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Show BY JOEY SASSO CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: Gossip from the 'Charlie's Angels' set is that if Farrah FawcettMaJori is forced by leg.il action to go b.ick to work on the show, Kate Jackson ind Jaclyn Smith would be so unhappy they might quit themselves. They're ted up with playing second fiddle, first to Farrah and now to Cheryl Ladd. Meanwhile Jackie is getting a chance to show her stuff as an actress in 'The Users,' a TV-movie being made from the book by Joyce Haber. But Is TV hollering "Enough!" on sex? Originally 'The Users' was planned as an eight-part minisenes. Now it's been chopped back to a two-hour deal. Jackie has insisted that several nude scenes be dropped from the script but even so, the wardbrobe department is gasping at how revealing her costumes are supposed to be. . . . Would it still be 'Laverne and Shirley' without Laverne? Penny Marshall wants to give it just one more year and then quit to have a baby, her friends reveal. Producers shiver cit the notion because the show is going strong. . , . Now that 'Kojak' has been cancelled, don't think Telly Savalas will be leaving television. He's planning a new series entitled 'Big Julie,' which will show him as a man who works for the Las Vegas casinos, arranging air trips for the high rollers. . . . Can you see Raquel Welch as a wrinkled old Indian squaw? Yes, she'll enact the role of a 90-year-old, telling of her life through the plains wars and three marriages in a minisenes to be aired next fall. TV BACKSTAGE: Watch for the new TV series 'Jessica Crane, M.D.' with Clorl Leachman, who is busy doing live theater and would like another film after her success in 'High Anxiety.' . . . Another new show that may catch on this fall is 'Catch My Act," produced by Carl Reiner with the pilot written by newsman-turned-comic Bruce Vllanlch about four poor comedians trying to make it in Hollywood 'Soap' star Richard Mulligan and Leonore Steven are still going steady but there's no marriage in sight. Richard, who told us a year ago that the wedding was imminent, now says their love affair is so exciting he doesn't want to rush the wedding! . . . Johnny Carson may not be all smiles after Kenneth Tynan' often-biting profile in New Yorker magazine. Though Tynan reveals nicer secrets of what makes Carson tick, he pulls no punches in telling how tough he is in running his show. Comedian Mort Sahl, a sharp-tongued intellectual type who last was on the Carson show in 1968, charges, "Carson assumes his audience is dumb. He never takes serious risks. His staff only books people who make him look artistically potent." INSIDE THE TUBE: Liberated Susan Sullivan, the star of ABC-TV's 'Julie Farr, M.D.,' secretly desires a domineering husband and a houseful of children. But she fears the loss of her freedom and her career. "What I want most in my life is a solid, loving relationship with a man," Susan pleads. As Dr. Farr, she plays a self-sufficient, supportive career . woman with the personal life of a warm, passionate and sometimes vulnerable female. This dual role is also evident in Susan's real life. She sometimes frets over the fact she's not married, has never been married, has no children and just as the doctor she plays, "knows where she's missing out. I know where I've missed out. There's a lot of me in Maggie," Susan confides. "The need to be independent, mixed with real fears and uncertainties. I guess the fear of commitment is strong in both of us." . . . Airwick Products is introducing Carpet Fresh, a unique new household aid that deodorizes your carpet , and leaves your room smelling fresh and clean. i |