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INONEEAR6POUTTHEOTHE Write to Us Send us your comments, complaints, compliments (es/MXially your com plimenls), your philosophy of life or even your SAT scores We tike to net mail —any mail Semi the noodles to In One liar. KRiO North Vine, Suite <XX), Hollywood, CA <XM)2H by Steven Ginsberg & Byron Lai rsen A-Going, n-Going, a-Gone The fabled whisky a go go, the most famous but not the most prosperous nightclub on Sunset Strip, launching pad of the Doors, the Buffalo Springfield, Love, and other mid Sixties raves, host to such various acts as Carl Perkins, Wall of V< k >doo. Selector. X, the Surf Punks, et al , has closed down This isn’t the death of the Whisky, says owner LInter Valentine, who also runs the Roxy. Hut remodeling is already underway to turn the place into either a dance club or a showplace for theatrical revues. Pix Poised to Pop r> OiKYS OWN SYLVESTER STAL XV lone will direct John Travolta in his dancing return in Slayinff Alive. the sequel to Saturday Ninht lever that should Itegin filming by.the end of the year I mil then Stallone will be busy counting the money from Rocky III the most successful of all the Rocky films, it has already sold more than $120 million worth of tickets in the I S. and Canada. otton cu ii. a musical based V_> on the famed Harlem nightclub, will start to shoot early next year with Kichard Gere and singer dancer Gregory Hines in the lead roles. Written by Mario Puzo (The God father) and marking the directing debut of Robert Evans (producer of Chinatown and former head of Paramount), it will feature 30 musi cal numlxrs with many of Harlem's most famous tap dancers. Plans call for the cast to have an equal racial mix 75 blacks and 75 whites hat do You DO after you've W frolicked in the jungle with Tarzan and cavorted on the beach with Dudley Moore? America’s only certifiable "10," Bo Derek, has found the answer: you frolick in the Gar den of Eden Bo expects to begin shooting by the end of the year on her next movie, fire and That Damned Aftple, a kind of "Creation According to the Dereks," where hubby John directs and Bo-Bo stars and produces. John will not play Adam, so the search is on to find a suitable suitor for lio, since financiers turned down her first choice — KJinton Spilsbury You remember him. The actor whose en tire voice had to be dubbed by someone else in the 19R1 bomb, U’f>entI of-the lone Ranker L ALLEGED HF.ARTTHROB RICK Springfield, who juggles his Top 40 singing career with regular ap pearances on (he soap Oeneral I Ins pital, is now moving to the silver screen as a shy rock star in love wilh a European princess in Traveling, l.if>bl. a nice old-fashioned romancer produced by the man behind Donna Summer's early records, Georgio Moroder Nastassja Kinski plays the princess. A Marriage Matle in Cleveland — or — Further Proof That Love Is Blind Recently hitched: singer Karla DeVito, who was the on stage vocal foil for the bellows lunged and already forgotten Meat Dial, under study to Linda Konstadt in the Broadway production of Pirates of Penzance, and whose 1981 1.1* Is Plus A Con! World or What? caused stirs in flipper pop rock minds, and sin cere Smarmmeister actor Robbie Benson, of tribute and One on One fame But he’s really a nice guy,' a friend of the new family explained The Money Section (“> EORGE LUCAS AND STEVEN J Spiellterg are now responsible ft ir tin* fivr Imrofsi nn ini'vmukcrs in Ampersarui of the Month u<tn ner is this swanky, calllgraph teal entry from Connie Kreuxer of Trumbull, C.T. A check for t it) Is gliding her way as you read this paragraph. You cttuld win. too. Send your idea of a fanci ful & to Ampersand of the Month, IbHO North Vine, las Angeles, CA 90028. the history of the film industry. The lads have either produced and/or di ret ted Star Wars, F T. — tlw Extra Terrestrial, The Empire Strikes Hack, Jaies and Haulers of the last Ark Speaking of/:' / . which by the end of the year will lx.- the most success ful movie of all time, the little title creature made his first public con ceri appearance in Los Angeles re cently with composer John Williams Williams opened the bill at the Hoi Iywood Bowl for singer Tony Ben nett and had just completed his set with his own composition, "The L.T Theme," when the little green devil (or angel ) waddled onstage to a flood of flashing lights. ”F,.T" gra ciously acknowledged the composer and then the two exited hand in hand to applause so thunderous that even the ovation for Tony Bennett seemed pale in comparison ET Phone Agent Evkrvonl mas ms price it s just that some people cost more than others Take Dustin Hoffman In his new him, Tootsie, wherein he plays the role of an unemployed New York actor who dresses up like a woman to get a part in a soap opera, Hoffman spent two and a half hours each day putting on woman's makeup, suffered from untold rashes caused by the cosmetics, used a high pitched female voice lot AO |xm cent of the Rim, shaved two and three times a day to keep his beard from showing, and weathered swel tiling tiotham heal, a bronchial in lection and a dooi slamming on his hand Ills salary 11 .S00.000 PLANS HAVE BEEN S< RAPPED for John Carpenter s next movie, I'irestarter. based on the novel In horror master Stephen King Ihe picture was all set to begin shooting this fall in Tennessee but Universal pulled the plug, saying the $1"',SOO.OOO was just too exjx’tisive in view of he cut i cm economy and the nature of the him business to day. (Perhaps they should have tried rubbing two sticks together ) ROD stewaRI has hied a . $ ft).000.000 plus law suit against his longtime manager Mills liafl Among other things, Stewart charges that frail inegally acted as his agent (in show hi/, agents are agents and managers are managers), misman aged concert (ours and diverted money to his own publishing com pany. Gaff had filed his own suit against Stewart (for misappropriation of money) last April, one month after Stewart told him his services were no longer needed ANNA KNOW WHO IS THE W richest performer in the American music business? II inheri tance counts, it’s Yoko Ono Accord ing to Forties magazine's just pub lished list of the 400 people in America who could most afford to give you a loan, Yoko's worth front the estate of late husband John l.en non is tISO,000,0<X) This includes value of houses, cattle, music com panics and copyrights Yoko. who still lives in New York, is fond of tel ling people she makes many of her business decisions based on astro! ogv Whatever gets you through the night Hot & Cool & Read All Otter Al t II NEPOTISM, call it hiring _> the handicap|ied Hut when a whole squadron ol .\in/terstiiiiJ con irihutors ap|x-ars in a new h printed book, it's time to point with pride Hook in question is the (Uitiilof’ of (tool, edited by Gene Sculatti It s a lull discourse on the concept of coolness, packed with examples from the worlds of him t ils' U tUi One), tliMlim (M.tjoi lance singing ‘Utn. Cm. Ian. I To. I'm. I'm"), cloth mg (w<)od grain Nehru Jackets) and othet essentials ol life Willi sections on the history of sunglasses, the in vent ion ol the zooi suit twnh the neat ple.il and the dr.t|X' sha|xT atul seminal hipsters like laird Muckier and l.ennr Hruce. Its- t Vt/it/og oj (tool is Its- /'te/y>ic HiitiilhooJf gone lo \X tg cm Ot perhaps Its W/m/r I i)ilb < (Union gone to lump Street AmptrsdudIans represented include Sculatti, Davin Sear, Hob Me ills, lorn Vickers. Steven \ lira, fun from Ix'tia, Hvtoit laurscn, Kkltard Melt zet and Kkltard Blackburn Itt fait don't miss Blackburns < <«o/og opus entitled Ttie Haywire Mall of fame the lop ten l llp|X’d I Uses ol VII Time Here is a joke currently making the rounds in Hollywood: Know the difference between a rtxk and roll groupie and a pig? (perfectly timed pause) A pig will not stay up all night for a chance to have sex with a rock and roll musician. Which leads us to Rock TV Roll Hahylon by Gary Herman, a hot-off the-presses expos e of low people in high places. A Londoner, Herman has planted “Everybody's Lucifer' Mick Jagger on the glossy cover of this lurid survey of ". absurd and callous destructiveness wild par lies . sadistic sex . . servile groupies ' Sample perspicacious sentence: “Its fair to say that rock'n'roll has always stepped out side the boundaries of the estab lished Christian churches ' Best photo in the book. Cliff Richard in (Continued on page /-’) Monkeeman ia Revisited hy Kiei Stuart They’re not quite so awesome .1 tide is Beaile or Star Trek Ians, Inn Monkee devotees are just as loyal Monkeemaniacs trooped in front as far as Canada and Japan to attend the fourth annual Monkee convention in Bridgeport, Connec ticut this summer, reflecting a recent popularn\ resurgence for the (>0s rock group According to covention producers Charles Kosenay and Maggie McManus, MX) lovers of Mike Nesmith. Peter fork, l)av\ Jones and Micks Dolenz wantiered happily alsout the Bridgeport Sheraton front August (t 8 in their Biggest gathering yet Monkee photos, linger puppets, buttons and records have now Be come collector's items toileted for sale at prices that would have shocked the Sixties), fans traded, chattered, wrote (tersonal message to their lave heart throbs in special Books through the miracle ol IV re t uns, a new generation of IS year-olds.is tuned In to hours of old Monkee episodes (campy commei rials left in) plus the film firm/ which has approached cult status even among those who once sneered at the fabricated luiul cum IV stars Othei excitement lot the lalthful in art show (won B\ Australian Ire rot Hilton lot his mixed media work I he Monkecs seated under a dollai sign), a memorabilia auction, and a Monkecs soondalike contest When a last minute entry'' was In iroduced and I’eter fork himself itnik the stage, fans toured approval and delight John Sheridan and the Band Monkeemania swung into Pleasant Valley Sunday," fork on kevKurcts then the lormei Monkee ti'IRllHtrxl a Iteewheeling rjuestlr1.1 ami answer session, moved the audi ence to tears with reminiscences of lohn l ennon, signed autographs, anil lell ixsiaiu Monkee fans seated until next vc.ii
