Jay Leno, the king of the comedy clubs, will not be giving up the smoke-filled rooms and the hecklers for the easy money of Hollywood. At least not yet. ”My instincts are greater for stand-up than they are for film,” he says in Comedy USA magazine. ”When I perform live in front of an audience, I think of a joke in the middle of the afternoon, I try it out that night, and if it works, I know right away. Movies are fun after you do them. When the movie comes out and you`re watching TV with your friends and they say, `Hey, I saw your movie last night,` that part is a lot of fun.”
Calling all publicists. Here`s a ready-made publicity stunt just waiting for someone to stage. Why not a remake of the ”The Alfred Hitchock Hour”
episode that featured Jayne Mansfield appearing in a ”dream” by an alcoholic Tony Randall but this time with Randall paired with Mansfield`s daughter, Mariska Hargitay? Hargitay, who costars on the new CBS-TV series ”Downtown,” says that the Hitchcock episode is her favorite of all her mother`s TV and movie appearances. ”She was so good in it,” says Hargitay. She had her hair cut short, just like the way I wear mine, and we really look very much alike. People say we have the same nose, mouth and eyes.”
Bette Davis had no trouble saying ”I do”; in fact, she said it four times. But those were the words she most regretted. In ”Bette Davis,” by Alexander Walker (Little, Brown), she says: ”If I had to do it all over again, the only thing I`d change is that I would never get married. My biggest problem all my life was men. I was a good wife. But I don`t know any other lady in my category who (held on to) a husband either, unless she married for money or married a secretary-manager type where there was no competition. That`s a price I`ve paid for success, and I`ve had a lot of it.”
REPLAYS
”Let every eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.”
William Shakespeare.
”The relation of the agent to the publisher is the same as that of the knife to the throat.”
Anonymous.
”Get black on white.”
Guy de Maupassant.
