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LOS ANGELES (REU- TER) — Dynasty star Joan Collins says in a complaint against Peter Holm, her es- tranged husband and former business manager, that she is missing more than $1 million U.S., said court documents made public in California.

Collins filed a divorce and annulment petition Monday against the Swedish busi- nessman, her fourth hus- band, citing irreconcilable differences and alleged fraud as the reasons for ending the 13-month marriage.

The 53-year-old actress ob- tained a court order earlier this week prohibiting Holm,

\39, from handling her fi nances, saying he had re fused to account for the missing money

Collins earns about $1.5 million a year for playing Alexis Carrington in the popular television series. She

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said all cheques she received for her work were sent to Holm, who was responsible for depositing them in her bank account

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In a complaint filed along with the divorce petition, Collins also asked for a court order requiring Holm to come no closer than 305 me tres from her Beverly Hills home and the Dynasty set

CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD . . Tarrys elementary offered a sample of Christmas in Germany in this

The kindergarten class of

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Local art

Housekeeping’s Lahti in

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BUSINESS

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TOPPING IT OFF . . . Workers put rooting on the new Lion’s Head Pub being built in Robson. The building, designed to create an English pub at mosphere, will seat 65 people and has a loft anda

dance floor area. The pub is expected to be com- pleted around the end of January or beginning of

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CREDIT WOES

Debt counseling helps

Getting credit is easy the hard part is paying for it

Each year thousands of people find that they have borrowed more than they can comfortably pay off. In Ontario alone last year the provincially sponsored credit counselling service handled almost 8,000 new cases of individuals seeking help to get their bills in order.

Credit counsellors say that December is the month

ultimate r

bility lies with the 5 “It's up to you whether you use it or abuse it,”

she said.

Poor credit handling seems to have little to do with income

levels. position to pay their bills,” spend up to their incomes.”

“Higher income does not mean that they're in a better Hastings said.

“People seem to

Not even professional money managers are immune to developing credit problems with their own finances.

Credit counsellors take

a personal history from

GAS PRICES FALL SHORT OF PROMISE

By JEFF ADAMS

The Canadian Press After all the hoopla about cost savings resulting from deregulation of natural gas prices, most Canadian residential users will be lucky to save enough during the next year to buy a warm pair of socks. A survey of utility companies indicates residential consumers throughout Central and Western Canada can expect little or no drop in the amount they spend on natural gas, which isn't used as a home-heating fuel in the Atlantic provinces. The end of Nov. | of 11 years of regulated gas prices has resulted in cuts of as much as one-third in the domestic wholesale price as it fell to coincide with an over-supplied world market But many gas distributors are tied to price schedules dictated by provincial regulatory agencies. Other distributors whose schedules are up for review are actually seeking increases. Most of the proposed increases are large enough to offset any short-term savings from deregulation, says Ian MeNabb, president of the Canadian Gas Association, representing producers, distributors and marketers. “There won't be any dramatic change for con. sumers,” McNabb said “But the average Canadian can at least expect there won't be an increase in their gas heating bill this winter.” That's a small consolation for 1.6 million Ontario and Quebec residential gas users, not paying about $6 a thousand cubic feet, who could have expected to be beneficiaries of deregulation.

SUPPLY COST CUT Their four distributors — Union Gas, Consumers’ Gas, ICG Utilities and Gaz Metropolitain — have signed a supply agreement with Alberta producers that guaran tees a discount to residential consumers of 21 cents a thousand cubic feet For a homeowner using the average 130 thousand cubic feet annually, the discount represents potential savings of about $25 a year. But little of this is likely to

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work through to individual heating bills.

Toronto-based Consumers’ Gas and Union Gas, of Chatham, Ont., are both asking the Ontario Energy Board for rate increases that would cut the value of the discount to about $5 a year for an average homeowner.

individuals who come to them for assistance, Hastings said.

“Often when we ask where they work, we see that look come over their faces and we just know that they're going to tell us that they're an accountant or a controller or a treasurer or something like that.

consumers are most likely to overindulge, and January

when the bills come in, is when their offices are the busiest But regardless of the problems, many companies are

eager to grant credit some would say too eager.

Her complaint alleged that because “of the stress and anxiety caused by Holm’s 4 threats and past violent and

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NELSON — Christine Lahti is not exactly dressed for success. As Aunt Sylvie, she wears clunky shoes, a drab skirt and a dowdy sweater with plastic... things hanging from it. Her hair is matted. If you like your movie stars glamorous, you'd best look the other way.

Producers, however, are looking Lahti’s way. Since her Oscar nomination for an abbreviated role in Swing Shift (she lost out to Peggy Ashcroft) and her bravura performance with Mary Tyler Moore in the soap operish Just Between Friends, Lahti is one of the most-in-demand actresses working today. And it can be argued, one of the best.

“I'm getting a lot of scripts, but most of them are mediocre,” says Lahti, 36, passing time between scenes in the trailer that serves as a lunchroom. “I'm offered a lot of parts that have become standard, the female Rambo or dirty Harriets, regular action movies and horror movies with a lot of violence

“So far the more conventional, haven't intrested me.”

Lahti has not had any time off in the past 10 months, having appeared in a play (Beth Henley's The Lucky Spot), a miniseries (Amerika), an independent feature (Stacking, with Frederick Fotrest and Megan Follows) and now Housekeeping

Lahti had planned to take time off in late summer but then Diane Keaton dropped out of Housekeeping and she was offered the role. Lahti read Forsyth’s screenplay and jumped at the chance

“This is the kind of movie I want to see,” she says. “I don’t like movies that tell me how to feel and what to think, that spell it all out. I like mystery. I like discovering things. There is so much subtext here, so much going on between the lines. The characters are

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ON LOCATION ... Actress Christine Lahti took the part of Aunt Sylvie over such standard fare as female Rambos or dirty Harriets

remote, distant from their feelings. They've just closed down.”

Of working with Forsyth, the actress says. “He is the most secure director I've ever worked with, which means he can be completely open and collaborative being threatened.”

Most diffieult part of the working with untrained actors. lot of coaching on the side,” that “these God

Just as Forsyth is inclined to recommend a book over its movie version, Lahti prefers stage to movies

“Stage is the most satisfying because it's really my creation. Every night there's a continuity. The rehearsal process is the most exciting part of being an actress. With film, you don’t have a lot of rehearsal and it's all chopped up and there's no continuity.”

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When Housekeeping wraps up in mid-month, Lahti says she will force herself to take a holiday

When a visitor nuses that Lahti’s struggling-actress days are over, she muses: “What will happen is I'll not work for six months feeling confident and turning things down and then I'll have a mini-nervous breakdown and I'll grab the next thing that comes along

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At least one major retailer, Canadian Tire, asks that customers fill out applications for its credit cards before it allows them to pay for merchandise with a cheque.

Many of the large department stores have employees who approach customers in store aisles offering to fill out credit-card applications for them

SPENDING EASY

With the growing variety of store credit cards, bank cards, travel cards, and bank lines of credit, an average working person can easily have access to tens of thousands of dollars worth of instant borrowed money

“There are lots of people who have trouble handling credit,” says Kathleen Stephenson, director of policy for the Consumers’ Association of Canada in Ottawa

“We do have concerns about the way those cards are marketed,” Stephenson says. But she adds that the only way for consumers to really protect themselves from credit problems is to be well informed

She recommends consumers understand the terms of each of their credit cards and consider all the options available when they buy on credit. For example, consumer loans from banks usually carry a much lower interest rate than most credit cards.

DON’T ABUSE IT

Sam Hastings, the woman who is executive director of the Toronto Credit Counselling office which handled more problems last year, of getting credit,

than 2,100 cases of serious credit

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in their financial situation.”

Someone loses a job, a car

breaks down, a major purchase has to be made and “once you get behind it's very hard to catch up.”

December is a bad time of year for people who have trouble keeping a check on their spending

“People get carried away at Christmas because they want to be able to give with their hearts rather than their

pocketbooks,” Hastings said.

She recommends Christmas shoppers make a list of the gifts they want to give, set a price limit, and then shop with

cash

“If you're shopping with $60 in your pocket for a gift for

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Hastings said. “The only way to deal with that is to

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TORONTO (CP) strong gains by oil and gas shares in the last few days the Toronto Stock Exchange closed Friday slightly lower than a week earlier.

The TSE 300 index the broadest meas. ure of market activity gained 6.67 points in active trading to close at 3041.59 down 25.47 from a week ago.

In New York, the Jones average of 30 indus trials fell 11.39 to 1912.26. finishing the week with a loss of 12.80.

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