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Regardless of whom I marry, I’m convinced this part of my life must be kept separate from the fanfare and ballyhoo that goes with being an actor.” Today he says: “Natalie and I aren’t trying to be difficult, believe me. It’s just that both as individuals and as a couple, we’ve been so misquoted that we’ve decided the best policy is to keep our personal life as private as possible. There are certain things that are just bound to be news because of the business we’re in. This doesn’t discourage us. But what does is the constant rehashing and rehashing of a story or a set of facts until the original story is so trite or misquoted that it’s ridiculous. “We don’t want to keep our fans out of our life. On the contrary, we don’t want to be presented to them in a false light. We can hardly expect them to respect or believe in us when they read forty different stories about our wedding day— all different — because only two of the forty people who wrote those stories were actually present! This is why we’ve decided to do no at-home layouts or discuss certain things of a very personal nature. This is the only way we know to keep our happy marriage free from the atmosphere of a three-ring circus.” “Since we started dating,” Natalie continued, “we’ve tried to talk as little as possible about our romance. Before we were in love, when I lived at home and RJ in his bachelor quarters, we had a responsibility to ourselves and to our families. Now that we are married, our responsibility is to each other. That’s what marriage is.” “I suppose it’s no secret,” RJ added, “that oftentimes Hollywood dates and romances are cooked up for publicity purposes. There’s no question that these prearranged dates serve a purpose. In those cases, the couple involved actively seeks publicity. If ours had been such a romance, if it had even begun as a publicity gag, I can assure you it would have never gotten off the ground. If either of our studios had ever suggested that we date because it would result in good copy, both of us would have run so fast in the opposite direction it would have looked like Hurricane Hazel. The point I’m trying to make is that from the very beginning our relationship was sincere, honest. Our romance only progressed because we fell in love — there was nothing contrived or make believe about it. We never sought to make our love front page gossip.” The obvious question at this point was: Well, where are you going to draw the line? How are you going to decide what interviews to give and which ones to refuse? How about pictures of your home? “Since our wedding, we’ve had a tough decision to make about these points. Both of us have many good friends, people we respect and trust, who are either writers or photographers. Yet, it wouldn’t really be fair to decide that we would only give stories or pictures to our friends, there are too many members of the working press we don’t know, who are entitled to the same courtesies as our pals. But even with those we know and like, there has to be a limit. Where? That’s a good question. “In our position there were several alternatives. At one extreme is the solution by which we’d declare open house twenty-four hours a day. Under that sys-" tem we’d smilingly pose for pictures of Natalie boiling water and me carrying out the waste basket. Only one trouble: This would be phony and it would leave us with absolutely no time to ourselves. The opposite extreme would be for Natalie and I to decide not to give joint interviews. This way when either of us was approached, we’d say, I can only talk about me, if you want to know about my wife (or husband), you’ll have to ask her (or him) .” But that would really be ridiculous,” Natalie said, “for then we would be representing ourselves as separate units, only concerned with ourselves. You can’t be married after working hours only! We aren’t separate, anyway; we’re one. My thoughts are for RJ and what will make him happy, and his are for me. The only thing we can think of is what we consider an intelligent approach-compromise. We’ll grant interviews occasionally, but we stand firm on our aim not to have any pictures taken at home. If we let one photographer in we’d be obliged to welcome every cameraman who wanted to shoot pictures — in this business unfortunately there’s no middle ground, either you stand firm or not at all.” “One incident of how frustrating things can get happened to us just last week.” As RJ told me what happened, I could sense his concern. “I had to go to Arizona on location a few days ago. Natalie and I drove up together. The first morning there, I had a six a.m. call. When I got up it was freezing, outside it was raining and all in all it was a pretty miserable day. I suggested that Nat stay at the hotel while I went out to the location site. She agreed, it wasn’t fit weather for man, or beast, much less my beautiful bride. “A few minutes after I arrived on set, a photographer came over to me and asked me if Natalie was with me. I told him that she was in town but that she hadn’t come out to the location site because the weather was so miserable. He asked me if I’d call her and ask her to come over so he could shoot some pictures of us. As politely as I knew how I refused. I tried to explain my reasons — they were pretty obvious. I’m sure he wouldn’t have wanted his wife trooping all over creation in freezing weather. He walked away and I didn’t learn the end of the story until later that day. But, it seems that after he left me, the man was so eager to get the pictures, he called Natalie at the hotel and told her that I had told him to call to tell her to come on over so he could get the pictures. “Natalie and I haven’t been married very long, but my bride knew me better than to think I would have made such a request. So Nat told the cameraman that she didn’t think she ought to come until she talked to me about it. Naturally, the frustrated lensmen was forced to drop the whole thing. He couldn’t admit to Natalie that he’d made up his story, so he just said he’d have me call, and hung up. Because Nat is such a darn good sport, she got out of bed, got dressed and waited for my call. A call that never came because I didn’t know a thing about it. Is it any wonder that there are times when we say we’ve been burned?” “While we were still on our honeymoon,” Nat continued, “we were asked to do a series of articles on how to stay happily married and our marriage secrets. RJ and I politely refused. Isn’t it sort of ridiculous to ask a nineteen-year-old bride and her groom of three days to set themselves up as authorities on advice to the lovelorn? We certainly have no intention of telling people the ways to achieve happiness in marriage — we’re too busy