Role weariness and tension

Press, 29 December 1986, Page 15

Role weariness and tension

David Hartnells

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I’m not one to gossip but... Beverly Hills officials have said a big "no” to Frank Sinatra’splans to build a rather large helicopter pad at his estate. Sinatra said that if they wouldn’t let him build it, he’d move, so he has put his house on the market for $3 million. Barbara Streisand is penning her life story; she was given an advance from her publisher somewhere around $5 million and that’s not counting $2 per copy she gets on every copy sold. Bob Hope is to star in a movie he originally planned to do with the late Bing Crosby, and George Burns will fill in for Cosby. The movie will be called' “The Road To The Fountain Of Youth.” It will also feature Dorothy Lamour.

Jamie Lee Curtis and her husband can’t have children, so they are just about to adopt their first child. They both want to have a large adopted family. Sexy Kate O’Mara who plays the scheming Caress Morrell on "Dynasty” says that she’ll probably call it quits after this next series. O’Mara, aged 46, misses England and the live theatre, although she is the first to admit that she could never make the money she does in America with the world’s number one soapie. I hear that Tom Selleck is tipped to play the handsome gambler, Sky Masterson, in the latest movie version of “Guys and Dolls.” Selleck is sick of his series, “Magnum P. 1.”... and wants a change.

Don Johnson is creating more tension on the “Miami Vice” set; he’s

really pouting because producers won’t give him time off to do a miniconcert tour next month. So as soon as the show stops for the New Year break, Johnson is planning a major American tour nationwide. My bet is that he’s going to start singing on the show — anything to make a few extra million by promoting his latest L.P.

The beautiful Kathleen Turner is paying a voice coach $2OO an hour to help her get a real southern drawl. She is going to play a Texan in her next movie and she wants to sound just right. Fans of Bill Hayes will be pleased to know he has returned to the soapie, “Days of Our Lives.” Bill and his real-life wife Susan Seaforth Hayes,

left the show in April 1984. Hayes has stayed with “The Young And The Restless.” She told me she’ll stay with the soapie for a few years. By the way did you know Gloria Loring (Liz on “Days Of Our Lives”) sings the theme song for the hit show, “Facts Of Life.” Gloria and her exhusband, Alan Thicke, rewrote the song; talk about keeping it all in the family.

Linda Gray, aged 45, (Sue Ellen on “Dallas”) will not talk to the press about her divorce from her art director-husband, Ed Thresher, they were married for 22 years. However, it’s obvious that the pressures of ‘“Dallas” played a very large part. I’m not surprised with the pressure on that show'-— they can start shooting at 4 a.m. and finish just as the sun goes down five on six days a week. Gray’s latest lover is 11 years her junior — Paul Costanzo, a trumpet player from New York.

Joan Collins’ mini television series, “Monte Carlo,” has been a bit of a flop. I hear that Collins has lost a lot of money through it. Can you believe that Collins sings in the series, “The Last Time I Saw Paris,” and plays another boring, albeit glamorous role as a Russian princess who tries to prevent a world war. She even wrote in a part for her husband, Peter Holm, or I should say, her ex-hus-band, which makes number four, but then who’s counting.

From what I hear Joan Collins has been seeing a lot, and I mean a lot of George Hamilton... but my lips are sealed. .