`MCHALE'S NAVY' HITS A SQUALL.Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith Shooting of Tom Arnold's big-screen ``McHale's Navy'' comedy ``was anything but funny. ``People were dropping like flies ... everyone was ill,'' reports Debra Messing, who co-stars with Arnold in the movie. ``It was about a hundred degrees with 98 percent humidity,'' says Debra, co-star of Fox's ``Ned and Stacey'' sitcom, of the location in Barra de Navidad Barra de Navidad is a small town located on the western coast-line of the Mexican state of Jalisco. The town of Barra de Navidad (Christmas Sandbar) with a population of 7000+ is a small farming and fishing community located on the east end of the Bahía de Navidad, 60 km , Mexico. ``We were on swamps that had typhoid typhoid or typhoid fever Acute infectious disease resembling typhus (and distinguished from it only in the 19th century). Salmonella typhi, usually ingested in food or water, multiplies in the intestinal wall and then enters the bloodstream, causing and hepatitis A Hepatitis A Definition Hepatitis A is an inflammation of the liver caused by a virus, the hepatitis A virus (HAV). It varies in severity, running an acute course, generally starting within two to six weeks after contact with the virus, and lasting no in the water. One of the prop men had his ear submerged in the water for about a minute and went into shock. He was ill for four days with a 104-degree temperature. I got a middle-ear infection just from showering.'' Messing says it was Arnold, as ``McHale's'' star, who fared best. ``He had a private jet to take him back to the U.S. practically every week.'' However, she adds, when the troupe's spirits were really down, Arnold came through. ``One day, morale was so low Tom called a restaurant in Puerto Vallarta Puerto Vallarta (pwār`tō väyär`tä), city (1990 pop. 93,503), Jalisco state, W Mexico. Located on the expansive Bahía de Banderas [Bay of Flags], Puerto Vallarta has been used since the 16th cent. - 3-1/2 hours away - and ordered delivery of a hundred pizzas. The guy showed up just as we were wrapping for the day, and we had congealed con·geal v. con·gealed, con·geal·ing, con·geals v.intr. 1. To solidify by or as if by freezing: "My aim . . . was to take the Hill by storm before . . . pizza for dinner - and we couldn't have been happier. He was the hero of the day.'' When it pours: Hot composer Elliot Goldenthal Elliot Goldenthal (born May 2 1954 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an acclaimed American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a student of Aaron Copland and John Corigliano, and is best known for his ability to blend various musical styles and techniques in original and , who did the score for Joel Schumacher's upcoming ``A Time to Kill'' film and the 1995 ``Batman Forever,'' reports Schumacher has asked him to work his magic on ``Batman and Robin.'' But first he's got to clear his plate of several other projects. The man whose score for Neil Jordan's ``Interview With the Vampire'' won him a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination, is just finishing scoring Jordan's ``Michael Collins'' with Liam Neeson. And: ``Between films I've been working on a very important project - a trumpet concerto for Wynton Marsalis Wynton Learson Marsalis (b. October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter and composer. He is among the most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era and is also a well-known instrumentalist in classical music. He is also the Musical Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. ; and I've been commissioned to write a full-length ballet of `Othello' for the American Ballet American Ballet was the first professional ballet company George Balanchine created in the United States. The company was founded with the help of Lincoln Kirstein, and was populated by students of Kirstein and Balanchine's School of American Ballet. Theater.'' He's also mounting two plays: ``The Green Bird,'' which opens at the La Jolla Playhouse  La Jolla Playhouse is a not-for-profit, professional theatre-in-residence on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. near San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. on July 28; and his Obie-Award winning play, ``Juan Darien - A Carnival Mass,'' which will open the season at Lincoln Center Lincoln CenterNew York’s modern theater complex. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1586] See : Theater on Oct. 31. ``It's a lot of stuff to do in a short amount of time,'' notes Goldenthal. ``Sometimes I get apprehensive I'll wake up one morning and not have an idea left in my brain.'' Foreign affairs foreign affairs pl.n. Affairs concerning international relations and national interests in foreign countries. : Sharon Gless is coming home - after seven months in London co-starring with Tom Conti in Neil Simon's ``Chapter Two.'' She might not remain on our shores long. Her husband, producer Barney Rosenzweig, reports that there's a play she and her old ``Cagney & Lacey'' partner, Tyne Daly, are being paged to do this fall in London. Sharon's also waiting to see a final script on a movie that will shoot in England. A miniseries is also being developed for her over there, where, she says, ``The Brits have always liked `Cagney & Lacey' more than the Americans did.'' Rosenzweig - who has been completing his and Gless' move from Malibu to Florida's Fisher Island - reports that Sharon and Tyne had been asked to co-star in ``The Odd Couple'' in London this summer. They turned the offer down - and Jack Klugman and Tony Randall are there doing the play now. If the story sounds familiar: Hot on the heels of disgraced journalist Janet Cooke's $1.5 million TriStar deal - for film rights to the saga of her rise and fall on a bogus newspaper series that won the Pulitzer Prize - comes a novel featuring a newspaper reporter whose career has been destroyed because of a Pulitzer Prize scandal. Doubleday's new ``Simple Justice'' mystery by John Morgan Wilson has a lead character who's destroyed his career by writing an AIDS-themed newspaper series that wins a Pulitzer, then turns out to be fraudulent. ``When I created the character of Benjamin Justice, Janet Cooke was definitely on my mind,'' Wilson acknowledges. However, he adds, ``Doubleday bought the book more than a year ago ... so the timing is purely coincidental.'' Boo, who?: Dee Wallace Stone avoids getting too particular in describing the movie magic behind a scene in her new ``The Frighteners,'' in which she appears to be beaten up by people we don't see. ``Let's just say it was the greatest test of concentration I've ever had as an actor,'' said Dee, speaking of the Robert Zemeckis production in which she co-stars with Michael J. Fox. MEMO: The Celebrities column appears Monday through Friday. |
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