Catching up with Vivica A. Fox, Shaft, the Hulk and TV's Batman

August 30, 2012 missed the recognition when it went says she is not surprised by that. really examining it. You know, just character on the television series of on. None of its good enough. So, I have gotten their start because worthless thing.” She noted that “all away. going along putting one foot in front the same name. The show was can’t remember who said it, but I they’ve got a really cute face, a very in nature must decay.” VIVICA A. FOX: “Everyone has a of the other and not thinking too popular in the late nineteen just recently heard somebody say ‘I cute personality, they’ve got the Actor Richard Roundtree arrives at turn. And, and I’ve never been a much about it. And, when work seventies and early eighties. Lou started at the top and worked my dimples and all the little tweens fall Perhaps David Nicholls put it best a church near Memphis, Tennessee, person that’s been bitter or jaded comes along, think about the work. Ferrigno says he has dealt with the way down.’ Sad but true." for them. But they never quite break when he said, “to have had fame, Catching Up With Vivica A. Fox, Shaft, the Hulk for a "Tribute to Isaac Hayes," who about a person shining and getting It’s no big thing. It’s easy. What the ups and downs of fame by doing out of that role and at some point even very minor fame, and to have won an Academy Award in 1972 for their moment. I believe that there’s heck.” different things. John Schneider told VOA he thinks you grow out of that role and those lost it, got older and maybe put on a and TV’s Batman best song for the "Theme from room for everyone. Everyone has a the actor James Dean got it right: little tweens have, you know, grown little weight is a kind of living Shaft" and died of a stroke in turn. And how you work your Mr. West told VOA that as long as Lou Ferrigno, star of the original die young and when you are out of you.” death.” August 2008 moment is up to you. Because, you he is paid for his work, that is all "Incredible Hulk" in New York in most-famous. The actor died in a know, in a career you should be able that matters. He says being famous 2004 car crash in nineteen fifty-five at the Ms. Jessup knows of actors who (MUSIC) RICHARD ROUNDTREE: “I used to discover several moments, if you does not pay for food, housing and age of twenty-four. Mr. Schneider were once famous, but are no longer BARBARA KLEIN: And that’s THIS BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to the to hate it when I was out with my LOU FERRIGNO: “Well, for me, I transition into different chapters of other costs, but work does. said that if Dean and the actress as in demand like they once were. IS AMERICA, a VOA program in VOA Special English program THIS kids at dinner, and whatnot, and never really peaked because my life your career -- being a young Marilyn Monroe had lived, they She says many of them have a Special English. Our producer was IS AMERICA. I’m Barbara Klein. If people can go being asked for autograph when I ingenue, playing a mom, playing a BARBARA KLEIN: Burt Ward is still growing because I shoot would probably be making difficult time dealing with the new really wanted to just enjoy the played Batman’s young helper, different paths, like bodybuilding, Brianna Blake. I’m Barbara Klein, producer, playing a director. appearances at fan conventions like reality. So she tells her new clients with Christopher Cruise, who wrote CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: And I’m company I was with. And now that There’re different genres for you to Robin the Boy Wonder, in the like the movies, like I became a he does. to separate themselves from what Christopher Cruise. This week we into the business it doesn’t happen, there are times television series. Like Adam West, deputy sheriff. So everything is this week’s program. Join us again get into. You can’t always be ‘the others are writing and saying about next week for THIS IS AMERICA in tell about several American actors when I say ‘Wow, you know, I’m not one.’” Burt Ward appears often at fan spread out.” BARBARA KLEIN: Maggie Jessup them. In her words, if you believe who were widely recognized years getting the best seat in the house, conventions. Many people pay to and her husband, Jay, operate a VOA Special English. understanding this is a (MUSIC) everything others say about you, ago. But they now are not big stars I’m not getting the best table.’ But I Ms. Fox has taken her own advice. see their childhood heroes, and are business called Platform Strategy. It there is nowhere to go but down. or famous like they once were. We Actor Richard Roundtree arrives at a look at the people who are going She has moved away from the roles happy to have their picture taken CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Finally, helps people become and stay ask them how they dealt with these job — all the publicity, all church near Memphis, Tennessee, for through that and I said, ‘You know, that beautiful, young actresses play with them. Mr. Ward told VOA his John Schneider is best known for well-known. Maggie and Jay Jessup MAGGIE JESSUP: “So, if people changes. a "Tribute to Isaac Hayes," who won that’s a blessing.’ I’m still working, I to being a beautiful, older actress. fame has never really gone away. playing the role of Bo Duke in “The wrote a book called “Fame 101.” She can go into the business an Academy Award in 1972 for best the press, all the hoopla still have a career. And I’m still [a] She does not appear in as many Dukes of Hazzard.” It was one of the says actors can avoid losing their understanding this is a job -- all the (MUSIC) song for the "Theme from Shaft" and BURT WARD: “Well actually, the viable entity in the industry. So I got movies as she did when she was most-watched television series in fame by being willing to accept publicity, all the press, all the died of a stroke in August 2008 fame is there -- it just takes a BARBARA KLEIN: Imagine you are the best of both worlds.” younger, but she stays busy in the United States in the early different parts -- and by not letting hoopla and all the compliments and and all the compliments acting. And for many actors, that -- different form. I mean, you know, others to define them. the yes people and those people. If one of the most-famous movie stars Richard Roundtree says he once you, you think of our show being nineteen eighties. John Schneider of police detective John Shaft in and not stardom -- is what matters. they can understand that that is just in the world. Millions of people pay told his father that he was unhappy prime time, but when I come out was in his early twenties when the MAGGIE JESSUP: “The ones that three movies in the early nineteen part of the job and not let it go to to see your films, and everyone and the yes people and to be known only as John Shaft. He (MUSIC) here and I meet people, they’re just series began. Now in his early seem to get pigeonholed are the seventies. The movies made him an their heads, they stand a possibility seems to know your name. Thirty says his father told him that many as excited as I was during Batman fifties, he is still tall and ones that are so convincing in one internationally recognized movie of making it. And if they look at it as years later, you are attending a people would want to be in his CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Adam days. So, it’s not that the people good-looking. Mr. Schneider says he character that you can’t possibly see those people. If they can star. Since then, he has had a good a business they’ll treat it as a comic book convention in position. The actor told VOA that West is known as Batman to many change. Maybe, you know, the, the has a difficult time dealing with the them in another. They bring career on television shows. But he business. If they look at is as part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You sit his father told him to “shut up” and people in the United States. He perception is different, but it, idea that he will never be as famous themselves into it instead of become has never been as famous as he was their personality and expect people alone, almost unrecognized, waiting understand that that is stop complaining. played the role in the Batman honestly, nothing has changed – as he once was. the character. What you need to do when he played John Shaft. to bow to them everywhere they go, for people to come and shake your television series in the nineteen I’m the same person I was before I is choose a role that is so polar hand. BARBARA KLEIN: Actress Vivica A. sixties. The show can still be seen John Schneider, from "The Dukes of that’s not going to happen!” just part of the job and CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Richard made the series that I am now.” opposite from the one that you’re Fox was at the same event in on television stations around the Hazzard," autographs a replica of Roundtree was so well-known for known as and do it convincingly CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Over the Richard Roundtree played the part Philadelphia as Mr. Roundtree. She world. Reports say Burt Ward was paid the show's "General Lee" car at the the part that he was chosen to play and then people will look at you as years, a lot has been written about not let it go to their appeared in many movies and very little to play Robin in the Big Apple Comic Con in New York few other roles in the nineteen an actor.” the price of fame. The early television shows in the nineteen Adam West says that after the show television series. But he says he has in 2009 eighties and nineties. That was Christian philosopher St. Augustine nineties and in the first few years of was cancelled, he had a difficult made a good living appearing at fan Maggie Jessup says a lot of the stars heads, they stand a because casting directors believed JOHN SCHNEIDER: “Part of me said, “The desire for fame tempts the twenty-first century. time being less famous than he once conventions over the past forty-five of today are making the same that movie goers could not see him still believes that my best days are even noble minds.” The writer was. But he says that period lasted years. mistakes as those who have gone as anyone other than John Shaft. ahead of me. I see it happen all the Henry David Thoreau said he would possibility of making it” Back then, Vivica A. Fox was known just a short time. Then, he got back before them. As a result, they are for her good looks. She is now to work. Lou Ferrigno also is known for time to people. I have a lovely wife, rather have truth than love, money The actor told VOA the fame that not as marketable as they once forty-eight years old. While still playing a superhero. The former I have lovely children. They get you or fame. And Ardelia Cotton Barton came from the Shaft movies was not were. says Maggie Jessup. beautiful, she is no longer as busy or Adam West, who played Batman on bodybuilder was “The Incredible through a lot of it. But it really, it is called fame “a bubble on life’s easy for his family. But he says he TV in the 1960s, with a fan in 2002 devastating to have gone up to bat wave,” that is “tossed about,” “a Actress Vivica A. Fox in Los Angeles as famous. Younger actresses are Hulk,” a green-skinned comic book MAGGIE JESSUP: “Especially the and hit a grand slam, and hit in 2009 given parts she once played. She younger ones. It seems that they Continued on next page ADAM WEST: “It’s a matter of not doubles and triples from that point Continued from previous page

missed the recognition when it went says she is not surprised by that. really examining it. You know, just character on the television series of on. None of its good enough. So, I have gotten their start because worthless thing.” She noted that “all away. going along putting one foot in front the same name. The show was can’t remember who said it, but I they’ve got a really cute face, a very in nature must decay.” VIVICA A. FOX: “Everyone has a of the other and not thinking too popular in the late nineteen just recently heard somebody say ‘I cute personality, they’ve got the Actor Richard Roundtree arrives at turn. And, and I’ve never been a much about it. And, when work seventies and early eighties. Lou started at the top and worked my dimples and all the little tweens fall Perhaps David Nicholls put it best a church near Memphis, Tennessee, person that’s been bitter or jaded comes along, think about the work. Ferrigno says he has dealt with the way down.’ Sad but true." for them. But they never quite break when he said, “to have had fame, for a "Tribute to Isaac Hayes," who about a person shining and getting It’s no big thing. It’s easy. What the ups and downs of fame by doing out of that role and at some point even very minor fame, and to have won an Academy Award in 1972 for their moment. I believe that there’s heck.” different things. John Schneider told VOA he thinks you grow out of that role and those lost it, got older and maybe put on a best song for the "Theme from room for everyone. Everyone has a the actor James Dean got it right: little tweens have, you know, grown little weight is a kind of living Shaft" and died of a stroke in turn. And how you work your Mr. West told VOA that as long as Lou Ferrigno, star of the original die young and when you are out of you.” death.” August 2008 moment is up to you. Because, you he is paid for his work, that is all "Incredible Hulk" in New York in most-famous. The actor died in a know, in a career you should be able that matters. He says being famous 2004 car crash in nineteen fifty-five at the Ms. Jessup knows of actors who (MUSIC) RICHARD ROUNDTREE: “I used to discover several moments, if you does not pay for food, housing and age of twenty-four. Mr. Schneider were once famous, but are no longer BARBARA KLEIN: And that’s THIS BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to the to hate it when I was out with my LOU FERRIGNO: “Well, for me, I transition into different chapters of other costs, but work does. said that if Dean and the actress as in demand like they once were. IS AMERICA, a VOA program in VOA Special English program THIS kids at dinner, and whatnot, and never really peaked because my life your career -- being a young Marilyn Monroe had lived, they She says many of them have a Special English. Our producer was IS AMERICA. I’m Barbara Klein. being asked for autograph when I ingenue, playing a mom, playing a BARBARA KLEIN: Burt Ward is still growing because I shoot would probably be making difficult time dealing with the new really wanted to just enjoy the played Batman’s young helper, different paths, like bodybuilding, Brianna Blake. I’m Barbara Klein, producer, playing a director. appearances at fan conventions like reality. So she tells her new clients with Christopher Cruise, who wrote CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: And I’m company I was with. And now that There’re different genres for you to Robin the Boy Wonder, in the like the movies, like I became a he does. to separate themselves from what Christopher Cruise. This week we it doesn’t happen, there are times television series. Like Adam West, deputy sheriff. So everything is this week’s program. Join us again get into. You can’t always be ‘the others are writing and saying about next week for THIS IS AMERICA in tell about several American actors when I say ‘Wow, you know, I’m not one.’” Burt Ward appears often at fan spread out.” BARBARA KLEIN: Maggie Jessup them. In her words, if you believe who were widely recognized years getting the best seat in the house, conventions. Many people pay to and her husband, Jay, operate a VOA Special English. (MUSIC) everything others say about you, ago. But they now are not big stars I’m not getting the best table.’ But I Ms. Fox has taken her own advice. see their childhood heroes, and are business called Platform Strategy. It there is nowhere to go but down. or famous like they once were. We look at the people who are going She has moved away from the roles happy to have their picture taken CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Finally, helps people become and stay ask them how they dealt with these through that and I said, ‘You know, that beautiful, young actresses play with them. Mr. Ward told VOA his John Schneider is best known for well-known. Maggie and Jay Jessup MAGGIE JESSUP: “So, if people changes. that’s a blessing.’ I’m still working, I to being a beautiful, older actress. fame has never really gone away. playing the role of Bo Duke in “The wrote a book called “Fame 101.” She can go into the business still have a career. And I’m still [a] She does not appear in as many Dukes of Hazzard.” It was one of the says actors can avoid losing their understanding this is a job -- all the (MUSIC) viable entity in the industry. So I got movies as she did when she was BURT WARD: “Well actually, the fame by being willing to accept publicity, all the press, all the fame is there -- it just takes a most-watched television series in BARBARA KLEIN: Imagine you are the best of both worlds.” younger, but she stays busy in the United States in the early different parts -- and by not letting hoopla and all the compliments and acting. And for many actors, that -- different form. I mean, you know, others to define them. the yes people and those people. If one of the most-famous movie stars Richard Roundtree says he once you, you think of our show being nineteen eighties. John Schneider of police detective John Shaft in and not stardom -- is what matters. they can understand that that is just in the world. Millions of people pay told his father that he was unhappy prime time, but when I come out was in his early twenties when the MAGGIE JESSUP: “The ones that three movies in the early nineteen part of the job and not let it go to to see your films, and everyone to be known only as John Shaft. He (MUSIC) here and I meet people, they’re just series began. Now in his early seem to get pigeonholed are the seventies. The movies made him an their heads, they stand a possibility seems to know your name. Thirty says his father told him that many as excited as I was during Batman fifties, he is still tall and ones that are so convincing in one internationally recognized movie of making it. And if they look at it as years later, you are attending a people would want to be in his CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Adam days. So, it’s not that the people good-looking. Mr. Schneider says he character that you can’t possibly see star. Since then, he has had a good a business they’ll treat it as a comic book convention in position. The actor told VOA that West is known as Batman to many change. Maybe, you know, the, the has a difficult time dealing with the them in another. They bring career on television shows. But he business. If they look at is as part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You sit his father told him to “shut up” and people in the United States. He perception is different, but it, idea that he will never be as famous themselves into it instead of become has never been as famous as he was their personality and expect people alone, almost unrecognized, waiting stop complaining. played the role in the Batman honestly, nothing has changed – as he once was. the character. What you need to do when he played John Shaft. to bow to them everywhere they go, for people to come and shake your television series in the nineteen I’m the same person I was before I is choose a role that is so polar hand. BARBARA KLEIN: Actress Vivica A. sixties. The show can still be seen John Schneider, from "The Dukes of that’s not going to happen!” CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Richard made the series that I am now.” opposite from the one that you’re Fox was at the same event in on television stations around the Hazzard," autographs a replica of Roundtree was so well-known for known as and do it convincingly CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Over the Richard Roundtree played the part Philadelphia as Mr. Roundtree. She world. Reports say Burt Ward was paid the show's "General Lee" car at the the part that he was chosen to play and then people will look at you as years, a lot has been written about appeared in many movies and very little to play Robin in the Big Apple Comic Con in New York few other roles in the nineteen an actor.” the price of fame. The early television shows in the nineteen Adam West says that after the show television series. But he says he has in 2009 eighties and nineties. That was Christian philosopher St. Augustine nineties and in the first few years of was cancelled, he had a difficult made a good living appearing at fan Maggie Jessup says a lot of the stars because casting directors believed JOHN SCHNEIDER: “Part of me said, “The desire for fame tempts the twenty-first century. time being less famous than he once conventions over the past forty-five of today are making the same that movie goers could not see him still believes that my best days are even noble minds.” The writer was. But he says that period lasted years. mistakes as those who have gone as anyone other than John Shaft. ahead of me. I see it happen all the Henry David Thoreau said he would Back then, Vivica A. Fox was known just a short time. Then, he got back before them. As a result, they are for her good looks. She is now to work. Lou Ferrigno also is known for time to people. I have a lovely wife, rather have truth than love, money The actor told VOA the fame that not as marketable as they once forty-eight years old. While still playing a superhero. The former I have lovely children. They get you or fame. And Ardelia Cotton Barton came from the Shaft movies was not were. beautiful, she is no longer as busy or Adam West, who played Batman on bodybuilder was “The Incredible through a lot of it. But it really, it is called fame “a bubble on life’s easy for his family. But he says he as famous. Younger actresses are TV in the 1960s, with a fan in 2002 Hulk,” a green-skinned comic book devastating to have gone up to bat MAGGIE JESSUP: “Especially the wave,” that is “tossed about,” “a given parts she once played. She and hit a grand slam, and hit younger ones. It seems that they ADAM WEST: “It’s a matter of not Continued on next page doubles and triples from that point Continued from previous page

missed the recognition when it went says she is not surprised by that. really examining it. You know, just character on the television series of on. None of its good enough. So, I have gotten their start because worthless thing.” She noted that “all away. going along putting one foot in front the same name. The show was can’t remember who said it, but I they’ve got a really cute face, a very in nature must decay.” VIVICA A. FOX: “Everyone has a of the other and not thinking too popular in the late nineteen just recently heard somebody say ‘I cute personality, they’ve got the Actor Richard Roundtree arrives at turn. And, and I’ve never been a much about it. And, when work seventies and early eighties. Lou started at the top and worked my dimples and all the little tweens fall Perhaps David Nicholls put it best a church near Memphis, Tennessee, person that’s been bitter or jaded comes along, think about the work. Ferrigno says he has dealt with the way down.’ Sad but true." for them. But they never quite break when he said, “to have had fame, for a "Tribute to Isaac Hayes," who about a person shining and getting It’s no big thing. It’s easy. What the ups and downs of fame by doing out of that role and at some point even very minor fame, and to have won an Academy Award in 1972 for their moment. I believe that there’s heck.” different things. John Schneider told VOA he thinks you grow out of that role and those lost it, got older and maybe put on a best song for the "Theme from room for everyone. Everyone has a the actor James Dean got it right: little tweens have, you know, grown little weight is a kind of living Shaft" and died of a stroke in turn. And how you work your Mr. West told VOA that as long as Lou Ferrigno, star of the original die young and when you are out of you.” death.” August 2008 moment is up to you. Because, you he is paid for his work, that is all "Incredible Hulk" in New York in most-famous. The actor died in a know, in a career you should be able that matters. He says being famous 2004 car crash in nineteen fifty-five at the Ms. Jessup knows of actors who (MUSIC) RICHARD ROUNDTREE: “I used to discover several moments, if you does not pay for food, housing and age of twenty-four. Mr. Schneider were once famous, but are no longer BARBARA KLEIN: And that’s THIS BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to the to hate it when I was out with my LOU FERRIGNO: “Well, for me, I transition into different chapters of other costs, but work does. said that if Dean and the actress as in demand like they once were. IS AMERICA, a VOA program in VOA Special English program THIS kids at dinner, and whatnot, and never really peaked because my life your career -- being a young Marilyn Monroe had lived, they She says many of them have a Special English. Our producer was IS AMERICA. I’m Barbara Klein. being asked for autograph when I ingenue, playing a mom, playing a BARBARA KLEIN: Burt Ward is still growing because I shoot would probably be making difficult time dealing with the new really wanted to just enjoy the played Batman’s young helper, different paths, like bodybuilding, Brianna Blake. I’m Barbara Klein, producer, playing a director. appearances at fan conventions like reality. So she tells her new clients with Christopher Cruise, who wrote CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: And I’m company I was with. And now that There’re different genres for you to Robin the Boy Wonder, in the like the movies, like I became a he does. to separate themselves from what Christopher Cruise. This week we it doesn’t happen, there are times television series. Like Adam West, deputy sheriff. So everything is this week’s program. Join us again get into. You can’t always be ‘the others are writing and saying about next week for THIS IS AMERICA in tell about several American actors when I say ‘Wow, you know, I’m not one.’” Burt Ward appears often at fan spread out.” BARBARA KLEIN: Maggie Jessup them. In her words, if you believe who were widely recognized years getting the best seat in the house, conventions. Many people pay to and her husband, Jay, operate a VOA Special English. (MUSIC) everything others say about you, ago. But they now are not big stars I’m not getting the best table.’ But I Ms. Fox has taken her own advice. see their childhood heroes, and are business called Platform Strategy. It there is nowhere to go but down. or famous like they once were. We look at the people who are going She has moved away from the roles happy to have their picture taken CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Finally, helps people become and stay ask them how they dealt with these through that and I said, ‘You know, that beautiful, young actresses play with them. Mr. Ward told VOA his John Schneider is best known for well-known. Maggie and Jay Jessup MAGGIE JESSUP: “So, if people changes. that’s a blessing.’ I’m still working, I to being a beautiful, older actress. fame has never really gone away. playing the role of Bo Duke in “The wrote a book called “Fame 101.” She can go into the business still have a career. And I’m still [a] She does not appear in as many Dukes of Hazzard.” It was one of the says actors can avoid losing their understanding this is a job -- all the (MUSIC) viable entity in the industry. So I got movies as she did when she was BURT WARD: “Well actually, the fame by being willing to accept publicity, all the press, all the fame is there -- it just takes a most-watched television series in BARBARA KLEIN: Imagine you are the best of both worlds.” younger, but she stays busy in the United States in the early different parts -- and by not letting hoopla and all the compliments and acting. And for many actors, that -- different form. I mean, you know, others to define them. the yes people and those people. If one of the most-famous movie stars Richard Roundtree says he once you, you think of our show being nineteen eighties. John Schneider of police detective John Shaft in and not stardom -- is what matters. they can understand that that is just in the world. Millions of people pay told his father that he was unhappy prime time, but when I come out was in his early twenties when the MAGGIE JESSUP: “The ones that three movies in the early nineteen part of the job and not let it go to to see your films, and everyone to be known only as John Shaft. He (MUSIC) here and I meet people, they’re just series began. Now in his early seem to get pigeonholed are the seventies. The movies made him an their heads, they stand a possibility seems to know your name. Thirty says his father told him that many as excited as I was during Batman fifties, he is still tall and ones that are so convincing in one internationally recognized movie of making it. And if they look at it as years later, you are attending a people would want to be in his CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Adam days. So, it’s not that the people good-looking. Mr. Schneider says he character that you can’t possibly see star. Since then, he has had a good a business they’ll treat it as a comic book convention in position. The actor told VOA that West is known as Batman to many change. Maybe, you know, the, the has a difficult time dealing with the them in another. They bring career on television shows. But he business. If they look at is as part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You sit his father told him to “shut up” and people in the United States. He perception is different, but it, idea that he will never be as famous themselves into it instead of become has never been as famous as he was their personality and expect people alone, almost unrecognized, waiting stop complaining. played the role in the Batman honestly, nothing has changed – as he once was. the character. What you need to do when he played John Shaft. to bow to them everywhere they go, for people to come and shake your television series in the nineteen I’m the same person I was before I is choose a role that is so polar hand. BARBARA KLEIN: Actress Vivica A. sixties. The show can still be seen John Schneider, from "The Dukes of that’s not going to happen!” CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Richard made the series that I am now.” opposite from the one that you’re Fox was at the same event in on television stations around the Hazzard," autographs a replica of Roundtree was so well-known for known as and do it convincingly CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Over the Richard Roundtree played the part Philadelphia as Mr. Roundtree. She world. Reports say Burt Ward was paid the show's "General Lee" car at the the part that he was chosen to play and then people will look at you as years, a lot has been written about appeared in many movies and very little to play Robin in the Big Apple Comic Con in New York few other roles in the nineteen an actor.” the price of fame. The early television shows in the nineteen Adam West says that after the show television series. But he says he has in 2009 eighties and nineties. That was Christian philosopher St. Augustine nineties and in the first few years of was cancelled, he had a difficult made a good living appearing at fan Maggie Jessup says a lot of the stars because casting directors believed JOHN SCHNEIDER: “Part of me said, “The desire for fame tempts the twenty-first century. time being less famous than he once conventions over the past forty-five of today are making the same that movie goers could not see him still believes that my best days are even noble minds.” The writer was. But he says that period lasted years. mistakes as those who have gone as anyone other than John Shaft. ahead of me. I see it happen all the Henry David Thoreau said he would Back then, Vivica A. Fox was known just a short time. Then, he got back before them. As a result, they are for her good looks. She is now to work. Lou Ferrigno also is known for time to people. I have a lovely wife, rather have truth than love, money The actor told VOA the fame that not as marketable as they once forty-eight years old. While still playing a superhero. The former I have lovely children. They get you or fame. And Ardelia Cotton Barton came from the Shaft movies was not were. beautiful, she is no longer as busy or Adam West, who played Batman on bodybuilder was “The Incredible through a lot of it. But it really, it is called fame “a bubble on life’s easy for his family. But he says he as famous. Younger actresses are TV in the 1960s, with a fan in 2002 Hulk,” a green-skinned comic book devastating to have gone up to bat MAGGIE JESSUP: “Especially the wave,” that is “tossed about,” “a given parts she once played. She and hit a grand slam, and hit younger ones. It seems that they ADAM WEST: “It’s a matter of not doubles and triples from that point Continued on next page Continued from previous page