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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 30 Oct 1981, p. 34

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DAYTIME 0 PBA Bowling (Mon.) College Soccer (TUE.). Australian Rules Football (WED ). Gymnastics (THUR ), NFL Story: Line by Line S*l.) Dusty'a Treehouse 7:08 © I Dream Of Jeannle 7:30 BOOU Morning CD ® Fllntstones CD Sesame Street (glosed-Captloned) CD Women's Channel <® Movie (Frl.) Fade To Black' (9)0) Woody Woodpecker And Friends 8D ESPN's SportsForum (Frl.) ® Plnwheel 9 Various Programming 7:35 ®) My Three Sons 7:45 (TO)S A.M. Weather 7:56 Q Day's Beginning 8:00 ID ® Battle Of The tnets CD In-School Programming Susan Noon Show Movla (Mon., Thur.) 'My Brilliant Career' (MON ), 'Blue Lagoon' (THUR.) (3> ® Little Raecale „ © ® TV Collage (Exc. Frl.) Illinois Press (FRI.) • ESPN's SportsTalfc (Thur.) College Football Review (FRI.) S Romper Room Jim Bakker 8:05 (D Movla All My Sona' (MON ), BendoftheRiver'(TUE), 'Female on the-Beach' (WED ), The Great Man' (THUR ), Interlude' (FRI.) 8£5©3S Market Wrap Up S 31 Day By Day 8:jpjji Bewitched Q) 02 Tennessee Tuxedo • • Mister Rogers • Fran Cartton Show • Movla (Tua., Wad.) Times quare' (TUE ), 'Tourist Trap" Aerobic Dance Exercise Family Affair 1 Jimmy Swaggart Dimensions (Prl.) I This Week In The NBA (Wad.) This Week in the NHL (FRI.) g:00 Time One Day At A ® Richard Simmons |ho m bit Lae Vegaa Qamt • Young And The Restless © A.M. Chicago 9 Movla 'My Favorite Spy' (MON ), I Want You' (TUE.), The Bramble Bush' (WED ), 'Sitting Pretty' (THUR.), 'Wonder Man' SRI.) I Sesame Street (Closed Captioned) • All My Children 0 Sesame Street 0 Movlatown 'Call It Murder' (MON ), Sundown Fury' (TUE ), 'The Missourians' (WED), 'Flying Deuces' (THUR.), 'It's a Joke Son' =RI.) Morning Stretch M C n i A M O M I T O B m m be - " i By STEVE K. WALZ-TELEVISION WRITER Hot role whets Jamie Lee's appetite Hollywood--So much has been said and written about late Playboy centerfold-cum-actress Dorothy Stratten, that it appears as if the media and Tinseltown are practic­ ing a form of necrophilia. NBC will take this macabre Episode one step further when it attempts to delve in­ to the cause and effect of the Strat­ ten scenario by airing a bio-pic, "Death of a Centerfold: Dorothy Stratten," on Sunday, November 1. Jamie Lee Curtis Portraying the ill-fated starlet is Jamie Lee Curtis, who up until this project held the blood-curdling title of "Screen Scream Queen" be­ cause of her work in some of film- dom's goriest yarns. Playing a Playboy centerfold should be a big jolt for Curtis' fans. Proud but... A "I'm proud of my horror pics. I played gooa strong heroines even though I was a victim. But I'm sure the audiences want to see me Her career cut-short by a jealous lover's bullet, the late Dorothy Stratten's Kfe is the focus of an NBC movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis. grow," the spunky actress began to explain. "Hopefully the public will accept me. In this picture, I play a sweet girl turned woman. To me, I didn't think it was that much of a depar­ ture from what I'd been doing, although Stratten came from Van­ couver and I've played small-town girls. "What people should understand here, is that we are not going for physical similarity. We're going for spirituality. Dorothy was much more zoftig and beautiful than I am. I've never even thought of myself as beautiful. "I'll admit that I wasn't able to really research the role at all. I only read the Village Voice and Playboy pieces. Some of the other available material was biased. I didn't meet with any of Stratten's family or friends either, because their opin­ ions are also biased somewhat. I learned more about her while play­ ing the role. She was a wonderfully sweet and innocent girl with dreams and aspirations. "A lot of the movie is fiction though, because in some situations we just didn't know how it happen­ ed. It is important to realize we're dealing with pseudo-truth." To acnieve the desired effect, Jamie Lee dyed her hair blonde (which she intends to keep) and lensed some additional "centerfold" type scenes for a steamy overseas distribution deal. She elucidated, "There's one scene showing my left breast. It's not that big a deal and I don't want to dwell on it because that*s not the crux of why I did this movie." So what was her motivation? "That something like this can hap­ pen. Love is very obssessive and Dorothy just didn't think she was being manipulated at first," Curtis fired back. Dorothy Stratten In terms of her own experiences with the 'svengali syndrome,' Curtis grew up in Hollywood with a show­ biz family (her mother is Janet Leigh and dad is Tony Curtis), which has opened Jamie Lee's eyes so-to- speak. She added, "I'm fairly street­ wise to it, sweetheart. I'm a quick learner. It's a savvy you acquire after sitting around sets all your life. Right now all I want is to put the pedal to the medal and get my career in gear, tv coswutoo u«v»ci». wc

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