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	Lynda Carter's name may not have been music to the ears of the crew on her "Wonder Woman" TV series ("Superbitch" was a more common reaction), but music has become Carter's life as she concentrates on a new record album and her first song-and-dance TV special (CBS, Jan. 12). Her strong voice will prove surprising to those who though that "Wonder Woman" was no more than 5 feet 9 inches of top-heavy cheesecake.

	At 26, Carter insists she is no wonder, but a real, complex woman who, despite Amazonian proportions, feels "fragile, unsure of myself, threatened by large groups of people." Only when performing and in makeup does the former Miss World-U.S.A. feel beautiful.

	Carter shuns night life of any kind. "We don't go out much," she says, referring to Ron Samuels, her manager and husband of two years, who sits beside her. "I need to be alone with Ron or with
small groups of people I'm close to. With them, I don't feel I have to be pretty."

To Carter, makeup is a defense. "I hide behind it," she confesses. "I put it on to put up a wall between me and people. That wall is impenetrable, so I cannot be hurt. At home, I never wear anything more than eye liner."

Home for the couple is Benedict Canyon, up and away from the Hollywood scene. The marriage was Samuel's, second, Carter's first. "I'd give up my career in a second if I felt it was in conflict with what Ron and I have together," she says. "I'm madly in love with this woman," says he. Adds she: "I want to have his children."

TV shows have been canceled for featuring such dialogue, but the two insist they mean it. Carter is dead serious about another matter as well: her born-again Christianity. It occurred just as her star ascended in Hollywood. She was suffering from insomnia and depression: "I had fame, possessions, a wonderful marriage and still I felt empty. I tried everything from metaphysics to fortune telling. None satisfied."

Her sister was her spiritual guide. "When I told her I didn't know how to pray, she said: 'Lynda, just talk to Him any way you know how.' So I did. I asked Him to come into my life, to help me make changes."

Carter says she will not proselytize. Samuels remains Jewish. "Each person must find his own way to Him." When asked about what many thought to be her un-Christian behavior on the set of "Wonder Woman," Carter doesn't flinch. "I yelled when the scripts were bad," she admits. "Week after week, nothing in the scripts would change except the names of the villains. So I made noise. Men don't like dealing with women who make demands."

Carter is facing the same problems with her newfound singing career. ','I can be headstrong and opinionated," she admits. "But I can also be submissive," she adds, smiling at Samuels. Their only disagreement came over the best-selling poster, which he suggested. "When I posed for it, I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up in men's bedrooms. I hate that. I hate men looking at me and thinking what they think. And I know what they think. They write and tell me. Sometimes, on the street, they come up to me and I see that look in their eyes. I watch them shaking all over. I hate it."

Suddenly there are tears in her eyes. "I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. God created me and I'm proud of what He created, but that doesn't mean I should exploit it. If I've done this-and I'm horribly afraid I have I am truly sorry. When I see men's reactions to it, I want to scream." Instead, she gazes hard at a copy of that poster and then delivers her final credo: "I am not that woman."