European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Fast track Shaft is now a doctor on to Gardener at Home Richard Roundtree born july 9,1949, in new Rochelle n y. Currently lives in Tarzana Calif. Married for 10 years to Karen Roundtree. Children Kelly 25 Nicole 23 Tayler,3 and one on the Way. Working on generations a soap opera on Abc to. Most people associate me with Shaft so its really a departure to play a doctor with a 20-year-old daughter. The last Good movie i saw was glory. I stay Home to watch equal Justice and . Law. Favorite performer Sidney Poitier. He s always. Of Psi tuck f j .1 1 Lik always such a class act. I be never been Able to save Money. Id give anything to meet Nelson Mandela. I want to teach my children that they re per feet the Way they Are. The worst advice my Mother Ever game me was Quot stand next to the she said it when i had the Chicken pox. I Don t know where she got that idea. The one thing i can t stand is when people drive in the left Lane on the freeway and just go the Speed limit. People who knew me in High school thought i was Cool. Little did they know i was scared . Nobody would believe it if they saw me in my vegetable Garry Marshall Garry Marshall is beet known for the work in television the Odd couple Happy Days Mork and Mindy and movies pretty woman beaches nothing in common. He is currently directing wrong turn at Lungfish a play he co wrote with Lowell Ganz for Chicago s Steppen Wolf theatre company. Q. You be had so much Success in to and movies. What made you want to write a play a. I be written a couple of others. One lasted three nights on Broadway. One played for four weeks. But they were two of the Best experiences of my life. When you write a play you get to write what you want. No one bothers you. They Don t change your words. You get to constantly fix it. In movies its too expensive to change anything. In to you done to have time. Q. Wrong turn at Lungfish is about a dying Blind Man and the Young woman who reads to him. Where did the idea come form a. From a screenplay i was once involved with. When you want to make a character likable you give them a dog you have them give to Charity you have them read to the Blind in this screenplay there was one scene where someone read to a Blind person. I wanted to do something with that. My own grandmother was Blind for the last years of her life and i read to her so i was familiar with it. you know pretty woman was going to be such an enormous Success though we had a shot but riot a $130 million shot and still going in Box office receipts. Its just a Nice romantic with old quotes we Veall said things that make us cringe later but while we can forget about them movie stars have to live forever with old quotes especially once they be been collected in a Book. In citizen Jane the turbulent life of Jane Fonda Christopher Andersen uses Fonda a own words to remind us that in the 1960s she was t the Independent woman she became in the 1970s in fact she turned Down the role Julie Christie eventually got in or Zhivago because she did no to want to leave her and future husband French director Roger Vadim. Quot it would have meant spending nine months in the Hills of Spain. What would he do in the Hills of Spain i wanted to do it but 1 was afraid of what it would do to my private life Quot going too far Roseanne Barr has taken her lumps from the Public and the Media but she does have one fan Garry Marshall is trying something new. Cybill Shepherd wishes she were More Tike Roseanne. Fast track Jane Fonda words from the past. Cybill Shepherd. Shepherd who was hardly the most popular Gal on the set of moonlighting wishes she had been even tougher a la Barr. Quot i Don t think i did it As Well As Roseanne Barr did it Quot she says in the August Issue of Fame Magazine. Quot i never took my Power in the Way that Roseanne takes her Power and stands her ground. I wish i could have. Just said you know fire me i can to work like this fire me but i just did t feel that i could do that and get away with it. I realty Admire her and i Tell you. Ils s like the woman always gets blamed. I m sorry to have to Lell you that. You stand up for yourself you get blamed. It s absolutely still i Rue what Bette Davis said if a woman stands up for herself she s a Bitch. If a Man stands up for himself he s admired. That s been my experience Quot growing too tall a bad Date happens to everyone even to Ted Danson his happened when he was at an alloys prep school. The girls were bused in and then the boys and girls were paired off according to height Danson who reached his 6-foot-2 height at 15, always wound up with the biggest girl around. In bad dates by Carole Markin he tells about one miserable Day he spent with a Lacrosse player Tor a Date. There was one saving Grace though. The boys each put 50 cents into a Moose Pool Quot and the one with the ugliest Date won the Money. As Dansons Date was leaving he told her he was sorry the Dale had t turned out better. She smiled and said. Quot of that s of because i won the Moose Quot i could t believe in Quot writes Danson Quot it was a wonderful comeuppance. And i think it threw me off girls for the next three years. During that time i played basketball with my buddies and watched Short people go on great dates Quot last words Quot diplomacy is to do and say the Nastiest thing in the nicest a Isaac Goldberg Quot diplomacy lying in a Laurence j. Peter diplomacy the Art of saying Nice Doggie till you can find a a Wynn Catlin. Thyl fast track is or men by Cheryl Lam and attributed by Tab Una Media services r Page 12 c to plus sunday july 29. 1990
