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Priscilla Presley plays “Girl Friday” to detective Andrew Dice Clay in Fox’s “Ford Fairlane,” filming locally next month. Look for romantic sparks along with dictation in the off-beat murder mystery from director Renny Harlin and producer Joel Silver. . . .

Julia Roberts is an L.A. street prostitute set up in a plush suite by a visiting business acquisitor in Touchstone’s “3000,” which films in June. Steven Reuther and Arnon Milchan produce the dark “Pygmalion-ish” tale written by John Lawton and Stephen Metcalfe. Gary Marshall directs. . . .

Matthew Modine and Daphne Zuniga have signed up for med school next month in Disney’s “Gross Anatomy,” a comedy in the “Paper Chase” mode. Thom Eberhardt directs the screenplay by Mark Spragge and Ron Nyswaner. Howard Rosenman and Debra Hill produce. . . .

Raul Julia is Dr. Frankenstein in “Frankenstein Unbound,” which marks the directorial return (a record 18-year hiatus) of Roger Corman. In Corman, Brian Aldis and F.X. Feeney’s script, a 21st-Century scientist goes back two centuries to discover the literary creation was real. The Thom Mount Co. production gets underway in Bergamo, Italy in June. . . . In addition to writing-directing “My Father’s Eyes,” Lou Diamond Phillips now stars in the production next September. Phillips plays a young man--seen in flashbacks--who dies in a freak accident shortly after the birth of his son, who’s now a teen-ager. Karen Allen co-stars in the Daniel Eisenberg production. . . .

Rip Torn plays Walt Whitman in Cinepix’s “Beautiful Dreamers,” a romantic idyll filming next month in Toronto. Written and directed by John Kent Harris, the story centers on the writer’s affair with a woman doctor in Canada during the 1880s. Colm Feore and Wendel Meldrun co-star in the Steven Roth production. . . .

Richard Ford’s novel “Bright Angel” goes to screen this summer with Dermot Mulroney portraying a young man attempting to reconcile with his father. Sam Shepard plays the enigmatic dad in Ford’s adaptation for director Michael Fields. Sue Baden-Powell, Page Simpson and Rob MacLean produce for Hemdale. . . .

Guy Madison, TV’s Wild Bill Hickock, and Rory Calhoun play old cowhands in Wouk/Ware’s “Bad Jim.” The shaggy dog western centers on a good guy who goes wrong after finding Billy the Kid’s horse. John Clark Gable stars for writer-director Clyde Ware with filming set outside Phoenix next month. . . .

Duet’s Alison La Placa joins Orion’s “Madhouse” as Kirstie Alley’s very jealous older sister. Also added to the cast are John Diehl, Bradley Gregg and Robert Ginty, a befuddled neighbor who sees John Larroquette’s peaceful home life crumble as friends and cousins invade. Leslie Dixon produces and Tom Ropelewski writes and directs next month in Tucson. . . .

Donald Pleasence returns as Dr. Loomis in Galaxy’s “Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers,” a May start in Salt Lake City. In the new edition actress Danielle Harris has empathic responses with the demonic Michael Myers, who’s in pursuit of Wendy Kaplan. Dominique Othenin-Gerard directs and co-wrote with Shem Bitterman and Michael Jacobs for producer Moustapha Akkad. . . .