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surfaced in the Forties and became the patron saint of our boys
fighting wars overseas. Grable and Monroe immortalized her. She
was the Ideal American Woman. |
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Today,
the pin-up has grown up. She is worldier than her older sister.
Small wonder. She is big business. Her natural assets have made
her a financial asset. |
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Besides
being big money-makers, today's pin-ups are headline-makers and
trend-setters. For though some of the top poster girls are
already giant stars --Farrah Fawcett, Suzanne Somers, Lynda
Carter and Cheryl Ladd--other most-watched ladies are just
breaking into the superstar status. For Susan Anton, Cheryl
Tiegs, Adrienne Barbeau and Loni Anderson, The Poster has become
a prime tool in advancing their careers. |
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The Pin-Up. The Poster-Girl. Long after the television set is
turned off, far away from the movie screen, she's still there,
watching you... |
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| LYNDA
CARTER - SHE DOESN'T KEEP YOU WONDERING |
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| Toto,
I got the feelin' we're not in Kansas anymore-/ We're on a
golden road in a moving picture show. / Oh don't it feel like
paradise. . . So runs the song, "Toto," which Wonder
Woman Lynda Carter wrote for her debut album, Lynda Carter
Portrait. To Carter-television star, beauty contest winner, and
Las Vegas headliner-it is indeed along, long way from the
Phoenix, Arizona suburb where she grew up.
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The
stunningly beautiful star, who was voted "most beautiful
woman in the world," considers herself an ambitious lady,
and openly admits "that if you have the ability to do
several different things, then you should try to do them all. At
the moment I'm concentrating on music, including songwriting,
but I also want to try television movies and feature
films."
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Beyond
any doubt, Lynda is a powerhouse pin-up. Not surprisingly, her
poster was the Number 1 seller of 1978. Her career as a
performer has been so extraordinary, it is obvious that her
desires have a magnetic touch.
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Lynda
entered show business as a singer, when she was 15. Upon
graduation from high school, she toured with a singing group for
two years. When the charm of one-night gigs singing in Holiday
Inn cocktail lounges across the great Southwest dimmed, she
started playing the beauty contest game and promptly won Miss
U.S.A. and Miss World U.S.A. Ironically, it was only a sort of
formality when this wonder woman became the Wonder Woman in the
TV series.
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Almost
two years ago Lynda married her manager, career management wiz
Ron Samuels (his other clients include Lindsey Wagner and
Jacqueline Smith among others), and with his encouragement she
staged a musical "comeback"-in a headlining act at
Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
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Has
all of this made Lynda's life wonderful? Not quite. As recently
as last year, Lynda now confides, she was suffering from a
spiritual malaise. "I had no right to be unhappy, but I
was. I had reached the end of my rope. I had fame, a wonderful
husband and everything everyone else dreams of, but it wasn't
making me happy and I asked the Lord to come into my life, to
use me. But He would have to do the leading. I asked the Lord to
take my life."
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Now,
with the spiritual sustenance to match her fame and fortune,
Lynda Carter, the magnificent statuesque pin-up, is obviously
ready to again take on the world.
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