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Date and Issue: January 1980.
Wonder Woman was only the beginning of Lynda-'Carter's dramatic rise to fame. Now with a TV-variety special of her own, called Lynda, home viewers will have w chance to see this dynamite -doll dish up entertainment like it's never been dished up before. And If her singing and dancing aren't enough to knock your socks off, her telefeature for CBS, The Last Song, will set you to wondering how she manages it all!
According to the beauteous Lynda, she has two things going for her: her hubby-manager Ron Samuels, and being a born-again Christian. Of Ron, she, says, "My career's a- lot more enjoyable since Ron's been in my life and I have someone to share it 'all with and a lot more successful!" Of being a born-again Christian Lynda says, "I feel blessed. It's changed my life."
"Even though I was becoming successful in my career, I still had a lot of inner frustration. I experimented around a lot with different metaphysil groups like Yoga and Edgar Cayce, but I wasn't getting what I needed. My sister was a born-again Christian and one night I went to a meeting with her, and I just had this amazing experience. It was beautiful. It gave me everything I needed."
When Ron came along it was like being twice blessed. Lynda had by this time decided she wasn't going to ever get married. "I waited a long time. I was 25. A lot of people are already married by the time they're 20."
A true Hollywood fairy tale, she and Ron fell in love over lunch. "We knew each other to say hello to but had never s oken more than that. Then Ron called me up to ask me to dinner. Only I was supposed to be having dinner that night with a publicist. Not a romantic thing, just business. So I told Ron I'd let him know. As it turned out there was no way to make it for dinner, so I said, `How about lunch?' Ron said, 'If I'm not good enough for dinner, I'm not good enough for lunch.' So I said, 'Well, if I'm not good enough for lunch, why should I go out for dinner with you? And he just broke up.
"It just happened that I had on my ugliest, dirtiest sweatshirt that day and my jeans had holes in them. But we went out for lunch anyway. It also just happened that I had that whole afternoon off. As we sat there talking I became completely mesmerized Sy him. The next weekend we were looking for houses."
Six months after Lynda and Ron set up house-keeping together, they were married. They recently bought a ranch in Malibu Canyon which they're in the, process of moving into. Lynda plans on raising a bunch of children there, and hopes to be able to juggle motherhood with her career. " I don't see why I can't do both. Have, a family and a career " she says, although she admits it would be pretty difficult should she go into another series. "We're talking about one now," she says of that possibility. "It's going to be a Western ... about the old west, but that's all I can tell you at this point."
Until then, she's enjoying the freedom of a more flexible schedule, like a p.a. tour through South America which leaves time for sight-seeing and being alone with Ron. "Ron and I spend a lot of time just talking when we travel. No telephones ringing. No business to attend to. It's like a honeymoon."
After her tour of South America, Lynda's headed for Europe where she has a date with the Muppets followed by work on a major motion picture titled The Shroud. So although we may have seen the end of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman, we've only just begun to see this wonder woman called Lynda Carter!
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