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Show by Joey Sasso CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: It's a miracle 'Dallas' star Mary Crosby ever married her husband Ed Lotimer. She was terrified to meet him and he was just as frightened of her. "I'm a loner," says 20-year-old Mary who's Bing Crosby's only daughter. "I don't put a lot of trust in a lot of people. So when I met a guy in New York who said: 'Have I got the man for you!' meaning his brother I was cautious. But I took a chance and gave him my number and soon my phone was ringing. It was Ed and I flipped. I loved the sound of him and I liked his ideas. For two weeks we did nothing but talk on the phone. Finally we set a date to meet. That was a terrifying thought to me and Ed, too. What if we met and fell in love at first sight just like we did at first sound." ... If you've ever watched the smash hit TV 'oil opera' 'Dallas,' you may think Linda Gray, who plays J.R. Ewing's wife Sue Ellen, is not someone you'd invite home for dinner. Not so! A mother of two teenaged children, she's been happily married to-only to-only one man for 18'years. But too many people think that Linda is really like Sue Ellen, so much so that she's touring the talk-show circuit to let you know otherwise. CONSUMER NEWS WIRE: Former TV star Gale Storm has won her battle with booze after a six-year drinking spree that almost killed her. "I've been through hell and I made it back," said 57-year-old Gale, who now looks ten years younger. Gale starred in the top-rated TV series, 'My Little Margie,' in the early '50s and in 'Oh Susanna,' a decade later. During her Hollywood success years, she "thought of drinking as abhorrent." ... A source within the Lorimar Productions Produc-tions hierarchy swears on his Guccis that the characters, David and Janet, played by Grant Goodeve and Joan Prather, on TV's well-rated 'Eight Is Enough' will be divorced by the middle of next season. But fans of TV's Ponch, namely Erik Estrada, will either be ecstatic or heartbroken that MGM is seriously considering marrying off the character at the beginning of 'CHiPs' new season. I think MGM-TV, producers of 'CHiPs,' is missing a good bet by not developing a series around the real-life battles fought by Estrada and his co-star, Larry Wilcox. There's definitely no love lost between the pair. TV CLOSEUP: Tony Danza thinks he could have been a fight champ had he stayed with boxing, but fortune entered the ring, where he had won ten of the thirteen professional bouts. A boxing film that didn't materialize led to the role of cabbie-fighter Tony Banta in the hit TV show 'Taxi.' That led to roles in -'Hollywood Knights,' and the TV movie 'Murder Can Hurt.' Though now he's just one of the guys in the garage, when he arrived on 'Taxi' he "expected to be eaten alive," he said. "Judd (Hirsch) and everybody else made it so easy for me that I felt right at home. It's the best job in show business, having fun all day long." . . . Tony Award trivia: For the first time, one designer dressed three of the major presenters on the CBS televised award show. He's young Michaele Vollbracht, who did the sensational outfits worn by Carol Channing, Mia Farrow and Cicely Tyson. Vollbracht first came to the public eye when he did the Lynda Bird Johnson wedding dress about five minutes after he graduated from Parsons School of Design. |