Confessions of a FILM FOX
That cool English rose transplanted into dank Los Angeles soil, Rachel Ward, turns out to be a lady with some past. Her supposed movie debut, Sharky's Machine, t'ain't her debut at all—a sleazo 1980 sex 'n' thrills movie called Night School was her maiden voyage on celluloid.
Confessions of a FILM FOX
That cool English rose transplanted into dank Los Angeles soil,
Rachel Ward, turns out to be a lady with some past. Her supposed movie debut, Sharky's Machine, t'ain't her debut at all—a sleazo 1980 sex 'n' thrills movie called Night School was her maiden voyage on celluloid. Rachel's now playing the much-coveted lead role in the TV mini-series version of the smash book The Thorn Birds, in which she plays an Australian siren. As if all that weren't enough, 'tis rumored Burt Reynolds cast the bosomy ex-model (an oxymoron, that) in Sharky's Machine on the basis of, uh, personal acquaintance as well as professional.
A new Monty Python film is in the works, titled The Meaning Of Life and scripted by all six Pythoners: Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. At last, after the success of Life Of Brian, the wacky troupe's flicks are now sought out by studios instead of vice versa. Have to wait a bit for the release, though... we Yanks will get it on our home screens next summer.