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Show t rf- .1 il j rv ) ff 1 II sr. ? i Extra!! Rock Magnates Pimple-Fre- e Resourceful John Liebrand of the Idling By jjf'- Oklahoma University Oklahoma Daily probed catering service employee Karrie Williams for the inside stuff following a recent Kiss performance in Norman, Ok- - lahoma. "I've never seen so many cosmetics in my life," said Williams. "Stridex pads Monty Python's Eric Idle was in Los Angeles recently on businessholiday, during which time he told Ampersand there would not be an American Python TV series. "Who would do it?" he asked. PBS? we ventured. "They don't have any money," he scoffed. There will be a fresh new Python record on Arista to fulfill the group's obligations to that label. "We're doing a farewell to Clive Davis album, give him a little boost before he goes off and becomes an insurance salesman again." The next Python film is still in discussion stage and won't appear on screen until, gasp, 1982: "We'll write the script all of next year, that's what takes a long time, to get the stuff funny." Idle confirmed there would always be Python individual projects, "always stuff to be done. Working in a group you can't satisfy all the things you want to do. The balance is the most important thing. Individual Writing a book? "No." Idle did reveal the source of my favorite Python routine, Four Yorkshiremen (on the Live at Drury Lane album): "Graham Chapman and John Cleese wrote it, but it may have all-tim- e been ChapmanCIeeseMarty Feldman," he said. The bit was created 12 or 13 years ago for a British TV the south of France with their 654-year-o- ld son, had a nice surprise in Los Angeles: Weekly Variety listed Life of Brian as that week's biggest moneymaking film. It earned an even tougher acclaim a short time later, when a member of the censor board in Provo, Utah notoriously tough flicks asked the local on district attorney to ban Brian. But when the D.A. saw the film, "he ed laughed throughout," according to one observer, and that was that. freedom, liberty, peace and prosperity for all." No more Rutles TV shows? pre-sweeten- 12-in- ch $3.75. Plants in the Key of Rain ed ." A Hardened Lot, L. A.'s music journalists needed every ounce of their cynicism for a liams. Said groupies "were really stylish," recent party previewing Stevie Wonder's Calshe told Liebrand. "Lots of make-uJourney Through the Secret Life of Plants, Stevland Morris' first release since the vin Klein jeans, clear plastic raincoats and Songs in the Key of Life. Bussed pasties." badges would seem more Xmas-of-'7- 6 from Sunset and Vine headquarters of the appropriate for Norman, Oklahoma, but times change. Also entrusted with carting Motown to a ranch on Malibu Canyon the groups civvies to an Oklahoma City Road, the press corps was led to a clearing hotel, Williams reports, "They had really dotted with four tents, one for each side nice clothes. Fashionable stuff, right out of of the album, and a profuse spread of. . . Gentleman's Quarterly. A lot of tweeds." fruit juice, cheese and potted plants. The evening's highlight, according to one grizzled vet, was watching an unsuperDon t Crush That Dwarf, vised kid mangle the leaves of a large rhododendron. Record p, show called At Last It's the 1948 Show. Idle and his wife Tanya, who live in R-rat- has no complexion when even you look at them problems, like close up. They Chinese food and they have a real passion for Kool-AidCorollary to their cherry Kool-Ai- d Kiss held court for a bevy choice, of groupies, according to WilKiss everywhere. humor was de rigorous with head phones and dope in the early to middle Seventies. Probably encouraged by the success of similar projects like Tunnelvision and Kentucky Fried Movie, Firesign plans a movie, The Madhouse of Dr. Fear, with Don Adams of Get Smart fame and Firesign Theatre satirical elecCampaign 80, three-minut- e bits The new over radio. tion year to go out Nick Danger, a EP, can be bought in stores or from plucky little Rhino Records, 11609 W. Pico, Los Angeles 90064 for Judith Sims 4-- H Buy My After three years off the record, Firesign Theatre namely Phillip Proctor, Peter Bergman, David Ossman and Phillip Austin is back on wax with The Firesign Theatre's Nick Danger in the Case of the Missing Shoe. "We want a high profile again," say the boys, whose surrealistic Vinyl Cheesecake Huge advance orders answered the an- nouncement in England that Britt Ekland, famous for her affair with Rod Stewart, is releasing a nude picture disc of her upcoming single "Do It to Me." Though a publicist insists the shot will be "tastefully revealing, not porno," it's not yet known how they'll solve the perennial picture disc problem where to locate the hole. Reel Life Not AGAIN: There will be a Rocky III. Francis Ford Coppola, who kept telling us he used his last dime to finance Apocalypse Now, still had r7CL all & "r e ' l 1 enough green- backs to buy Producers Studio in Hollywood, which he will renovate for his film projects and where he hopes to establish a film school for high school students (not unlike Interlaken in Michigan). Martin Sheen was down in Austin, Texas recently talking to Roy Orbison about portraying the rock & roll legend in a proposed biopic. Meanwhile, Orbison, who moaned his way to the top of the Fifties charts with "Only the Lonely," Pretty Woman," "Evergreen," and many more, plays himself in Roadie Cooper and Blondie. along with Alice Harold and Maude 3 Kiss: Kool-Ai- d, t Tweeds 6f Stridex r ! go to Broadway. .. the cult film is now a play, to star Janet Gaynor (Esther Blodgett in the original A Star Is Born) as Maude; Harold has not yet been cast. Matty Simmons, co-produ- of Animal admitted recently that his scheduled Jaws 2People 0, a parody of Univer-saY- s Jaws, will not be made. Creative differ-- House, |