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Remember satumday SH,HT LIVES
spoof of bad movies with Dan
Aykroyd playing Leonard Pinth Gar
nell, a man who relished introducing
bad cinema? By the end of this year
you can go to your local movie
house and pay to see It Came from
Hollywood, a compilation of film
clips from some of the worst "old,
bad movies" ever. Just for some
marquee value, Paramount has tab
lied Richard Pryor, Gilda Radner and
Cheech and Chong as narrators.
Where Are the Brains?
S teve martin has just completed
filming The Man with Two llrains,
a comedy that takes him away from
the heady work he did on Pennies
from Heaven and Dead Men Don't
Wear Plaid and puts him back into
the "wild and crazy humor" of his
first film, The Jerk.
This time Martin plays a world
famous brain surgeon who has just
developed the "cranial screwtop’
method of surgery. While being
interviewed by an intrepid reporter
he spies beautiful Kathleen Turner
(Body Ileal), who is conveniently hit
by his car so Steve can perform the
operation that will save her life. Nat
urally, he falls in love, marries her
and the two speed off to Vienna to
combine their honeymoon with his
lecture at the Institute of Craniology.
Unfortunately, Turner proves to be
a tacky tart and Steve takes refuge
with a brain floating all alone in a lab
tank (it's true). The dilemma — does
he find a body for his new true love
or just join her in cerebral bliss? The
world will find out next summer
when Warner Bros, releases the pic
ture.
Who Stole My Last Three
Pages?
ITH EVERY STUDIO IN HOU.YWOOD
W hot on the sequel bandwagon
(e g , Rocky III, Star Trek II, Grease 2,
...), it was not exactly a revelation
when Universal Pictures announced
a follow up to the classic Hitchcock
thriller Psycho What was surprising
to l niversal-MCA president Sid
Sheinherg was the ending (or lack of
one) to his copy of the script.
It seems that the prez was thor
oughly engrossed in the misadven
tures of nasty Norman Bates, who in
this version is undergoing a sanity
hearing 22 years after his grisly
murder spree and is declared men
tally competent and put on the
streets to presumably wreak havoc
again. Well, just as Sheinherg was
getting to the end — there was no
ending. The last three pages of his
script were missing. He called the
producer to complain, but was told,
"You're right, no one gets to read the
last three pages.”
Though not the usual way in the
movie biz, Sheinherg saw the light.
The picture still went on to film
around LA. with Tony Perkins and
Vera Mites reprising their roles. The
ending? You can bet it leaves the
door open for Psycho III
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AmR SPENDING MOST OF I AST YEAR
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to work again. He hopes to start film
ing in the spring on Staying Alive,
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The Bus Bovs in 48 Hrs. (left to right): Kerin O’Neal.
Gus Lounderman, Brian O'Neal, Victor Johnson and
Mike Jones. Drummer Steve Felix is hidden in the
background.
Substitutions:
Director Walter hill first wanted LA. rockabilly faveraves The Bias
ters to supply music for his currently filming 48 Hrs. pic, starring
Nick Nolle and Eddie Murphy. But the finicky, leather-clad lads were
worried about what said appearance might do to their “image.” (How
much "image” can imeone from Downey, CA have?) Anyway, after
weeks of fretting they nixed the offer, much to the pleasure of the Bus
Boys — an eager, ambitious, rockin’ assemblage of black and chicano
musicians (okay, just one chicano). The Bus Boys were in line for fame
a couple of seasons ago, with an Ampersarul cover, a Rolling Stone
feature and a last-minute-cancelled Time feature, plus a budding
friendship with Mssrs. Jagger and Richards. According to on the set ob
servers, they've jumped on this new opportunity with all twelve feet.
hilled as a kind of sequel to Satur
day Night Fever in which we pick up
super cool Tony Manero five years
later as a would-be actor-chorus kid
in N.Y. Fever costar Karen Lynn Gor
ney is again expected to play oppo
site him.
Actually, Travolta had wanted to
do the biopic of the late .lint Morri
son, but both the Doors and
Paramount (to whom Travolta owed
his next picture) resisted. Neverthe
less, he still plans to make Fire, a
script written by Brian DePalma, that
is to Morrison what The Hose was to
Janix Joplin. Also on tap is a ro
mancer, About a Week, that will re
unite him with Crease costar Olivia
Newton-John and director Randall
Kleiser. He'll portray a deejay on a
whirlwind romance with ONJ.
Mixing Music & Movies
Dt'Oi rv moors and rorf.rt DtrvAU
have both turned to music in
their upcoming pictures Moore
composed the score for his new
Christmas film, Six Weeks, In which
he stars as a politician opposite Mary
Tyler Moore, -i cosmetics mogul
whose daughter Is dying Tender
Mercies features Duvall as a raspy
country warbler trying to make a
comeback from alcoholism lie
wrote one of the four tunes he sings
in the picture, which is directed by
Australia's Bruce Bet oxford
After mori than a vicar as a
Broadway and (soon to In-! Him
star in Pirates of Penzance, Linda
Konstadt has recorded an album of
mostly new material She Is also con
templatlng an album of standards ar
ranged by one of frank Sinatra's fa
vorlte conductors. Nelson Riddle
(who scored one song on the afore
mentioned album), flektta/Asylum
says it will release the new disc by
the end ol this year As tor the start
ilards, says one Insider, it depends
if the first one stills "
Gars ns bonus, whose career was
rejuvenated with, among other
things, tlie hit single "Out of Work,
Is segueing into movie work He
sings die original title song on Na
tional Lampoon's Class Reunion, a
spoof of horror films that is just one
of four projects in the works at \ari
ous studios. Animal House 2 is in
development (?) at Universal; Vaca
tion, starring Chevy Chase, is filming
at WB; and Paramount's Lampoon
treatment of Joy of Sex is slated to
get underway this year with the pas
sibilitv of Laveme And Shirley s
Penny Marshall (uh, huh) making
her directing dehut.
Computers Still Live
Althouuh disnkv sii'Dios (ailed to
produce a blockbuster with its
computer epic, Tron, United Artists
is going ahead with plans for War
dames, a thriller centering on a hoy
computer genius who taps into a na
tional defense program Unlike the
Disney effort, it will lx- more of a
drama "where no one can tell what
is real and what is being acted
Mathew Broderick, who appears in
Neil Simon s upcoming Max Hupan
Returns, stars with Martin Brest <do
ing, in style) directing,
On Location
Osl AH WINNER riMOTHY HUTTON
can be seen tootling around
the streets of N Y these days sporting
a new grungy heard and squiring
Amanda Plummer, his costar in di
rector Sidney Lumet's upcoming film
version ol K,L, LXxtorow s //v Hook
of Von tel Hutton grew the whiskers
to show that he could look like
something other than the all
American hoy toi his role In the flc
tiouall/cd account of a Jew ish family
caught in the House Committee on
Un-American Activities hearings ot
the late Sen Joe McCarthy. No such
sacrifice was needed by Plummer,
daughter of Christopher Plummer
and Tammy Grimes and recent Tony
Award winner fcir Apnes q/'Ood
siete <onshery tUieiuJetl Queen's Col
leye in Mete York and Northwestern
near Chicago before rniyratiny to
Lets Anpeles three tears apo He non
toils for Variety and claims 'show
business is my Itfe "