''This is different,'' says Paddy Chayefsky, the writer and scenarist (''Network,'' ''Altered States''), watching a crew set up a morning scene in Central Park for ''Paternity,'' scheduled for release this fall. Tony Curtis was to have been the Cary Grant of the 1960's Ryan O'Neal, George Segal and even Gene Wilder were candidates for the 1970's. You're doing Tony Curtis doing Cary Grant.'' Miss Down's retort: ''You're not doing Cary Grant. It was an apt device, since Reynolds intended ''Rough Cut'' to help him become, as he has wryly put it, ''the sort of unsophisticated Cary Grant of the 1980's.'' Last year, in the film ''Rough Cut,'' a dapper, tuxedoed Burt Reynolds, playing a jewel thief, attempted to charm rival thief Lesley-Anne Down with a witty vocal burlesque of Cary Grant.
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