HOLLYWOOD -- Pia Zadora's 'Lonely Lady,' based on the Harold Robbins best seller, swept the fourth annual Razzie Awards announced Friday for worst achievements in film, winning a record six of 10 awards.
Razzie founder John Wilson said the Razzies, a light-hearted spoof of the Academy Awards, will honor 'Lonely Lady' and other 'winners' during a low budget gala Sunday night at an elementary school in Hollywood.
None of the winners was expected to attend, said Wilson, who also heads the Golden Raspberry Foundation, which presents the Razzies every year.
'Lonely Lady' won worst picture, director, screenplay, musical score, song for 'The Way You Do It' and actress honors for Miss Zadora, who played a screenwriter driven insane by the film industry.
'Lonely Lady's' sweep beats out the previous record holder, 'Mommie Dearest,' which won five Razzies in 1981.
The worst career achievement award this year went to producer Irwin Allen, whose films include 'The Swarm,' 'Beyond the Poseidon Adventure' and 'When Time Ran Out,' a disaster film whose star was an erupting volcano.
'Mr. Allen has the nickname 'Master of Disaster' which he perpetually wins again and again with each new project,' Wilson said.
Christopher Atkins, who played a college student moonlighting as a male stripper, won worst actor for 'A Night in Heaven.' Wilson said Atkins was a dark horse winner, with early balloting pointing to Barbra Streisand for 'Yentl' or John Travolta, nominated for both 'Two of a Kind' and 'Stayin' Alive.'
Miss Streisand, who played a woman masquerading as a boy, was nominated in the worst actor category.
Jim Nabors won worst supporting actor as Burt Reynolds' mechanic in 'Stroker Ace' and Sybil Danning, worst supporting actress for two roles, as Lou Ferrigno's nemesis in 'Hercules' and a prison inmate in 'Chained Heat.'
Miss Danning might attend the ceremony, her publicist told Wilson, to show how she feels about the film.
The new star accolade went to Lou Ferrigno, who made his film debut in the Italian-made 'Hercules.'
Wilson noted that Ferrigno is the second new star award recipient whose own voice was never heard in the film for which he won. In 1982 Klinton Spillsbury won the first worst star award for his entirely dubbed title role in 'Legend of the Lone Ranger.'
Previous Razzie recipients include 'Can't Stop the Music,' a disco-themed musical released after the disco craze had died; worst actress winners Brooke Shields for 'The Blue Lagoon,' Pia Zadora for 'Butterfly,' Faye Dunaway and Bo Derek, who tied in 1981 for 'Mommie Dearest' and 'Tarzan the Ape Man,' respectively; and worst actor winners Neil Diamond as 'The Jazz Singer;' Klinton Spillsbury as 'The Lone Ranger' and Laurence Olivier as Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 'Inchon!'
A medley of all five nominated worst songs will be performed at Sunday's ceremony.
Celebrity impersonators, Mrs. Norman Maine, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Carmen Miranda and Yentl the Yeshiva Boy, will present and accept the awards.
Clips of next year's likely Razzie contenders will be shown, including 'Where the Boys Are 84;' 'Voyage of the Rock Aliens,' Miss Zadora's upcoming project; and Liza Minnelli's 'A Great Wind Coming' in which she plays a singing Israeli paratrooper; 'Hercules II' and 'Bo-Bolero,' which stars Bo Derek as a female matador.
The Golden Raspberry Foundation has 125 voting members. No accounting firm tabulates the ballots, said Wilson, who counts them himself.
'We can't afford Price-Waterhouse,' the Academy Awards' accountants, Wilson said.
