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Rip It Up, Issue 147, 1 October 1989, Page 38

MOVIE NIBBLES . ® The movie box-office revenues exceeded $2 billion inthe USA this summer due to the success of Batman, Ghostbusters 2and Indiana Jones. But there are more hitsin the pipeline —the nextbig three movies are likely to be The \ Life and Loves of a She-Devil {Meryl Streep and Roseanne Barr), Back fo the Future, Part 2 (Christopher Lioyd, Michael | Fox} and Born on the Fourth of July (Tom Cruise). ‘ o Franco Zeffirelli who made Romeo & Julietin 1968, will film Hamletin Scotland - nextyear with Mel Gibson as Hamlet. _ Gibson will have to give up smoking as “the partrequires alot oflung power.” ® Two movies set in the 1940 s are using London as abackdrop. Kiefer Sutherland and Emily Lloydare filming Chicago Joe and the Showgirl while Matthew Modine, v D.B.Sweeney and Eric Stoltz are World War 2 airmen in Memphis Belle. . ® The offbeat actor Crispin Glover who played the speed freak in River’s - Edge, refused the big bucks offered to repriese his role in the Back fo the Future

sequels, will release an LP thatincludes his remake of Nancy Sinatra classic These Boots Are Made for Walking'. o New Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin pic Sea OfLove has Tom Waits singing the title track, but you have to waitforthe final credits. o Ellen Barkin also appears with Mickey Rourke in new Walter Hill movie Johnny Handsome. Ry Cooder didthe soundirack. _ - e George Lucas maytake a Star Wars musicalto Broadway, ® Formersinger with Duran Duran . off-shoot, the Power Station, Michael Des Barres co-stars with Clint Eastwood in Pink Cadillac. . @ In Hardboiled Kathleen Turner will doa “reverse Tootsie”, that means dress as amale detective. : e Joey Ramone plays himselfin Canadian movie Roadkill Alsointhe movieis Nash the Slash.