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 She
keeps Wonder Woman's tiara and bracelets enshrined in a glass
case in her home. But Lynda Carter, 43, rarely thinks about her
superhero days. "It would be fairly pathetic if I
did," she says. She'll watch tapes of the show if her kids
want to, but "I basically avoid anything I've done in the
past," she says, "I'm living now." |
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And
it's not a bad gig. Nearly 15 years after the last of her three
seasons playing the series' underclothed crusader, Carter
resides in the suburban splendor on a Potomac, Md., estate
equipped with pool, tennis court, home gym and man-made
waterfall. She has a high-profile husband, D.C. attorney Robert
Altman, 48, and two children she adores (Jamie, 7, and Jessica,
4). She still acts -most recently in this year's short-lived
syndicated series Hawkeye- but her priorities expanded a while
back. "How many videocassettes of your work can you park on
a shelf?" says Carter. "In the end it doesn't mean
much. I wanted a family, a life with substance." |
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Substantive
problems came with deal. In 1991m seven years adter Carter wed
second husband Altman (her first marriage, to her manager Ron
Samuels, ended in 1982), ALtman was accused of fraud in the BCCI
banking scandal. He was acquitted, but only after a five-month
trial, which his wife attended daily, and a legal bill in the
millions. "We've been through very public things,"
says Carter, who weathered the storm while doing TV movies (like
CBS's Posing, in which she played
a wife who appeared in Playboy). "I think I'm a bigger
person now, and I'm more creative." With her kids growing
older,
she says, "I'm sort of |
| working my way back, looking
at ideas for pilots. I want to play a woman who overcomes things
-a kick-ass woman." Sounds like someone who used to know. |
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