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December, 1979
Ampersand
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eiucs between Simmons and Universal,
supposedly.. .these differences may 01
may not affect Simmons' other projects
there: Lemmings, The National Lampoon
Kicks, and Dacron USA.
Laurence Olivier has been cast as Neil
Diamond's father in the remake of The Jazz
Sniffer. Diamond, who’s supposedly been
writing songs for this magnum flick for IH
months, will stage a concert at the 1..A.
Forum this December, footage to Ik* used
as the grand f inale in the movie. We can
wait.
The Village People. Americas Ik*si joke
on itself in years, are wontiering how to
keep those mass-market bucks tumbling
in. “How many of us want to be up there
wiggling for teenagers when we’re 35?"
ponders cowboy Kandy Jones. “I don’t
want to Ik* wearing a loincloth when I’m
40." adds Indian Felipe Rose. Now spend
ing $15 million of EMI's money to make
Can't Stop the Music, their entry into film,
the Village IVople will Ik* shown walking
on water during one of the movies many
production numbers. Hut not. one as
sumes, stepping out of the closet.
live Chase Is On
WWTW, THE PBS affiliate in Chicago, has
picked up the 21 existing epis<Kics of The
hiper Chase; other PBS stations may also
buy rerun rights, and, *tis rumored, sev
eral such stations may put up real cash so
that*more episodes can Ik* f ilmed. If you
were one of the several thousand viewers
who mourned CBS’ cancellation of this
What Must ITveir
Mothers IT\ink?
The Plasmatics, in their headlong thrust
towards becoming the most lewd, morbid
and silly at t in km k Ik roll, recently trashed
a “shins ( adillat" onstage at the Palladium
in New Yoi k. Previously, lead singer Wendy
Orleans Williams (W.O.W.) was content to
pla\ peek-a-boo with her labia majora on
record jackets and perform with thin
strips ol black tape over the nipples oi her
exposed peaches. Most people thought
she’d calmed down, compared to her ex
career as a live sex show performer on
42nd Street, even if she did like to c ap a
gcMMl show, write to your local PBS station;
bribe them with money, they like that.
live Charge Is Changed
Actress Carrie Snodgress told a Los
Angeles dourt duiing the preliminary
hearings on Jack Nit/sche’s rape by in
strumentality charge (November Amper
sand) that Nitzsche. record producer,
musician, songw riter and her one-time
amour, had not raped her with a gun liar-
rel as she had previously claimed. Now she
J»ays he just put the barrel between her
legs. Nit/sche still faces assault charges.
Taking Fbwders
Observers report that teen idol Leif
(iarrett. 17. dining out one rec ent evening
in I lolls wood, came track from a bat hi« miiii
trip to find a companion had arranged
lines of w hite powder on a plate before
him. (iarrett supposedly snorted it up.
The tantalizing sulistance: Sweet ’N lam,
the sugar substitute that comes in little
pink envelopes. (Do you believe this?
Wanna buy a gold watch?) On another
evening, (iarrett was approached at one of
those swell Holly wimmI parties by a lissome
lass who asked the cute kid if he had any
cocaine, (iarrett whipped out a packet of
white powder — this time, Beechams’s
powder, a Umisc non-aspirin painkiller im
ported from Britain — openend it and
scattered it all over. WimmIv Allen style. I lie
lissome lass went I«ko.
typical Plasmatics set h\ chainsawing an
electric guitar in hall. F.ven if their show
included a videotape oi W.O.W. mastur
bating while the rest ol the group put a
victim's feet in concrete and tossed him in
the river, all this to the tune ol "Concrete
Shoes," one of their non-hit singles. F.ven il
lead guitarist Kuli.ird Stotts chose to pla\
in transvestite gear, with a mohawk haiicut
died blight blue. Kim! Swenson, the Plas
matics' "creator and manager" reports that
they decided to obliterate the luxury cat at
the felladium "because it’s a big stage." I lie
Plasmatics records, which are still some
what hard to find and come pressed on
translucent gold and red vinyl, are uu
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