“It’s about the music, and the connection to people,” she recanted. More recently, she won raves for her portrayal of “Mama Morton” in the London West End production of Chicago in 2006, and last year saw her return to singing on stage as herself, belting out standards like, Peggy Lee’s “Fever,” and Billie Holiday’s “God Bless The Child.”Īnd Carter is set to hit the stage again, and will begin touring with whistle stops at the Thousand Oaks Performing Arts Center on April 25 th, The Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts on April 27 th, a six evening run at The Hotel Nikko in San Francisco from April 29 th through May 4 th, and on May 10th, she will be performing at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.Ĭarter is excited to be performing live again in front of an audience, and be “back on the road again,” as she put it. “It was always there I can’t remember a time when I didn’t sing.” “I had it in my blood,” Carter stated about what initially drew her to music. During her tenure as a certain superhero, she recorded an album, headlined Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, and did five Emmy-award winning television variety specials.
In 1970, she sang lead vocals for “The Garfin Gathering,” after that, Carter was crowned Miss World-USA in 1973, which led to her performing on a global scale with Bob Hope.
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When Carter was just a child she entered talent shows, and as a teen, she joined her first band, “The Relatives,” which included another ’70s TV alumni, Gary Burghoff, who would later star on M*A*S*H as “Radar.”
“Because she’s got that irreverence, and I’m nothing like Bette Midler, and I would never be anything like Bette Midler – Bette Midler is all her own, she kind of finds that goddess from within in her own way.”īut, there are commonalities between the two women, aside from the gay connotations surrounding their career fan base, which lies in the area of music. “My heroine, the person I so wanted to be like was Bette Midler,” Carter stated. Ironically, Carter’s own ideal of a personal superwoman, is another community favorite. And she said, “you’re so big in the gay and lesbian community!’ And I said, ‘Really?’” “I had a woman come in from a lesbian magazine, and she said, ‘You don’t know, do you?’ And I said, ‘I don’t get it, no, what?’ I lived in a little bubble, I guess. “I finally sort of figured it out, it was only maybe 15 years ago,” she replied. But the actress was unaware of her gay appeal until a little more than a decade ago. It just means they’re good actors, and I think the real person is somewhat disappointing.”ĭuring Carter’s phone interview with me, she was anything but disappointing, as she displayed a sweet disposition and was most gracious, which is good news for legions of gay and lesbian fans, as Carter’s turn (or spin, as the case may be) as Wonder Woman, conjures up many a happy childhood memory. “It’s hard for me to separate, not knowing an actor of some kind, and they can be entirely different from the character’s they play. I think that is the case with every actor that has ever played an iconic role – Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur, it goes all the way down,” Carter recanted. “And, I’m certainly not aware of it, except in a public setting. “People that know me really well forget about that, they just forget about it,” Carter said. “You couldn’t have any jiggly thighs happening there.”Ĭarter is happy to have spent time in Wonder Woman’s satin tights, fighting for her rights and the old Red, White and Blue, even if people sometimes have trouble separating her character from her real-life persona. “I guess I always worried about how my thighs looked,” she answered with a laugh. She did, however, cite one drawback about her days as a hero.
I think that the thing you fight the most, it just persists, and it takes way too much negative energy do that. I can’t change that, might as well embrace it. I mean that is not a bad thing, because she’s wonderful. I understand it, I get it, and I think that I’ve reaped the benefits of having people identify Lynda Carter with the persona of Wonder Woman. “You can never live up to it,” Carter stated. For someone who has been recognized as the iconic television character of “Wonder Woman,” and more than 30 years ago tooled around the skies in her character’s Invisible Jet, actress Lynda Carter is certainly a very down-to-earth and grounded lady about the character’s long lasting appeal.
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