Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker of ”L.A. Law” are pushing togetherness to new limits. They`re married in real life and having an affair every week on prime time. And home spills over to the job and vice versa. In the August issue of McCall`s, Eikenberry says that a recent love scene would have been easier with a stranger ”because then it would have been pretend. We see some big scene coming up that has an argument in it, and we tend to get a little argumentative at home.” Of an upcoming episode involving ”another man,” Tucker says, ”They haven`t even cast (him) yet, but I hate him already.”
If there`s one rule in Hollywood, it`s if you`re going to flop, flop big. At least that`s how Beverly D`Angelo sees it. ”If the president of a studio makes a movie with an unknown cast and an unproven director and the movie fails, the executive will be fired. But if he makes the same movie with a top box-office star and an Oscar-winning director and it doesn`t succeed, he won`t be fired, and no one will doubt his judgment. It will just get chalked up to experience, and he`ll keep making movies. It takes so much money to make a movie that people make business decisions, not artistic ones.”
There have never been many funny ladies around, and Joan Rivers explains why in ”Something Wonderful Right Away: An Oral History of the Second City and The Compass Players” (Limelight). It`s because ”most ladies don`t want to be funny. If you`re pretty, you don`t have to be funny. If you ever look at comediennes, they`re not the most lovely-looking ladies. . . You have to be not-too-attractive or a little peculiar to want to be funny. It`s not a naturally feminine thing.”
REPLAYS
”There, but for the grace of God, goes God.” Herman Mankiewicz
(On Orson Welles)
”People never sat at his feet. He went to where people were sitting and stood in front of them.” Herman Mankiewicz
(On Charlie Chaplin)
”That man is so bad he shouldn`t be left alone in a room with a typewriter.”
Herman Mankiewicz
(On a screenwriter)
