It’s Kind Of Like Camping, But With A Bigger Budget
You wanna make movies? Grow a beard.
GQ magazine rattles off the ranks of fuzzyfaced film directors: Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Rob Reiner, Stanley Kubrick, Brian De Palma, Lawrence Kasdan, Robert Altman, James Brooks, Alan Pakula and Norman Jewison.
Marshall Blonsky, an expert on American customs, says beards hide facial expressions: “It’s a way - I’m hazarding this - of truly being a director, which is to say, the God of the set. A formula for God is, you never know what he is thinking.”
Offers hirsute filmmaker Edward Zwick (“Glory”): “I think film people are a hardy group. In another age, they would have gone to sea in ships. I know I live to make movies, but sometimes I think I make movies so I can buy Gore-Tex outerwear.”
Loose talk
Entertainment Weekly’s Jim Mullen, on the biggest problem with the new Marilyn Monroe stamp: “Men keep licking the wrong side.”
At her age, birthdays really are for the birds
Tippi Hedren turns 60 today.
Guess you could call it ‘American Sex Maniacs’
Clean-shaven Oliver Stone is considering a biography of “Hustler” porn publisher Larry Flynt as his next project, reports Inside Media magazine. The likely leading man: Bill Murray.
Oh, it doesn’t sound like that hard of a part
Actor Kevin Bacon had a bit of difficulty getting into character for “Murder in the First,” in which he plays an impotent man. On “Entertainment Tonight,” he explained: “It was one of the hardest parts I’ve ever had to play, a guy who’s unable to rise to the occasion. It was so completely unlike anything relating to my life.”
In pre-pubescence, he’s pondering pre-nups
Eight-year-old C.J. Matusovich got to work with screen legend Paul Newman in “Nobody’s Fool,” but he was more taken with co-star Melanie Griffith. “She was a babe,” C.J. said, adding: “I heard that women are expensive. You have to buy them a diamond ring or whatever and then you have to pay them alimony checks.”
Things got sunnier when Don started drying out
Griffith tells TV Guide that things are all lovey-dovey again between her and hubby Don Johnson following his treatment for alcoholism. “I’m happy. He’s happy. We’re happy,” she said. “It’s been a rough year, but I think the storm has passed.”
Suppose he’ll slip her a few bucks on the sly?
Sylvester Stallone’s mother, Jackie, has filed for bankruptcy declaring debts of $400,000 and assets of just $13,480. “I would never ask my son for any financial help even though he keeps offering me,” said Mama Stallone, 70.”I’m a big girl and I can take care of myself.”
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