CRYSTAL ADDING CLEESE PROJECT TO HIS PLATE.Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith It's all supposed to be hush hush, but ... while Billy Crystal is helping launch Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) .' ``Fathers' Day,'' he's working with John Cleese “Cleese” redirects here. For the actress and daughter of John Cleese, see Cynthia Cleese. John Marwood Cleese (IPA: /ˈkliːz/ on a big-screen project on which they hope to team next spring. A first draft of the comedy set in the art world already has been completed, and Crystal and Cleese are providing input to the rewrite. Crystal never has been more productive. He's writing and will produce the ``Analyze This'' comedy he expects to start this fall with Robert De Niro Noun 1. Robert De Niro - United States film actor who frequently plays tough characters (born 1943) De Niro . And shortly after the May 9 opening of ``Fathers' Day,'' he'll leave for Prague for preproduction pre·pro·duc·tion adj. 1. Taking place or existing before production: preproduction planning. 2. of ``My Giant,'' a film he wrote and is producing about a low-level agent whose life is saved by an 8-foot man he tries to exploit. Billy tells us, ``I've never done movies back-to-back like this before. I'm enjoying it. I finished `Fathers' Day' in September. In October and November I was making Woody Allen's ``Deconstructing Harry.'' This year there was the preparation for the Oscars, and I've been working on `Analyze This' and `My Giant' ever since.'' What was the biggest challenge of co-starring with Robin Williams in ``Fathers' Day,'' in which they play men who had affairs with the same woman 17 years earlier, and are suddenly informed that each is the father of her son? ``Just holding my own. I felt like George Burns Noun 1. George Burns - United States comedian and film actor (1896-1996) Burns, Nathan Birnbaum to Gracie Allen Noun 1. Gracie Allen - United States comedienne remembered as the confused but imperturbable partner of her husband, George Burns (1906-1964) Allen, Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen, Gracie . I decided my approach should be to act like the parent of Robin's character, very paternal. And it really worked. It's a very funny movie.'' Come blow your horn Come Blow Your Horn was Neil Simon's first play, premiered in the US in 1961. The play follows Alan and Buddy Baker, brothers who have decided to leave home and experience the good life. Eric Roberts and Andrei Konchalovsky Andrey Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (Russian: Андре́й Серге́евич , director of the 1986 Roberts-Jon Voight hit, ``Runaway Train,'' are talking about ``doing another project together.'' Eric is all for it - which is kind of surprising, once you know what Konchalovsky put Roberts through for his role in NBC's May 18-19 ``The Odyssey'' miniseries. He thought he was going to have the entire month of December for leisure and was, he says, ``busy not working out, not shaving, and getting fat.'' Then he got a call from Konchalovsky, who wanted him to jet to England immediately to join the miniseries cast as the would-be seducer of Greta Scacchi in the epic. ``As soon as I got on the set, Andrei said, `Eric, take off your shirt. You have a beautiful body.' And I said, `No. Not this month.''' He began killer workouts to make up for his slothful sloth·ful adj. Disinclined to work or exertion; lazy. See Synonyms at lazy. sloth  ful·ly adv. period. ``Andrei had me do all the nonbody stuff first. ... And
after all that, I'm on screen for all of five or so
minutes.'' Roberts doesn't sound annoyed. ``Konchalavsky
runs a set like a conductor runs an orchestra, and he called me because
he wanted my type of horn. I blew my horn for five or six minutes of
screen time, and that was it.''
The inside track Babyface is producing a couple of tracks on the new Rolling Stones album, on which Don Was is primary producer. No name for the disc yet, and don't be surprised if some bogus ones get out before the real thing comes along. Mick Jagger loves to fool people with phony album names. The videoland view ``Baywatch'' fans will be interested in this: Erika Eleniak, who played Shauni McClain on the show during its first two seasons, is poised to dive back in. Expect to see the actress return to regular ``Baywatch'' duty in the new season. Jay Thomas could be back on the sitcom scene this fall, if his prospective ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. ``Dogs'' series lives up to expectations. The Avnet/Kerner show will focus on the members of a softball team, giving us the lowdown low·down n. Slang The whole truth: gave us the lowdown on what happened at the party. lowdown low (inf) n he gave me the lowdown on it → about their relationships with women from the male point of view. M. Emmett Walsh is set to coach. Something different Actor Craig Sheffer couldn't have found a more wildly divergent project for his follow-up to ``Bliss'' - the just-wrapped Melanie Griffith film ``Reasonable Doubt.'' ``I play a schizophrenic psycho murderer rapist,'' he says. ``After you spend 12 hours a day playing one of those characters, they filter into your life. I'm not a method actor, but still, they get all over you. I'm much happier playing a really nice guy who is effervescent ef·fer·vesce intr.v. ef·fer·vesced, ef·fer·vesc·ing, ef·fer·vesc·es 1. To emit small bubbles of gas, as a carbonated or fermenting liquid. 2. To escape from a liquid as bubbles; bubble up. 3. , full of life and really positive, more like me.'' And that's just what he's started playing, he says, in the currently shooting film ``Family Bloom'' with Penelope Ann Miller. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1) Billy Crystal ``Fathers' Day'' and more (2) Eric Roberts Big sweat, little screen time (3) Babyface New Rolling Stones album |
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