FIRST
FIRST THOUGH: WHEN CINDY WILLIAMS STARTED ANCHORING THE NEWS HERE AT NEWS CENTER, SHE
WOULD, WITH SOME REGULARITY,
GET LETTER AND EMAILS FROM
PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT SHE WAS
THE ACTRESS CINDY WILLIAMS, THE
STAR OF THE TV SHOW "LAVERNE
AND SHIRLEY."
THEY ASKED OUR CINDY FOR PHOTOS,
AUTOGRAPHS, THE 4@
WORKS.
SO WHEN WE LEARNED THAT THE
OTHER CINDY WILLIAMS WAS4@4@
COMING
COMING TO
COMING TO MAINE, FIGURING OUT WHO SHOULD DO THE INTERVIEW DID NOT REQUIRE MUCH THOUGHT. 4@4@
OUR CINDY IS HERE NOW WITH THE
STORY.
YOU GUYS DIDN'T HAVE TO TWIST MY
ARM ON THIS ASSIGNMENT. 4@
I WAS DELIGHTED TO SIT DOWN WITH
MY NAMESAKE AT OGUNQUIT 4@
PLAYHOUSE, WHERE SHE'S NOW
APPEARING
APPEARING IN "MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL"...
>>>4@
>>>4@ >>>
>>>4@ >>> SHE IS NOW APPEARING IN 4@
MENOPAUSE, THE MUSICAL.
>>
>> WE
>> WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THIS 4@ CINDY THING.
CINDY THING. >> I KNOW.
CANNOT BELIEVE IT.
>>4@ WE ARE BOTH CINDY JANE
WILLIAMS4@. CYNT4@HIA JAMES
WILLIAMS.
WILLIAMS.
WILLIAMS. >> YEAH.
>> YEAH.
>> YEAH. >> THEY WILL COME UP AND SAY I
AM A CINDY ALSO.4@4@
AND I ASKED HIM WITH HER MIDDLE
NAME IS IN I ALSO ASKED THEM IF
AND I ASKED HIM WITH HER MIDDLE NAME IS IN I ALSO ASKED THEM IF@
THEY4@ ARE A CYNTHIA.
I HAVE NEVER MET ANOTHER
CYNTHIA JANE WILLIAMS.
I CANNOT BELIEVE IT.
4@
>>
>> YOU
>> YOU DO
>> YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE CINDY WILLIAMS4@4@ TO LOVE LAVERNE AN SHIRLEY.
THE CLASSIC SITCOM ABOUT 4@2
WORKING-CLASS FRIENDS DOING IT
THEIR WAY BURST ONTO THE 4@SCEN
IN 1976 AND BY THE LATE 70s
ALMOST HALF OF EVERYONE
WATCHING TV4@ WAS TUNED IN.
MUCH TO THE SURPRISE OF CINDY
WILLIAMS WHO PLAYED SHIR4@LEY A
PENNY MARSHALL, LAVERNE.
CHARACTERS INTRODUCED ON HAPPY
DAYS AND SPUN OFF TO MAKE THEIR
OWN ICONIC SHOW.
>> PEOPLE WOULD -- LIKE IF WE 4@
WERE OUT MANY TIMES PEOPLE WOUL@
LOOK AT US 4@AND START WALKING
TOWARDS US AND WE WOULD 4@LOOK
BEHIND US TO SEE WHO WAS 4@THER
BECAUSE -- AND THAT WAS PART OF
THE SUCCESS OF THE SHOW.
WE WERE FANS AND AVID TV
WATCHERS AND4@ I GO OVER TO THE
HOUSE AND WATCH TV TOGETHER.
WE NEVER WATCHED -- TWICE WE
WATCHED4@ LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY.
WE WERE DOING SOME KIND OF
RETROSPECTIVE ONE TIME AND WE
HAD TO LOOK AT SOME OF THE SHOW
BECAUSE WE WERE SUPPOSED TO
PICK OUR FAVORITE CLUBS OUT4@,
I WENT OVER TO PENNY'S HOUSE
AND WE ARE WATCHING AND WE
TOTALLY FORGOT IT WAS 4@US AND
LAUGHED OUT LOUD.
WE WERE LAUGHING AND SHE TURNED
TO ME AND SHE GOES WE LOOK
PRETTY GOOD.
THAT WAS FUNNY.4@
>> FOR REHEARSAL WE WOULD4@4@
ALWAYS -- IF IT MADE US LAUGH
OUT LOUD THEN WE REALIZED IT
WOULD MAKE THE AUDIENCE4@ BECAU
THAT IS WHAT WE WERE ALWAYS
GOING FOR IS TO MAKE 4@PEOPLE
LAUGH 4@OUT LOUD.
>>4@ A LOT OF THE COMEDY WAS VE
PHYSICAL.
SHE HAD TO CONVINCE THE
DIRECTOR SHE COULD DO IT4@. WHA
WAS MORE PROBLEMATIC FOR HER
WAS NOT CRACKING UP IN THE
MIDDLE OF A SCENE.
>> SOMETIMES WE DID LAUGH AND
THEY WOULD HAVE TO CUT AWAY
BECAUSE WE COULD NOT -- 4@YOU
KNOW.
THEY WERE SO SERIOUS ABOUT THE
STUPIDITY.
4@
YOU
YOU KNOW
YOU KNOW THEY ARE BOTH LIKE MEN'S IQ AND IT TAKES A REALLY BRILLIANT PERSON TO PLAY
SOMEONE TH4@AT DUMB.4@4@ 4@
GROWING UP EVERYBODY SAID 4@I
SHOULD WEAR CENTERS WITH A BIG
S ON IT.
>> THE 1st SEASON4@ SHE LAID OU
A SWEATER WITH4@ THE S 4@ON IT
ME AND THERE WAS NOT THE L. I
DO NOT THINK SHIRLEY WOULD4@ DO
THIS I 4@SAID AND I HEARD FROM
THE OTHER DRES4@SER I WILL.
IT WAS PATTY AND SHE GOES TO
MARY L AND THAT 4@IS HOW IT CAM
ABOUT.
>> FOR YEARS I HAVE GOTTEN
PEOPLE SENDING ME PICTURES OF
LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY AND TOMMY
WHAT A HUGE FAN THEY ARE.
THEY WANT ME TO AUTOGRAPH.
4@
>>4@4@
>>4@4@ WHEN I START GETTING FAN MAIL FOR YOU I WILL SIGN IT4@. >>4@ SHE IS NOT ASSIGNING
PICTURES OF SHIRLEY.4@4@
SIGNING PICTURES OF SHIRLEY.
>>4@4@
>>4@4@ SHE WAS CAST IN 4@WHAT B A WILDLY POPULAR MOVIE ABOUT 4@ TEENAGERS IN 1962 AMERICA.
AMERICAN GRAFFITI.
A CAST FULL OF BEEN LARG4@ELY
UNKNOWN ACTORS.
HARRISON FORD, MacKENZIE
PHILLIPS, RON HOWARD4@4@4@, AND
CHARACTERS GIRLFRIEND PLAYED BY
CINDY WILLIAMS.
>> I WAS SO UPSET BECAUSE I
DIDN'T GET TO PLAY A FUN PART.
I WANTED TO PLAY THE CANDY
CLARK PART, BUT IT WAS ALREADY
CAST.
I SAID I COULD PLAY CAROL.>>
THE MacKENZIE PHILLIPSBURG.
THE CASTING DIRECTOR SAID4@ THA
IS A 12-YEAR-OLD AND I SAID I
CAN DO IT4@ AND I 4@PUT BRACES
MY TEETH AND HE SAID WE
ACTUALLY GOT A 12-YEAR-OLD 4@TO
PLAY THE PART AND I SAID ALL
RIGHT, SO THEN I HAD TO PLAY
THIS GIRL WHO WAS CRYING ALL
NIGHT.
YOU KNOW.4@
>> IT BROUGHT YOU SUCH ALKALOIDS
4@
ACCOLADES. >> I DID NOT KNOW IT AT THE TIME.4@
NONE OF US DID.
WE4@ THOUGHT WE WERE DOING THIS
LOW-BUDGET MOVIE.
4@
>>
>> AMERICAN GRAFFITI WOULD WIN A GOLDEN GLOBE FOR BEST4@ PICTU AND SENDING'S CRYING GUARD A
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS AWARD.
DURING
DURING PHILBIN,4@ GEORGE LUCAS LET THEM ALL IN ON WHAT HE WAS THINKING FOR HIS NEXT PROJECT.
>> WHEN WE WERE SHOOTING
AMERICAN GRAFFITI HE WAS
TELLING ALL OF US THAT HE HAD
ANOTHER MOVIE HE WANTED TO DO
NEXT. 4@
A SPACE ODYSSEY KIND OF MOVIE4@
AND THAT HE WANTED THE 3 MAIN
CHARACTERS HE WANTED TEENAGERS
TO PLAY AND HE HAD TALKED ABOUT
AND THAT HE WANTED THE 3 MAIN CHARACTERS HE WANTED TEENAGERS TO PLAY AND HE HAD TALKED ABOUT@
HOUSE AT ONE POINT AND4@ 4@WE
THOUGHT YEAH RIGHT AND WE WERE
IN THE MIDDLE OF SHOOTING AND4@
WE WERE LIKE RIGHT, YOU ARE
GOING TO DO A 4@SPACE MOVIE.
OKAY.
>>
>> SHE
>> SHE DID INDEED AUDITION FOR THE PART OF PRINCESS LEIA, BUT LOST TO CARRIE FISHER 4@BECAUSE
BY THEN SHE WAS TOO OLD.
>> LOOK AT MY UNDERARM.
IT HAS GROWN A 2nd UNDERARM.
>> AND 62 SHE IS STILL ACTIVE.
FOR 4 YOUR SHE HAS STARTED IN
MENOPAUSE, THE MUSICAL.
SHE OCCASIONALLY TRAVELS WITH
THAT AND OTHER SHOWS AS WELL.
>> THE AUDIENCE COMES IN AND BY
THE TIME THE SHOW IS OVER AND
THEY ARE LEAVING THERE ARE HUGE
SMILES ON THEIR FACES.
IT IS LIKE LIGHTNING IN A
BOTTLE.
ALL OF THE MUSIC RECOGNIZE FROM
THE PAST BECAUSE IT IS PARITY
SONGS AND THEY ARE BRILLIANT
AND IT'S FUN TO WATCH AND
LISTEN TO.
>> I DID NOT KNOW THAT YOU
SING.
>> I DON'T.
I AM GOOD ENOUGH TO BE IN THE
CHOIR AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
THAT IS ABOUT IT.
>> NOT TRUE.
SHE IS 4@BEING HUMBLE.4@
SHE DOES NOT PUT ONE OF THE 4
MAIN CHARACTERS.
SHE IS THE NARRATOR, SO SHE'S
KIND OF IN AND OUT.
>> LOOKS4@ REALLY4@ GOOD.
>> A WONDERFUL CONVERSATION.
>> WE HAD FUN.
WE HAVE A LITTLE SOMETHING ELSE
FOR YOU LATER IN THE SHOW.