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9 Thursday 13 April 1989 Aussie rookie wins US TV role By DAVID HAY, Los Angeles STSTEKS Including bonus CO pteyw vasMM mm $699 Including CO player i S14H mv $999 Tectmics 160 watt amp. double cass 12" 3-way speaurs etc ra 7I $1989 This specialised acting coach now comes to the set of Live In and "helps me do a read-through before we in the show do a read-through," says the Australian. "He's there on the set to check on me," she notes. "He's been a wonderful help." Lack of prior acting experience doesn't daunt Patrick. "I'm a quick learner," she says.

"I always put my best into my work and I haven't heard any grumblings about what I do. I think everyone's just over the top with the show." Patrick is not including' the TV critics in this mass enthusiasm. Howard Rosenberg, writing in 'The Los Angeles Times' sums up Live In thus: "Lisa Wells is a mini-skirted nanny with a fanny, her assignment to care for the Matthews' (family) infant daughter and elude the clutches of their older son, Danny (Chris Young). (In the first epsiode) Lisa gets mad when Danny and his friend try to see Lisa in the nude. Then she gets mad when he tries to come on to her.

Then he gets at her for rejecting him. This is dumb. G'bye." The latter reference is to the Australianisms that Lisa Patrick brings, as she's supposed to, to the show. Besides "g'day which gets a full airing, "there are lots of things I have to say that are very Australian," she says. "I don't use them myself but I have heard them in Australia." Among the expressions this nanny comes up with are "strewth, mate" and "I always call Chris a 'little ratbag'," she says with apparent glee.

THE NETWORK will inform Patrick and her producers by the end of May whether Live In is to be picked up for a second season. So far, the ratings don't seem to be on their side. In the last week of March, Live In finished 52nd for the week. (There are 71 shows on prime-time network TV). According to the trade publication The Hollywood Reporter', Live In and its fellow newcomer sitcom.

Heartland, "have languished in the 8 9 hole on Currently, the unstoppably effervescent Lisa Patrick is having a break from filming. She's going to New York to do a publicity tour for Live la. Back in LA, Live In is taped twice before two separate live audiences. "The live audiences are great," says Patrick. "There's a lot of extra energy that comes from them it gives you that final oomph.

"This show means everything to me at the moment," says the blonde Australian. "This is my first step into acting, and when I wake up in the morning I just think about how lucky I am." OA PIOIXJEtZR 80 watt amp. double cass 12" 3-way speakers etc. was $1IM 60 watt amp, graphic eoju. Tuner, bonus CO player etc.

asS12M mm $119 rtRE YOU ready for a sitcom about an Austra-Jjfkl lian nanny who's hired to look after a New IM Jersey family? By the way, they have a son about as old as the nanny. If you're an American watching the CBS Network on Monday nights and you're attracted to this concept you can watch the new show. Live In. The half-hour program purports to show the trials and travails of a young Australian woman from the outback caught in the cross-cultural difficulties oi living in suburban New Jersey. The Australian nanny I always thought nannies were English is played by Lisa Patrick.

According to the CBS press release, Ms Patrick is "one of Australia's top The CBS 'bio' also claims that "Lisa was one of the top 10 women in the Bicentennial Biathlon in Australia." According to Patrick, when she worked in Sydney "my agent classed me as one of the top Whatever her Australian experience, the key to Lisa Patrick coming to work as an actress in the US was her exposure here on a commercial for the giant telephone company, A T. In it, she plays an Australian girl who just loves to receive international calls from her boyfriend in the States. Her new show, Live In, was a mid season replacement series for CBS. Initially there were to be six episodes, but the producers were recently informed the network wants three more. And, according to a rumor heard by Lisa Patrick, "Channel Nine in Australia may have bought the show.

I know they've heard about the show. I think they're just waiting to see if we get picked up for a second season." The Australian model, who has never acted before, has had some experience as a nanny. "I worked in Cairns once on a property in a beautiful tropical rainforest," she told me. "I started gardening to begin with but the woman I worked for had a nine-year-old daughter and she asked me to look after her. Nannying there helped me a lot with my character," says Patrick.

She seems glad to have thrown off her career as model. "I don't think that's a full career for a woman," she said. Her role as Lisa Wells, a nanny from the outback, is near enough to her so as not to be too hard. "She's very much like me," she says. "The only difference is that I don't fold as much laundry as Lisa Wells.

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