European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Success of Sal Lyfield associated press Sally Field has fared Well on inc Choppy Soa of stardom Taul she says in still lakes guts to put her work before the  productive Academy award winning actress is about to deliver a baby in december and has two new romantic comedies the just released surrender and punchline out Early next year. Some people say thai comedy is harder she said. Probably it s harder because when you fall you fall so broadly without any sort of saving Grace. When you fall in drama in seems a Lille More Graceful. When you fall in comedy you  such insight is squeezed from a lifetime spent in show business As the daughter o f Paramount actress Maggie Field Mahoney the stepdaughter of Jack Mahoney. A Star of westerns and two Tarzan films and now. As the Wile of producer Alan Greisman Fletch modern problems and night Mother i always wanted to be an actress Field said i Learned a lol through Osi Miosis about the  hold also seems entrenched in her Domestic role Wilh her close cropped hair and casual maternity clothes the flip Side of her provocative pose on the cover of a 1986 Playboy Magazine. Already the Mother of Peter. 17. And Eli 14, she plans to play in by ear about ending her next maternity leave. Even in the past i would Only do a picture every 1vz to two years she said. I did two pictures this year which was unusual for  what s it like to go Back onto the set after such a hiatus it s always hard she said. And every actor i be Ever talked to feels this Way. You always the first Day of shooting Are a nervous wreck. You re trembling All Over because you re saying i once knew How to do this but i be forgotten in now then you gel up and you Start 10 work and in sort of goes  such admission of human frailties have brought her grief in the past. Critics and fans alike groaned after she gushed during her 1985 Oscar acceptance speech Erma Bombeck Sally Field with husband Alan Oresman left and Steve Guttenberg her co Star in the movie surrender. Up two you like me you really like me but in an August interview Field s own favorite actress Katharine Hepburn expressed a similar revelation. Hepburn said she was surprised that the audience was not out to shoot her after she Sang in the 1970 Broadway production of Coco. It was a warm. Discovery to me. And i thought they must like me. Thai s Why they re Here " after hearing Hepburn s remarks Field laughed heartily. Aha there in is she said it much More clearly than i did. Had i said that i would t be in  the 40-year-old actress began her career in 1965 on television As the Perky surfer in Gidget. After soaring in her second silly sitcom the flying nun 1967-1970field longed Tor meatier roles. She spent several years unemployed. However the Wail proved to be worthwhile. In 1976, she earned critical plaudits opposite Jeff Bridges in stay hungry. That same year she won an emmy award for the to movie Sybil. Then she reverted to lighter fare with the Burl Reynolds action comedy films smoke Yand the Bandit Hooper and the end. However Good dramatic scripts beckoned and she won two Academy awards for Best actress in 1979 As the Union organizer in Norma Rae and in 1984 As Farmer s widow Edna Spalding in Robert Benlon s places in the heart. She also scored Well in 1981 As a reporter in absence of malice with Paul Newman and As James gamer s love interest in the heartwarming Murphy s Romance. From her own Dogwood films. Acting has been for me in most cases a very joyous experience even when i m tormented and carrying on and crazed and i m sobbing and remembering every bad incident that Ever happened in my life she said. You re so used to batting the bad off that you just naturally Bat anything off that comes toward you. So you lose All the Good As Well. And then you realize to All right. This is of it s a wonderful wonderful feeling and so rarely Felt she said. You have that revelation that sort of warmth that floods Over you that you never allow yourself to  that feeling has returned a few limes As she works before the cameras. That s Why i do what i do " she said. Despite her Success Field still fends off occasional criticism from strangers even when you Don t care you re in the Market trying to find a  the insults still sting but her response to them has changed. I usually say same to you fella.1 in the old Days i probably tried to be  she said. Once you get older you learn How to Lake care of yourself a Little bit Detter. I think you learn How to just live Wilh it accept it and move  Well tomorrow we begin our annual Day Long Celebration of the guilt olympics. Better known As thanksgiving ii there is any other Holiday that zeroes in on our sins i Don t know what in is. Why do you think we sit around All Day with our Heads bowed praying we re confessing first there Are those of you who did t go Home to be with the family. So you did t have the Money could t gel a might and would have ended up losing your Job is thai a reason then there Are the people who must make a decision on whom to eat dinner with his folks or hers. Your lather and Stepmother or your Molher and Stepfather a Boyfriend in town or a widowed Molher out of town Don t give in a thought that whichever Molher is led without her child for thanksgiving will drape your empty chair in Black and Burn a Candle at your empty plate As for the widowed Mother maybe meals on wheels will serve Turkey. Page 16 the stars and stripes add to this All the women who feel guilty for sticking someone else Wilh All the work while they get by bringing four folding chairs and the paper napkins with the Turkey on them. How do you think they feel watching a woman who has been up since 4 30 am orchestrating 15 menu items getting All of them to come out at the same time Only to have everyone finish the meal before she can turn off the oven and pick us her Fork k and Don t forget the Cook. Just because she s working does t mean she in t in the Kitchen hogging herself to death with chains because the pies Are out of a Box the vegetables Are from a bag the jellies irom a Jar the Gravy from a can the potatoes Are instant. The Rolls Are Brown n serve and the Turkey is from the Deli the Only fresh thing at the table is her brother a Law. And let us not forget the dieters who Are on their Knees begging forgiveness for what they have just done to their bodies after months of eating food with no Salt no fat no sugar no starch and no taste they wednesday november 25,1987 Are now grazing around the table eating like livestock � borne will never recover irom the Shock of being Happy. Repent All thee Little children who race for the bathroom immediately following dinner so they Don t have to help Clear or Wash dishes. God forbid you d help put the chairs Back to where they belong it s something you have to live Wilh. I jofh6 a e isl 9eneral 9ui" Ovon s. But each one has is or her own offence. A couple of weeks ago a very con?,0rnan blood up Al the Donahue show an confessed to several million listeners that she did t is tn7nucwanl a her baby bul one p Annex � Ord map 9 vln9 because she was sick of cooking the dinner every year for everyone. Labomt1 won6, ft1"6 5 a 5 Pound after 32 hours of labor it won take care of her guilt 1987. Us Angela Timm Syndi Eile