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TNONEF. A RffiOI JTTHEOTHER. Since Ampersand does not publish over the summer months, we've re ceived very few recent, relevent or even pithy letters from our readers (only fair we didn 't write either) That was then, and now is now, so send those cards and letters, full of information and opinion, to In One Ear, 1680 North Vine, Suite 900, Hotfywood. CA 90028 by Steve Ginsberg Pythons Pursue Plethora of Projects Monty pythons crew is hard al work on several films, a couple of television shows and at least one book — but only one film, Monty Python’s Meaning of Life, is an all together again Python presenta tion. They are lx-ing absolutely silent about the content of said film, telling the world that it's a "film for ichthyophiles," because “there are millions of fish out there and no one has ever gone for that audience.” The individual projects include Yellowheard, written by Graham Chapman, Peter Cook and Bryan McKenna, starring Chapman and Qx)k and lots of famous cameos. It’s a pirate movie, a comedy The Frog Prince stars Robin Williams and Teri Garr and will appear on Showtime cable television in the U.S. It was produced by actress Shelley Duvall, written and directed by Eric Idle Privates on Parade stars John Cleese, who sings and acts and dances, but did not write any part of this Should be out by the time this page is read, Terry Jones, the alleged intellec tual of the group, has just directed and hosted a film for British TV based on the Rupert Bear cartoon strip He's also written a book called Fairy Tales, original tales he wrote for his daughter, to be published in the U.S. this fall. He’s directing the Meaning of Life, too, which is loca tioning in exotic Glasgow, among others. Animator and designer Terry Gil liam is collaborating with award winning playwright Tom Stoppard on a screenplay which will be a fol lowup — but not a sequel — to last year s hit, Time Pandits Michael Palin wrote and stars in The Missionary, with Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard and Phoebe Nichols (she was Cordelia in Hrideshead Re visited) It may never see the light of cinema, but there’s a film afoot called Cl ah Paradise, supposedly starring John Cleese and Bill Murray — sublime casting with a ridiculous plot: Cleese plays the British gov ernor of a Caribbean island, Murray the proprietor of a restart; the island natives rebel, Cleese takes refuge in Murray’s club, and from then on it’s snobs vs. slobs vs, rebels. Profit Cycles Naturally, youvf. sfbn et But did you know that the bicycle chase stunts trace to a Southern California-bred subculture called BMX (bicycle motocross) racing? Di rector Steven Spielberg even polled a group of BMX fans, generally kids about the same age ;ls those in the blockbuster film, and the majority claimed Kuwahara as their favorite brand. So it was a Kuwahara that levi tated past the roadblocks, stolen milkcrate and hunted extraterrestrial attached. And, thanks to the su premely profitable merchandizing that always accompanies a hit movie, fans can add to their E.T. doll, their fuzzy-eared Yoda cap and their "Spock Lives!" iron-on patches a genuine, official 7 bicycle Kuwah ara makes 'em, Spielberg takes a piece of the action. There's no busi ness like (fill in the blank.) Who Thought up This Ad? With the average film costing at least $7,000,000 to market and about $10 million to make, film companies are forever thinking of catchy new ad lines. But if we were going to give out awards for the best remembered phrases we'd have to say that Paramount, the studio who last year advertised Mommie Dearest as “the biggest mother of them all," would have to win hands down. Right now the company is test marketing Jekyll and Hyde Together Again, a bizarre comedy based on the old tale that stars Fridays Mark | Blankfield. One of the key ad lines: ig) 1981, Jensen Sound lobs “Now that there’s a Jensen made for it, this baby’s perfect for us With a Jensen® ThinMount'" car stereo speaker system, you don’t have to sacrifice sound performance for size. Remarkably thin mounting depths let you put full range Jensen speakers in a variety of TFMClTIkT tight places.Then sit back, listen and be moved »l 1. CAR AUDIO When it’s the sound that moves you. "The medical community told him to shove it up his nose — and he did.” Wait It gets better This Christmas Paramount is launching Airplane //. tlx' Sequel, which follows the adven tures of a space shuttle that is hijacked to Uranus on its way to the moon. Although the official logo is “a comedy with a new twist," the Paramount marketing department is toying with another idea: "Voyage to Uranus.” (We don't waite ’em, we just report 'em.) Coppola Copes Although francis ford coppola's beleaguered Zoetrope Studio is still for sale, the man himself is not sitting around biting his nails. He’s directing films and biting his nails: The Outsiders is finished and he’s now in the midst of Rumble Fish, which stars many of the same actors and is also based on a book by S. E. Hinton. Both are contemporary youth dramas, although The Out siders is "optimistic and heart warming" while Rumble Fish is described as "expressionistic." Make Vs Laugh The Ampersand staff needs some yucks, folks —and we depend on our readers to keep us howling. What's more, we ll pay real bucks for these guffaws. Details follow: Send us your favorite joke. Keep it concise, typed, double spaced and printable If it's a car toon joke, that's fine too—just be sure it’s drawn in black ink on sturdy white paper. We ll pay $20 to each and every jokemaker whose artistry we print The rigorous criteria for judg ing the jokes at least one editor has tb fall down laughing Since most of our editors fall down frequently, whether laughing or not, this could lie a piece of cake . Ampersand keeps all the jokes We need them. Send those hilarious words to Ampersand Jokes. lbHO North Vine, Suite 900, Hollywood, CA 90028 AMPERSAND OP TUB MONTH This streamlined. Art Deco Ampersand runic to us front Scott I- Pringle of Yoncalla. Oregon He earns t ilt for the beautv. Others nf our readers who are artistically Inclined may also try to win hift bucks: Just send us your original Amftersands, In black Ink on sturdy while fni/ter. with your name and address clearly printed on the artwork. Art will not be acknowletlged or returned. Senil ttw ssfulggles to Amfwrsand if the Month IbNO North Vine. Suite 'MM). Hollyusnul. CA •MMIJM. When You’re Hot, You’re Hot Mystical texas-style guitar rocker T Bone Burnett, celebrating a soon-to-be released E.P. on Warner Bros. Records, drew a crowd to the Lingerie (a Hollywood New Wave and roots rock hangout) that in cluded Jeff (Tron) Bridges and Jamie Lee (Halloween) Curtis. Conspicu ously absent was Pia Zadora, though Burnett dutifully scanned the crowd for her. & When You're Not, You re Not ... NO LONGER WILL THE MASSIVE, gleaming teeth of Donny and Marie Osmond emit pro-Hawaiian Punch messages. According to Adver rising Age, the pair has been drop ped from future marketing plans for the zippy, juice-based soft drink. Look for images of "fun and sun" to supplant the Osmonds, heretofore the principal export of Utah. TV Hits Make New Pi.x AN AYKROYD IS IN CHICAGO shoot VJ ing a new comedy, Dr Detroit. wherein he plays a college professor of chivalry and literary themes" who winds up protecting a band of prosti tutes as the fictitious “Dr. Detroit." Aykroyd is contributing to the scrip! penned by Bruce Jay Friedman and Carl Gottlieb As to the rumored Three Ctilxtl Zeros, which was at one time to star Aykroyd, Belushi and Steve Martin, plans have been scratched for the foreseeable future. But Aykroyd will do a cameo as a I toss of N Y 's llol land Tunnel in Nothin# lusts I'oreiet a comedy by former SNI. writer Bob Schiller. Also doing brief bits are Bill Murray, Moil Sahl, Sam latte. Im ogene Coca and Eddie Fisher. Sr rv comics John Candy, Eugene bevy and Joe Flaherty will finally make a movie together. The picture, starring Candy as a part time drummer llmo driver who gets brainwashed bv a fanatical religious aerobics group out to assassinate his politician father in law, was origi nally called Drums oner Multn Al though the SCIV kids liked that one. the powers that In- thought it a little Innocuous and tried to come up with something Irettet Nest was.Vitmnuls The SfH\uil Tihtiun, which several exex liked but the guys vetoed. As ot this writing the monicker stands at Gobi Wet sent, a nice middleot the road name but certainly not in the tradition ot blasphemy we’ve grown to expect ol SCIV Universal, the )cast and director David Steinberg are in need of outside help ' Vie can't promise a movie deal, but anyone with their own ti tie Ideas could send them to (Continued on pu#e 26)
