 Date and Issue:
Volume 1 / Number 1 / December 1977. |
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4 pages. |
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Pictures:
6 b&w photos. |
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Article:
Lynda Carter and Wonder Woman. |
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None. |
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| Country:
USA. |
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 On
television they tell you about the miraculous woman who was factually
conceived in 1942 by Charles Moulton and named (fictionally) Diana, and
described as an "immortal." Diana, it seems, is an Amazon who lived on
an unchartered island called Paradise, where all òf the inhabitants were
females. The island, described somewhat like the homebase of the
legendary Sappho, the lesbian poetess famed for her love lyrics in
mythology, was supposed to be the place Wonder Woman and her sisters had
fled to in 200 B.C. to escape male domination. Paradise is a place where
males are not welcome and if some chanced 'to land there they were
captured and used for breeding or work. After one male traveler was
chained and slapped in a dungeon in Paradise Island (obviously not
paradise to him!) he vouchsafed that the Isle was "a queer place," and
he may not have been far from wrong. So you have to admit that Wonder
Woman had a strange and secret past for so highly regarded heroine! |
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In case you aren't up on
your Moulton, Diana, as portrayed lusciously by Lynda Carter, wears a
golden belt around her tiny waist which gives her superhuman powers and
strength. She also owns a set of silver bracelets which deflect bullets
like raindrops against a window pane. Another of her weapons is the
golden lasso that spins around and around and due to its magical
qualities forces wrongdoers to tell the truth. |
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When Diana was sent to the
Big Blue Marble, she appeared here as Yeoman (or shouldn't it be
Yoemanette or Yeoperson?) Diana Prince, in the U.S. Navy of the 1940's.
To make the startling visual change from Diana Prince to Wonder Woman,
she simply strips and changes into a gaudy stars and stripes costume and
then flips off her glasses, and as Major Steve Trevor, who apparently
has a bit of an eyesight problem says, "Hi, Wonder Woman," or Diana
whatever the case may be, depending on the direction in which she is
heading at the time. |
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Born in Phoenix, Arizona,
Lynda Carter speaks little of her past and there are, those who insist
she doesn't wish to confuse things, preferring to delve only into the
characterization she does on TV and not into her real life. |
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"In one sense I guess I
have spent my entire life preparing far an acting career," she
confessed. |
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"I got involved while I
was in high school and got deeper into a love for the theatre while
doing stage productions. I sang and danced and even moonlighted in
college nightclubs around the town as a vocalist." |
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If you ever heard Lynda
sing in any of her TV guest appear-ances, especially the one with her
friend, Mike Douglas, you know she is the possessor of a fine, cultured
and distinctive voice that should be on record right now! |
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In college Lynda had her
vocal and terpsichorean training and upon graduation she left the halls
of learning to join the halls of yearning-the rock group scene where she
toured on weekends with a group as their vocalist. |
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"I loved it! But my folks
weren't too keen on my choice of career. They didn't like me trekking
around the country." |
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Lynda got her first big
break in 1970 when she was signed on at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas
and performed with a rock group there, bringing down the house at every
performance. In 1973 she was crowned "Miss WorldU.S.A." and set out for
Hollywood. It was then she said, "As thrilled as I was, I didn't allow
myself to get side-tracked by empty promises. I knew what I wanted..." |
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Her first move was to take
acting lessons then she got a few minor roles on TV which did her little
good, except for the experience aspect. It wasn't until she appeared on
the high-rated, "Starksy & Hutch" series on ABC-TV that she got national
notice and this led to her current career. |
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WW and Women's Liberation
are often discussed in the same breath and in a recent comment, Lynda
said, "I'd hate to think that anyone might consider Wonder Woman a
dimwit or sex object because she comes across as naive. That would be
missing the whole point of the show." WW a sex object? No one at the
network or in the production offices of the series will tell us how many
letters WW or Lynda get each week from males who think WW is the
greatest thing this side of Farrah or Raquel or any of the current crop
of Hollywood beauties! Sorry about that, Lynda! |
