Hollywood Studio Magazine (October 1972)

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INSIDE TRACK...MOVIE & TV STUDIOS CROWN CORNER - A mad-cap satire about rough and ready bikers who like their vice versa, “Pink Angels,” produced by Gary Radzat and Pat Murphy, is due to open in 40 theatres in the L.A. area next month. -“The Naked Countess,” which stars Ursula Blauth, gets an R rating from the MPPA though it contains some of the most erotic scenes ever filmed. So why not an X? —“The Stepmother,” starring Alejandro Rey and Katherine Justic, is fast becoming one of Crown’s biggest grossers according to Newton P. “Red” Jacobs. —San Antonio exhibitor L. M. Weldon recently gave away “snake rings” to the first 1,000 patrons who came in to see “Stanley.” All we ever got from Stanley was an autographed picture! —Newest member of the Crown family is Thomas O’Connell, assistant to Controller Albert Giles. Welcome aboard. -Belated birthday greetings to Crown Librans Kathy Jorgensen, September 27th, and Gene Urdaneta, September 29th. And thank you Don Haley for enabling Crown to have a corner in Inside Track. LEO’S LAIR — Also thanks to new ad/pub director Charlie Powell and his charming secretary, Marti Haichester, MGM will now be heard from here. —Alex Rocco, James Joseph, character actor Len Lesser and singer Diana Darrin are the latest cast additions to MGM’s “Slither,” comedy suspense thriller starring James Caan, Peter Boyle, Sally Kellerman and Louise Lasser. Howard Zieff directs for producer Jack Sher from a screenplay by W. D. Richter. — Principal photography was completed September 21 on “The Lolly Madonna War,” Contemporary drama starring Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges and Scott Wilson. Rodney Carr-Smith produced and Richard Sarafian directed from a script by Carr-Smith and Sue Grafton, based on Ms. Grafton’s novel of the same name. A song, “Long is the Time (Mammy’s Lament),” written by actors Paul Koslo and Gary Busey, has been incorporated into the film. Song is sung at a family get-together scene. -Don Ellis, who created the music By Bea Colgan for the Raquel Welch starrer, “Kansas City Bomber,” performed selections from the score recently when he appeared in concert at the Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood. “Kansas City Bomber” meanwhile is doing anything but bombing at the boxoffice to the delight of the Culver City gang. — Five-time Academy Award nominee Eimer Bernstein will compose, arrange and conduct the music for “Deadly Honeymoon,” announced producer Hugh Benson and director Elliot Silverstein. Bernstein’s most recent assignment was scoring “The Magnificent 7 Ride.” —And still in a musical vein, MGM has acquired “Elvis on Tour” for world-wide distribution this fall. The Cinema Associates, Inc. production was filmed during Elvis’ national tour earlier this year in cities such as San Antonio, Texas, Greensboro, North Carolina and Hampton Roads and Richmond, Va. Film covers not only Presley’s record-breaking act but investigates the Elvis legend and his impact on audiences. —Currently before the cameras is “Wicked, Wicked” starring Tiffany Bölling, Scott Brady, Madeleine Sherwood and featuring Edd Byrnes and Arthur O’Connell. The United National production for MGM is being produced and directed by Richard L. Bare for exec producer William T. Orr. —Also filming is “Soylent Green,” a suspenseful “science-fact” story, set in New York City in the year 2022, starring Charlton Heston and Leigh Taylor-Young. Story is a drama of survival in a world faced with overpopulation and man’s destruction of his environment. Walter Seltzer produces and Richard Fleischer directs. COLUMBIA NEWS - Veteran special effects man, Alex Weldon, who recently constructed three spectacular waterfalls on the lamasery set of Ross Hunter’s “Lost Horizon,” segued to Stockton, Ca., where he built a huge oil field complete with exploding derrick for Stanley Kramer’s “Oklahoma Crude.” Who says oil and water don’t mix? -Jack Nicholson, who just completed “The King of Marvin Gardens” for BBS Productions and Columbia, has been signed by Gerald Ayres to star in “The Last Detail,” also for Columbia. He will portray one of two veteran sailors who escort a young recruit from the Norfolk Naval Base to the Portsmouth Naval Prison. —Al Silvani, well-known fight manager-trainer, choreographed the fights in Ray Stark’s “Fat City.” Silvani, in the early forties, was Tami Mauriello’s co-manager with a young singer in Tommy Dorsey’s band - Frank Sinatra. Al later became Sinatra’s bodyguard and assistant director on many of his films. —Leo Jaffe, President of Columbia Pictures Industries, will be honored as “Pioneer of the Year” at the annual award dinner of the Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation on November 15 at the Americana Hotel in New York. Jaffe, one of the film industry’s most active figures in Philanthropie and community affairs, is the 30th industry leader to be honored in the 33-year history of the group. Walter Cronkite is serving as general chairman of the event. —Chester Lappen, member of the board of directors of Columbia Pictures Industries and senior partner in the law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, has been elected chairman of the Harvard Law School Alumni Association of Southern California. —James T. Johnson was appointed Controller - West Coast Operations for Columbia Pictures Industries. He is a graduate of St. Peters College in New Jersey and joined Columbia in New York in 1968. He and his family are now residing in Los Angeles. Johnson replaced John Young who left the Company several months ago. —Secretary Leah Bernstein is excited about going on her first location. Leah will accompany her boss, John Biowitz, Stanley Kramer’s Publicity director, to Stockton for filming of “Oklahoma Crude.” Ed Haie of the Columbia Publicity department will also accompany the group to Stockton as press coordinator. It is Ed’s first location also. -The West Coast premiere of “Young Winston” will open the Second Annual L.A. International Film Exposition on November 9 at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. The benefit premiere will be followed by a 35