One Blonde Or Another, ‘Melrose’ Sets To Go On
Move over, Heather Locklear. Loni Anderson is set to prowl “Melrose Place.”
The popular Fox Network night-time soap, whose plotlines bring new meaning to the term farfetched, experienced a needed boost in ratings a few years ago when Locklear joined the cast of young hardbodies.
She lends tension to the show by playing the ruthless Amanda Woodward.
But amid reports that Locklear is leaving, the Aaron Spelling production has been casting about for a suitable replacement. And first up, beginning April 1, will be Anderson.
Better known as the former co-star of “WKRP in Cincinnati” and ex-wife of Burt Reynolds, Anderson will play the mother of a beauty pageant winner who becomes involved with Peter Burns (Jack Wagner) and Michael Mancini (Thomas Calabro).
Loose talk
John Travolta on why he’s reluctant to dance in public (in Rolling Stone magazine): “At 200 pounds, you know, doing those knee dips is a little tough.”
And she’ll try to hold on for just one more day
Chynna Phillips turns 28 today.
Too upset to write, she wasn’t too uptight to type
Here’s a twist on the Joan Collins-Random House lawsuit. Seems Collins has been caught in a contradiction. While suing the supermarket tabloid The Globe, Collins claimed that she’d been too distraught to write. Yet just a few weeks later, she turned in a 690-page manuscript to Random House. The manuscript was turned down, and Random House sued for return of $1.3 million. Collins countersued, claiming she is owed the entire $4 million advance.
And then the more we kill, the more we can honor, right?
On the cover (again) of Vanity Fair, Sharon Stone shares her feelings about fur. “If you have them and these animals have died already,” she says, “shouldn’t you wear them in honor of the animal that died?”
Does this somehow relate to his flat-tax proposal?
According to the New Republic, Steve Forbes is a finicky eater. Following the presidential candidate during his New Hampshire campaign, Michael Lewis writes that Forbes eats one item at a time, finishing all his rice before he starts on the chicken, and finishing every bit of chicken before he starts on the beans.
‘Lear’ has a new subtitle: ‘All In the Family’
Visiting New York soon? You should know that director Adrian Hall has devised an unusual adaptation of “King Lear” for the New York Shakespeare Festival. In Hall’s version, “Lear had incestuous relations with both older daughters.” New York Observer critic John Heilpern calls it “an exercise of… dumbfounding, unsurpassed inadequacy.”
This, surely, is the ultimate in Stupid Human Tricks
As for the HBO movie “Late Shift,” which details the late-night TV struggle between David Letterman and Jay Leno, CBS star Letterman calls it “the single biggest waste of film since my wedding photos.”
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