The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 24

24 27 November 1994 NEWS THE SUNDAY AGE UNFORTUNATE choice of ditty by grand whlnr Mm DiedrlcJi when he whipped up hi troop at an Albert Park Droteet raHv to sin ttta 1m MleeraMee' ditty Do Yoe Hear The PmoK MM. That the I musk MT Kannatt uaad whan ha (neat-heated tha Mltehal show i Li mr ma oppoaraon ears. By LAWRENCE MONEY "0 LIKELY lad of the week: the estate ace who, peeved at ius-ing out on a deal, phoiu-d the property owner on the car phone When love goes out the door Who is slugging Bob? How green is Mike's mountain We can think of a quite a few possibilities. Was It Paul Keating, after finally running out of patience with Hawkle's memoirs? Was it Malcolm Fraser, just for old time's sake? Wrong both times. Bob was ducking a feral handbag wielded by the Queen (aka Gerry Connolly) at the Peter MacCallum ball at the Hyatt.

Perhaps Her Majesty mistook him for the dastardly James Hewitt rteturw ALEX ZOTOS Baauty eoothea tta savage breast: elfin publicist Suzie Howie and song-Stress Marina Prior toasted a good year during early Christmas whistle- Savage Club. rum, in THERE was a time when Al Bond, the latterday half-billion dollar bankrupt, was the love of the life of art auctioneers at whom he threw r. barrowfulj of borrowed megabucks at sales all over the world. Alas, how -times have changed. Now the art folk do not seem to want to know him.

Three former Bondy pieces go up for auction at Christie's in London tomorrow and Spy cannot help but; nuic uiai oonu name na oeen erased from the catalogue. It could have been Muzza HOW much more angst can the corridors of 3LO bear? Much gnashing of teeth last week after morning oracle Ranald Macdonald, known unkindly as Ranald McOick by in-house detractors, survived the reshuffle to resurface in next year's late-morning slot Until then Spy hears that onetime 3AW lion Murray Nicoll was set to hike over from Adelaide to take on a 3LO 8.30-noon slot head-to-head with 3AW's Neil Mitchell, the man who edged him out. Nicoll has confirmed he nad chats in Melbourne recently with LO station chieftain Steve Ahem. What happened? Auntie's mafia saved Ranald and shuffled Ahem. Stars of the silver screen get no gold REMEMBER Dinny Dwyer and Marjorie Stream? Fifty years after first popping the question, Dinny recently met his love Marjorie at the local church altar.

They both said "I do." But that isn't the only question they want an answer to these days. Various TV current affairs shows liked The Sunday Age' story on the newtyweds so much that they wanted to bring it to the small screen. Dinny wanted a little bit of money for spending his day with a TV crew. Sure, they said, no problems. And he could have a tape of the interview too.

But he hasn seen either yet His love of the small screen is now somewhat dimmed. 1 to say a few terse words. And was pulled up by the police for using a phone while driving. A CCORDING to West Coast Ea-i 1 gles boss Brian Cook, mid-; fielder Dean Kemp is spending his honeymoon overseas: "We gave him extended leave to do that with his wife." Not much of a honeymoon otherwise. 0 I VTO, not "MAR-ee" Tehan.

the LS name is pronounced "m-l REE" Tehan, Instructed Jeff Ken-i nett this week. That should make 5 patients on the waiting list feel a lot better. rf'S a girt! And you would have to say her prospects are good. Gretel, daughter of money machine Kerry Packer, has just had a baby daughter 0 rpHE Christmas parties get crazi-X er every year. Inspired Concepts, a Middle Park PR firm, fires up its Yuleode bash next Saturday with "table top dancing, fibbing championship, Buster the amazing talking dog and lawn Lawn 0 GRAPE-SQUEEZER Andrew Garrett has a catchy way of promoting his 1993 Momington Peninsula cabernet: "An MP with honesty, integrity, charm, character and intensity." An oxymoron if we ever heard one.

0 SPY was searching the White Pages for the Justice Depart'' ment actually, but came across a much more exciting listing on the opposite page: JUST BONGS (see pi Va like wild. man. FtOM the monied slops of Mt Macedon, rural retreat for the comfortably flush, come bizarre reports about green lights -glowing mysteriously through the night from the property of music czar Michael Gudinksi. Hundreds of green bulbs, strung throughout the spreading gardens of 'Penrith', glow until dawn like the landing lights of some horticultural Martian spaceship. The illumination has split the neighbors into two camps: those who feel that such festive display is "okay for but for 365 days a year is pushing seasonal stamina a tad too far.

And there are those who are titillated by the sight (while simultaneously feeling grateful not be paying the power Dili). The man himself told Spy he decided to switch on because "it looks "Unfortunately," said Gudinski, who has teams of workmen renovating the place, "I don't get up there much but it is Seat for a party. We will have one ere for BUly Joel. We had a great party there for Madonna." Mr Gudinski is also bringing out the band REM. Devotees may recall its last album: Last tug on the chains of of fice INTO Brighton's Khyats pub he marched in hill mayoral gear, a fitting choice given that the establishment years ago was called the Town Hall Hotel.

Cr Ken Oliver, last mayor of beheaded Brighton Council, had donned the full regalia, including chain, to propose a farewell toast to the lady who did him in: municipal super-pruner Leonie Burke. Showing little regard for the solemnity of the moment, a bearded tippler called out to the expurgated dignatory in the fabled manner of Lindsay asset to an English beadle during a 1940s cricket tour "Oi, Ken, if I pull your chain do you flush?" Mercifully, there was no reply. rwetting by the Howie-Taylor firm at the Ex-Keating staffer on the up and up THE star keeps rising for Mark Ryan, one-time press sheriff for bower-boy Keating. Young 30-tomething Ryan has been working for power pimpernel Malcolm Tumbull and bis law firm but has just signed on as a public-affairs guru with Frank Lewy. the Keating-friendly developer of the Westfield shopping chain.

Mr Ryan made his name with the republican movement, a name now being muttered by Labor heavies looking for possible new political candidates. Ryan is a former press secretary to John Cain but timed his exit to perfection: after the last Cain election win and before the stain began to spread. Cant go past it for value THE phones have been pealing with extraordinary zeal at Marshall White real estate over a 'Melbourne Weekly' ad for a plush two-storey pad in choicest St George's Road, Toorak. The consummate the ad 4 il Time marches on: but Anita Ekberg, squeamish at lining up against a curvy snap of her former self at the Cinema Nova to launch its Tutto Fellini festival. "He was a good friend," said Ms screen siren of the 60s.

Is not at all tne occasion. jim cKoerg, wno new out irom Home tor promises. "North-south tennis court, heated and tiled swimming pool and spa. Five bedrooms, double lock-up garage. Excellent value at $245,000 to $275,000 What they call a competitive price.

Countess gains two sisters MEMORIAL service during the week for Sir Ian Potter seemed to have a curious omission: no mention of his three previous marriages. The late financier had two daughters, Robin Potter from his first marriage (Ms Potter read a lesson at the service) and Carolyn Parker-Bowles from his second marriage (her husband Simon read a lesson). In an unfortunate blue in the Flinders Street press (particularly with Rupert's mother present) the two daughters were recorded as being the offspring of fourth wife Lady Potter, whose daught er by her previous marriage, the fonmer Primrose Pitty-Pat Dunlop, read a piece by John Donne. The publici ry-driven Pitty-Pat was recorded in the St Paul's Cathedral progra as "Countess Primrose Krasidd Siecen." 4 Nc9 store it 1 'i 3. i.v i.

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