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Subject: Gates McFadden
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Date: 20 Dec 90 23:44:51 GMT
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[Note - I'll be out of the country until Jan 3.  Happy holidays, folks - ed.]


The following is excerpted from The Grapevine, From Marilyn Beck and
Stacy Jenel Smith in Hollywood, 19 December 1990, as found in the
San Jose Mercury News.

BOLDLY GOING:  Gates McFadden, who plays Dr. Beverly Crusher on
``Star Trek:  The Next Generation,'' says she's been talking the
producers into lightening up the women's roles on the syndicated
show.  ``I want the women to be funny sometimes.''  She has done
an episode for Jan. 7, ``In which I teach the android how to tap
dance.  It was a riot and I got to get some humor into my character.''
Gates, who's studied martial arts, is also getting the producers
to let her do some of her own stunts.  ``I'm very physical,'' she
says, ``and I like action things.''

David B. Mears
Hewlett-Packard
Cupertino CA
hplabs!hpda!mears
mears@hpinddf.cup.hp.com

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