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Show channels BY JOEY SASSO CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: Word has reached me from my contact In Hollywood that only the day before he shot himself Freddie Prinze cried out in agony lo an associate: "I think I'm going crazy!" Shattered by his broken marriage, miserable without the baby son and wife he adored, he wailed: "Hollywood won't leave me alone. Half the time I'm losing my temper for the most insignificant things." Barely 24 hours later he pressed a pistol lo his temple and pulled the trigger. He died 36 hours later. His pleas for help had gone unheard. He'd tried every way he could calls to his parents, to estranged wife Kathy Cochrane even firing a desperate 'test shot' from his gun earlier in the day to make sure it worked. Nobody noticed . . . Louise Lasser, star of 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,' threw a party for the cast the other night and introduced them to the new Italian liqueur, Sciarada. TV-BACKSTAGE: Lee Majors wishes the devil he'd never pushed his wife to be an angel. But there's not much he can do about it now. Farrah Fawcett-Majors has become the acknowledged star of 'Charlie's Angels.' a TV series about three beautiful female private eyes who work lor a disembodied voice named Charlie. The resultant conflicts between the heavenly Farrah and the Six-Million-Dollar Man are damaging their marriage. "We hardly have any time for each other," Majors complains. "I swear. I never should have told her to do a TV series." INSIDE THE TUBE: The recent marriage of Bionic Woman' Lindsay Wagner and actor Michael Brandon is already on the fritz. Lindsay has become a recluse, changing her telephone number every couple of weeks. She's also very protective of Michael and wants him close all the time. Trouble is, Mike has no time left for his own career . . . Actress Helen Hayes just can't give up films. Now 76, Helen recently starred in ABC's 'Victory at Entebbe' En-tebbe' and she has no plans to give up. her acting. She says she plans to retire "every night at 6 o'clock. But then I get a good night's sleep and begin work the next day as usual." . . . When the final 'Mary Tyler Moore Show' shot its last frame, the star threw a Teacher's Scotch party for the whole cast and crew . . . Desi Arnaz, Jr. is a busy young fellow. He's working hard on a TV pilot and putting togethera new rock band. Still, he can always find time for a date. The sweet young thing's name is Marcl Maleh . . . Kay Gable (Clark's widow) ventures out only rarely these days and usually with lady friends like '40s star Mary Carlyle. Kay would like to find a man to fill Clark's shoes, but that's not so easy. King wore a size 13 . . . Bill Macy of 'Maude' fame says he and his wife Samantha Harper are the best pool sharks in show business. And Bill is willing to put his money where his big mouth is. Hustlers Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, are you listening? . . . And they said it wouldn't last. Wherever Duke Wayne, 70, goes, so goes 24-year-old Pat Slacey, his former secretary. Of the difference dif-ference in ages, Pat says: Love doesn't read birth certificates. cer-tificates. POUNDING THE TV BEAT; TV heroes don't only battle their on-stage enemies. They also have to light tooth-and-nail with the network brass who keep trying to water down their shows. Says Telly Savalas: "Sure, these network people try to chop out some of the more realistic scenes they think are too violent. But that's the world Kojak mixes in. I, too, draw the line at too much blood and gore, but I insist that they don't make Kojak a milk and water l character. He's a tough man in a violent world." |