well here it is it's the uh may 26th issue of time magazine and on the cover it's certainly
molly ringwald uh it's a pleasure to welcome her to our program and even more of a pleasure
knowing that we beat those weasels that meet the press in booking this week's time magazine cover
folks please say hello to an extremely talented and
a very very popular actress molly ringwald molly
hi hi molly nice to see you
nice to have you here you look great congratulations this must be a big thrill not only
time i fail to mention that you were also recently on a cover of life magazine yep and you're just
you're just a kid how old are you i'm 18. 18. so that's pretty young to be on the cover of major
national publications yeah it is were you pleased with the articles the pictures and stuff this one
i was i was really pleased with that time magazine yeah i thought it was really accurate and really
nice the other one um was an honor as well but uh well you weren't happy with the life magazine
no i wasn't because it looks like i have a gum disease actually my gums aren't actually purple
but um oh actually i think there's something wrong with the color yeah let me see your gums
no they look fine to me uh no but it's interesting because they're owned by the same company time
life you'd think that they'd be pretty much the same deal in there wouldn't you yeah but i guess
there's like different right this is actually more of a pictorial magazine and they deal with more
you know writing on this one now how does this happen where do you how do you find
out that you're going to be on the cover of time magazine how does a thing like that work
um well i have a publicist so it pretty much goes to the publicist they contacted the publicist and
said we'd like to put molly on the cover yeah and where did you hear about it what happened when you
heard um well i was um in my living room having a history class and we were talking about um
libya at the time and how you know and then why were you in your uh in your living room
why was i in the living room well because um i was getting tutored in history because i'm you know
being an actress and everything i've had school differently than most people so i was having
history class in my living room at the time and um or at least this is what you told your folks
my mom was in the kitchen oh no actually my mom was in the kitchen my my mom was in the back room
and she came in and she said susan just called us the name of my publicist and said that they
want to put you on the cover of time magazine and it was like no no you have to be joking
and everything that's going on right now no no they really do so it was supposed to be on um
about a month ago but um our country decided to bomb libya right so unfortunately it was pushed
and then and then it was gonna be on during the last yeah and then um and then russia
decided to have a nuclear meltdown and then it was pushed again more headaches for you
now this is i mean this is really uh quite got to be the thrill of your career so far
i would think or at least right up there with the big ones then uh yeah i guess so
it's pretty it's pretty um big thrill now what what do they talk about
uh what do they talk about is it in this article they refer to something called ringlets
uh ringlets yeah what are those well according to this article they're people who um who uh dress
up like me young young girls who dress up like you're trying young girls young boys whatever
no it's young girls have you seen them doing that i've seen them as a matter of fact i was driving
down the street with this guy and i looked down the corner and there was about three girls that
looked like me i mean it first it was you know and it was weird because one of them was was a mexican
girl and she'd like dyed her hair red which looks pretty odd on somebody who's like spanish dark
skin and everything and it's like bright orange hair and it was in the head my little glasses
and everything how does that make you feel when you see that is that flattering or is it sort of
more responsibility than you ever wanted out of this music i mean that people are actually
dressing up like you it's flattering of course i mean my mom always says imitation is some serious
form of flattery and everything but um it's kind of funny yeah it's sort of strange isn't it uh now
the guy you were driving with are you you have a regular boyfriend oh no the guy i was driving with
was the writer oh of the article oh i see i see okay and how about a regular boyfriend no let me
ask you a question about this that i heard uh that you had oh boy that you had uh you had actually uh
uh i can't even say this uh you you were seeing you were involved with uh warren beatty involved
with warren beatty well he's producing my film right now well yeah let's just keep it that way
because you know i mean you would you consider going out with warren beatty um warren beatty
is just a friend i've known him for about four years he's oh cut the crap cut the crap molly
no now you had her you had a regular boyfriend for a while didn't you yes who was that his name
was duisel zappa dweezel's apple he's frank zappa's son and and uh a nice nice young man
mm-hmm a musician actress i mean an actress no no you're the actress he's an actor he is an actor
yeah but you don't see him anymore um well no i do see him we're in the same town he lives in
los angeles yeah and you just recently moved to new york did you and you have your own apartment
uh-huh now this is pretty exciting also a young woman just starting out a life on her own here
in the city yeah yeah it's really exciting yeah and we're where abouts do you live i live in in
the village yeah and it's safe down there for you it's safe i mean i don't know how safe it is but i
really like the area i mean it's like everything's all around yeah it's like a little neighborhood
yeah uh and do you have pets and stuff um well i got two cats about a month ago two little kittens
um and i brought them with me to new york but um i i'm allergic to them so i sent them back
they had to go back but they're they're with you they're still with your mom right yeah yes
and uh what are you working on now i'm working on a film called the pickup artist
which warren beatty's producing of course and an actor named robert downey is playing the
pickup artist and um dennis hopper and harvey keitel is going to be in it all right we have
to do a commercial here okay well these these photos are very nice in here what do you think
don't you yeah i think they're pretty nice i would be if i were you i would be pleased with them
oh yeah i would be uh happy with that so now have you actually graduated from high school
no i haven't yet but um i'm not really going to school anymore i finished pretty much completed
all my studies did you get a real education or was a lot of stuff like in your living room like you
were telling us about well i wouldn't consider it a normal education but i would consider it a
real education yeah i mean i i've gone to school a lot in the set and in my living room and any
place where i could you know possibly have it yeah and uh what what were your what were your
what were your best subjects my best subjects i i'd probably say english english and history yeah
and uh but your class is graduating this spring or maybe they've already graduated they're going
to graduate well my actual graduation is june 12th and i'm going to try to fly back oh so that would
be nice now how did you get along with the kids in your your high school there um well i wasn't
really i wouldn't be what you would consider a social butterfly probably not there much right
no yeah that's the thing is i really wasn't there i'd be there for a month and then i'd
leave and go do a film and then i'd come back so they're probably really jealous of you and stuff
um i don't know i don't think so i mean i always got along with everybody pretty well and made
like a couple of really good friends yeah uh and what about the do they have proms anymore yeah
and are you gonna go to that one no i didn't it was in may i didn't go to that one
because um i already felt that i had already gone you know because of pretty pink i got
the dress and the pictures and like you know my date and everything and it seems sort of redundant
i didn't go yeah okay so uh but you may go back for the graduation yeah i'm gonna really try okay
your family's still in l.a uh-huh why did you move to new york well because i was doing a film
here and because i've always pretty much wanted to come to new york i really like it you enjoy being
here oh yeah okay well certainly nice to meet you and congratulations on all of the success
and did we cover oh the next movie you're working on is the the warren beatty deal
no that's this one oh that's this one yeah which is uh uh the pickup artist
right right nice to meet you molly thank you very much for being here have a good summer
i will pause for station identification be right back