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Date and Issue: Volume XLIX / Number 2564 / September 23, 1977.
While the success of the television heroines promotes debates at all level, Lynda Carter is shown like A Wonderful, Feminist and Quite Vengeful Woman.
Her shyness, complex and introversion, opened the way to a famous girl that makes statements which would end with the patience of the most udnerstanding man.
It is not necessary to talk about the great quantity of heroines that have invaded the world television. A topic that, by the way, has generated discussions among psychologists, sociologists, feminists and public in general. In spite of the discussion, these that somehow are disputing the men the monopoly facing the dangers of the small screen, have become a real audience success. The reasons for this phenomenma are various. Some of them even cientific. But some other more tangible: smarts scripts, good filming techniques, and, above all, girls of great beauty. Girls that until now inspired the men to be protective, and now they not only take care of themselves but of everybody else. A clear strike to "machism" that paradoxically is well received among "Adams."
The ultimate one in this alluvium of super women is given by the appearance in our country of "Wonder Woman," a serie starring the beautiful Lynda Carter. "Wonder Woman" is a Warner Bros poduction that ABC began to show by the beginning of 1976-77 season. The story is based on a comic strip by Charles Moulton created in 1942 and published in a huge quantity of newspapers and magazines around the world.
Lynda Carter was Miss U.S.A. in 1972, and represented the country in the Miss World contest held in London, a contest that fetured her among teh finalists. She was born in Phoenix on july 24, 1954 and she studied classical dances, sang and piano. Producer Douglas Cramer discovered her while Lynda was making a screen test for a TV movie. After the pilot was finished, Warner Bros congratulated Cramer for it and gave the project green light to continue. The results were more than satisfactory. The series will continue during the next season.
Carter, who's usually shy, rather complex about being too tall, and usually not very expressive, has suffered an interesting modification in her temperament since the success of "Wonder Woman." Her latest statements sow her as bold as the character she plays: "It's not bad feeling a superpowered lady. Besides, I think it's the best and fastest way to make a balance about the inequalities that has historically has separated men and women. And notice that in my real life, in spite of not having a golden belt, silver bracelets and the golden lasso taht compels to tell the truth, I have achieved great advances about the opposite sex. The producers are not severe and indifferent as they used to be. Now I obligue them to ask things PLEASE. A little feminist revenge."
Sincerelly, we don't feel her words stimulating. But to women like Lynda Carter, those wonderful women, we usually forgive them all. Even her threats.
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