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SUZANNE PLESHETTE HI c : Continued from page 32 instance, in a series. And a girl comes and goes every week, as a guest star. I think she begins to be a commodity, and I think it begins to affect their approach to women in their private life. I think it’s unfortunate. I prefer the point of view that the men in New York have. Also, there’s an abundance of pretty women here. There are women who are anxious to be seen with people, you know, to further their own ends and I think that’s unfortunate, because it makes it very easy. So, when a woman comes along who wants to establish a relationship — you know, when it’s not hello-goodbye, gee, you’re pretty, let’s have dinner — it makes it difficult for us, I think. FRED: You say you want to go all the way, Suzie dear? SUZANNE: (Laughing) We're talking about my career now. are we not? Just a normal big star FRED: Yes, we are. . . . Do you think you can become a big star, and still remain a normal human being? SUZANNE: I hope so. I don't know. I’m not there. I can only speak from the position Em in. But the fun is to get there. I don’t know what it’s like once Em there, you know, fighting to stay up there. I doubt if it’s as much fun as the struggle up, where you can afford to take chances. But, I guess that’s the best place to go. FRED : And now you've become a Californian, you don’t want to go back to New York? SUZANNE: No. Fd like to go back to visit. It’s still my home and my roots are there, my family are there. But I’m very happy in California. You know, in New York, I live in an apartment, and no matter what floor you live on, when you wake up in the morning, you don’t see the sun. And here, I wake up in the morning and it’s sunny and the whole day is happy. I see bright morning. And even when I have to get up at five o’clock in the morning, you know, that's not very sunny then — but the ride to the studio in the morning is one of the most beautiful and truly exhilarating things — it’s brisk, you know, not warm, cool — and my little dog, she has her little chair next to me. We’ve got the radio on. And there are very few cars. And I enjoy the drive. I enjoy coming to work. It’s never a drag — I’m not supposed to say drag, I’m not a hippy. And in New York I always get to the theater at seven, seven-thirty — although I don’t have to be there until eight. So, I have to finish my dinner by six-thirty. I can’t have dinner with friends. I had no social life, you know. At least, out here — I don’t mind getting up early because I have my dinner hours to be with friends. I have a normal social life and I have the weekends free. It seems that every time I did a play we did Sunday matinees. I never had the weekends. I would have to see my friends at three o’clock in the afternoon. It was very difficult when you date somebody who is not in the theater. Because a man picks you up at the theater twelve o’clock at night, you go out and eat, and before you know it, he gets to bed at two or three in the morning. He's got to get up and go to an office at eight or nine in the morning. It’s impossible. I don’t have that here. I don't go out on date-dates, you know, at night when I'm working the next day. since I have to get up at five. I’m in bed by ten. At least, I'm finished at six, and I can meet someone for a comfortable relaxed dinner, and that’s, let’s say, sixthirty, quarter of seven, and I can still get home in time to learn my lines and shower and get into bed at a reasonable hour. New York is my home. But actors must be where the work is, and fortunately or unfortunately, the majority of the television is out here, and the features. Stimulation anywhere FRED: Don’t you find you miss the stimulation that New York offers? SUZANNE: Well, there’s mental stimulation working no matter where it is. I would love it if there were one center of work, like there is in England, you know, where you have motion pictures and the theater in the same city, or relatively near — so that you can do a play and a movie at the same time. But since it’s geographically impossible, all of us have had to adjust; and I find that there’s a great deal of intellectual stimulation in Los Angeles, if you are willing to look for it. Also, so many people from New York are out here now, that you have that rhythm; it still prevails, you know. The lethargy, the California lethargy, which the climate causes, need not necessarily be an intellectual lethargy, unless you want it to happen — at least, in my experience that’s how it is, you know. “Vm ready to carve the turkey, honey.” 79