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Amazon kitsch of the 70's is back! Bless 13th Street for reruns of the
most delightfully kitsch series of the 70's, the most outrageously disco
series, the most colorful series, the craziest series. The most mammary
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Before knowing the world celebrity under the sculpturales shapes
of Lynda Cover, the superheroine Wonder Woman already had a lot of hours
of flight behind her. Born in 1941 under the feather of Charles Moulton
and the pencils of Harry G. Peter in the pages of the magazine "All-Star
Comics", she failed to pass to the posterity with the face of Cathy Lee
Crosby, a blond and threadlike creature who played the "Superman's
little sister" in the proposed pilot produced in 1974. Chilly reactions
of the big executives of the ABC network, but is enthusiastic on behalf
of the public, that reacts to the cancelation of the series with a score
of thousands of letters. When ABC finally decides to a return of Wonder
Woman, Cathy Lee Crosby is not considered. To the protection of the
world against predators going from the Nazis to the extraterrestrials,
she will prefer the presentation of "That's Incredible!", American
model of our "Incroyable Mais Vrai" by Jacques Martin. Her substitute:
Lynda Carter, Miss America 1973, gifted with a particularly hilly
silhouette. A body built for the golden bustiers and the big starry
panties: natural, therefore, that the American public immediately falls
under the charm of this new Wonder Woman. To such point that he saves it
again when ABC tempts to kill it while turning it to the profit of "The
Bionic Woman". "The Bionic Woman" which "Wonder Woman" had replaced
during the convalescence of Lindsay Wagner, victim of an accident of the
road. Irritated by the recidivist caprices of the network, the producer
of the series, Warner, ends up installing the series on CBS, henceforth
distributor of a program 100% psychedelic, irresistibly "camp". A merely
American term that designates a scientist mixes assumed out of time, of
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Pop icon of the 70's, Wonder Woman is already a monument of "camp." Her
den is on an island of the Bermuda Triangle, she pilots an invincible
plane, her bracelets intercept the bullets and her magic lasso is better
than the web of Spiderman. Heiress of the ancient Amazon, she possesses
the strength of Superman and moves to the speed of Flash Gordon. As a
civilian, Wonder Woman names herself Diana Prince and wears a military
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She confronts her sister Drusilla (Debra Winger, long before An Officer
And A Gentleman) and not only the spies, the bunglers and the Nazi
scientists, but also an alien of variable shapes, a malevolent brain in
quest of a new body, a very greedy time traveler, a psychic vampire, a
merchant of toys who transforms his victims in androids... Small
inventory that gives a precise idea of the madness of this series. So
long as the version movies in preparation - with Téa Leoni? Indeed too
skinny! - didn't betray her image in our minds... |
Date and Issue: Number 31 / January 2000.
