When Warren Yells ‘Cut,’ There Will Be Three Echoes

The axiom that filmmaker/star Warren Beatty lives by is, if you want something done right, then do it yourself.

Beatty, who wrote, produced, directed and starred in the 1981 film “Reds,” will pull off the quadruple play again. The proposed project: an untitled film that, Beatty says, will deal with “problems in a politician’s life during the last weekend before a primary.”

Beatty thought up the movie’s concept three years ago. And, he says, “I didn’t originally want to direct this - it’s too much work.”

Ultimately, though, he changed his mind.

“Because I have a lot of misguided preconceptions about how to play politicians,” he says, “I thought I’d probably be less of a pain to everybody if I went ahead and did it myself.”

Loose talk

Said Rodman’s press agent: Dennis Rodman on his recent “wedding” (as reported by the Associated Press): “This is not drag. This is more than drag. It’s the ultimate visual oxymoron.”

Any day now he’ll be breaking away from the pack

Daniel Stern turns 39 today.

Reports of his retirement were highly exaggerated

Since 1994, when his night-time talk show for Fox folded, Arsenio Hall has been undercover. Now comes word that Hall has signed with ABC and DreamWorks Television to star in an as-yet-untitled sitcom that will premiere in 1997. Vivica Fox (“Independence Day”) will co-star.

Look for her on the cover of future Playboys

Speaking of making the switch from cult television to the more mainstream TV, MTV’s Jenny McCarthy (“Singled Out”) will star in an upcoming episode of NBC’s “Wings.”

And when you’re hot, your personality sizzles

Rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of The Fugees has his head screwed on straight. When asked how he handles being in demand, Pras said, “You just got to understand why you’re in demand. You can’t think it’s about you, because it’s not. It’s just because you’re hot.”

Turns out, the dopes actually owned the box

After earning $55,000 for selling a “dope box” that she and her late boyfriend Jimi Hendrix once used, Kathy Etchingham explained the item’s significance: “We called it the dope box. It would be used several times a night.” Hendrix died of a barbituate overdose in 1970.

No one was there to beam the boy up, Scotty

As host of the “Rescue 911,” William Shatner knows EMT procedures. Which is why he was surprised at what happened, after a horse-riding accident, as he was transported to a hospital. No one secured the gurney, which commenced to roll around the vehicle. “In every episode of ‘Rescue 911’ I’ve ever seen, there’s someone standing beside the gurney,” said the shocked 65-year-old actor.

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