CONFESSIONS OF A FILM FOX

CONFESSIONS OF A FILM FOX

What's big, hairy, Polish, and sits atop the World Trade Center while holding a damsel in distress in his paws? King Kowalski. Dino DeLaurentlis's remake of the frolicking hijinks of our fave hairy ape, King Kong, is due for release in January 1977. The first choice for El Ka Bong's dreem date was Deborah "Once Is Not Enough ''Raffin — but she backed out claiming she has acute acrophobia and doesn't relish the thought of a free ride up the side of the world's tallest building, so now they're after Sally Fields, because of her previous experience as the Flying Nun. Other casting problems are plagueing the production. Dino has been charged, according to ENS, with using racist casting procedures with black actors who were trying out for the role. One actor complained that "a prerequisite for casting was an ape-like demeanor -with overly long arms." And still no one is quite sure what they were trying out for — something in conjunction with a 35-foot mechanical gorilla. Huh? Gladys Knight is taking some time off from the wonderful world of wax, to make a movie called Pipe Dreams. No not Pip Dreams, P-I-P-E. The story has something to do with Gladys playing the wife of a pilot who can't find work in the continental USA, so he goes to find some aerial bucks in the Alaskan bush, and she reluctantly follows. You know kind of the black version of Mrs. Mike. More lip on pszt: Roger darling recently upset his neighbors by erecting in his.front yard the 14-foot high phallic structure used as a prop in Ken Russell's over-extravaganza, Listzomania. The neighbors complained to the local law, and when they came to investigate the complaint the next morning, they not only didn't find a contrite and concerned citizen but were confronted by another of Daltrey's objets d'art — a second obscene structure to accompany the first. When they asked Roger to explain, he said he meant no offense — they were merely oversized bookends