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Show peggy liploifs problems slae Haas do grid laca dccdla do live in laolivwood by Marilyn Beek PEGGY LIPTON will be returning to Mod Squad" in September, but only because, as she explains it, My blue funk mood isn't quite deep enough that I'm heading toward deliberate If I broke my contract and left the series, I'd be blackballed by the industry. I'm not quite ready for that. At this point 1 have nothing more interesting to look forward to than work, so I might as well grit my teeth and bear it. Shes been finding the fdmland scene progressively more difficult to bear ever since she arrived in seven Hollywood years ago. native of New York City, she emerged on the show business front ready to fight, to claw if need be, to make her presence felt. AS IT TURNED out, she didnt have to fight that hard. Parts began to come at first, her way, then featured roles in a myriad of TV series. And, four years ago, her berth in ABCs Mod Squad. Yet somewhere along the line between script interstudies, romantic ludes Peggy I.ipton awoke with a start to realize the life of an acting princess wasnt all she had dreamed it would be. We were dining alfresco, sheltered by the palm trees encircling the Beverly Hills Polo Lounge, and she said It's so nice wistful'y, here. You can almost youre not in pretend Hollywood for a little while. There's a small town she here," imit makes that sighed, possible to enjoy any degree of anonymity. Everything you do is noticed, made note of. You dine out with a man and you are by eyeballs prenetrated across the rooom. A one-line- where you can never achieve any degree of privacy, but where loneliness constantly engulfs you. She sat silent then, a loyely young woman of 26, ITS . A .. PLACE sunlight spilling or silken hair that framed a feature-perfeface masked by sadness. She's one of those others envy, whose picture is featured on magazine covers, her body photographed for high fashion layouts, and whose recent romance with wealthy record producer Ixtu Adler has been the source of extensive gossip column coverage. And yet she has come to a point where she feels, Im almost ready to crack from all the pressure. SHES HAD seven years to be an active part of the filmland social scene and has concluded, Ive never relaseen a tionship successfully work out here. I suppose the reason is simple: there is just too great an availability of other bodies around. Its the hardest place in the world to get a date. overThe competitions whelming. an endless supply of beautiful women, a shortage of men. And when man-woma- n you do go out, theres nothing to do. Really. She sat forward, a smile on her lips as she proceeded to prove her point. This is the way the game goes: You're picked up at eight, drive to a restaurant and wait at least and hour to be seated. The wine doesnt arrive with the dinner, the dinner is terrible. And then you're back out on the street at 10:30, no place to go, nothing to do. IN NEW YORK there are nightclubs, plays, museums. Here its the dinner bit, or living together. There seems to be no Shes a young woman one is instantly drawn to, a basic shyness penetrating her facade, and making itself apparent in her lapse into a childhood stutter when she delves into the subiect more meaningful to her. ITS REALLY a terrible predicament for girls out here. I'm not the only one going through a depression over the situation. A sensitive, perceptive young woman simply cant cut it dating the fellows who inhabit this town. Its something I've discovered after some disillusioning experiences. Work, too, has turned out to be a disillusionment for Peggy. Four years on a series and it hits you how limited your knowledge has become, how you never talk or are exposed to anything not connected with show business. And suddenly I feel like such a stupe, I want so badly to get out of these narrow confines of interest, to broaden myself. What she wants mostly dreams of doing during those lonely evenings when fantasies overcome her is to move from Holywood to London, to enroll in a college and study anthroand expand my pology, horizons, become more of a total human being. THERE IS also, of course, the dream of eventual marriage and motherhood. But I try hard not to think too often about that. The more you concen-.rat- e on something you want too much, the less chance you have of achieving it. And so I just ignore thoughts of personal happiness. SHES GAINED something of a reputation as a girl who can cause her share of trouble, and as w'e sat talking reminded me of that fact by saying, Remember when I was featured on the John Forsythe TV show? They hated me on that series? I was always causing problems. And they finally got rid of me, remember? Two years ago she almost rid herself of Mod association when Squad she went through another of her blue funk moods and I wasnt going to show up for work. But then I asked, Why do mvself in? Why destroy myself 'in the business when I tiave nothing better to turn to?' Which is why Peggy Lijv ton has decided to check in fort fifth season work on her,ABC(series w'hen resumes in May. ' pio-ducti- - .5, VI VI Peggy Lipton returns to Mod Squad this year, but isnt too happy aboQt It will be fifth season with Clarence Williams III, center, Michael Cole. it. billingsgate talk rough until tv language came along by Hugh A. Mulligan Associated Press Writer was always what you might call terms of endear, ment, put in Derek past president of the London Fish M e r chants Association. Its not like in the army where every other word was a scorcher. Dawn had yet to silhouette the arches of new London Bridge when this researcher made his way along the rainy Thames docks, armed with cotton ear plugs to staunch the expected flow of abusive syntax. Coarse diction, as a subject of public debate, was everywhere in the air since BBC radio had decided to follow TVs lead in four fetter permitting words and other explicit expletives wherever the plot indicated. AT BILLINGSGATE, the overiding regret of the merchants, "whtr wholesale the fish, and the mongers, lanTHE EXPLICIT on British allowed guage television these days is giving Billingsgate a good name. They dont bother sending the Salvation At my lassies around to save us people hear anymore worse on the telly at home, grumbled Joe Phillips, for 40 years a porter at Billingsgate, (he early morning fish market whose name became a synonym for vituperative speech. Shocking what they get agreed fish away vith, merchant Ted Marshall, from behind a marble slab I bumming with bream. turn the box off when I . hear that sort of tiling." In his four decades among the ice and blood splattered aisles of Billingsgate, Marshall admits to having heard phrases that would -scale the skin off a stone, crab. BUT ,AROUNpnhet'e,it Dal-they- who , retai it, was not that the lads were cuss mg les;, ' , ,, but that a permissive society was barely noticing anymore. Billingsgate gained its reputation for boisterous bandinage in the early 17th century when fishing fleets, barge pullers, fish wives, Cockney draymen and others doing commerce within the sound of Bow bells competed for equal conversational time. Over the years, a number of and dockside brawlers came to Billingsgate as porters and made their Own colorful contribution to the language. Now that fishing fleets no longer call at Billingsgate, named for a river gale in the old walled ciiy; lorry drivers from the ports of Aberdeen, Hull, Djver, Grimsby and Lowej stott serve as, visiting lecj turers. Women are a rarity at the market ' these days' whjcb some say accounts foe' the bwiral Jose The Salt Lake May 21, 1372 to |