Quibbles & Bits

. . . Whoops! Anne Archer was at the Democratic Convention on behalf of Planned Parenthood of America--of which she’s the national spokesperson--not as a Dukakis supporter, as we were told and erroneously related.

. . . Daily Variety headline that caught our eye: Showbiz Stocks Suffer as Peace Looms in Persian Gulf. Huh?

. . . When the NAACP catalogues the Positive Black Movie Role Models of the Year, you may not find “The Dead Pool” listed. The film’s only black character is a maximum-security prisoner of imposing size whom Dirty Harry Callahan affectionately calls “the gorilla.”

. . . Talk about a stretch! In a press release about playing the Toxic Avenger’s sightless girlfriend in Troma’s now-filming “The Toxic Avenger: Part II,” Phoebe Legere gushed, “(The role) is the most demanding I’ve ever had. I had to be sexy, vulnerable, tough and blind--all at the same time.”