So you say you wanna work for Madonna? Get in line.
Résumés, unsolicited scripts and demo music tapes have been pouring in "by the carton," according to a spokesperson at the Los Angeles headquarters of Maverick, Madonna's new multimedia entertainment company.
Madonna rep Liz Rosenberg estimates that 5,000 pieces of mail—excluding fan mail—arrived "just in the first two weeks" following the announcement in late April that Time Warner (parent company to Time Inc., which publishes PEOPLE) was handing the Material Girl $60-plus million to start Maverick.
"The unsolicited scripts and tapes are automatically sent back." says Rosenberg, which is standard practice to avoid lawsuits.
DELTA BELTS
Delta Burke may not be ready for a Madonna-size multimedia deal just yet, but she is emulating Her Vogueness in one area: singing.
"She's a belter. She uses the bottom of her voice, like Madonna," says L.A. vocal coach to the stars Seth Riggs, who has been giving Burke lessons since February in preparation for her new ABC series, Delta. Burke plays a hairdresser turned waitress trying to make it as a country songbird in Nashville. The show will air this fall.
Although Delta has never sung professionally, Riggs says she's a natural. "She's going to surprise a lot of people, including herself," he says.
Her debut numbers in the first episode? "Blue Moon of Kentucky" and "Movin' On."
CLEAR THE AISLE
It's hush-hush, but we're hearing that Anjelica Huston and her fiancé, sculptor Robert Graham, will marry by month's end somewhere in California.
Although she spent 17 years with companion Jack Nicholson, Huston, at 40, will be a first-time bride.
PARRY, MASON
Move over Ted Koppel and Peter Jennings. Just over the horizon is another would-be host-moderator of the televised town-meeting game, and his name is Jackie Mason. The comedian has landed a 13-week commitment to produce and moderate a single-topic syndicated series that will be seen beginning June 8 in all the major markets.
"This show will be about major issues, not comedy," says Mason.
STERN JUDGMENT
Actor Daniel Stern has left his agent at ICM to sign with pal Joe Pesci's agent at CAA. The agent-hopping occurred, sources say, after Stern realized that the $1 million he was getting for Home Alone 2: Lost in New York was $700,000 less than Pesci was getting, though both men were reprising their dumb-crook roles from the first movie. Stern himself claims no knowledge of Pesci's salary. "All I know," says Stern, "is that I was grossly overpaid, as we all are."
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