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- GRAPEVINE, Page 19IN THE PIPELINE
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Georgia Harbison
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- In a town with few rules, producers can let their
- imaginations -- and development budgets -- run wild. A few of
- the stranger projects that are kicking around Hollywood:
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- THE HEAD (20th Century Fox) A bizarre comedy about a
- wisecracking, bodyless scientist and his eccentric brother and
- how they foil a plot to steal their secret hair-growth formula.
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- LITTLE ODESSA (Hollywood Pictures) A thriller where
- Madonna winds up in the Soviet Union and gets into trouble with
- the KGB. Calling Dick Tracy . . .
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- CHARLIE FINLEY -- M.C. HAMMER PROJECT (Imagine) The
- true-life story of the colorful owner of the Oakland A's, who
- hired the future rapmaster as the team's "executive assistant"
- at the age of 11.
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- MY LIFE AS A WHALE (Interscope) A New York City literary
- agent who's been dumped by his girlfriend finds himself chased
- by marriage-hungry women.
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- VOODOO (Disney) An innocent middle-class family returns
- from vacation in Jamaica with a voodoo witch doctor who turns
- New York upside down with his bag of tricks.
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- OCEAN (Columbia) A somewhat autobiographical look at Jack
- Nicholson's days as a lifeguard in the late 1950s, to be
- produced by Penny Marshall. But how will Jack fit into those
- swim trunks?
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