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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.” ACQUIRE PICKENS 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.” COUNTERATIACK nage caused by impai cerned citizens, over tack’s first decade. The Spring CounterAttack Blitz, Since 1977, B.C.’s Drinking Driving CounterAttack program has cut down the car- ired drivers. Thanks to police road checks, tough laws and con- 8,000 people have been spared injury or death over CounterAt- Still, each year, more British Columbians are killed by drinking drivers than by murderers. Alcohol is still the leading cause of death on the road. Do your part. If you drink, don’t drive and never ride with a drinking driver. Help a friend make it home safely and, if you see a drinking driver, call the police. Let’s back Spring CounterAttack. April 13 to May 4 is our best way to fight back and save lives. Police roadchecks will be up any hour, day or night to catch drinking drivers and get them off the road. POLICE ROADCHECKS AT WORK . . . Making Zuckerberg Island Herita Park look good is the Castlegar Rotary Club. They he! id a “di cut and clear some of the b rush. day on the island to —Phote submitted LOVE OR: HATE HIM 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. Served with Homer we $999 Fries. Your Choice of Dip. Reg. $3.95 WE ACCEPT WESTAR, CELGAR & COMINCO MEAL TICKETS: Monsen 2% Seem SOS-BUSS ering “TS Sondaye ome-3p hile, his 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 Grand Forks Yamaha and look over the new ‘entry to Yamaha's 4 wheel line—the Yemaha Big Bear 4X4 morning at i | homes. Later this month an infor- mation package will be mail- 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. 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