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Sunday, October 3, 1999
In good company
By SHELLY DECKER
Express Writer
After a long personal journey in Santa Fe, Joyce DeWitt is ready to return to work full time.
One stop along the way is in our fair city as she leads the cast in the Tony Award-winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo, making its Canadian premiere in the Mayfield Dinner Theatre.
While DeWitt, best remembered as Janet Wood in the sitcom Three's Company, doesn't have a firm job offer, she's set up a pad in Santa Barbara.
And she's raring to go after accepting few acting gigs in the past decade.
"I call it my what's it all about healthy stage,'' she says of her break.
"I just feel a great deal of excitement about working again.''
Since living a quiet existence, she's had nearly no social life in Los Angeles.
That's meant little contact with most of the former cast of Three's Company, which ran from '77 to '84. For those too young to remember, DeWitt's dependable and sensible character was a sharp contrast to her two roommates.
A couple of times a year DeWitt speaks to John Ritter, who played Jack Tripper. She hasn't spoke to Suzanne Somers, who played Chrissy Snow till '81 since she left the set. The network drastically cut Somers' role after she demanded a monster pay hike. She decided not to show up to the set.
One replacement, Priscilla Barnes, who played Terri, is a best friend of DeWitt, 50.
A long time's passed since the show signed off, but DeWitt has retained her upbeat, vivacious personality.
And she's clearly having a blast performing in Edmonton in the drama and comedy that plays till Nov. 7.
1. What was the last movie you really loved?
For the Love of the Game.
2. What was the first album you ever owned?
Probably the Broadway album to Oklahoma or a movie score.
3.What's the last book you read?
Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters by Phillip McGraw.
4. What's your favourite hangout?
Home.
5. Do you have a pet peeve?
Men who cannot aim above 1,000 feet.
6. What's your idea of the perfect Sunday?
Champagne brunch in bed, a walk in the mountains, a movie, a light supper with a glass or two of good wine and then either a good book or an old movie on TV.
7. What's your favourite junk food?
Cheeseburgers.
8. What are you doing on New Year's Eve, 1999?
It'll be something quiet with people I love.
9. What gadget or gizmo can you not live without?
Post-it notes.
10. Do you have a hobby or habit that you think would surprise people?
I'm a movie-aholic.
11. What's your favourite piece of clothing?
Sweats, they're my most precious belonging (on this day she sports a pair of turquoise-blue jammy-style sweats.)
12. What would you change about yourself if you could?
I would be less impatient and less impetuous. Both get you into trouble.
13. Whom do you most admire?
People whose commitment to personal integrity is a standard by which they measure their lives.
14. What is your greatest extravagance?
I have all this great kitchen stuff, but I can't cook.
15. Have you ever been mistaken for another celebrity?
Marlo Thomas a zillion times and Elvira once.
16. Do you have a favourite quotation?
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds - Albert Einstein.
17. What is your greatest weakness?
Old movies on TV and popcorn at the movies.
18. If you are reincarnated, who or what will you be?
Frank Capra. I would make movie after movie that celebrated the human spirit.
19. Do you have a preferred genre of acting?
I started working on the stage when I was 13. I've done everything . . . there really isn't a form I prefer. What I really prefer is a variety.
20. When you're recognized from Three's Company, what do people most often say?
That they love the show. It comes bubbling out of their mouths almost immediately. I am greeted with such joy. It's amazing.
Sunday, October 3, 1999
In good company
By SHELLY DECKER
Express Writer
After a long personal journey in Santa Fe, Joyce DeWitt is ready to return to work full time.
One stop along the way is in our fair city as she leads the cast in the Tony Award-winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo, making its Canadian premiere in the Mayfield Dinner Theatre.
While DeWitt, best remembered as Janet Wood in the sitcom Three's Company, doesn't have a firm job offer, she's set up a pad in Santa Barbara.
And she's raring to go after accepting few acting gigs in the past decade.
"I call it my what's it all about healthy stage,'' she says of her break.
"I just feel a great deal of excitement about working again.''
Since living a quiet existence, she's had nearly no social life in Los Angeles.
That's meant little contact with most of the former cast of Three's Company, which ran from '77 to '84. For those too young to remember, DeWitt's dependable and sensible character was a sharp contrast to her two roommates.
A couple of times a year DeWitt speaks to John Ritter, who played Jack Tripper. She hasn't spoke to Suzanne Somers, who played Chrissy Snow till '81 since she left the set. The network drastically cut Somers' role after she demanded a monster pay hike. She decided not to show up to the set.
One replacement, Priscilla Barnes, who played Terri, is a best friend of DeWitt, 50.
A long time's passed since the show signed off, but DeWitt has retained her upbeat, vivacious personality.
And she's clearly having a blast performing in Edmonton in the drama and comedy that plays till Nov. 7.
1. What was the last movie you really loved?
For the Love of the Game.
2. What was the first album you ever owned?
Probably the Broadway album to Oklahoma or a movie score.
3.What's the last book you read?
Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters by Phillip McGraw.
4. What's your favourite hangout?
Home.
5. Do you have a pet peeve?
Men who cannot aim above 1,000 feet.
6. What's your idea of the perfect Sunday?
Champagne brunch in bed, a walk in the mountains, a movie, a light supper with a glass or two of good wine and then either a good book or an old movie on TV.
7. What's your favourite junk food?
Cheeseburgers.
8. What are you doing on New Year's Eve, 1999?
It'll be something quiet with people I love.
9. What gadget or gizmo can you not live without?
Post-it notes.
10. Do you have a hobby or habit that you think would surprise people?
I'm a movie-aholic.
11. What's your favourite piece of clothing?
Sweats, they're my most precious belonging (on this day she sports a pair of turquoise-blue jammy-style sweats.)
12. What would you change about yourself if you could?
I would be less impatient and less impetuous. Both get you into trouble.
13. Whom do you most admire?
People whose commitment to personal integrity is a standard by which they measure their lives.
14. What is your greatest extravagance?
I have all this great kitchen stuff, but I can't cook.
15. Have you ever been mistaken for another celebrity?
Marlo Thomas a zillion times and Elvira once.
16. Do you have a favourite quotation?
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds - Albert Einstein.
17. What is your greatest weakness?
Old movies on TV and popcorn at the movies.
18. If you are reincarnated, who or what will you be?
Frank Capra. I would make movie after movie that celebrated the human spirit.
19. Do you have a preferred genre of acting?
I started working on the stage when I was 13. I've done everything . . . there really isn't a form I prefer. What I really prefer is a variety.
20. When you're recognized from Three's Company, what do people most often say?
That they love the show. It comes bubbling out of their mouths almost immediately. I am greeted with such joy. It's amazing.