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Show Iy Joey Sasso J 0NFIDENT1AL PEPGPT: Suzanne Somen of AsC-TV's f hree's Company' wears another woman's weddrg I g. and she's con meed that's what makes her I arnage work. "From the moment Alan placed it on my I ger. I've been the happiest woman a. ve." Suzanne I Id me. "It's as though the ring has cast a mage g'ow er my life and marriage." Taik-show host Alan Hamel. f . and Suzanne. 32. were married in November. 1577. I t long before. Alan's father. Isadore Himel. found the I Id band in a Toronto supermarket. Himel put up a I tice in the supermarket and ran an ad. Eut no one I Tie to claim the ring. "From the beginning we all I isidered the finding of this ring a lucky omen." I ;anne noted. The whole world knows what a pot of I d Suzanne found in her career. And Suzanne's I ivinced her good fortune goes even further l.ke I en she and Alan bought their house. "The first time I w this house. I was enchanted with it." Suzanne toid I . "But the real estate agent told us it'd been sold. I 3 weeks later the agent called back and said the saie I I fallen through." One week after that. Alan sl'pped I ring on Suzanne's finger . . . Everyone thought sirger I in Russell was Cheryl Ladd's new boyfriend but it I is out she has been seeing him at least S'x montns. I that's before she left her husband. David Ladd. I TICKER: Frank Converse and Broderick Crawford will I in a thrilling story of a round-the-world saving race. I e Position.' the third in a series of original dramatic I !rams presented by the Liberty Mutual Insurance I ipany. The one-hour drama, which will be telecast I nme time over a network of 100 stations during the I k of January 7. centers around James Lorgstreet's I ed by Frank Converse) determination to enter and I a solo round-the-world sailing race . . . Eeneath the I ing facade of Taxi' star Jeff Conaway lies a man I Dly scarred by a tragic childhood. "My chiidnood was ;rable." admitted the 29-year-old actor. "I even sidered committing suicioe. My parents e'e reed so I was continually moving back and forth een households. It was awful. I wasn't a physically ng kid. either. But I was good-looking. That's an cky combination and I suffered greatly." . . . Robin ams. the Mork of ABC-TV's 'Mork & Mmdy' let out ry earthling-like squawk before suing for $5 million a re-released movie. It seems he dian't like the film ucer's advertising campaign. He said the aas implied a star in 'Can I Do It . . . Till I Need Glasses?' when e really has is two scenes. LOSE-UP: The public knows Red Skelton as a gifted n. laughing at his own jokes and bubbling with usiasm. But underneath he lives a life filled with )w and tragedy, says his biographer. Arthur Marx, 'een 1951 and 1971. Red. 66. reigned as the king ot i v comeay. mis was one ot the longest-running shows in the history of the tube, spending 17 years on CBS and the other three on NBC. "Red is the fellow who says 'God bless' at the end of his act. and then goes home and gets drunk." explained Marx. ... A funny thing happened to Mike Farrell on his way to fame as Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt in CBS-TV's hit show M'A'S'H.' He not only got married twice, but the second time he eloped to Las Vegas with a beautiful blonde, whose divorce wasn't final. Both times he married the same girl and he's still happily married to her. "Judy and I first got married in 1963. And we argued all the time. Our marriage lasted for a little over three years, then it broke up. and I filed for divorce. Several weeks before the divorce became final we realized we still loved each other so we went to Las Vegas and got married all over |