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Show December, 1979 ences between Simmons and Universal, supposedly... these differences may or may not affect Simmons' other projects there: Lemmings, Kicks, and Dacron Laurence Olivier has been cast as Neil Diamond's father in the remake of The Jazz Singer. Diamond, who's supposedly been writing songs for this magnum flick for 18 months, will stage a concert at the L.A. Forum this December, footage to be used as the grand finale in the movie. We can wait. The Village People, America's best joke on itself in years, are wondering how to bucks tumbling keep those in. "How many of us want to be up there wiggling for teenagers when we're 35?" ponders cowboy Randy Jones. "I don't want to be wearing a loincloth when I'm 40," adds Indian Felipe Rose. Now spending $15 million of EMI's money to make Can't Stop the Music, their entry into film, the Village People will be shown walking on water during one of the movies many production numbers. But not, one assumes, stepping out of the closet. mass-mark- Sr' . The National Lampoon USA. et The Chase Is On WWTW, THE PBS affiliate in Chicago, has picked up the 21 existing episodes of The Paper Chase; other PBS stations may also buy rerun rights, and, 'tis rumored, several such stations may put up real cash so that more episodes can be filmed. If you were one of the several thousand viewers who mourned CBS' cancellation of this J? x good show, write to your local PBS station; bribe them with money, they like that. (, The Charge Is Changed Actress Carrie Snodgress told a Los Angeles dourt during the preliminary hearings on Jack Nitzsche's rape by instrumentality charge that Nitzsche, musician, songwriter amour, had not raped rsand) (November Ampe- record producer, e and her one-tim- her with a gun barrel as she had previously claimed. Now she says he just put the barrel between her legs. Nitzsche still faces assault charges. Taking Powders Observers report that teen idol Leif Garrett, 17, dining out one recent evening in Hollywood, came back from a bathroom trip to find a companion had arranged lines of white powder on a plate before him. Garrett supposedly snorted it up. The tantalizing substance: Sweet 'N Low, the sugar substitute that comes in little pink envelopes. (Do you believe this? Wanna buy a gold watch?) On another evening, Garrett was approached at one of those swell Hollywood parties by a lissome lass who asked the cute kid if he had any cocaine. Garrett whipped out a packet of white powder powder, a loose s 1 lawn 3 II CM A I v a a uuuiv: :z 1111,1 cartridge that's correct for your system and your checkbook: this time, Beechams's non-aspir- in ported from Britain painkiller im- it and scattered it all over, Woody Allen style. The lissome lass went loco. openend V15 Type IV The perfectionist's pickup overcomes such problems as warp, static electricity, and dust. Ultra-flresponse. 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