JULIAN WASSEB
<This was the year that was going to change Peter Falk's life(Aug. 9). He dissolved his 16-year marriage, said he would do only one Columbo segment and prepared to star in Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg. But Falk lost the Bergman film because of a schedule conflict, and he's up to three Columbo's. He is still single. "An actor," Falk says, "has to learn to live with disappointment if he's going to keep his sanity."
VMariel Hemingway, who made an auspicious film debut with big sister Margaux (May 10) as a rape victim in Lipstick, went on to play an unwed teenage mother in a TV special, / Want to Keep My Baby. She got raves but says of herself, "My voice is still horrible." The outdoorsy 15-year-old recently shot a duck for an ABC sports program and will model ski fashions for Seventeen magazine. Though her earnings are tied up in a trust until college, Mariel does covet one thingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a sewing machine.
>His $50 million offer could not reunite the Beatles, and a man-versus-shark match that never came off cost promoter Bill Sargent (April 5) $200,000. But he has a new play, Billy Sunday, with, praise the Lord, Alice Cooper as the evangelist. It opens in L.A. in January. As for the Beatles reunion, "It's going to happen someday. It will be the most exciting day in entertainment history."
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Dr. Timothy Leary, the former high priest of LSD (May 31), lost his girlfriend Joanna (at right) but reestablished himself as a big draw on the college lecture circuit. "It's wonderful," he says. "Professors' wives always want to run away with me." For $2,500 an appearance, celestial philosopher Leary turns students on to the inevitability of space migration. In his travels he finds "successful hippies are on their way to running this country."
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<Almost a year after he started investigating the La Guardia Airport explosion that killed 11 and injured 51, New York's bomb squad chief, Lt. Kenneth W. O'Neil, 60(Jan. 19), is retiring. "I wish we had caught them," says O'Neil, "but there are no firm areas left to check out." O'Neil spent 35 years as a cop and says, "Every time I hear about a bomb on the news, I'll miss not being there." 77