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COURIER-POST, CHERRY HILL. K.J. Friday, October 20. 1978 Profile Preview i iiyi i fii i fjil rf actress. Chiles is a serious feminist, an outspoken advocate of womens' rights who prefers meditation and "the important time of being alone" -to the clatter and glitter of movie life.

Playing the sexpot love object of super-chauvinist, love 'em and leave 'em Bond presents a delicate challenge to her principles. It doesn't help either that this Bond girl is named Holly Goodhead. "Despite the name, this Bond girl is a departure from tradition." Ms. Chiles says. "She's a strong, intelligent woman and a CIA agent in her own right, Bond has to take her seriously.

I wouldn't have taken the role if she had been the typical Bond girl." Ms. Chiles, with her tall, high cheek-boned good looks, played Robert Bedford's college girlfriend in "The Way We Were" and later won critical acclaim for her portrayal of Daisy Buchanan's mysterious friend Jordan Baker in the Hollywood version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." She completed filming an- other rich girl starring role In the next Agatha Christie film, On The Nile," before coming here for the Franco-" British "Moonraker" With a directness that reflects her smalltown in Alice, Texas, Ms. Chiles says she feels uncomfortable with ihe way the movies portray women and the way the film industry Including the Bond production markets actresses like "commodities." "HOLLYWOOD remains in many ways just the way Fitzgerald portrayed it so many years ago in The Last Ms. Chiles says.

"Still.Isupposeeveryoneisa commodity to some extent and I have to admit I get a kick out of the way the Bond people all treat me like a princess, having fresh flowers sent to my room all the time. "But I know the flowers and all the attention aren't really for me, Lois. They're for whoever happens to be playing the Bond girl at the time. "The trappings of this business don't interest me. What does interest me is the work part, growing and learning.

I just want to be the best actress I can be." Like many of today's young actresses, Ms. Chiles dreams of playing a realistic role like Jill Clayburgh's in "An Unmarried Woman." By PAUL CHUTKOW Associated Press As scantily clad beauties play cribbage and James Bond star Roger Moore lounges in a director's chair smoking a cigar, prop men put the finishing touches on the rubber rocks and plastic stalactites of "The-MayanCave." "Hollywood is a state of mind." the press agent is saying. "Her hair." a producti- on assistant says. "They're upset about her hair. All morning and all through lunch they're been working on her hair." This is the Paris set of "Moonrakcr." the 11th James Bond film extravaganza, and the troublesome hair in question belongs to leading lady Lois Chiles, (he newest addition to the "Bond girl" subspecies of Hollywood glamour queen.

Her hair, which off camera she likes to keep naturally curly, is one problem. Another is that Lois Chiles is anything but a traditional glamour. vqucen. Her intriguing green eyes delight photographers alright, and she has no trouble filling the bikini of such earlier Bond girls as Pussy Galore and Mary Goodnight. BUT ALONG with being an rProfile Henry Fonda: Joy at 73 JAMIE LEE CURTIS A scary step into cinema By BOB THOMAS Associated Press "I've had a middle name all my life.

It is She's the daughter of Janet Leigh and Tony It happened all the way through school says Jamie Leigh Curtis resignedly, and it still happens. This month she makes a giant step towards establishing her own identity. At 19, she is starring in "Halloween," a creepy little thriller that arrived in time for the scare season. Jamie is a slender beauty who most resembles her mother, especially in the lower part of the face. But, as she points out, the eyes bespeak Tony Curtis.

Otherwise the parental influence is minimal. "My father and I have never been close," she re- marked with a faint hint of testiness. "My parents divorced when I was four, so I remember nothing of when they were together." Until now Jamie's main achievement has been as a regular on the "Operation Petticoat" TV series a bit of irony, since her father starred with Cary Grant in the 1959 movie that spawned the series. "I was a superficial casualty of the revamping of the. show, she remarked.

Jamie is much prouder of "Halloween," though it is, obviously an exploitation picture aimed at the thrill "I think that it is an effective film," she "especially when you consider that it was made in four weeks on a $350,000 budget. The director (John Carpenter) was -29, the producer (Debra Hill) was 23 and I'm 19. The crew was non-union, very young and eager. There was a wonderful spirit on the picture, and I think it shows on the screen." The-idea for "Halloween" sprang from independent producer-distributor Irwin Yablans, who wanted a terror-tale involving a babysitter. Carpenter, who wrote "The Eyes of Laura Mars," and Hill fashioned a script about a madman who killed his sister.

He escapes from an asylum and returns to his home town intending to murder his sister's friends. Jamie tried out for the role of the 16-year-old babysitter who encounters the killer after discovering her dead Her mother's advice: "Be yourself, Jamie. You can't learn to act, but you can learn to lose your inhibitions. Find what you need inside. It's in you somewhere." "That really didn't slow me up," he says.

"I was back on stage five weeks later." Bids for his services kept coming in as though nothing had happened. "I'm in good shape," he says, "though I have to take it easy physically. I'm not allowed even to do isometric exercises. I cau3 carry any. thing heavy.

I keep getting skinnier." Fonda's current stage workout is "First Monday in i October." a drama by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee about the first woman member of the Supreme Court. Jane Alexander is the lady, and he portrays a justice "that a lot of people" identify with William O. Douglas even though there are a lot of differences." After a few weeks of vacation, hell start work on "The Journey of Simon McKeever," a story that has been bouncing around filmland for three dc-. cades.

Looming immediately after on the Fonda agenda is a movie version of "First Monday in October." fir 4 I i By WILLIAM GLOVER NEW YORK (AP "The big thing." says Henry Fonda, "is joy in your work." At 73, he's going strong. A pair of films, a television special and now a Broadway play are this year's stint for the durable star. Then 1979 starts with two more films. "It does seem like I've been working an awful lot." he concedes good naturedly. "but I don't feel I've been going at any particular pace." Any question about retirement gets an emphatic, no, no, no." "Why do that when it's still so much fun? I don't mean that in a superficial way, but as something thoroughly satisfying and deeply gratifying.

"I have to remind myself that I'm TO-blip-3 years Id, because I know I don't look it and I don't feel it." The man from Grand Island, who did his first Broadway walk on in 1929, moved into senior status with a one-role drama about Clarence Darrow four years ago. Then he had a heart attack, followed by surgery. A pacemaker was inserted in his chest. WWW dr" I fi i 1 i Henry Fonda and bis co-star on Broadway in "First Monday in OdoberVJane Alexander..