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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, August 15, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Profile Morgan Fairchild sex Symbol wants to show other talents u brow King features Syndicate Morgan Fairchild knows All the words when it comes to describing her to Are some of her Blunt descriptions of the Public perception of her in her various Home screen some actresses would kill to be known so vividly As a Scarlet bad girl roles Are often the Juiciest and bes paying in and Fairchild is too earthy and funny to deny that the image has made her one of tvs top stars and a genuine sex at least in the bitches Ive no one has Ever accused me of being a dumb she and i appreciate but never a dumb but at and after 25 years in the the Dallas born Star of such to soaps As Flamingo paper dolls is aiming for a change she Hopes will open some eyes in one project to achieve this is the upcoming film the redheaded a Western that stars Willie Nelson As a preacher and Fairchild As his another is its a to soap Cess Falcon which Fairchild joins this but she gives her a Chance to play an intelligent an Fairchild can probably thank abcs Miami vice for the its on opposite Falcon Crest on and its Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Are so hot As sex symbols that lbs had to so this not Only Fairchild but also who starred with Prince in the movie purple Are being added to Falcon Crest As regular cast Fairchild is not going to Start looking like a librarian or dress in High Button the lawyer she plays is flamboyant and she i thought it was a Chance to be in a format where a lot of people would see each week that i didst play a and would get used to seeing me that Way and dispel some of that that image has been a major problem for me in dealing with feature to movie directors and miniseries she of played the image to the Hilt on that what they pay me Money and the Price is now having to prove that in not like on this particular sitting in her publicists Century City who is is dressed casually in wearing what comes across Are some undeniably attractive assets besides the obvious theres an self deflating a definite sense of Backbone and a throaty laugh that would do Carole Lombard the humor int entirely new to anyone who saw Fairchild last season camping it up As a modelling agent named Racine in Abc tvs defunct paper in a says Fairchild with a big Ive done a lot of to paper Morgan Fairchild will be playing an intelligent lawyer in future episodes of Falcon dolls was i want there doing Oscar the writers were giving me some great one liners once they realized i could do that kind of thing make it funny and not just joining Falcon in which Shell appear in All 30 episodes next Fairchild int exactly denying she was brought aboard because Shes a sex Apollonius she says with another big its clearly frustrating to Fairchild that most to viewers dont know of her work in such projects As the off Roadway Ive done a hell of a lot of plays and shows and All kinds of but if people Are Only familiar with a couple of the big television series like Flamingo Road or paper dolls i get tired of playing most everything that offered me in the Way of television Means that i have to play a so a lot of people dont know How much work Ive turned Down since Flamingo Road was cancelled How Many bitches in different things Ive turned and the movies Ive turned two in the last couple of that i thought were i i cant do i didst get in this business to be a you just get tired of being classified a maybe a smart but still a that Why Shes frankly proud of her work with Nelson in the redheaded based on his doing the movie with she was a Choice in what she Hopes will be her new career Willie and i have been friends for this is something that people find Odd that Willie and i would be were both from and Hes the sweetest Man in the for eight years Hes been trying to do this and for the last two weve been talking about doing it its basically a work of love for Willie because he is upset with he does not want to Deal with and he wanted to keep control of this that Means going very Low and he built this whole Western town on his ranch in and we shot it All other than the four or five Lead everybody else is local everybody worked for a at the same time As this i got offered a Chance to do an off Roadway play prestige and a to movie i have agents and business managers who were go for the prestige or go for the this thing with willies been going on for two i i cant do that to a i said id be there and in Gonna be willies daughter told me that the night before i was coming Down Willie had a big Toast to the cast of Nelsons film also includes Katherine Armstrong and Royal Fairchild had an earlier film called the in which she played a to newscaster stalked by a dangerous Young Man with sexual designs on it plays better on pay to than on the big and some of us liked Fairchilds Gutsy but she Doest mince words about the it could have been a lot better she it got some Good reviews and a lot of terrible and the thing that film would not have gotten As bad reviews in some quarters if i haunt been in or if haunt been known for Flamingo Road with that i there were people who spent whole reviews criticizing the Way i using every kind of really obscure adjective for plastic that they could possibly think since the film has been on pay to and says in always having people come up and Tell me they like i Bette Davis was coming up and telling me How much she liked me in that she in an easy its easy to make fun of somebody with a nose that looks like she laughs again As she Points to her and its real you can put that in Fairchild and Apollonia will surely be key figures in the ratings fight Between Falcon Crest and Miami vice with abcs new Robert Urich detective Spenser for trying to upset them but Fairchilds eyes Are also on More personal career matters at the in Drifting amiably in the i dont know its kind of Ive reached the stage that a lot of girls in this country would give their Eyeteeth but in just never Happy with i really want to be doing better All that actor stuff you hear from other theres a tremendous Bias in motion pictures against  use to actors Only in certain instances if there Shelley Long of cheers has been a real and someone like a Tom Selleck or Ted Danson will get a but its usually whats sort of disheartening in this town is that the biggest who Are ostensibly the most creative and most Are the very first ones to pigeonhole they wont give you a Chance to come in with your hair in a Bun and no makeup on to show them what you really Are and who you really Are and what youre capable if circumstances maybe there wont be As Many Magazine stories says usually come Down to two pages of who do you think Shes dating and sleeping with maybe some directors will look at the red headed stranger and even Falcon Crest and see something different a sex Symbol with real motion picture Damn right says 20 stripes Magazine August  
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