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Date and Issue: Volume 35 / Number 6 / June 1984.
Love and laughter - they were the magic ingredients that made Lynda Carter change her vow never to marry again.
"It was love at first sight," she says of her January 29 marriage to Washington D.C. attorney Robert Altman. "And right after that it was laughter."
Lynda was talking only a few weeks after her wedding when she declared: "I'm still in love!"
Her main claim to fame was as "Wonder Woman" in the television series during the late Seventies, but soon after her marriage she was at work, with her musical and variety special (again for TV) starring along with Eddie Rabbitt and Ben Vereen.
The show - called Body And Soul - featured famous musical numbers from the past, taking one of them and working it over with computers with results that Lynda said were "spectacular".
"I think this was my best special ever," says Lynda, who does about one every year. "The chemistry between the three of us worked especially well when we danced."
But it's nothing like the chemistry that caused her to fall for 35-year-old Robert Altman.
Lynda says the break-up three years ago of her marriage to Ron Samuels caused such bitterness that she "swore off men in general and marriage in particular."
She says: "It was a terrible experience. I decided I would never again do anything that would set me up for divorce.
"I didn't even date. I just went around with a few close friends. It was very sad. Nobody goes into marriage with divorce in mind, and Ron and I didn't either. I was disappointed it didn't work...
Ron Samuels was also her manager. They married in 1978 and were considered one of Hollywood's more stable couples, both being religious, neither being seen with anybody else.
As Lynda once said: "If Ron and I have an argument, or we've had a bad day, we pray together in the evening. It's beautiful and joyous and all our frustrations just disappear."
But one day the love stopped and the prayers fell silent and as Lynda says: "The marriage ran its course...
This plunged her into a gloom that Robert Altman changed completely, when he was introduced through a mutual friend. He is involved with the holding company that works on the Lynda Carter Maybelline Tennis Tourney.
"Right away, I knew we would be involved. He is not like other men, especially the men in Hollywood. He is very secure. He is very bright. And he is a lot of fun."
"Now that is a rare combination in a man."
Before Lynda and Robert can settle down and live happily ever after, however, there is the matter of their schedule to work out.
They have been living in Washington D.C., where Robert is a partner in a prestigious law firm with heavy White House connections. But Lgnda's ranch is in Malibu, and soon she will be working out of San Francisco.
"We plan to be separated no longer than four days at a time," says Lynda. "Robert knows how important my work is, and he has given me all the freedom I need to do it.
"At the end of a four-day week, I'll fly back to Washington, or Robert will fly to Los Angeles, and we'll meet at my ranch."
"Actually, I think it will be very romantic. When you're in love, the obstacles of distance can be overcome."
"Most men who work a regular job arrive home late at night and then leave early in the morning. Most of the time they spend with their wives, they're asleep."
"The time Robert and I will spend together will be quality time. There is a difference."
And as Lynda says she also plans to start a family, it looks as if there will be a lot more togetherness all round for the couple, and her career may have to take a back seat!
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