Screenland Plus TV-Land (Jul 1959 - May 1960)

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"If I could only practice what I preach!" she sighed. Frequently an effort to come to honest terms with a situation is interpreted as temperament. It is not unusual for Tuesday, with her predilection for living life as it presents itself; to be caught in the cross-currents of such opposite views. There have, for instance, been some rumblings of late that her abbreviated telephone conversations are the actions of a spoiled brat. Tuesday wasn't the least bit defensive about it. "I have to take some time out to be alone," was her simple explanation. "I never answer the phone anymore because I've been so busy that I've just got to make time for myself to do things I want to do. Why waste time talking to someone on the phone for a half-hour and saying nothing? You know, it's gotten to the point where it takes about 15 minutes | just to say hello!" She proceeded with a mirthful rundown of the platitudes that are trotted out in typical time consuming telephone chatter. " 'Where have you been?' " Tuesday recited sardonically. " 'Where did you go last night? What were you wearing? What was she wearing?' Then they go into who they've seen lately, and who I've seen lately. Suddenly an hour has gone, and the conversation ends with, 'Well I'm working all this month. I'll see you next month.' The phone should be used when you only have something definite to say." Tuesday obliged with a biunt social case in point. "If someone calls me and asks if I'd like to go with them to an elegant party that night, and I don't feel up to it, I just say plain no and goodbye," she said without compunction. "I used to make a lot of excuses. Thank you. It was so nice of you, and so on. Look at all that good time gone!" She paused and broke into a smile. "You've begun to know my big bug this year," she grinned. Tuesday has taken the serene position that it is for others to judge her actions if they must, and for her to know if any of the legends about her have any truth to them. But entirely aside from whether censure is merited or not, she did provide dramatic insight into her behavior when she blandly confided that she was no stranger to a thing called loneliness. "I think the main sickness that everyone has is loneliness," she ventured her diagnosis with the certainty of a doctor prescribing for the common cold. "But loneliness is interpreted as meaning many different things. Like being moody. Like being an extrovert. Any and all of those things come from loneliness. I think that loneliness is the greatest torture a human can have." It is no wonder that with such perception even her admirers might express as tonishment that Tuesday is 16 years old. "Rejection, insecurity, it all stems from loneliness," she spoke as if quietly relieving old pains. "If you're not insecure it means someone has made you secure, and something has happened that you shouldn't be lonely." Her face fell reflective as she pondered for a moment, and then she continued. "When I feel lonely," she said softly, "I suffer. I walk and I think or I toss in bed. No, I don't call anyone. Not when I'm really, really lonely. I don't. When you're just surfacy lonely you can call up someone and it's over. When you're deeply lonely you can't be satisfied by calling up a person because it decreases in value." Tuesday did not discuss her loneliness to mollify her critics, however. She was not even convinced that anyone needed to be mollified — any more than she was convinced that she was being maligned. "I can't really argue the point too much," Tuesday insisted. "I don't understand what's to be misunderstood yet. Maybe if I understood that, I could say that they misunderstand me. I just don't understand the basic thing yet." Is it true what they say about Tuesday Weld? 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