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Show BYJOEYSASSO CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: Kathy Prinze insists she would have saved her husband's life! For that reason, the memory of Freddie Prinze's suicide will haunt this young widow for the rest of her life. Deep in her heart, Kathy, 26, knows she would have prevented the sensitive 22-year-old actor from firing that fatal bullet if only she could have read his mind. Prinze, star of 'Chico and the Man' on TV, took his life only a few weeks after his wife had filed for divorce. "I wouldn't have gone through with it if I had known what it would do to Freddie," she cried after his funeral. "We both agreed we would always love each other, but I had no idea he would react this way. I would give anything if he were still alive! I think now that our marriage could have worked if we both had really tried and appreciated each other before it was too late." . . . With those filmy garments Cher Allman favors, the actual shape under the silk is all-important. So she's been to N.Y. for corrective surgery on her bustline as a consequence of her recent bout of motherhood. And then to a hospital in L A. to correct what they did in N.Y. So where does baby Elijah Blue get off? Off, that's where; he's fed a formula . . . Johnny Carson and his lovely wife Joanna have switched to health foods, and we assume Teacher's Scotch is one of them. TV-BACKSTAGE: The Good Ship Lollipop, having sailed the stormy seas of diplomacy, will now boldly tackle the tricky currents of a television series. Which is to say that Shirley Temple Black, the one-time curly-headed child star who more recently served as U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, is going into TV. She was retired from her diplomatic post with the coming of a new administration, and after a leisurely drive from Washington to the Coast, she's been deep in conference with Fred Silverman of ABC. He's the fellow responsible for such winners as 'Roots,' 'Laverne and Shirley' and 'Happy Days.' And he's been telling her that if she will okay an idea for a half-hour situation comedy, he'll get it developed into shape right away . . . Mary Tyler Moore, star of her own hit TV series for seven years, hides her temper and troubles behind her queenly smile and takes refuge with her only friend, husband Grant Tinker, in their Hollywood home. The 39-year-old superstar admits, "Grant has been my only friend. He's the only one I ever confide in." She doesn't wrinkle her brow over social contacts or publicity because "that's an element of success I don't worry about. I just think about doing my work as best I can and pleasing me and pleasing about 15 or 16 people who are my peers." Mary makes it a rule not to intervene in people's lives, especially on 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' set where she's afraid she'll make people "feel as if I'm the star applying pressure." INSIDE THE TUBE: Soap fans recognize her as Heather on ABC's 'General Hospital,' but in reality she is Georganne La Piere, Cher Bono Allman's little sister. As unusual as 25-year-old Georganne's life has been, she insists in-sists it hasn't been like a soap opera. "It's not as dramatic as you might think. I never took drugs. I don't drink or smoke, and I hate parties." . . . Though June Lockhart played the moralistic mother of Lassie's playmate play-mate and the wholesome doctor on 'Petticoat Junction,' in real life her attitudes are shocking. June's oldest daughter, Annie, is living with her boy friend, and June insists she is 'delighted' with the arrangement. "Annie's traveling with her boy friend and two dogs in a new truck. Their relationship doesn't bother me at all," she boasts. |