rest in peace On the Road Again? It appears to be semi-definite: The Rolling Stones will tour Europe this summer, some where between May and July According to the Stones Los Angeles publicity firm, the group was recently discussing the possibility of this tour while working on a film of last year s American tour and a live album of same (with any luck, both should be out this fall). Beatty> Sued Again Warren beatty has been slapped with his second screenwriting lawsuit (the first, for Shamftoo, which he co-wrote with Robert Towne, was ultimately reversed in the appellate court, to Beatty s relief) This time William M. Greene and Helen Smith have filed a $20 million lawsuit, claiming Beatty reneged on their contract and paid only $250 for rights to their unpublished book Louise Bryant Biography of a Radical (Bryant was played by Diane Keaton in the film Reds) Greene also claims Beatty took advantage of his naivete and his research Between the Lines The late rock star jim Morrison will be back in bookstores soon: Frank Lisciandro, photo grapher, filmmaker (he edited the Doors film Feast of Friends) and once a friend to Morrison, has published An Hour for Magic (Delilah Books, $9.95). Lisciandro told Ampersand that the book contains 130 photos ol Morrison taken by him, "Ninety-nine point nine per cent of them never published before.” The text, 30,000 words of it, was written by Lisciandro (who now lives in Santa Barbara), except for ten Morrison poems which the singer’s estate allowed Lisciandro to publish. Lisciandro, who worked with Morrison on film projects when he wasn't taking pictures, claims his book was written partly as an effort to dispel the nasty image Morrison suffered in the book No One Here Gels out Alive (by Jerry Hop kins and Danny Sugarman). "It’s mainly my per sonal kinds of experiences with Jim,” Lisciandro said. "I tried to show Jim leaning toward poetry and philosophy and filmmaking everything I wrote was something 1 experienced first hand.” Frank Herbert, author of the assorted Dune lx Kites, just signed a contract with Putnam for Dune 5 (title to lie changed) for the tidy sum of -$1.5 million. Not such a bad deal tor Putnam, coasidering that the five Dune books (most re cent, God Emperor of Dune, a best seller) have sold 7.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. As for the alleged film version of l tune ..it still sim mers away. As of February, screenwriters on the case were David Lynch, Christopher DeVore and Eric Bergren, with Lynch (Elephant Man, Eraserheadj to direct. Producer will be Dino de Laurentiis No less than th*£f. celebrities threaten full ex posure on the printed page. Richard Harris' is titled Those Who Did and Those Who Didn't. French film director Roger Vadim is writing a novel, not a memoir, titled The Hungry Angel, in which two female characters are said to resemble his ex-wives Jane Fonda and Brigitte Bardot. And Tony Toon, once Rod Stewart's manager (fired by Rtxi 8 years ago) promises to reveal more of the rock star's intimate secrets when his memoir is published Are there any secrets still unrevealed, after True Britt of a few years back? Say Goodbye M ash will return for one more year, and then finito. The producers announced that the last show will be a two-hour special in which the war is ended and all the characters prepare to go home. Barney miller will not even return for one more year; its final episode will air April 24, with the precinct being closed down Lotsa Movie Stuff Apparently unaware of the sagging economy, Hollywood plans to make dozens of movies in the next few months — after a half year of cut backs, slowdowns and reductions which left most of the guilds and industry' suppliers reeling and hungry Supposedly we have the following to an ticipate in the next year (or two): Brooke Shields will not frolic in a lagoon, but she will disport herself in the sand — when she stars in Sahara, based on a 1928 auto race across the title desen . Mike's Murder will star Debra Winger (late of Cannery Row), to be di rected by Jim Bridges, who discovered Winger for Urban Cowboy . Susan Sarandon and Rich ard Dreyfuss will star in Buddy System, in which they portray a court stenographer and a security guard brought together by her 11-year-old son ... Chuck Berry plays himself in the class reunion scene for National Lampoon’s Class Reunion . . Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates and John Gielgud star in 7'fje Wicked Lady, to be directed by Michael lDeath Wish II) Winner .. Burt Reynolds will first star in Best Friends with Goldie Hawn, then segue quickly into Bogart Slept Here, which was originally written by Neil Simon as a kind of sequel to The Coodbve Girl, and was to have star red Robert DeNiro, to have been directed by Mike Nichols. Now Reynolds himself w-ill direct Richard Pryor will co-star in Superman III, then co-star with Dreyfuss in Ain’t No Heroes, then assume the title role in Malcolm X, a biopic of the late Black Muslim leader .. Greystoke, based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' tales of Tarzan's early life, will be made by producer David Puttnam and director Hugh Hudson (the team that brought us Chariots of Fire), Greystoke was originally in the hands and slow typewriter of Robert (Personal Best) Towne ... Olivia Newton John will star in Suing, a contemporary- musical Stott Spencer, who wrote the novel Endless Ijove, has finished an original script called Rap ture ... Joe Eszterhas, former Rolling Stone edi tor who wrote FIST (starring Sylvester Stallone), now has Pluck the Eagle (a comedy) and City Hall (not a comedy) poised for production... Director John landis (American Werewolf in London, most recently) is currently working on Whereabouts ( "That's not the title, but we don t have a title yet"), after which he’ll do “a secret" project with Steven Speilberg and two other as yet unchosen filmmakers (“we ll be con tributing in an unusual manner," Landis said, re vealing nothing) and the oft-mentioned Dick Tracy Waldo Salt has l>een assigned the task of writing the screenplay for Landis' future version of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The Results Are In T AmPersarui included a JU Jte^ers Movie Poll, and here, after re^L rZ‘’? »e?,0aS tabulation’ are tf>e r«ults. The Top Ten Actors, according to £n7re T 1500 rePhes, were (in £ | ^ "d ng order) Harrison Ford, Dustin SSTrj*** **«. «oben DeS Bun Reynolds, Roben Redford and Alan' a Richard Dreyfuss, Clint j^od and Timothy Hutton Favorite H»w„, K*hCTi„a Heptirn, fa SctreiSand’ Marsha Mason' Diane’ Keaton, Faye Dunaway and Sissy Soacek Favorite Films Raiders of the S Ordinary People, Arthur, The French Lieu ****** Woman, Body Heat, The Empire ^S,!klck: StriPes’ T*me Bandits, Super man II and Four Seasons Readers also proclaimed their favorite kinds of films — T *7 f3r *e favorite' followed n« very closely by Adventure, Suspense toence F.ction, Real Life, Romantic Hon ror, Foreign, Animation and last (to our chagrin), Western In the wake of the undeserved disaster of One from the Heart, Francis Coppola is licking his wounds and preparing for his next film — The Outsiders, to film in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Based on the novel by S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders concerns three brothers who try to keep their family to gether after their parents die. No cast has yet been announced. T-Bone on a Platter This time we’re taking Tinseltown by storm,” cracks T-Bone Burnett Though the wry Tex an's 1980 Chrysalis album, Truth Decay, made critical Ten Best lists right and left, it sold preci ous few copies. An ex-side man for Dylan, Burnett is working out in LA’s smaller clubs until the re lease of a new album on Warner Bros. The title track. Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend, a Cole Porter gem associated with the Fifties Marilyn 5 Monroe/Jane Russell film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, gets a laconic folk-rock treatment which produces an unexpected sex-change. Instead of a witty, urbane bit of drollery, the song becomes a sort of parable of temptation that’s oddly funny. At a recent Hop Singh show, Warren Zevon climbed onstage. Two nights later at the Cafe Bla Bla, without the aid of celebrity guests, Burnett reached into the funnier side of his song bag un til neary three a.m. “Well I’ve never been to art school,” went one lyric, “But I kinda like Picasso/All his women look Egyptian/But then what the hell do I know?” Woo so me Twosome Has taps star Tim Hutton been greeting re veille with insipid songstress Nicolette Lar son? They’ve been spotted keeping cuddly com pany. Larson embittered Neil Young a couple of years back when, after the conclusion of their af fair, she ran a lightweight rendition of his tune, “A Lotta Love,” to a high spot on the charts. Maybe she'll remake the Hutton vehicle, Ordinary People, as Ordinary Voice. Rolling Stone Rumbles Long-time record review editor Paul Nelson has reportedly left his post at Rolling Stone over a battle with publisher Jann Wenner. New policy for the section is said to be: one lead review and the rest no more than 32 lines long; no use of simile or metaphor (don’t want to confuse those sophisticated Stone readers); and absolutely no new wave records unless they have ‘Top Ten sales potential.” Pssssstffff Want to Buy a Filthy Disc? Video disc machines aren’t doing nearly as well as video tapes in the marketplace; one rea son for the lag behind video tape is Japan’s board THE NEW ALBUM visAge • the Anvi 1 ROCK ^HAMMERED INTO A BOLD NEW FORM. * % i i i y fc x : A v'iSAge »the anvil« P )!yGri?p Records'
