Psychics claim they are on to Rock Hudson

Press, 16 December 1985, Page 11

Psychics claim they are on to Rock Hudson

I’m not one to gossip but ... Fve just arrived in “Hollywood” — in fact as I write this column to you I have been here only three hours and 45 minutes, and already Fm caught up in the scene. Before I start in on the latest gossip I must tell you something really funny that happened on my way here. The very well dressed middle-aged woman sitting next to me asked our Air New Zealand hostess (or should that be “host person” in this day and age?) if she had a “Playgirl” magazine on board (that’s the female version with male nudes). The hostess very politely said, no, they did not cany that magazine on board. When we stopped over in Hawaii for a couple of hours this very well dressed middle-aged lady bought herself a copy, and I'm here to tell you that magazine got very well read by all the women around before we got to Los Angeles. On leaving the aircraft I saw the woman give our hostess the well thumbed copy discreetly tucked inside a “Woman’s Weekly.” The so-called Hollywood psychics are having a great time at the expense of the late Rock Hudson. They are saying Rock has spoken to them from the other side, saying he is happily with his beloved mother and is working on a cure for

A.I.D.S. which he will send to the world shortly. Then this morning in a leading L.A. paper there, was this statement from Rock: “Here on the other side I have met up with many of my movie friends, Marilyn Monroe sends her best wishes and says she will return again.” I think it’s a pity they can’t leave them all be — as it were — on the other side, don’t you?

Since the death of Orson Welles they are now putting the movie “Citizen Kane,” which he made back in 1940, into the “Hollywood Museum” on permanent display. The movie will play three times a day. I am told by a close friend of the late star that he could not live with the way Hollywood rejected his talent. He was a compulsive eater, saying that food made him forget his troubles. He died, weighing 400 pounds, at the age of 70. Two days before his; death he said on a television talk show that the line Marlene Dietrich said to him in the 1958 movie “Touch of Eyil” had haunted him over the past 25 years; the prophetic line was: “Your, future is all used up.” Victoria Principal is battling very agonising back pains that are so intense that they are forcing her to miss filming days on the set of “Dallas,” something that has never happened since she joined the cast some seven years ago. She is really worried that these spells away from the set may cost her her role in the soapie. Right now she and the show’s producers are very worried about her health. She is terrified that if she needs surgery, she’ll be off the show for months and could be written out altogether.

Joan Collins and her lat-

est husband, Peter Holm, have just bought a ?12 million home tucked away in the Hollywood Hills. Joan says it’s the nicest home she has ever had — I would hope so for that money! Beautiful Priscilla Presley is in town promoting her book, but if you want her to sign your copy you have to slide it under the bulletproof window that she is sitting behind. She will not sign any books personally to

you: all she will do is sign r ‘P. Presley.” The bulletproof window is because she is terrified someone will take a pop shot at her. You see, she does say a few things about Elvis that his fans never wanted to hear. Well tomorrow I am going to have lunch with J.R. himself, Larry Hagman, so will tell you all next week ... but my lips are sealed!