Hamburger Helper

The mainstream movie career of former teen porn star Traci Lords continues--this time she’s co-starring opposite Jim Varney in “Fast Food,” a $5 million Chuck Fries Films release due this spring. She’ll play a spy hired by hamburger franchise owner Varney to uncover the ingredients used by a rival company (Varney does not play his famous Ernest character in this one). Michael A. Simpson directs.

Fries, through a spokesman, said he has no problem being associated with an ex-X-rated starlet: “So what if she made porno films at 15. Everybody has to break into this business somehow. She’s just expanding her audience.”

But the spokesman conceded, “Selling a family film with a former porno star might cause us an image problem.”