The Sun and Surf are all in the day's work for these California cops. Tonight, PM's pounding
the beach beat with the Malibu police to see how they keep peace in paradise.
It's definitely fun.
Then, when fame is the name of the game, how do the biggest names know how to handle it?
I go to a beach and I end up, you know, signing autograph.
The celebrities who've made it to the top tell what it means to be famous.
And the Brits are back and they've still got the beat.
We'll tune in to the sounds of the 60s.
That's all coming up tonight on the Monday edition of PM Magazine.
Which is coming to you from Mentor Antiques in North Kingstown.
This is a one-year-old store that specializes in British antiques and we'll tell you more
a little bit later on in the show.
Hi everybody, I'm Sheila Martinez and basically that's all you get right now.
In case you missed it Friday night on PM Magazine, Sprague has left the show to do some freelance
documentary work with his first love, Sailing.
And we will have somebody new to introduce you to in just a couple of weeks and I promise
you'll be the second to know.
Right now though, in honor of Labor Day, we're going to take one last look at the beaches
of summertime as we take you out to sunny Southern California where the beaches are
always nice.
Well, in the swank community of Malibu, there's a group of people who want to make sure you
have fun when you go to the beach.
But not too much fun.
They are beach combing cops.
The beach crowds that are attracted to Malibu, of course Malibu being the world famous beach,
range from many foreign visitors of course that would have been attracted to see the
homes of movie stars and to see the beaches of Malibu.
Visitation somewhere between five and seven million.
Less than a decade ago, the beaches of Malibu were the stomping grounds of the wild and
crazy.
It was a clash of the titans among surfers, valley punks and East LA gangs.
But the rich and famous changed all that.
When Olivia Newton-John, Johnny Carson and others made the beach a resort, it was time
for crime to exit stage left.
When we speak of coming to the beach and party, what we'll tell you is that if you want to
come down here and swim and have your radio and get sun tan, then you're going to have
a good time on the beach.
If you have other intentions, then of course we're probably going to spoil your day.
They've been called everything from sand fleas to guardian angels, but they are the LA County
Sheriff's Beach Patrol.
Eighteen officers headed by their originator, Captain Mark Squires.
Their mission?
To protect and serve 27 miles of prime beach frontage and to keep the beaches clean.
No alcohol, no nudity and no dogs allowed.
Now that may not sound like a job for dirty Harry, but somebody's got to do it.
It's completely different than a normal patrol atmosphere.
And if you work the Sheriff's Department, at one point in your career you should put in
for the beach team.
It's definitely fun.
Well, you see a lot of Malibu ten and a halfs and if you see a lot of Malibu ten and a halfs,
everybody wants to work this detail.
Hi girls.
Hi there.
This is the Malibu Beach Patrol's most colorful duo.
27 year old model and deputy sheriff, Dena Lincoln and her partner, Van Williams.
Dena's last job on the force was working a graveyard shift at a women's prison.
Today, she faces new challenges.
Yeah, why not?
The comments I have received from males, they would all love to be arrested by me, no doubt.
And it's quite comical.
Anytime they see a woman behind the badge, it's unheard of.
And of course, the Malibu Beach Patrol has its own celebrity.
Dena's partner, Van, is a reserve officer moonlighting for the patrol.
But at one time, the only crime he was involved in was on the set of TV's Bourbon Street Beat.
And as a crime fighter with Bruce Lee.
I did a series called the Green Hornet.
And while I was doing the Green Hornet, I kind of decided to get out of the business,
even though I worked for another eight or ten years in the business.
Thought for a while there about becoming a regular and decided that at my age, it was
a little too late in life to start from scratch as being a deputy.
So I became a reserve.
OK, being the only woman and the only celebrity may make them different from the rest of the
beach patrol, but they have a real job to do nonetheless.
Traffic accidents, alcohol abuse, PR for the department.
And of course, they have to keep the pants on nude dudes.
We're going to head towards Pirates Cove.
We'll just climb over these rocks here and see if we can find our regular nudes on the
beach.
Literally.
OK, there's one right there with a red ice chest.
Dark guy.
He's got absolutely nothing on.
My first response really isn't to be embarrassed.
When we approach nudes, first thing I tell them is to put on their clothes.
I don't want to have to sight them and look at them bare nude at the same time.
The violation is an LA County ordinance violation, OK?
It's just nude on the beach.
People are pretty ingenious.
At one point, we found a keg of beer that was under sand, about three feet of sand,
but still we had to get rid of it and we just made them pour it out, which probably ruined
their day, but it was better than drunk driving on the highway.
I think the LA County Sheriff is doing a superior job at waging the war against beach ignorance.
There's people that come to the beach and they just don't understand it.
They need to learn the laws, rules, regulations, and they do a bang up job.
Super.
You can imagine that the waiting list for an assignment on the Malibu Beach Patrol is
longer than the Hollywood freeway.
Sure, you get to warm your toes in the sand, work on your tan, or walk among the stars,
but first you'll have to be street wise because even at Malibu, life's a beach.
Now the cops at Malibu admit they do get asked all the time, don't you have anything better
to do?
There are serious crimes being committed around the area, but the cops say their work is very
important.
Since they began, drunk driving related accidents have decreased by 90% in the beach area, and
as a matter of fact, drinking related drowning accidents almost never happen.
Stay with us when we come back.
We're going to find out at what price fame, and we'll get you ready for a second British
invasion.
Welcome back to Monday's PM Magazine and to Mentor Antiques.
Now we are shooting on the main floor of this nice place they have here.
See, they invited us to look around and choose where we wanted to shoot.
They said you have to go downstairs because we have lots and lots of antiques from the
southeast area of Great Britain.
So we did.
We went down there and they weren't kidding.
We couldn't even find room to put the camera down, but we will show you some of their specialties
in just a moment after we find out at what price fame.
A lot of people think it would be the end all be all of life to be rich and famous,
but you do pay a price.
And tonight, celebrities like Paul McCartney, Bill Murray and Madonna talk about how much
it costs to be famous.
You can have Vanessa Williams fame.
You can have Jane Fonda fame.
It brings with it great wonder and great luxury.
You can have Jackie Onassis fame.
The word fame doesn't to me doesn't mean that someone's really great.
It just means they're famous.
Pia Zadora fame.
You know, talk to me the year from now.
We'll say hi babe.
How are you?
Nice to see you, Nancy.
Glad you could drop by.
Let's chat.
You should really try and find out why you want to be famous.
I never did.
What are all the attention?
It's the fortune that I was after.
You just want to see a picture in the paper or your face on television or is there something
more?
We rarely think of a celebrity in terms of what they want.
We think about what they are.
Their smiles brighter, their personalities more vivid, their talents fascinating.
If they do happen to have the same split ends, broken toasters and annoying relatives as
the rest of us, somehow they're seem a lot more interesting.
Or are they?
With the fame comes a certain image.
But if the image isn't quite real, do they still have to live up to it just for us?
John Travolta says while image may create certain pressures, for him the problem is
not all that terrible.
Well there's one image though that the two of you have had for a long time and that is
you're both sex symbols.
Yeah.
I don't think of myself as a sex symbol.
God, you're a sex symbol.
Do you like that?
I don't mind it.
I'm just growing up not thinking I was very much of what I think it's fun for everyone
to think you are.
He's got a funny...
What I find most interesting about that is that most people find that peculiar that someone
likes it.
And I thought, why wouldn't they?
Some do enjoy the image and adulation that comes with it.
The autographs we pursue, the pictures we would die for.
But stars are not always willing participants and that makes you wonder, isn't that what
they wanted when they wanted to become stars?
Why is it that celebrities work all their lives to be well known and then walk around
with dark glasses on to avoid being recognized?
I feel a little awkward complaining about it because it's sort of like a fighter coming
back to the corner and saying, hey, that's how they're trying to hit me.
It comes with the territory.
I go to a beach and I end up signing autographs.
When you start to dance, you forget that you're in a public place.
You whisper something.
All of a sudden you see people looking at you or somebody takes your picture and you
think, oh God, maybe we shouldn't dance in public.
Phil's a blusher.
I'm not.
His face just gets beet red and I can see where...
Sometimes he'll say, let's not dance here.
They wouldn't ask you for the autograph if they didn't like you.
And so it's really nice in your touch that they want to do it.
But it's also like, okay, now I would like to just take a swim.
And when we see those celebrities, we expect them to be very self-assured.
But even Paul McCartney says he keeps singing, writing and acting because he's never that
confident.
Any reinforcement and encouragement I can get on those three fronts, I'll take.
Do you really need reinforcement or encouragement?
Yes, yes, like all of us.
Do you ever meet a person who didn't?
Teddy Pendergrass knows that all too well.
A devastating car accident left him paralyzed and took him out of the spotlight for quite
a while.
But today, he has a new hit record and he says new knowledge of what happens when you
lose your star status.
I've lost a lot of friends, people I thought were friends.
There is that, well, Teddy you once were, Teddy now you're not.
And we're going to move, we're going to shift over to someone else who is now.
And it's...
It hurts.
But for some, the discovery of fame is still fresh.
We had gone to the Shirley MacLaine opening and the next day in the paper it said that
a lot of celebrities came out to see Shirley MacLaine's opening, Elizabeth Taylor, John
Travolta and Mary Lou Henner who were off on their way to the Caribbean for a big vacation,
plus Gregory Peck and Sean Connery and Esther Williams.
I said to John, I said, you know what I feel like reading this?
It's like two tourists who went to one of those newspaper places.
And there was like this whole thing written with celebrities' names and then you insert
two names.
I said, my God, I can't believe that it's our life.
So what is fame?
As we watch careers gloriously made and spectacularly lost, we know there's no way to put it simply.
It's different for everyone.
But for all of us, fans and celebrities, it is always a seductive fantasy.
It feels good.
It definitely feels good.
But it's not all fun.
Get your tables in a restaurant.
You don't have to stand in line.
But other than that, I would give it about a three, three and a half.
I'm always working to stay on top.
That's the biggest thing of it all.
Wearing shorts into a nice restaurant is a kick.
It's a great kick.
And I advise start them for anybody who enjoys that kind of thing.
So what are some standard questions for famous folk?
Brooke Shields says people always ask, how's Calvin?
Johnny Carson says folks always say, I go to bed with you every night.
And Paul Newman says that people always ask him about his blue eyes.
Now that's a good question to ask Paul Newman.
By the way, my new question is going to be, we've already decided, where's Sprague?
Well, when does the new guy start?
We'll tell you soon.
Stay with us when we come back.
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