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Reel Life
Not Again. I here will lx .1 Itocky III.
Francis Ford Coppoi.a. w Iio lu*|>t telling
us he used his List dime to finance
Apocalypse .Vdie. still had enough green
backs to buy Producers Studio in Hol-
IvwcmmI, which he will renovate lot his Him
projec ts and where he Iio|n*s to establish a
him school lor high school students (not
unlike Intellaken in Michigan).
Martin Sheen was down in Austin, lexas
recently talking to Ron Othison about
portraying the rock A- roll legend in a
proposed biopic. Meanwhile, Othison,
who moaned his way to the top of the Fif
ties chatls with “Only the lainelv." “Pretty
Woman," "Fvergreen,’ and many more,
plavs himscli in Roadie — along with Alice
(axiper and Blondie
Harold and Maude go to Broadway...
the cult film is now a play, to star Janet
< iaynor (Ksiher Blodgett in the original A
Star Is Horn) as Maude; Haloid has not yet
hecn cast.
Writing a Ixxikr “No."
Idle did reveal the source of my
all-time favorite Python routine. Four
Yorkshiremen (on the Live at Drury
hme album): “(iraham Chapman and
John Cleese wrote it. hut it may have
been C h a p in a n / CI e e sc / M a rty
Feldman." he said. The bit was c reated
12 or 13 years ago for a British I V
show called At Ijist It’s the 1948 Show.
Idle and his wife Ianya. who live in
the south of France with their 6Vt-
ycar-old son, had a nice surprise in
Lot Angeles: Weekly Variety listed Life
oj Brian as that week's biggest
money making film. It earned an even
tougher acclaim a short time later,
when a member of the censor board
in Provo, Utah — notoriously tough
on R-rated flicks —asked the local
district attorney to ban Brian. But
when the D.A. saw the film, "he
laughed throughout," according to
one observer, and that was that.
Judith Sims
Extra!! Rock Magnates
PimpleEree
Resourceful John Lit brand of the
Oklahoma University Oklahoma Daily
prolicd catering service employee Karrie
Williams for the inside stuff following a re
cent Kiss performance in Norman, Ok
lahoma. “I've never seen so many cosme
tics in my life." said Williams. "Stridex pads
everywhere. Kiss has no complexion
problems, even when you look at them
close up. They like Chinese hxxl and they
have a real passion for pre-sweetened
cherry Kool-Aid." Corollary to their
K<x>l- Aid choice. Kiss held court for a bevy
of 15-year-old groupies, according to Wil
liams. Said groupies “were really stylish,"
she told I Jebrand. "Lots of make-up, Cal
vin Klein jeans, clear plastic raincoats and
pasties." 4-H badges would seem more
appropriate for Norman, Oklahoma, but
times change. Also entrusted with carting
the groups civvies to an Oklahoma City
hotel. Williams reports, “They had really
nice clothes. Fashionable stuff, right out of
(ientleman’s Quarterly. A lot of tweeds."
Don t Crush Ibat Dwarf,
Buy My Record
After three years off the record.
Firesign Theatre — namely Phillip Proc
tor, Peter Beigman, David Ossman and
Phillip Austin — is back on wax with The
Firesign Theatre's \irk Danger in the Case of
the Missing Shoe. "We want a high profile
again," say the boys, whose surrealistic
humor was de ligorous with head phones
and dope m the early to middle Seventies.
Probably encouraged by the success of
similai projec ts like Tunnelvision and Ken
tucky Trial Movie, Firesign plans a movie.
The Madhouse of Dr. Fear, with Don Adams
of Get Smart fame and Firesign Theatre
Campaign 8(1, three-minute satirical elec
tion year bits to go out over radio. The new
Xu k Danger, a 12-inch FP. can Ik* In night in
stores or from pluc ky little Rhino Records.
11609 W. Pico* Lot Angclet 90064 l«»i
$3.75.
Plants in the Key of Pain
A Hardened Lor. L.A.'s music journalists
needed every ounce of their cynic ism for a
recent party previewing Stevie Wonder's
Journey Through the Secret l.ife of Plants.
Stevland Morris’ first release since the
Xmas-of-’76.Songs in the Key of l.ife. Bussed
from the Sunset and Vine headejuarters of
Motown to a ranch on Malibu Canyon
Road, the pi ess corps was led to a dealing
clotted with four tents, one for each side
of the album, and a profuse spread of...
fruit juice, c heese and potted plants. I"he
evening's highlight, according to one
grizzled vet. was watching an unsuper
vised kid mangle the leaves of a large
rhododendron.
Vinyl Cheesecake
Huge advance orders answered the an
nouncement in F.ngland that Britt F.kland,
famous for her affair with Rcxl Stewart, is
releasing a nude picture disc of her up
coming single "Do It to Me." Though a
publicist insists the shot will Ik* "tastefully
revealing, not porno," it's not yet known
how they'll solve the perennial picture disc
problem — w here to lex ate the hole.
Kiss: Kool-Aid, Iweetls (if SIndex
Matty Simmons, co-producer of Animal
House, admitted recently that his sche
duled Jaws 2/People 0, a panxly of Univer
sal's Jaws, will not lx* made. Creative differ-
Idling By
Monty Python’s Kric Idle was in U»s
Angeles recently on husiness/holiday,
during which time he told Ampersand
there would not be an American
Python TV series. “Who would do it?"
he asked. PBS? we ventured. “They
don’t have any money," he scoffed.
There will be a fresh new Pvthon rec
ord on Arista to fulfill the group's ob
ligations to that lalxrl. “We’re doing a
farewell to Clive Davis album, give
him a little boost before he goes off
and becomes an insurance salesman
again." The next Python film is still in
disc ussion stage and won't appear on
screen until, gasp, 1982: “We’ll write
the script all of next year, that’s what
takes a long time, to get the stuff
funny." Idle confirmed there would
always be* Python individual projects,
“always stuff to be clone. Working in a
group you can’t satisfy all the things
you want to do. The balance is tbe
most important thing. Individual
freedom, liberty, peace and prosper-
it\ for all." No more Rutles TV shows?