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paid only $250 for rights to their unpublished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.”
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