Another bat-pic epic on way

Press, 16 October 1989, Page 11

Another bat-pic epic on way

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Michael J. Fox’s exgirlfriend Nancy McKeon will play the lead in the new “Working Girl” television series which is being shot right now. The television series is a spinoff from the movie, which

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I’m not one to gossip, but ... as joker Jack Nicholson works on “Two Jakes,” the sequel to his hit movie “Chinatown,” a slew of Hollywood’s biggest names is being lined up to star in “Batman 2.” Warner Brothers execs haven’t announced their decision on who will star in the second bat-pic epic, but I hear the cast may include Madonna, Cher, Michael J. Fox, Danny Devito, Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro. Michael Keaton and Kim Basinger are considered shoe-ins as the caped crusader and his gal, Vicki Vale. “The first movie cost around $45 million to make,” a studio insider told me, “but that will seem like peanuts compared with the next one.”

How many women have fantasised about a love scene with Mel Gibson? Well, Patsy Kensit lived that dream in the movie "Lethal Weapon 2,” but

told me it really wasn’t that hot. “It’s the most" unnatural experience you’re ever going to find yourself in,” she said. “It’s totally unromantic, there are about 30 guys standing around on the set, it’s hot, and you’ve got to lie

a certain way for the cameras. It’s not at all what it seems on the screen. Also, I met my husband when I was just 16, and he’s the only man I’ve ever really known. It felt so peculiar to be in bed with someone other than my husband.” “Back to the Future,” parts two and three, are being filmed simultaneously and the problems caused by this have made the budget for Michael J. Fox’s movies soar by more than $3O million. Carrie Fisher and Paul Simon have built a bridge over troubled waters and are seeing each other again. They were divorced four years ago, but both say there will be no second-wedding bells.

In a recent interview Shirley MacLaine was asked about her brother.l Here’s what she said: “My brother Warren Beatty is a misunderstood male. Allhe wants is a woman he can turn to for love; com-

panionship and sympathy, preferably in three different hotels.” David Hasselhoff is emotionally crushed after learning that his beautiful ex-wife, former soap star Catherine Hickland is making marriage plans in Rome with an Italian movie director. David and Catherine were married in 1984 and divorced earlier this year.

Marlon Brando has been offered a movie role where he has to put weight on. He’ll play an overweight doctor in the movie “Nostromo” which is based on a Joseph Conrad novel. Usually they want Marlon to go on diet before they will even think of him for a movie ;role of any kind.

was very funny.

Tom Cruise went to hear Pope John Paul II in St Peter’s Square. Everything went well until some of his fans noticed Tom. After a few minutes he was escorted out of the square by six guards because he was causing too much disruption ... but my lips are sealed.