Show Page 6— The Herald JoumalCache Sunday September 4 1988 MarHyn Becks Hollywood Gifford walks a ‘tightwire’ she was a child "I’ve been a of this year’s Winter Olympics hambone since I was born My were critics blasted by the they — though audience ratings family nickname growing up was Sarah Heartburn after Celebrities find a lot of public were consistently high Gifnotes Sarah Bernhardt" she laughs The “inwhen experiences sympathy they cry to was ford “I the make her sensitive always putting on plays vasion of privacy” by a and carnivals of her My dad was a position guests media It's an old iazz saxophonist my mother “I try to follow that easy hook — after all nobody had unto ‘Do Rule: Golden others sung on the radio when she likes the idea of being conwas do as would them have younger and my sister is a you stantly Mowed by photograor peered at through the unto you”’ she says in her brillliant singer And we’d Ehers familiar throaty voice “What I dress up our poor dog Zorro try to remember is I’m not a He had more outfits than Spuds Media personalities howevg er face an interesting journalist — I’m McKenzie" Yet she never seriously connot to out if the wife find there dilemma: On the one hand a career in the entertwo sidered months was their careers compel them to pregnant delve into the details of other before they got married I’m tainment field “I grew up in a not going to delve into peoples’ strong evangelical home so I people’s lives On the other hand they themselves often personal life and cause them didn’t feel that I would ever be become the subject of media pain because I have to live able to be in ‘show business’ I was not scrutiny: magazine stories with myself I don't think really thought that that nice to a little for the human have the place beings right newspaper ana TV profiles Christian girl like me But I books etc It’s a lot harder to do that to other people” Ironically Gifford feels one found out that just isn’t true at cry "invasion of privacy” when of the reasons the program has all that there’s a place for that's how you make your enjoyed popular appeal in New everybody" living When she was 17 Gifford It’s a dilemma that Kathie York is because "Regis and I our about attended and Oral Roberts Univershare laugh Lee Gifford deals with on a I in Tulsa Okla She also on lives air the sity personal daily basis On Monday Buena Vista TV traveled a great deal when I began appearing in commerdid 'Good Morning America’ cials — and by the age of 20 begins national syndication of — and I met people every- decided to move to Los Angeles Manhattan-based the morning who eat m restaurants to pursue a show business where show Gifford that 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 the we discuss the the Rethings Philbin "Live with daytime serial “Days of Regis Our Lives” a role as the can relate morning Everyone and sold so Kathie far Lee" gis featured singer on the game in 155 markets is lighthearted to those experiences” — She pauses absentmindedly show “Name That Tune” and and Gifford infotainment a part in the sitcom “Hee Haw continues the on-a-ir personality pushing the scrambled eggs of interviews she first developed her breakfast around the plate Honeys” She also developed during four years cm 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 ready comedians as Bill Cosby Bob Gifage of 14 the heavy problems that we have Hope and Bob Newhart and in ford is also used to sitting on — because that part is no one’s 1985 singing for President and 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 had 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 com— and has ever since ABC for the public mentary coverage By Monika Guttman for Marilyn Beck hype-hung- ry hard-hittin- Frank and was happy on another level for the first time In 1982 at the age of 28 in' my life Remember the Gifford moved to' New York to scene in ’Private Benjamin’ assume her "Good Morning when Goldie Hawn walks America” duties as substitute around in the rain and says ‘I host special correspondent and just want to have lunch I just commer- want to be a normal person?’ I the show's cial spokesperson Her rigor- can relate to that so much" She laughs “It never before ous schedule she says now had the priority in my life it affected personalimy "really Mrs Reagan at the Inaugural Ball se ty 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 Irm 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 matters the most “My life since I left home has basically been all work oriented” she states “But all of a sudden I fell in love with 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 19SS Tribune Media Services Inc The Herald Journal CUSSIFIEOS 752-212- 1 w Get away to Beautiful Sherwood Hills 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