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month TV STARS TODAY is focusing on what we might call The Superheroes
in this special photo report. Two of television's popular weekly series
feature characters with super powers. Lynda Carter stars as Wonder Woman
on CBS TV, an Amazon who can do just about anything necessary to defeat
the forces of evil. Lindsay Wagner stars as NBC-TV's The Bionic Woman,
capable of superhuman efforts to put a stop to wrongdoers thanks to her
very special bionically rebuilt body. |
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In addition, we've obtained some photos from Twentieth Century-Fox from
their superhit movie Star Wars. About the only way we'll ever see Star
Wars on television is if we cut out the pictures that follow and tape
them to the TV set! (Don't do that, though, since it might damage your
screen.) The management of Fox has decided not to license Star Wars for
showing on TV since a lot more money can be made by reissuing it to
theatres every few years. One television showing would reach so many
people that it might destroy the theatrical market for the movie.
Please let us know if you would like us to print more photo reports in
the future. If so, tell us which television shows or movies we should
focus on. Our mailing address is: Editor, TV STARS TO-DAY, Post Office
Box 3751, Beverly Hills, CA 90212. |
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Lynda Carter once told a reporter that, "I guess I'm just a good old
fashioned girl. I believe in love, romance, honesty, sincerity and
truth. In many ways i am Wonder Woman and her alter-ego, Diana Prince.
Maybe that's why I got this choice role when so many more seasoned
actresses were turned down for the part." After starring in a
mini-series version of Wonder Woman for ABC-TV last season, Lynda is now
holding forth on CBS-TV Friday evenings at 8-9 p.m. Eastern time. lt's a
very difficult time slot, opposite Donny & Marie and Chico And The Man.
Photos courtesy of Storytellers, Inc. |
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Wonder Woman is based on the comic strip created by Charles Moulton in
1942. His concept was to give young girls the same type of cartoon
figure to look up to as young boys already had in Superman. He dreamed
up an Amazon lady who departed Paradise Island with superhuman powers to
use against the arch villains of the time, the Nazis. In its first
season on television Wonder Woman continued to be set during World War
Il. This year it's been brought uptodate to allow for better character
development and contemporary story-lines. |
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Since Wonder Woman is a natural symbol of women's lib, Lynda Carter is
frequently asked to give her feelings about that controversial subject.
She once commented i that, "I am already liberated and I don't want to
be liberated any more because then I wouldn't be liberated. I enjoy
being a female and l enjoy being an independent female. Being married
doesn't lessen my freedom. It gives me more. Now I have the protection
of Ron [Samuels, her husband and business manager]. That means I can
step out harder and further in what I want to do than before. And that
is not very women's lib. l believe in equal pay and equal opportunity. I
believe that the best man/woman should win. But I don't hold with the
feeling that the way to achieve this is by hitting someone over the
head. l think the 'way to achieve sociological change is by example and
tenacity." |
Date and Issue: Volume 2, Number 1 / January 1978.
