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The bad news is we want it Russell recalls. "We're going to be finishing the opticals (effects) right up to the Unlike "I Love Trouble" and "The Mask," "Wagons East" is better off shown to audiences well before its official release date. The wagon train movie is a comedy, and Hollywood finds test screenings help tighten comic timing and cut jokes that don't work. With a computer editing team of up to 15 with some technicians working all night, director Peter Markle has cut the film from three hours 15 minutes to two hours 30 minutes and hopes to cut some more. "The film will play longer than a 90-minute comedy, Markle says.

Just how long it plays may have something to do with the test audience reaction. "Wagons East" star John Candy died on the film's Mexican set with the movie mostly completed. He had yet to finish one scene that was rewritten for other characters. Six words of Candy's dialogue will be recorded by another actor. Director Peter Markle, front, and film editor Scott Conrad are working overtime to complete 'Wagons The movie's star, John Candy, who died before it could be completed, is seen on Conrad's monitor.

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And the Westerns "Maverick" and "Wyatt Earp" will open May 20 and June 24, respectively. Release dates are changed only under extraordinary circumstances. Keanu Reeves' "Speed" was moved up from Aug. 5 to June 10 after it tested strongly to preview audiences. Arnold Schwarzenegger's "True Lies," on the other hand, had to be pushed back from July 1 to July 15 because it simply The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, contends Doherty caused $70,150 in structural damage to the apartment.

Nishimura also claims he will have to replace an alarm system, satellite dish, sprinklers, a $9,769 sofa, a coffee table valued at more than $6,000 and an ottoman put at $2,696. Doherty, who won't be returning to the Fox network series in the fall, has had numerous problems off the set, including disputes with her show's producers and a nightclub fight with another woman. Last month, she filed for divorce from Ashley Hamilton, son of actor George Hamilton, ending a stormy six-month marriage. Police officer files suit against rapper DECATUR, Ga. (AP) A suburban police officer is suing Tupac Shakur for $10 million, blaming the rapper for a gunshot wound outside an Atlanta hotel.

In the complaint filed Wednesday in Superior Court, Officer Scott Whitwell says Shakur caused him severe injury that left him with continuing medical costs, mental and physical pain and suffering from the bullet wound in the buttocks. "The facts will show that our client, who was unarmed, and his sister-in-law, who was also unarmed, were running for their lives when Tupac Shakur opened fire at them from a considerable distance," said Whitwell's lawyer, Thomas Blaska. In the Oct. 31 incident, aggravated assault charges were filed against Shakur and Whitwell's brother, Mark, a Clayton County police officer. LOS ANGELES (AP) Nick Nolte is in Paris, Julia Roberts is in New York and Charles Shyer is in overdrive.

The director of the Disney summer movie "I Love Trouble" is trying to finish his film about competing Chicago journalists (played by Nolte and Roberts) and the clock is ticking. The film opens June 29, and on a normal timetable there are several months of work yet to be done. But there's no such thing as normal timetables with summer movies. Using a state-of-the-art communications system, Shyer and his producing partner, Nancy Myers, are working with Roberts and Nolte to record new dialogue, even though the actors are thousands of miles from the Southern California soundstage. Shyer has other worries.

Four editors are working six- and seven-day weeks to assemble "I Love Trouble," composer Elmer Bernstein has launched into a rushed scoring schedule 'and a squadron of technicians are slaving over sound and visual effects. "There's a tremendous amount of things being done simultaneously, Shyer said during a short break from recording the new dialogue. "It's a very short (amount of time) and this is a big movie." It's rush hour in Hollywood and Shyer isn't the only filmmaker scampering to finish a summer movie. All over town, directors, editors and engineers are suffering through 18-hour days, late-night pizza and gallons of warmed-over coffee to make their crucial debut dates. The summer season is the year's most profitable and competitive period.

Studios and the occasional independent company People Actor stays in hotel where he worked NEW YORK (AP) Yaphet Kotto used to work in the kitchen of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The actor returned Wednesday not to wash dishes, as he did some 30 years ago, but to receive an award from his former elementary school. "It's very strange," said Kotto, who has starred in the NBC series "Homicide" and in films in-eluding "Aliens." "Midnight Yaphet Kotto Run" and "Live and Let Die." "There you are, a movie star, with people asking for your autograph." Kotto was honored by the south Bronx's St. Augustine School for the Arts at a fund-raising luncheon at the Waldorf Starlight Roof. Back in the old days he earned about S65 a week at the elegant hotel and he was sometimes allowed to bring food home.

"I thought that was hot stuff, you know," Kotto recalled. "Taking the train back to the Bronx with some chicken or steak." McCartney opens line of frozen food ST. LOUIS (AP) Let it be meatless was the tune Paul McCartney and wife Linda were singing as they touted a new line of vegetarian frozen foods. St. Louis is one of several Midwestern cities where "Linda McCartney's Home Style Cooking" foods are being tested.

They are expected to be available elsewhere by fall. At a news conference Wednesday, Linda McCartney introduced the foods, saying: "I'm doing this for the animals and the environment." She hopes her products will surprise people who think that vegetarian food is bland and something only hippies eat. The foods are produced by Fairmont Foods of Minnesota Inc. Landlord sues Shannen Doherty LOS ANGELES (AP) "Beverly Hills 90210" star Shannen Doherty trashed an apartment and stiffed her landlord for $14,000 in rent, a lawsuit claims. The lawsuit by Mark Nishimura contends she did $136,300 worth of damage to the unit before he evicted her in March 1993 and that it took him five months to put the apartment back in shape so he could rent it.

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