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WONDER WOMAN, Lynda Carter has a lot of people In Hollywood wondering
just what has happened to the one-time beauty queen' from Arizona whose
charming smile and cordial personality captured the imagination of TV
producers and fans alike. Several months ago Lynda was all smiles, Miss
'Cordiality to everyone she met. One critic describes her as the most
beautiful actress on television. And she also happens to be the youngest
leading lady on the tube at age 24. However, in recent months it 'seems
that Lynda, for a young woman whose lifestyle' has been basic and
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Shortly after WONDER WOMAN
premiered on ABC and its ratings indicated TV `viewers liked what they
'saw, the usually -prompt actress became less reliable. Whereas she was
always cooperative at the outset of her show, she became more of what
she once joked about herself as „a temperamental actress." |
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She's become unavailable
for media interviews, and on a 'couple of occasions she allegedly
canceled interviews at the last minute. Furthermore, when she has agreed
to attend some social function on behalf of the show, she's made it her
habit to insist ''upon a chauffeur-driven limousine to, pick her up and
return her to her Hollywood home. |
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In recent weeks, after
professing to one reporter that she had little time for romantic
Involvement, Lynda is now apparently sharing a residence with Ron
Samuels, a personal manager in Hollywood, who is separated from what one
person described as "his gorgeous wife." |
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Samuels is' the personal
mentor to such` beautiful Hollywood women as Lindsay Wagner, TV's BIONIC
WOMAN, and Jaclyn Smith, one of CHARLIE'S ANGELS. Lynda's and Ron's
reported romance is particularly curious since in the past, the actress
has been a vocal advocate of being free to come and go as she chooses.
In fact, she has the reputation of an actress who, II scurry around
Hollywood involved in a long list of projects, who will simply 'vanish
for two or three days at a time. |
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Lynda claims she must live
in an environment "free of hassles. I'm like two people. 1 either do
nothing and hibernate, don't answer the phone' or door. stay in my room
and watch TV. Or I'm out doing 80,000 different things. "Sometimes in
the middle of doing those 80,000 things, I come back for like two days
to my hibernation bit. Somebody will call and I'll finally decide to
answer the phone. And they will' say, 'What's wrong? Are you iii?' And
I'll respond, 'No, I'm just' a temperamental ac tress." |
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Lynda makes the comment in
jest, though there are those who now agree about her being
temperamental, Lynda explains, "I do it to -sort of regroup l get so run
down. I have no choice. If l have a responsibility, I'll definitely
fulfill it and be there when I'm supposed to he there But as soon as l
can I'll gel away. |
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"I can't -necessarily
explain those 'things," she adds. "And really, I don't even want to try.
I like it. I never know what is going to happen tome. I really don't
know what to expect from myself, except that I know anything I can think
of I'll do." |
Date and Issue: Volume 10, Number 10, March 6, 1977.
