Show Page 6— The Herald Journal Cache Sunday September 4 1988 MamIyn Becks Hollywood Gifford walks a ‘tightwire’ of this year’s Winter Olympics they were blasted by the critics — though audience ratings were consistently high The experiences notes Gifford make her sensitive to the position of her guests “I try to follow that old Golden Rule: 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’" she says in her familiar throaty voice “What I try to remember is I’m not a By Monika Guttman for Marilyn Beck Celebrities find a lot of public sympathy when they cry “in vasion of privacy" by a media It's an — hook all nobody after easy likes the idea of being constantly followed by photographers or peered at through the bushes Media personalities howevhype-hung- er ry face an interesting hard-hittin- g journalist — I'm not there to find out if the wife dilemma: On the one hand their careers compel them to delve into the details of other people's lives On the other hand they themselves often become the subject of media scrutiny: magazine stories newspaper and TV profiles books etc It's a lot harder to cry “invasion of privacy" when that's how you make your she was a child “I've been a hambone since I was born My family nickname growing up was Sarah Heartburn after Sarah Bernhardt" she laughs “I was always putting on plays and carnivals My dad was a my mother Jazz saxophonist on when she the radio sung was younger and my sister is a brillliant singer And we'd dress up our poor dog Zorro He had more outfits than Spuds McKenzie" Yet she never seriously considered a career in the entertainment field “I grew up in a strong evangelical home so I didn't feel that I would ever be able to be in 'show business' I really thought that that was not the place for a nice little Christian girl like me But I found out that just isn't true at all that there’s a place for everybody” was pregnant two months before they cot married I'm not going to delve into peoples’ personal life and cause them pain because I have to live with myself I don't think human beings have the right to do that to other people" Ironically Gifford feels one of the reasons the program has enjoyed popular appeal in New living When she was 17 Gifford It's a dilemma that Kathie York is because “Regis and I Lee Gifford deals with on a share and laugh about our attended Oral Roberts Univerpersonal lives on the air I sity in Tulsa Okla She also daily basis On Monday Buena Vista TV traveled a great deal when I began appearing in commer'Good Morning America’ cials — and by the age of 20 begins national syndication of did — I met people everydecided to move to Los Angeles and Manhattan-based the morning who in eat restaurants where to pursue a show business show that Gifford magazine has hosted for the past three and own cats and have career mother-in-laAmong her credits: a stint on problems All years with veteran interviewer in we the the discuss the things Redaytime serial "Days of Regis Philbin “Live with Our Lives" a role as the can relate Everyone morning and so sold Kathie Lee" far gis featured singer on the game u 155 markets is lighthearted to those experiences" show "Name That Tune and — She pauses absentmindedly and Gifford infotainment a part in the sitcom “Hee Haw of the scrambled continues the eggs personality pushing interviews she first developed her breakfast around the plate Honeys" She also developed during four years on ABC’s with her fork “Obviously we an acclaimed nightclub act don’t share the intimate things eventually opening for such “Good Morning America” A singeractress since the about our lives or the really comedians as Bill Cosby Bob Gifheavy problems that we have Hope and Bob Newhart and in age of 14 the — on is also used to because that part is no one's 1985 singing for President and ford sitting the other side of the fence business So there's a tightwire When she married ABC that you walk between what sportscaster Frank Gifford in will enlighten and enrich peo1986 she was accused in the ple's lives — or at least make media of stealing another them enjoy their life a little woman's husband (Frank 58 more — and what really is a bad also divorced Astrid Naess private matter" Gifford has never made a after a seven-yemarriage in 1986) When the Giffords secret of the fact that she enjoys performing for the together provided color comABC for the mentary coverage public — and has ever since Mrs Reagan at the Inaugural Ball In 1982 at the age of 28 Gifford moved to New York to assume her "Good Morning America" duties as substitute host special correspondent and commerthe show’s cial spokesperson Her rigorous schedule she says now “really affected my personality I'd always enjoyed work and all of a sudden I wasn't liking it anymore I didn’t want to get out of bed in the morning didn’t want to face the day I didn’t want to talk to people People don't picture me having a nervous breakdown and nn not saying I did but had I continued on that route I think I would have" Although the syndication of "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee” is a major career break she insists that now it’s the private side of her life that se matters the most Frank and was happy on another level for the first time in my life Remember the scene in ‘Private Benjamin’ when Goldie Hawn walks around in the rain and says ‘I just want to have lunch I just want to be a normal person?’ I can relate to that so much” She laughs “It never before had the priority in my life it does now My Hfe with my husband comes first My career is second And it's a strange time for that to be happening as the show goes national Just when she's once again in the spotlight of media scrutiny She laughs at the observation “I never said my timing's good” C 1911 T ribune Media Services Inc The Herald Journal “My life since I left home has basically been all work oriented" she states “But all of a sudden I fell in love with CLASSIFIEDS 752-212- 1 w Get away to Beautiful Sherwood Hills 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