Beau and Jeff Bridges will portray piano-playing...

Beau and Jeff Bridges will portray piano-playing brothers in “The Fabulous Baker Boys,” a light-hearted drama for Mirage Productions. Steve Klovis wrote the screenplay and will make his directing debut in the bros’ first screen pairing. Scheduled to film in November. . . . The saga of Sir Richard Burton, the 19th-Century African explorer, is the basis of Carolco’s “Mountains of the Moon” for Tri-Star. Starts filming next month in Kenya and London for producer Daniel Melnick and director Bob Rafelson.

Producer Paul Maslansky starts “Police Academy VI” next month on L.A. locations for Warners and series vets Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Marion Ramsey, G.W. Bailey, George Gaynes and Leslie Easterbrook will all be back. Tale centers on daring, acrobatic robberies and the uncovering of a mysterious political boss. Stephen Kurwick wrote the new outing, that also stars Matt McCoy from outing No. 5, but not Janet Jones, whose career’s been iced.

Rick Moranis plays a very straight-laced accountant whose biggest client is a British rock group in “My 1964 Tour.” The culture clash by Ken Finkleman centers on a madcap series of concerts. . . . Winona Ryder has been added to the cast of Orion’s Jerry Lee Lewis biopic “Great Balls of Fire.” She’ll be Myra, the rocker’s teen-age bride opposite Dennis Quaid’s Lewis.

Sandollar just acquired Susan Isaac’s novel “Shining Through,” an epic love story set in 1942 about a secretary who joins the O.S.S. Debra Winger is attached to star for a start early in 1989. . . . Ione Skye gets the title role for producer Andy Karsch in “The Rachel Papers,” based on the Martin Amis novel of a young man’s obsession for a dream girl.

Clancy Brown (the monster of “The Bride”) stars as an aspiring singer-songwriter who gives it all up to crack the Nashville music scene back in 1965 in “Hair of the Dog.” Steve De Jarnatt wrote and will direct the dark saga on location in early 1989 which co-stars William Forsythe as a Svengalian promoter.

Deborah Foreman and Daniel Stern star in Miramax’s “Crazy Horse,” romantic comedy by Michael Taab about three couples stuck in a deserted children’s camp. Films in Toronto shortly. Also in the film, to be directed by Stephen Withrow, are Elias Koteas and Sheila McCarthy of “I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing.”

Sharon Farrell, Vicki Frederick, Kristina Loggia (Robert’s daughter), Danitza Kingsley, Nina Peterson and Catherine Carlin are tough, female bikers in Kings Road’s “Chrome Hearts.” Filming next month in Randsburg, Calif. Don Hoskins wrote and directs the horror spoof which centers on the gang’s confrontation with zombies in a small town. Former MTV VJ Martha Quinn is also aboard . . . as a victim.