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The 54-year-old Novak, a
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were very flexible about
what kind of character I
would play,” she says.

“They were fans of Vertigo
and suggested something
along those lines. That hit
home because that was my
favorite movie.”

Novak starred with James
Stewart,in the Alfred Hitch-
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year she teamed up with
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Selby) to destroy Angela
Channing (Jane Wyman).

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book,” she says.

She is writing an autobi-
ography, tentatively titled
Through My Eyes, that will
probably end up in two parts.

“They want to zero in on
my Hollywood years,” she
says. “I believe my life after
leaving Hollywood in the late
1960s, and my husband and
animals, is a book in itself.”

Novak is married to Rob-
ert Malloy, a veterinarian in
Carmel who specializes in
horses. They also have a
ranch in Oregon.

“We raise llamas in Car-
mel,” she says. “They're very
mellow and relaxed. We like
to take them k ki

never work again but I did
need to pull away and get a
better perspective to my life.
I did come back to do Kiss Me
Stupid and The Great Bank
Robbery. But for the most
part I wasn't“ interested in
working for a long, long
time.”

At one time Harry Cohn,
head of Columbia Pictures,
kept Novak’on contract as a
threat to Rita Hayworth. She
starred in such films as Pic-
nic, The Man With the Gol.
den Arm, Jeanne Eagles, Pal
Joey and The i

By STEPHEN NICHOLLS

TORONTO (CP) — No champagne. No caviar. Just two
cans of baked beans was all that Robin Leach found in the
refrigerator of Dynasty star Joan Collins.

Hardly what you'd expect to see on Leach’s syndicated
TV show, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. But after four
seasons of tapings, and 30 years as a tabloid journalist,
entertainment writer and gossip columnist, Leach has had a
close look at the underbélly of the upper crust.

“It's not all rosy in the lifestyles of the rich,” Leach said
in an interview during a visit to Toronto where he attended
the © i pl: an ion of upscale
consumer goods.

CLOSE ENCOUNTER

Leach recalled a hair-raising encounter with an
eccentric Florida millionaire.

How rich was he? “His backyard was so big you could
land quite comfortably the three Boeing 7478 that he owned
personally.”

“He was what I would call a crusty old curmudgeon —
everything was wrong in the world, and he was the only man
that could do anything right.”

When Leach suggested the millionaire was “really just a
sweet old pussycat,” the man was indignant.

“He reaches into a drawer, pulls out a .38 (calibre
revolver), cocks the trigger and shoves it right up my nose.
‘And he said, ‘I dare you to repeat that again, and I will show
you how much of a pussycat I am not.”

Leach didn’t repeat it. His cameraman fainted.

PRINCIPAL ALARM

Then there was the time Leach was at the home of
Dallas star Victoria Principal, and one of his crew triggered
her burglar alarm.

“He sets off the most incredible 2lst-century alarm
system . . . with lasers coming out from all corners of the
room,” said Leach.

“She ordered everybody to get down flat on the floor,
and then she starts to slither down underneath all these
lasers . . . she finally got to this place where she could turn
off this entire alarm system.

“She said we'd have been zapped to death because that’s
how powerful the system was.”

TAKES COAXING

The rich and famous, it seems, cherish their privacy. It
can take a bit of coaxing to get them to lay open their
personal lives.

Saudi Arabian millionaire Adnan Khashoggi took 16
months “of us wooing him to get him to do it, and ours was
the first TV show he ever did. (Texas oilman) T. Boone
Pickens, who was somebody I wanted for a long, long time,
kept on saying that dirty two-letter word (no) to us.”

Leach took a camera crew to Dallas and confronted
Pickens at a hotel after he had finished giving a speech.

“I introduced myself and, half joking, I said to him, ‘1
know that you've said no to us, but I want you to know that
I'm going to sit on your shoulder wherever you go until you
say yes.”

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Pickens granted an interview.
The subjects are unpaid — money isn't much of an

Landlady.
Along the way she was

Most of my husband's work is
out in the field, which he
loves and I love. He's out in
his truck going from ranch to
ranch. Sometimes I go with
him.”
LOSES HOME

Novak left Hollywood after
she lost her Bel Air house in a
mud slide. “That gave me the
push I needed,” she says. At
the time, her marriage to ac
tor Richard Johnson was
breaking up.

“['d stopped making films,”
she says.“I didn’t decide to

linked to Aly
Khan, Rafael Trujillo Jr.,
Frank Sinatra and others.

One of her last theatrical
films was The Mirror
Crack’d in which she played a
movie star. She also did a TV
movie called The Third Girl
From the Left.

Novak says she has plenty
of offers for movies and TV
shows, but is declining for
the time being. ‘My priorities
are home first,” she says.
“But it’s also good to get
away once in a while and do
something.”

to —so what does motivate them
to expose their private lives to millions?

That, Leach suggests, is the key to the show's success.

“What Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous is all about is
not a bragging of wealth. It’s a sharing of success. It is the
fulfilment of both the American and Canadian dream that if
you do work hard, you can be rewarded.”

The English-born Leach says he works hard — 18 hours
a day, seven days a week sometimes. He logs 500,000
kilometres of travel\a year. What are his rewards?

‘WELL-BEING’

“My definition of happiness doesn't come from the
thickness of a wallet,” said Leach. “It comes from the state of
well-being. I live in a thi di house in Cs i
which is quite ordinary by anyone's standards.”

And, oh yes, about the cavernous refrigerator at the
Collins residence.

After finding but two lonely cans of beans, Leach said
he turned to Collins and told her the lack of food was
“appalling.”

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murderers. Alcohol is still the leading cause of death on the road.

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Beddoes still on top

By MARLENE HABIB
‘Canadian.Press

TORONTO — Despite his flashy clothes and his
compulsion to succeed, maverick journalist Dick Beddoes
believes it's what's on top that counts. °

And the nimble-tongued newsman isn't referring to his
hats — the 60 pieces of headgear ranging from straw hats to
bowlers — which he wears on TV broadcasts. The hats make
him instantly recognizable to the legions of southern Ontario
sports fans who love him or hate him but watch his
broadcasts faithfully.

Beddoes might be best described as the Howard Cosell of
Canada, a sort of mad hatter of the media whose acid wit can
dissolve the inflated egos of the most self-centred sports
figures.

He says he started out as a “two-bit” newspaper
reporter in Edmonton and now rakes in about $100,000 a
year as sports director of CHCH television in Hamilton.

But in an interview at his expensive home in suburban
Toronto, he reveals several sides of the show-business world
of sports. 1

“My: attitude of: grind, grind, gtind; be good and get
better, has hurt people in the process,” Beddoes said.

TALKS CANDIDLY

Beddoes talked candidly about plagiarism charges in the
final stages of his newspaper career seven years ago and of
family gedis including the lism that killed one
close family member and shattered the life of another.

Richard Herbert Beddoes was born in 1928, the eldest of
three sons of poor Welsh immigrant farmers in Daysland,
Alta., a tiny farming community he now refers to as “Sheep
Tracks.”

“I was spawned by people not just interested in ball
games, who had something upstairs,” said Beddoes, doffing a
camel-colored stetson and flashily clad as always in brown
pants and a burgundy sweater over a bright yellow
turtleneck.

Beddoes, a “kickout” from the University of Alberta's
agriculture department, “covered everything” at the
Edmonton Bulletin in his first reporting job in 1951 until the
newspaper folded six months later “by corny coincidence.”

TO VANCOUVER

‘The eager young journalist went back to the farm for
four months until he was hired by the Vancouver Sun, where
he really learned the business.

“I got every two-bit burglary to cover,” Beddoes recalls.
“J had to steal pictures from mothers who lost their children
in accidents.”

In the years since, his get-up-and-go has earned him
numerous accolades, including a North American award for
an article on thoroughbred racing and a National Newspaper
Award in 1959 for a series of columns, one on a stripper
named Patti Waggin, wife of a professional baseball player.

At CHCH, where he has done nightly sportscasts and a
weekly sports-magazine show for seven years, viewer
response has been overwhelming and the independent
station has won national awards for sportscasting
excellence.

WIT IS SHARP

A trademark of his work has always been his way with a
witty, incisive phrase: “The best athletes I know are the
four-legged ones (horses) because they don’t talk back.”
“The only difference between a golfer and a man in a
poolroom is the golfer gets a tan;” and “Curling is bowling on
ice.

He says “all games are to be laughed at and people
should realize the world doesn’t begin and end at the press
box in Maple Leaf Gardens.”

Beddoes isn't leved by all his peers, but some of those
who know him best ar« personal as well as professional fans.

“He's good at being a showboat and it gets him a lot of
attention and a lot of money, and anyone who criticizes him
for it is just jealous,” says Christie Blatchford, who took over
the sports column at the Toronto Globe and Mail that
Beddoes wrote from 1964 to 1975.

Beddoes also won the respect of his community, serving
what he calls a “four-year sentence” as an alderman in
suburban Etobicoke beginning in 1969.

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including part-time radio and television work. His life as a

never-at-home father — he has two adopted daughters, 25
and 23 — led to his divoree in 1977, said Beddoes.

Aside from the broken marriage and the alcohol-related is given for each recipe, plus
family problems — Beddoes is “anti-booze and anti-smoking” fibre and vitamin content
— his busy schedule also affected his career,

In September 1980, he was accused of passing off being sold by the Castlegar
thoughts of a New York ‘Times writer as his own in his civic unit. Look for the Cancer
affairs column for The Globe and Mail.

In a published apology shortly after the incident,
Beddoes said the column on homosexual rights was written
“on a day of private turmoil.” But he now says he got a
member of the homosexual community to write it when he
was too busy to do it himself.

“I was just doing too much,” Beddoes said. “On the way
to becoming a success, you get scarred.”

WENT TO

* a recent public meeting of the
Mocal. Cancer unit. She was

‘Cancer Society was guest at

accompanied by Frances
Rivers Kootenay District
president Frances Rivers of,
Cranbrook. , if

Two videos were shown;
one on the most recent re-
search and the other on the
role of the volunteer. Hood
emphasized the importance
of public education since pre-
vention of cancer and cure
are greatly increased by not
smoking, eating a balanced
diet (low in fat and high
infibre) and early diagnosis.

One of the many ways the
Cancer society is tackling
this is by opening up a toll
free cancer information line
manned by well informed
volunteers who are happy to
answer any questions related
to cancer or the Society,

Two representatives from
the Eastern Star Lodge at-
tended the meeting. Their
organization supplies dress-
ings, free of charge, to pati-
ents.

To assist people in choos-
ing the correct diet, the Can-

cer Society has compiled a
book of quick and tasty re-
cipes.

The calorie and fat content

where applicable. These are

booth at the Trade Fair.

An emotional support
group for cancer patients has
recently been formed, meet-
ing every other Thursday

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TV
He resigned from The Globe and Mail and has been at |, every household in B.C.

CHCH full time ever since.

Of the hat collection that fills his spare bedroom,

Beddoes said “I've always worn all kinds —'evetr whet 1 had

an abundance of hair.”

Brushing aside his thinning grey locks, he said the hats
didn’t become his trademark until 1978 “wheh the makeup
lady didn't show up at the CHCH studios because of the

weather.

“While I was fretting about how I was going to look, the
news anthorman said that since I'm always wearing hats, I

should wear one on the air.

“People expect me to have a hat on and tell me I don't

look right without one. And what an ego-stroking when you
go to Maple Leaf Gardens and get asked for more
autographs than the players.”

Search ends

This will include a donation
velope for those who have

been unable to meet the local

Cancer Society volunteer.

Happy
13,870 Days!

Terry Hughes

for body

WINNIPEG (CP) — A
three-day search for a young
Winnipeg man ended Wed-
nesday when his body was
pulled from the Red River by
a team of police divers.

Police said Mitch Gowler, a
20-year-old fine arts student
at the University of Man-
itoba, had been-missing since
Sunday afternoon.

Police believe Gowler
jumped into the river to save
a mentally handicapped man,
who somehow managed to
reach shore. But the 34-year-
old man is not capable of
telling police what happened.

Supt. Tony Cherniak said
foul play is not suspected.

Witnesses say they saw
two men struggling on the

riverbank on the University
of Manitoba campus on Sun-
day afternoon.

“Nobody has been to tell us
exactly what happened
there,” Staff Sgt. Don Peters
said. “There are still a lot of
unanswered questions.”

Police were called to the
campus on Sunday after re-
ports that a man was walking
around naked. The man was
taken to hospital and later
released back into the care of
a group home.

Gowler, who worked part-
time at the group home for
three years, picked up the
man Sunday to take him to an
art exhibit at the university,
police said.

An autopsy was to be per-
formed today

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