Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), December 9, 1989, p. 20

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Page 20 THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday December 1989 Ann Jillian hits prime time STAR SPEAK Ann returns to prime time later this season an NBC sitcom called appropriately Ann Jillian She plays a recently widowed mother of a teen age daughter who moves from New York to the San Francisco Bay area after the death of her husband Also due later this year on NBC is Uttle White Lies a frothy TV mov ie in which stars as a police woman who falls in love while on va cation In Rome began in show business at age appearing in TV commercials At 10 she plaved Little Bo Peep in the Disney film Babes in A later she was the precocious child star in the film version of Gypsy Her Broadway debut took place in in the vaudeville spoof Sugar Babies with Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller Moving back to her hometown of Los Angeles landed a support ing role in the TV sitcom It a Liv ing followed by the the title role in another comedy series Jennifer Slept Here In 1987 she played herself in The Ann Story on NBC which dra matized her battle with breast can cer The film was the highestrated TV movie of the season Your TV movies invariably get monster ratings Why has it taken the network so long to offer you a regular series A It was my own choice actually Mr Brandon Tartikoff the NBC chief has always been after me to do a series but it was just a question of timing and finding the right thing to be Mr came up with the idea of my playing a widow with a teenage daughter He told me he thought I took good with kids Why dont you have any children A My husband has a daughter from a previous marriage We ve been talk ing about adopting a child for a long time because we do love children And at this point in our lives we re settled and secure and very well equipped to give another little human being a shot at life Let me ask you an indelicate question Did the radiation therapy you had for breast cancer make it im possible to nave a child And is that why youre thinking of adopting A I never had radiation therapy And Ive decided not to talk about my breast cancer anymore Thats a part of my life thats over with and its time to go on to other things Next question So there wont be a sequel to TV movie The Ann Sto ry about life after surviving a dou ble mastectomy A No sequel We did our thing We hope we helped a lot of people on a personal level and we re still avail able to organizations that want us to speak about the subject but I don l want to deal with it dramatically again It must bave taken a lot of cour age to entertain the troops In Beirut with Bob Hope In 1983 after the Ma rine compound had been bombed there A I was scared you I re member my husband asking me if I wanted to go on tour with Bob and I said Sure just bring along my makeup and hairdresser Then he said Its in Beirut I said Are you kidding But then I realized Bob had performed in many dangerous places so he must have a charmed life I just stuck close to him GOOEY GOOD DELIVERY SERVICE 308 Guelph St 8731651 QUIK PIK MOIIE THAU A STOHE OVER MOVIES MonTtiurs 99 Including RImh WEEKEND Haw Releases 1 99 other Cigarettes Cigarettes cm 2699 TOMCCO Can Milk GUELPH ST Tap and being restored lean just imagine Americans going their and complain that everything s covered with scaffolding The city is remarkable Evervwhere you go there are major art pieces right in the street We were eating at one outdoor cafe and next to us was this huge Egyptian obelisk from 200 C You just don get that kind of atmosphere on Sunset Bou in LA According to the credits your husband makes his acting debut in Little White Lies A Yes he has a little part The script called for somebody to play a loud American and they t find an American that quickly in Rome and they needed one the next day The director said to him No of fense but would you mind playing a loud American I swear I was like a stage mother My heart was pounding for him while he was on camera I was like Mama Rose from Gypsy NEWS At Youve been acting professional ly since you were Were you robbed of a normal childhood play a widow with a teenage daughter in my new TV series Ann A I loved it I was getting paid for it It was all pretending and every kid pretends anyway It s second nature I had a really full life as a child Maybe because had a real strong family background My parents made sure I had a regular life It was a charmed life Your forthcoming TV movie Little While Lies takes place in Rome Did you bave time to be a tour ist while you were shooting there A Actually we had gone on vaca tion to Rome before the movie started shooting so I ended up suggesting great places to shoot in the city So much of the city is under construction ON DIVIS10 OF HOLDING LTD 8771234 AIRPORT SERVICE PARCEL RANCH BETA NINTENDO VHS iooom of NEW ARRIVALS SEE HO EVIL HEAR HO EVIL ADVENTURES BARON BADGE OF THE BATMAN MACHINE RENTALS cAMconocR Nintendo 8730700 PHOTO REPRINTS appearing in The Herald 8772201 Support your community BLUE BOX program ihis newspaper glass bottles 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