River Phoenix joins the cast of Steven...

River Phoenix joins the cast of Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” currently filming in Europe for Lucasfilm. . . . John Hughes is set to make his first film back at Universal as a writer-director--”Oil and Vinegar,” to film this fall with Matthew Broderick and Molly Ringwald in the title roles. . . . Glenn Close will play a single mother whose daughter arranges a blind date for her during their Rome vacation in “Parental Guidance.” Jonathan Kaplan directs the Alan Burns script for Columbia in October. . . . Casey Siemaszko (“Young Guns”) plays an apprentice burglar to master thief Burt Reynolds in Act III’s “Breaking In,” to film later this month in Portland under director Bill Forsyth. . . . Producer Sean Cunningham starts his latest chiller, “Horror Show,” next month for United Artists. The story by Leslie Bohem has an executed mass murderer returning (!) to terrorize the cop who brought him to justice, plus the cop’s family. Fred Walton directs. . . . Electric Pictures’ “Lobster Man From Mars” spoofs Hollywood and monster movies with a plot-line involving a producer looking for a guaranteed flop movie as a tax write-off. Tony Curtis, Deborah Foreman, Anthony Hickox, Patrick Macnee and Billy Barty star for producer Eyal Rimmon. Stanley Sheff directs Bob Greenberg’s screenplay. . . . “Heritage,” a story by Meridith Baer about four generations of women brought together by a family funeral, received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. It’s the first time the NEA has funded the development of a feature, narrative script. The project is being produced by Mindy Affrime’s Godmother Productions and director Sam Weisman.