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Show BY JOEY SASSO CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: As a youth, actor Dan Frazer'i lite read like the plot for a grade B 'I Was a Teenage Alcoholic' movie Today, the man who plays Telly Savalat' boss on 'Kojak' still finds it painful to discuss his former drinking problem. "Soon, the public thinks of you only in terms of that problem. I haven't had a drink in 15 years." the 55 year-old actor told me. Raised with nine siblings in a cold-water flat in New York's seamy Hell's Kitchen, Fraer recalled, "I started drinking as a teenager wine, beer, whatever. It eased my way socially through the painful growing-up period." And he kept drinking into his early theatrical days as he struggled to make a living. Once the commitment to stop drinking was made, Fraer recalled, he felt a change within himself, "a sense of self-esteem I had lacked for years. I exude confidence now because I know my mind is sharp and working every minute. I have the ability to do what I'm doing, plus the sobriety to accomplish it." ... Suddenly its David Doyle of 'Charlie's Angels' who's getting hoity-toity. Maybe he just got tired of seeing the Angels ask for everything and get everything they asked for. In the last weeks of shooting for the season, he put in his own demands, for a new dressing room, better quality wardrobe and so on, INSIDE THE TUBE: Farrah Fawcett, who reportedly underwent expensive silicone treatments on her hands to keep them soft and young looking, went on the kind of wild shopping spree most women can only dream of. She shelled out $7,839 (a mere pittance for Farrah) for 31 clothing items for a trip to Europe she plans to take with husband Lee Majors ... Farrah may be the most popular woman in the world but it was Lynda Carter, who stars as TV's 'Wonder Woman,' whom the International Academy of Beauty in London chose as the world's most beautiful woman. According to the Academy, Lynda "epitomizes the women of today with her vibrant feminine spirit, combining beauty and intelligence with charismatic charm." . . . Sada Thompson, the mother of TV's 'Family,' is loudly telling reporters that there are times when she hates the show. It bothers her to do scenes where she does nothing but look maternal. TV INSIDERS: Friends of comedian George Klrby were shocked when George got socked with a 10-year prison sentence for selling heroin. Most thought George would beat the rap . . . Off camera, only two's company for Joyce DeWitt, one of the stars of television's 'Three's Company,' with Suzanne Somers and John Ritter. The two are Joyce and Peter Raymond Buktenica of 'Rhoda,' who decided recently to live together as a sort of pilot for the marriage both hope will follow. But this is not the standard casual Hollywood fling. "The best part of going to UCLA was meeting Ray there," Joyce, 25, told me. "I was attracted to Ray because he has such a definite character look about him. I loved his face. I never did go for the knockout handsome kind of man. The first time I saw him was in an acting class and I thought he was adorable. He's still adorable." Women who see him on 'Rhoda' in which he plays Benny Goodwin, the friend of Rhoda's sister, Brenda, think so, too. Hundreds of letters arrive each week at the sparsely furnished, plant-laden home they share in Hollywood Hills . . . Mary Tyler Moore nearly went into shock when she learned her 21-year-old sister Elizabeth Ann died of a possible drug overdose. What jolted Mary most was that some 30 cuts were found on Elizabeth's wrists that were apparently inflicted the day before her death ... ' . vl J |