Corvallis Gazette-Times from Corvallis, Oregon • 46

1 J- 77777 Vi7 I IS aL tetr.S a it. i 3s oil 81 MPs i But Anne Schedeen likes ornery co-star By Jerry Buck Movie offers sappy ending for Dad's day NEW YORK APk Television adds to Dad's haul of kwd neckties and other useless gifts with a program packaged just for Father's Day on Sunday a sappy TV movie. Michael McKean (Lenny on "La-verne and stars in "A Father's Homecoming" on NBC. a schmaltzy tale of parental wisdom that is, in fact, an above-average offering for this time of year. It was written by Gloria Katx and Willard Huyck, who co-wrote "American Graffiti" with George Lucas.

oj Tht Attociatrd Pmt "I don't want the toothbrush back, but it's too much when you walk in your dressing room and ALF's taken the coffee table." Anne Schedeen McKean to operate AI.F than a Boeing Ifi What's ALF really like' she aks "Just like he on TV Rude, obnoxious, crude, but a good dancer Generous, but in a weird way When my husband and I moved into our new house ALF sent over a truckload of Venetian blind All one sice. 30 by-42 "He has bad prrsnnal habits lie clips his toenails on the set lie barrows things and doesn't return them 1 don't want the tooth-brush back, but it's too much when you "walk in your dressing room and he's taken the coffee table." plays a refugee from the 'K who returns to his alma mater, Oak-mont Prep School, as the new headmaster That causes consternation for his party-animal son, played by Jonathan LOS ANGELES (AP Anne Sen, by her own calculation, figures she became famous a few week ago. "I went to the hardware store in my jeans," the says "My hair was sticking out alt over. This man cornea up to me and My, 'Oh, you're Kate It went tike that fur the rest of the day. "The other day I answered the door in my bathrobe A man (ays.

'You're the woman on "ALF. id never been recogmtcd before The recognition came when the show tuned hilling the Top 10 ui the ratings Schedeen start on NBC's "ALF," a hit comedy about a furry, wisecracking alien from the pLart Melmac who moves in with a typical American family Max Wright also stars as her husband, Willie Tanner, and Andrea Ebon and Benjji Gregory as thetr children, t.ynn and Brian. And ALF played by, well, ALT. "I consider myself lucky." Schedeen says. Tor years I've been able to make a wordrr-ful living and retain my anonymity.

It helped me hit the antique stores, which is a passion of mine It a little hard to bargain if the store salesman knows you on a hit show." Schedeen has starred tn one other ser, ARCs "Paper Dolls." and in six pilots v. never got on the air. She was a contract player at I'm vena I Studios, where she had a recurring role on "Emergency!" "When 'ALT came along was another pilot season," she says "1 kept reading scripts I almoftl got involved with one, then withdrew at the last minute. Then I read 'My: I said. This is funny.

It makes me laugh I met the people involved, I met AU ami became more convinced I wanted to do It. That little alien made me laugh." doesn't say much about A1J. No one connected with the show mentions the word. Meaning pupprt. ALF is kept under wraps, but it's been said it takes more people Michael McKean Actress got her start in Portland Ward, a student at the newly coeducational school, and bookish daughter, played by Marc ia cine Warman, A jealous rival for the headmaster's job (Peter Michael Goetz) and an ovenealous editor of the school paper provide typical situation comedy But clashes between the over-privileged preppies and the locals and a violent labor -management dispute at the town's only factory add some sophistication to the plot.

This is television, though, and it is Father's Day, and by the end of the movie everybody rushes to understand each other's point of view, fathers and tons and daughters are reunited, and everybody's happy. was a trade newspaper. I called a girl I had acted with in Portland and said I'd come to Mew York to act She said. 'Oh, I think he was responding to all the problems she knew 1 would go through. Getting an agent, getting to the right classes, getting a survival job and wailing (or the magic to start.

"II was a icig wait. I sold clothes, modeled clothes, was a shoe model. I played in sum mer stock and did a commercial. Then 1 got signed by a big agent ithin a month I had a contract with Universal. I thought I'd come out here, take fencing lessons, drive a small Thunderbu-d and sit by the swimming pool Instead, I was the daughter on 'Marcus Welby, Anne Srhettpen grew up on a farm outside of Portland.

Ore and began acting "with teapots and flowers" at the age of The family name was originally Sjodin, but got changed somewhere on the journey from Sweden Her first agent wanted to change it again, but she said no way because it would be fun for the whole family. She took acting lessons at the Portland Civic Theater Her first professional job, wrtK-h paid only room and board, was in a dinner theater on the island of Kauai. She studied at Portland State University and Fort Wright College in Spokane, then took off to backpack across Europe. "When I came back I settled in New York," she says "I didn't even know there 2 7 JQ. I.

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