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Show Many movie stars consult the real stars before they sign a contract, get married or even have a baby ! By JOE HYAMS This Week's Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD few months ago a great many believers in became convinced that the world would astrology end on February 3. One center of anxiety was India, where thousands prayed and bathed in sacred rivers. The other center was right here. The scores of astrologers who prosper in the him colony were swamped with calls from anxious star clients wanting tknow whether to stay or move, make out their wills or have one last party. Many stars, fearing public scorn, refuse to discuss astrology with any reporter, though some, such as Joan Collins (above), have no hesitation about it. Nevertheless, I have determined that at least a hundred of the personalities in the film capita consult astrologers at prices ranging from 3 to $100 a phone call or visit. They ask for best-know- n advice on such matters as what to eat, what to wear, where to live, when to make love. Fortunes are made and Hollywood careers have often hung on astrological consultation. Carroll Righter, a heavy-se- t man with a soft dress bank and voice and the air, account of a Wall btreet broker, is the most tamous Hollywood astrologer or, as he prefers to be called, astrologian. He detests being called an astrologist. "An astrologist is a quack, he contends. We looked in Websters and found theres no such word as "astrologist. Righter employs four secretaries and a mathematician. He says his primary interest is spreading the astrological word. "I love people, he says. "The more people who can be told about astrology and convinced, the better. Like most astrologers he rarely has time to actually look at the stars. He receives over 10,000 calls a year from his film star clients, many of them between midnight and 6 a.m. All their astrological charts are kept in a file beside his bed. The phone rings and an actresss voice says, "Im a Sagittarius and Ive had a marriage proposal from a Taurus. Do you think well get along? Or, "My husband and I would like to have a baby. When do you think the stars will be exactly right? His influence extends even to altering birth dates. Some years ago the late Maria Montez, expecting a child, was told by her physicians to prepare lor a Caesarean section on February 12. She telephoned Righter, who consulted her chart and told her not to let the doctors operate on the 12th because then the baby would be "a namby-pambThe operation was duly postponed . . . and the baby turned out to be a girl, and a joy to all. Righter also handles such mundane matters as contracts. Once he was asked by Susan Hayward the most auspicious time for her to sign a contract. He consulted her chart coaHv4 oa mxt poo |