MAGS AND BOOKS
Date and Issue: Number 93, 1979.
Pages: 2 pages.

Pictures: 4 b&w photos.

Article: Lynda Carter and her next telefilm.

Author: Not stated.
Country: Canada.

"I don't have a child, but I am a woman and at the bottom of me lives a mother"

     Lynda Carter plays her career indeed: the copious star accepts to defend the miserable fate reserved to the babies that are sold for a shirt or a bushel of wheat. Lynda Carter carries herself to the defense of more than 15,000 small beings that their moms abandon to their destiny. The movie in which Lynda Carter raises her talent, "Baby Brokers", will probably be all carried to the next fall to the channels of the NBC network. For Lynda it is a master's stroke because she finally seizes luck to prove that she is a big actress. Yet, the critics already kick it and put in doubt her moral sense, accusing it of playing for any maniac that has fun to describe the most obvious pathos. Lynda Carter immediately rises against these agitators of trouble and declare solemnly: "I am not risking to lose a role that brings me a lot on the professional plan to be pleasing to pseudo thinking minds, especially when I learn that they criticize a system in which they find their part. I quite find their reactions inappropriate and especially very shabby."

THE WAR OF LYNDA CARTER

     Lynda Carter wondered for a long time before accepting to defend her character's features; she knew straightaway that she embarked in a whole galley. Not ignoring the spitefulness of people that surrounds her, she decided to really seize the whole range and thimble her character while inquiring. This is how she visited the centers of social services, the libraries and the services of research in order to know about the traffic of the children. "I didn't want anyone to say to me that I got involved in an adventure that didn't fit me; the producers were all very clear with me, they warned me well: 'If you don't succeed in creating the unanimity, your credit won't be ever be the same'. I take a big risk, but I want to run it because I like to raise the challenges."

     Lynda Carter must admit however that she feels some difficulties to live henceforth with this sad reality: "She didn't suspect at all of this kind of trade, I had heard to speak well of it but it had never come me to my mind that you could spend 15 thousand dollars for the joy of the couples. I believed that you cannot buy this kind of joy. Today, and for the remaining of my days, I ask this question: 'Is there something on this Earth that is not for sell? I have been shocked by this and I learned how it is and I accepted to play the role. I am proud of me." Lynda Carter began the filming of the movie and several organisms rose against this squalid exploitation of the human misfortune, yet the film-makers have fun to show us from every angle, the epic dramas of the prostitutes, the sad adventures of the shrimps or the demonic prowesses of the ripper and the maniac of the saw! Lynda Carter, that knows her profession fairly well specifies her thoughts: "I play in a production that wants to all price to demystify the bargaining of the babies; we don't think that we exploit the human weaknesses, we serve the reason of the justice and the most elementary humanism while informing people. I stay even convinced that people will understand that we want to teach them the sad fate of the forsaken children and who knows, maybe a mother who had in head this absurd idea will change her opinion while seeing my movie. If so I will have reached my goal".

     The sale of babies is an illicit trade everywhere in the "civilized" world and every so-called nation who accepts this trade becomes a lucrative enterprise; but queerly, few efforts have been undertaken well in the goal to pursue the authors of these reprehensible acts. The trade of the children enriches every year a whole panoply of small mercenaries that works for a beater or a bigger entrepreneur, these people ignore all of the pain and the mother's misery and, at most, compensate them with a few hundreds of dollars. And it is exactly there that the legislator should hit: to prevent the trade of babies that enrich the small people and the criminals. As for Lynda Carter, her social action is located henceforth to the level of the sensibilization of the public and she put all strengths of her talent. "I want that my friends, my public, understand very well that we are dealing with a very powerful organization that possesses very powerful means of working. So some idle parents want to sell their child, and you cannot judge them immediately but you can prevent that these unhappy children don't fall between the hands of sadists or psychopaths. I don't believe that my compatriots will drop me, I have confidence in them and in their judgment." Lynda Carter and her husband Ron Samuels attend themselves mutually in this task and more, they support each other to make the struggle to this unworthy swapping. Lynda Carter will present her movie "Baby Brokers" this season and, risking her career, she makes a call to people of good will to end with this odious trade.

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Translation by Danielle Lapierre.
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