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What he wants more than anything else from his movies, says director Brian De Palma, late of "Body Double," is to get a reaction from the audience. "I like to wake people up. I like to throw cold water on them. You want to sleep through a movie, go down the street to a film like 'Places in the We loved them as they headed for California's Wally World. Chances are we'll love them again, when Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo head to the Continent with Dana Hill and Jason Lively in tow for "National Lampoon's Vacation in Europe." They're shooting now and hope to release this one next summer.

999 Robert Blake, who has not had 8 regular weekly series since "Baretta" went off the air in 1978, is taping a pilot for NBC called "Hell Town," in which he portrays an ex-con who becomes a scrappy, controversial East Los Angeles ghetto priest. "This guy's a tough dude," said Blake, who played a harddriving undercover cop in "Baretta." "If he has to, he'll use his fists, and he's frequently at odds with local police. God's law is his only law." NBC said if the show clicks, it will become a series. Emmy winner Judd Hirsch, formerly of the "Taxi" TV series, will play a double role in a CBS-TV suspense thriller movie, "Brotherly Love," to be filmed on locations in Vancouver, British Columbia. Hirsch will be seen as a successful family man who is haunted by his vengeance-seeking twin brother.

What are Wombles? They're nature-loving, garbage-hating characters who have spent years cleaning up after Londonders and are now turning their attentions to New York. "The Wombles," meanwhile, is a new syndicated TV series with original music by Paul Williams and slated to air sometime in 1985. Actor Frank Gorshin will stop here to tape the show before he checks into Atlantic City's Claridge Hotel for his January run in "I Do, Do." The former "Batman" star (he was the Riddler) will play key villain Dr. Edmund Gomaniaca.k.a. -and he'll have an evil sidekick too, the newly signed Abe Vigoda (late of "Barney New American Library, the publishers of Jeff Rovin's "TV Babylon," are calling that tome a "gossip gourmet's delight." Rovin takes small screen stars to task and reveals their inner-most secrets- like why Johnny Carson wouldn't make a very good guest at a formal dinner party.

The book--which includes that and other equally shocking storiesshould be in stores now. Compiled by HANK GALLO November 2, 1984 Kathleen Carroll reviews 'The Killing Fields' P. 5 HEEERE'S JOHNNY! Back with a new Public Image, an old Rotten By JIM FARBER MAY BE eight years since Johnny Rotten first told the world to drop dead with his band The Sex Pistols, but in all that time he hasn't mellowed one iota. Talking to 27-yearold Rotten today, as leader of Public Image, he still seems like a perfect cum laude graduate of the Charles Manson School of Charm. Mr.

Humility himself. In fact, with his new LP (thoughtfully ti- UA2 tled "This Is What You Want, This Is What You and current tour, which brings him to The Beacon tonight, he's back using his Rotten nickname. The singer had operating shouts back, "THAT anything to do with the been given name- NAME IS MY PROP. name. But it's still me.

I under his Lydon-since ERTY! haven't changed from John 1978 day when he formed Public was a legal dis- one. It's all rotten stuff any age, pute with old way you look at it." and some people have seen his sudden title switch my management and for a short time it As rotten as he may reas a move to gain extra attention. But Rotten was illegal for me to have (Continued on page 18) the same cold sneer OHNNY ROTTEN made it clear that the death of bass player Sid Vicious from a heroin overdose is not going to be his fate. "Sorry, no junk for this boy," he said while in town this summer scouting locations for his tour. "Not at all, ever.

Never did. Never will." Drinking a beer in a sedate midtown hotel bar, Rotten dismissed those who think of him as decadent because of his days with the Sex Pistols, who did such songs as "Anarchy in the U.K." and the parodistic "God Save the Queen." As for the music of the Sex Pistols, he said he felt the band itself lost By ERNEST LEOGRANDE sight of what it was doing- which was a sendup of a genre. "It was absolute ly all about the end of rock 'n' roll. Well, that was fine, that was brilliant. Let's go for it.

Ha-ha-ha. "Only they took themselves too serious. That was their dilemma, not mine. But the rest of the band didn't see it that way. I don't do anything twice.

Ever." From his days as vocalist with the Sex Pistols to today with Public Image, Rotten is determined to be his own person, despite any criticism of his music. He mimicked his critics: "Oh, it doesn't move me in the same way Daryl Hall and John Oates and those people do," and then added in his own voice, "Well, too bad! We can't all be the same. The late Sex Pistol, Sid Vicious.