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Friday. November 19, 1976 PageS Hemingway's Granddaughter On TV NEW YORK (UP1) The problem may be poignant but the center of attention will be Papa Hemingway's granddaughter playing a pregnant teen-ager. Mariel Hemingway plays the lead in "I Want To Keep My Baby," to be shown as a CBS Friday night movie on Nov. 19, 9-11 p.m. Miss Hemingway plays a 15- year old who gets pregnant and whose boyfriend deserts her, literally at the altar.

Wonder Woman What to do? Her minister and her mother who also had been a teen-age mother insist that the sinner keep her child in stead of relinquishing it for adoption. "You've got to take responsibility for what you did, same as me," the mother tells her. The role is played by Susan Anspach with a Southern drawl, which is becoming a cliche in these situations. The girl, basically a good girl because bad girls know how to deal with these situations, tries. Her troubles underline the basic premise that children raising children can be pathetic for the young mother and downright dangerous for the infant involved.

Miss Hemingway has no trouble looking 15, with her dark blond hair worn straight and and her face scrubbed of makeup and lightly dusted with freckles. Hers is not the charming teenager of "The Brady Bunch," ehirpy and cheery. Miss Hemingway's character is Fame Finds Linda At Home By DAN LEWIS 'Make no mistake about it, Hollywood's newemerging sex symbol is a 5' 8- luscious young lady with measurements of 37-21-36 who will answer whether you call her by either Lynda Carter or Wonder Woman. They seem to be interchangeable. Miss U.S.A.

in the 1973 Miss World competition, Lynda Carter has put her career into momentum with some diligent pursuit. A three years o( i singing, including a run in Las Vegas, she's assualted Hollywood. Three pilots of Wonder Woman last year averaged shares in the high 30s. i i a i statuesque beauty queen noted, "we were told it was a pilot for this season." But ABC had a dilemma, a a a riches. The network with the new hot hand, grabbing off the leadership in the second hnlf of the season, had i i i i a a spot for a hour-long weekly show.

So network worked out another deal. a hecome a fill-in at vital mom i the season. The commitment was made for 11 specials. Each would be a slory in the finite form, so I hat concern over intermittent scheduling would not he diluted, if it were a con- i i i saga i a definite scheduling commitment. The first scheduling crisis at the network came during major league baseball playoffs.

When the Cincin- a i swept straight from the Philadelphia Phillies, it left a big hole in prime lime a night. Without advance promo- lion. Wonder Woman was inserted, drew a 34 share of the audience and finished 16th for the week in Ihc Nielsens. Then (here was a Iwo- parler, again with Wonder a i i rescue in one of the rare a A schedule Saturday night, i Holmes a YoYo and the canceled Mr. and Tina.

Eight more episodes i he inserted into Hie schedule, all as WONDER WOMAN Lynda Carter displays two of her strengths here, her super powers and her super looks as TV's latest heroine. specials, before the season ends. Lynda she is happy i scheduling pall ern. and the fact it is not being promoted as a series, but rather specials. "II gives MIC show more importance this way as specials.

This is a unique show '40s, i drama, aclion and comedy. It's a real kick for me and a chance to do olher things. Each slory is different, nnl continuing." Set i World War 11. when she was not horn yel, Lynda has found a fascination wilh (he period through the shows and research. She watched a good deal of film of the era lo get a feel for il.

was a i a i i in the she observed. "The country was united in llinsc war years. That a i i ferver was wonderful. 1 don't identify with it because il never was a part of my life, bul il is fun lo live in il now through the series. "And I love the fashions of the '40s," she said.

"I'm having a lot of fun with them. Have you noticed that we're going back to those fashions today?" Lynda acknowledges thai the show has made her a public figure. "It has allowed me lo he stolid, with a tendency toward tears and sullen glances. She has a little girl voice that climbs into a distressed squeal in moments of emotional emergency that is as annoying as it is authentic in at least one breed of the adolescent species. She returns from the hospital with her baby daughter, but finds life with mother, stepfather and their children difficult, particularly since her mother appears to be laking over the baby.

She moves to squalid lodgings, where she almost is raped and her baby is fed vodka by a babysitter to keep her quiet during a marijuana party. Nexl comes life al a halfway house, wilh strict rules and free time only to attend school and work a split shift as a carhop. Meanwhile, inaricherseclion quote, a star, 1 1 2 a a because of my feelings for il." How does she enjoy being a sex symbol? "1 like il." she confessed. "I can't be anything other than what I am, or look like anything other than I look like. The only thing I can control is my crealivity." She is under contract Ki a Brothers, a deal i has a 18 months to run.

She also has a recording contract now with MCA Records and still considers music a prime fact of her future. "Music is rny love." she said. "It's always been my life writing and singing. My music has been very private the past year or so. hut now I'm ready to make it public, again." Lynda doesn't consider herself a "great singer," hul good enough to perform in public.

She describes her singing as country-rock. Bui il might have'all a i obscured had it not been for the growing popularily of Wonder Woman. "Before Wonder Woman, who cared about 'Lynda a a rhetorically. "Now people know me and so il gives me a a lo do i because TV fans are interested." of town, there's this nice couple who can't have any The situation has real emotional appeal and the cast handles itself well, particularly Rhea Pearlman as a social worker who herself had been a child-mother. The script sags badly in the middle and contains the annoying mosquito buzz of inconsistencies why would a girl with a new baby pack a suitcase and leave an uncomfortable hut not unbearable home without first finding another place to live? Why didn't she go straight to the halfway house? And more.

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