European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine Dyan Cannon ready to write and direct her own production. By Tom Buckley new York times he does t feel terrific because of her notices in heaven can wait and revenge of the Pink Panther Dyan Cannon was saying the other Day. The notices were Good because she Felt terrific and it showed in her performances. She a feeling equally upbeat she said about a made for television film that will be shown this fall. It is a Biog Raphy of Sally Stanford the san Francisco Madam who is presently the vice mayor that is Deputy to the chief executive of Sausalito just across the Golden Gate Bridge. But compared to what s Down the Road she continued these assignments were Mere warmups. My most important work is starting now she said. I won t be just acting. I be got a firm offer from 20th Century Fox to collaborate on a screen play and direct it myself. We re working on it now but it s difficult to find a writer that i can get in tune with. You be got to follow your own Road she said sipping the Perrier and Lime she takes while All about her Are gobbling lunch. For years Hollywood saw me As an attractive sexy woman. I was t allowed to be anything else. I be found out that if you allow people to be what they Are there Are no limitations no peripheries to what they can do. From now on i m going to follow my own Road she said her voice vibrant with determination. I listened to my agents for a lot of years and i did what they told me. I la listen to them still but they will work for me i won t work for  this new self awareness took shape not As a result of the consciousness expanding drugs she once experimented with nor As a result of her participation in self awareness groups of various sorts she said. It came about during the three year sabbatical she took from films following the last of Sheila. During that time she stayed close to her Beach House in Malibu saw few people aside from her daughter Jennifer who is now 11, the child s father Cary Grant and a few old friends most of them from outside the picture business. I would get offers she said and i needed the Money. One Day the Market called and said no More credit. It was t just me. They were simply not running Natalie Wood left and Dyan Cannon in a scene from Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. Thursday september 7, 1978 charge accounts anymore. But it made me realize that my Bank balance was evaporating. The next Day i got a Call from Charlie Bronson. He wanted me. Bronson makes Good movies. I decided to do just one More. But the next morning i woke up feeling sick. I called him Back and said i could t do  what brought Cannon Back into the mainstream was the Opportunity to make a Short film Dyan Cannon s number one with the assistance of a Grant from the american film Institute. In it she examines the lives of two 5-year-old girls and at the same time her own growing up in Tacoma wash., and the influences that led her to a performing career. The film received an Academy award nomination and led to the directing offer from Fox. No longer merely the pretty Pawn of Hollywood a traps Cannon had experienced the Joys of what the Indus try Calls creative control and of working without salary As did her Crew and her performers for that matter joining the generosity Parade Warner Brothers let her use its most elaborate editing rooms at night and on weekends without charge. Her creative energies restored Cannon returned to acting but with a new need to believe in what she was doing at least up to a Point. I turned Down heaven can wait three times before Warren Beatty persuaded me to do it and frankly i m amazed at the reaction the picture has gotten she said. Grateful and delighted but  Cannon has been reported As believing that As a director Beatty cutout Many of her Best scenes revenge of the Pink Panther she said was a More modest undertaking the providing of laughter for a world drowning in its own tears. She did it in that spirit even though in her words i knew i could t be anything but a foil for Peter  As to playing Sally Stanford in lady of the House she was attracted by what she described As the Best part i have Ever had the Chance to play a fascinating figure from age 20 to 80. The stars and stripes Page 13