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Perhaps the most successful of Dino's last-minute improvisations was the casting of Jessica Lange in the old Fay Wray role. Streisand almost signed on, then backed away. Cher would have been acceptable, but was visibly pregnant when production started. Then began a search for an unknown, which followed another mythical pattern: the fashion model flown out from Manhattan for a test; a first meeting with an unimpressed producer; the discovery by the director that she had one of those faces the camera loves; the producer's quick reversal of opinion; a hasty contract signing...
...riding off on her own. The network is rushing ahead with a pilot for a new series featuring Kelly as Pinky. (Happy Days has already spawned one successful spinoff, Laverne and Shirley.) Kelly, a New York actress who played a hooker in Deathwish and Barbra Streisand's roommate in The Owl and the Pussycat, says she knew the Fonzie-in-love idea would pay off. "We were incredible together: a couple of firecrackers popping off in double time." Though delighted to be tackling a series on her own, Kelly will miss the Fonz. Says she with a sigh...
Manager Gordy is planning to cross racial lines with his nice guy by casting him opposite such actresses as Faye Dunaway and Barbra Streisand. Says Williams: "I would like to do a romantic film with a woman of another color, but it would have to be tastefully done...
...aging Helen Hayes, bedecked in gold satin, diamond jewelry and long white gloves, sits atop a throne set smack in the middle of Broadway. Mae West--well, Mae West is Mae West, and here she is shown staring, almost licking her lips, at some anonymous specimen of beefcake. Barbra Streisand once again arrogantly displays the-nose-I-wouldn't-get-fixed-but-I-became-a-star-anyway-so-there; Marilyn Monroe cuddles in a vulnerable curl; Josephine Baker gives her best come-hither look, clad only in yards and yards of pearls...
...loss of $1.6 million. But moviemaking costs have risen so rapidly that it is just about impossible to attain special-event quality without a huge budget. Special effects like those in The Poseidon Adventure or Earthquake are frightfully expensive to film. Such "bankable" stars as Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand can easily command $1 million a picture; top-name directors like Hal Ashby (Shampoo) can earn up to $500,000. Craft union wages are up 15% over last year. Even a middling movie can end up costing $6 million, which makes it a gamble: such a movie generally must gross...