Show 'Don't Tell Mom rbtT T7 million — “Soapdish" i7 132 million "Thelma & Louise — S25 million I "Only the Lonely SI 3 million “Home Alone ft of a gray area like there is today I also love the whole morality aspect and the work ethic of it the Americana kind of thing that’s really where all of us came from I don't think the lime could be any better because westerns are back on sort of an upswing now thanks to ‘Lonesome Dove' and ‘Dances With Wolves I've truly always felt that the audience for westerns is still out there but from what I hear from the people in Los for ‘Conagher Angeles who make all the decisions as to what gets done there is no longer a w'estem audience out there I think that’s absolute bull” Elliott believes his opinion was running show and if they’d left it the way the pilot episode was would have had lhaL Instead turned it into a soap opera sought for series work Elliott they they Sull con- cedes that such offers aren’t “as constant as they used to be but when you keep turning them down they finally get the message after a while that you’re not interested Still it comes up every season somewhere but our daughter is going to be seven years old in the don’t want to get consumed by thing with a television series because it totally lalL that I 12-t- o- justified last summer by NBC's decision to repeat “The Yellow takes you away from having any kind of a family life" Elliott says when Ross was doing the ” “Dynasty” spinoff show “The they did with it originally They had a real opportunity to have a long- - enough for Katharine to take along to work so (Ross) would go on the set shoot a scene and then be with her again Vhen a baby is that age you can do that but it becomes a ln- - Rose which also starred Cybill Shepherd and David Soul though he concedes that “The unfortunate thing about (that series) was what June 29 July 61991 -- Col-bys- their child “was young 109 miUlnn tie more difficult at age six or seven” Action movies including “Road House” “Shakedown” and "Fatal Beauty” confirm that Elliott’s efforts in recent years have been aimed more frequently toward the big screen He reports that with such vehicles “The ones that are lots of fun to watcB usually are the ones that were lots of fun to make too I like that physical stuff” Many such parts have cast Elliott as the adviser to a younger hero and he muses “I think that’s what happens when you get prematurely gray hair I’ve played the supporting role to younger guys more often than not lately it seems and I’ve just finished another one in Texas (in ‘Rush’ about undercover narcotics officers) What can I say? I’m real interested in getting a shot at one of those romantic leading parts but it hasn’t come my way yet” 25 |