MAGS AND BOOKS
Date and Issue: Number 216, March 27, 1979.
Pages: 2 pages and a centerfold.
Pictures: 1 color picture and 1 black and white pictures plus the centerfold.

Article: 1-page article.

Author: Shel Kagan.

Country: USA.
CIRCUS WEEKLY Wonder Woman gets moved around, and it keeps her busy.
     If Wonder Woman doesn't know what time it is these days, it's because CBS has been moving the program around so much-in fact, it was supposed to be dropped, temporarily, but instead has been used recently as a fill-in for other shows dropped from the schedule.
     All of which doesn't bother Lynda Carter a bit. "I don't have any control over the situation," she told Circus Weekly, "and besides, I've had three good years with the show. I have so many other things going on with my career that Wonder Woman itself is not all I can do."
     Husband (and manager) Ron Samuels feels otherwise. "It's difficult to make other plans when we don't know what the network is going to'do," he states. "But wherever they've put the show in the schedule, it's worked well for them." Samuels, who also manages bionic actress Lindsay Wagner and has worked with Joyee Dewitt and Jaclyn Smith as well, masterminds all of Lynda's career, and sees her as "just a regular girl from Arizona" who is not flustered by success.
     Right now, Lynda's other projects consist of a new album. (after one unsuccessful Epic album, Samuels is negotiiating with another label), a television special planned for the fall, and the best-selling poster in America.
     "I didn't want to do a bilkini poster when everybody else did," she states. "And I wasn't trying to be consciously sexy; my husband had to talk me into doing the poster with the shirt tied in the front'
     Neither of them now regrets the decision, since the poster has sold a million units.
     When asked about the recent show-. ing on pay television of a film she did with Marjoe Gortner, Billy Jo and the Outlaw, in which she appears partially nude (a role which was played up some time ago in a men's magazine that splashed still photos from the film across several pages), she tossed off any embarrassment: 'The nudity there wasn't really in bad taste. It was the violence in the film that I objected to. Besides," she continued, "that was five years ago, and things like that tend to fall by the wayside eventually."
     She saw the film Superman recently and commented on the difficulty of playing a costumed crusader. "When you put on a costume, reality goes out the window and you have to work to get it back in your performance. I always liked the way George Reeves played Superman on television-always with a twinkle, and not as a buffoon."
     Whether or not the Wonder Woman series is continued, she intends to concentrate on her music (like Cheryl Ladd, she started out as a singer) and will be trying for a "more commercial sound."
     Will disco be a part of it? "Whatever it takes to make it sell," she replies, with as much determination as Wonder Woman herself.
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