John Cleese to play marriage counsellor

Press, 20 April 1987, Page 15

John Cleese to play marriage counsellor

“I’m not one to gossip but “Monty Python” veteran John Cleese will turn up on “Cheers.” He will play a wOrld-re-nowned marriage counsellor to whom Sam and Diane (Ted Dansonand Shelly Long) turn for advice.

Looks as though the Six Million Dollar Man, played by Lee Majors and the bionic woman Lindsay Wagner will be teaming up for a telly special. N.B.C. are hoping that this special will be so popular that it will be a pilot for a new series.

Vincent Minnelli who died last July at the age of 83, had two daughters — Liza Minnelli aged 41, and Christiana Minnelli Merio, aged 31, who was by his second wife. He bequeathed to Liza his Beverly Hills home and personal possessions. He left Christiana, who lives in Mexico, half a million, she is now contesting her father’s will on the grounds that he was recovering from a stroke, and was of unsound mind when the document was drawn up.

The Cabot Cove sheriff on “Murder She Wrote” played by Tom Bosley is moving on to his own series, called “The Father Dowling Mysteries.” He will play a Catholic priest. The studio have put a lot of money into the one-off and hope it will become a series.

Johnny Mathis looks set to star as the late Nat

King Cole in his life story. It will not be Johnny’s voice. You see, they want to use the voice of Nat singing all his smash hit songs of the 40s and 50s.

The hottest twosome in Hollywood these days is Diane Keaton and Al Pacino. Al has just asked Diane to move in with him. Al has just paid SUSS million for a penthouse apartment right in the centre_of New York City. Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt recently made a record together. They found that they were fans

of each other’s music and got on so well that how . they want to make a television special together. Actor Gig Young’s diary has been discovered by an author working on a biography, and it sheds astonishing light on the actor’s, violent death. Young shot himself after murdering his fifth wife back in 1978, but the jdiaries reveal that he believed he had put the worst of his alcoholism and depression behind him. Shortly before the killings, he wrote that he had finally emerged from years of despair, “sober, saddened and wiser.”

A grey worsted suit with a black velvet collar which once belonged to Beatle Paul McCartney went to the highest bidder at a Hollywood auction for $30,000. The suit cost about $135 a little over 20 years ago. Former “Dallas” star Charlene Tilton, 28, wants to return to the soapie, but to date the shows producers and director have not invited her back, not even for a guest spot. Charlene has been out of work since she left the series a few years back. She is a very nice lady — I met her a few years back, and yes, she is very, very tiny. Rocker Rod Stewart, 42, and model Kelly Emberg, 26, are expecting their first child in June. The two have lived together for the last two years, Stewart has an eight-year-old daughter by his ex-wife Alana Collins Hamilton, who divorced him three years ago after five years of marriage. She was once married to, Mr Smoothy, sun-tanned George Hamilton. Eva Gabor and sister Magda , look as though they might enter the fashion world with a range of high fashion evening gowns. Eva already runs the world’s largest wig company. I hear that Zsa Zsa has her nose out of joint as neither of her sisters asked her to join them in their fashion venture. But The Zsa Zsa really doesn’t speak to them because ... no I’d better not . . . my lips are sealed!