European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Not just Good of Diane anymore United press International of have to be careful with Shelley Long at you Shari believing she and Diane Chambers ate one and he same person Al lunch in Hollywood recently she was a cooler piece of attention in s Black dress Wilh a Short flouncy ski i and blonde hair Laul ulessly coif fed she looked the sophisticate but a Strain of i suppose there was a touch of me in Diane because i was playing the character. Which Means Incio is a Bil Olmo and therefore Diane in All tic roles l play Long said. She has t played the exasperating waitress in the Chews to series or three years but the Alert moviegoer can detect traces of Diane in outrageous Forf unc the Money pit and irreconcilable differences among others. In her Gatesl comedy. Troop Beverly Hills. Long plays a Rich Rich Matron who attempts to save her marriage and her relationship with Hor Young daughter by Shelley Long let of to s cheers " lame Ana Behe Midler in the movie outrageous Fortune becoming a troop loader of wilderness girls a Takeoff on the girl scouts the naive but Earnest troop Leadio invents patches instead of badges Lor jewelry appraisal sushi appreciation limousine etiquette pedicure excellence and other unlikely accomplishments As Phyllis Nefler Long again sounds Echos of deaf old Diane. Even she admits Here is a touch of Diane in her and perhaps in All women. Long projects a touch of virtue a snippet of cunning. A soil Pori of sex a bit of charming innocence an intelligence and a hint of secrets untold. Long was never a girl scout Bui she was a Brownie. A very Good one i like the characters i play even though 1 Don t always approve of what they Are doing she said i try to play Iheson women with Grace poise and Wilh femininity and love although the love is often misguided and misdirected. The comedy comes from the character muddling through she makes car Lul plans and something terrible always happens but she knows everything will work out somehow although not exactly As she would like of course. Diane had her preventions. Poor thing and people sometimes think that i have Hor conceit but she was t arrogant Sho just Beti oved in older More traditional Long denies rumours she is planning a guest Shol much less a Lull Lime return to cheers. Her movie career absorbs her when she s no involved with her family husband Bruce Tyson and their daughter Juliana 4. I m not even sure i could play Diane again she said. It was to melting special that was going on when i was doing cheers now i be moved on and they Are doing other special things that work or them her next movie will to Tho Boyfriend school in. Which she plays a novelist and matchmaker Lor her Broth or played by Steve gut Tenborg. Long would like of try her hand in a drama lie my but when she submits such projects to studios they demur she is one of Hollywood s most successful Lemale comedians Why boat. "1 loved doing drama in College she said. But even. More than drama. I would like to work in a romantic film. Everyone likes Romance. Maybe attitudes will change at the studios. In my comedies the underlying Home is love. How you be love How you give love. That s whal we re All looking Lor. It s the primary priority and i think it should be. To network standards Are loosening up by Kathryn Baker associated Pressw Hen George Carlin s comedy routine on the seven dirty words was broadcast by a radio Slation in 1978, it prompted a u 5. Supremo court ruling on indecency a decade later a character of the hit network sitcom designing women used a derivative of one of those words in describing another character who was obsessed Wilh enlarging her bosom no it in l just imagination network standards arc loosening up the networks Are being Moro Lonion and i think the reason is a Tive Leller word a a by a said Harry Thomason executive producer of designing women sexually in Liol language and situations on network television have produced occasional complaints but audiences Are apparently Blase alter being presented a variety of it rated cat Eia a to the kind of program you re dealing in said Schneider whal May work in a id o clock program like Lewty something. Would be totally inappropriate loan b o clock the stars and stripes Page 17
