Weekend, 30 August 1997

What's Labor Day all about? Theme-itis hits The Hot Button!

GOING INTO LABOR
Oliver Stone's novel, A Child's Night Dream, will hit bookshelves soon. Stone says that the story, about someone named Oliver Stone, is not autobiographical. Let's hope not. He writes about he and mom being "entwined like snakes of desire..." And of dad? "I hate you, I've hated you from the day I was born!... I'd like to kill you." Come on, Ollie, light that fire!

LABOR PROBLEMS
WGA West presidential candidate Lynn Roth on unfairness to screenwriters: "They wind up writing a first draft, second draft, studio draft, network draft, director draft, actor draft," she said. "Same pay, too many drafts." As usual, the most important draft is forgotten. The good one.

WORKING STIFFS

Vivid Video had its first-ever critics screening recently, promoting it's latest opus, the XXX rated, Bad Wives. Vivid deleted all the sex scenes in order to emphasize the storylines, plots and dialogue. They also went mainstream with their lavish Hollywood after-party, featuring whore d'oeuvres, music by Axel Hose and 25 cent actress rides.

THAT JERRY LEWIS WEEKEND
The spirit of Jerry lives in Hollywood. Someone is actually going to produce a movie called Flying Tigers vs. Flying Saucers, about the WWII Flying Tigers' attempts to shoot down a Nazi-recovered alien spacecraft carrying Adolf Hitler. No word on whether Jerry will make this a sequel to his infamous The Day The Clown Cried, about a clown in a concentration camp. Hey Naaaaazzziiiii!