INTERVIEW WITH PLAYGIRL MAGAZINE

[Chica]

Playgirl: How does it feel to be 21 and on top of the television heap?
Freddie Prinze: Television eats stars alive,spitting them out and finding a new kid. I've been trying to remember who was hot before I came along and who's no longer around. I can't figure out who it was. It worries me. I'd be glad if it turned out to be Robert Redford.

PG: So you can offer no formula for success?

FP: I came along at the right time. I originally got into show business because I was too lazy to work 9 to 5.Now it's my job to keep growing--do it and dump it,do it and dump it.Sit still for one minute and everybody passes you by.

PG: You seem rather manic.

FP: I'm impatient. I wish there was 30 hours n a day. We're definitely 6 hours short, especially in Hollywood. The f***ing agents take 3 our lunches. You call in at 11:00,"Oh he's out to lunch." Call him at 3:00, "He's left for the day." You gotta catch 'em as they pick up their mail or they're gone.

PG: How important is bread to you?

FP: I bought a house and paid cash for it. I don't owe a dime. I think that's the key.

PG: Have you ever been frivolous with this newfound comfort?

FP: Last year I did this state fair in the Midwest... I was in this little town at a motel and it was like American graffiti revistited: kids in their pickup trucks driving to the pool. I called up the airport at 1:00 in the morning and said "Get me to California." The guy there said they had a Lear jet, but it would have to return empty; he'd do it for $4000. I said " Take me." If I had waited for the first morning commercal flight I would have arrived just 8 hours after the Lear, but I took the private plane because I just was not happy in that place.

[Chica]

PG: Well, you're really a combination overnight success and rags to riches story, and yet it sounds a little like you're trying to justify spending money excessively.

FP: I don't feel I have to justify it, but it's part of who I am. That's one thing I always thought when I was poor. Me and my loved ones are never going to be anywhere or do anything we don't want to. That's what money's for.

PG: We know you're happily married now, but did you make the heavy dating scene when you first hit town?

FP: I dated my ass off. I enjoyed it. I'd have been a fool not to.

PG: Are you the superstud you're alleged to be?

FP: I went out with a lot of women and dug it. But the superstud number is sh*t. It's not that I'm bad in bed, but I'm not into one night conquests; lay 'em and leave 'em. If you believe what you read about me, I'm supposed to have a 2 foot joint and f*** everything that moves. If I tried to live up to that I'd be nuts.

PG: Have you ever tried?

FP: Once. And it turned out to be a bummer. I was playing a part badly and it showed. We wound up being pissed with each other.

PG: Do you think it helps you to score, being who you are?

FP: I'd like to think it's just because I'm me, but let's face it, people are impressed with money and position. Guys will go out with the starlet before the secretary. It's sick, but it's life. Fortunately I don't come on like I'm a hot number. I hardly ever hit on anybody. Most of the girls I dated I met by accident--either almost running them down with my car, or in Schwab's
browsing through magazines.

PG: You're not vain?

FP: I can't afford to be. I've got crooked bottom teeth, a broken nose, fat cheeks, and my hair gets flat if I don't blow it out.






[This message has been edited by Chica (edited 04-28-2001).]

[Pitooey]

Chica - I never read the Playgirl issue so I'm happy you posted some of the interview. More More.......... So he did have a broken nose. Hmmmmm. I wonder how he got it.

[MariposaLKB]

So I've been vindicated! His nose looked broken because it had been! Poor Freddie! And BTW--It wasn't two feet long?!!!! LOL!
(I don't mean his nose!)

[catcopy18]

Do you really think Freddie was as harsh as he sounds in some of his interviews or was he just talking like that because he thought
Playboy/Playgirl expected that kind of talk?
He sure doesn't sound like the sweet, easy-
going Chico we all knew from CATM. Sounds like he was always in a hurry and a little short tempered who acted before he thought!!!
Gee, I'm from the midwest and it sounds like he "HATED" it around here from that interview
he did!!!!!!

[Vicki39]

Thanks Chica, I am glad a signed on to read that. Maybe it was just a foot long--Ha Ha!! Is there more??

[Chica]

PG: So it didn't pay for you to come on with a heavy macho line?

FP: It's not worth it; it just doesn't last. You can get kicked in the nuts just so many times. You can never really live up to the macho fantasy. Of course, it's not until retrospect that you see what bullsh*t it was.

PG: You're pretty young to marry and start a family. What made you do that?

FP: I'm in love, I wanted a child with Kathy, and I wanted the child to have my name. If something ever happened to me, I didn't want her to be just my "old lady" who gets left with nothin' but sh*t. I wanted it to be legal, so she would get everything. And it was time.

[Chica]

there is more to come...but it will take me some time...i'm usually not here like this, so please be patient...it will be here....

[Vicki39]

Thanks, again, Chica. I will be patient. This certainly sounds a lot more positive than the Playboy article.. Much more upbeat!

[Chica]

PG: How did you two first get together?

FP: It was just after taping last season. I was really tired and a friend of mine suggested that I go to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to rest, ride horses,ski. He was gonna join me in a week. The second day I called him and said "Don't come. I met a lady." Kathy and I just hung out from there.

PG: How much later did you marrry?

FP: We met in March 1975 and married in October of that year.

PG: So you think you were ready,and that Kathy could handle being married to a highly visible personality?

FP: Yeah. I used to be very self-centered, to shine everybody on. But because I do everything in a rush,in leaps and bounds, I got a lot out of my system romantically by the time we met More than the average guy of 30.

PG: You may have got it out of your system, but what about all your female fans?

FP: I was in Chicago for a gig and there were 500 girls waiting for me at the stage door. I admit it-I still love it and get a rush from it. But I know I can't throw that scene on my old lady.Kathy may be able to handle it, but I wouldn't put her through that trip.

[EdBrownJr]

Good Work Chica!!! It is a good read so far i cant wait for more.

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GET OUT OF MY GARAGE!!!

[Chica]

PG: She's not uptight then?

FP: She's pretty used to it. Like what happened with the National Enquirer. She and I had been living together 8 months and nobody really knew it because I don't go out to functions where I can be photographed. But the Enquirer wanted to print a story about me and my latest romance, so they printed this old picture of me and a girl I had dated few times. The cover story ran, "This is love." Then one week later I got married to Kathy. They were so pissed. It just blew them out. I said "Hey man, check your facts."

PG: Have you ever been a victim of a deliberate lie?

FP: I was at a benefit once where they asked me,"Would you pose with this little ******** child?" Then 6 months later it was on a magazine cover, "The child Freddie Prinze must hide." I was pissed, but, you know, you can't sue. The courts are paranoid about impinging on freedom of the press.

PG: What if one of those rumor magazines said that Kathy wanted an open marriage, and it was true?

FP: No way. When I married her it was me. I'm not going to f*** anybody, and she doesn't f*** anybody.

PG: Are you jealous?

FP: Not jealous. I just don't like to be fooled. If I marry someoe on the premise you don't f*** around and then later on she wants an open marriage it's "POW." That's where I'm at. You tell me everything up front. We don't have to be married to f*** around.

PG: Are you a traditionalist in the sense that you think it's the wife's job to raise the child?


FP: It's both parents' job.

PG: What if the wife wants a career herself?

FP: Fine. As long as she can come home to me. If it were a job that would make her crazy, I wouldn't let her.

PG: You wouldn't let her? How could you not let her?

FP: I'd tell her NO.

PG: Does she have the right to tell you what to do about your gig?

FP: No. I say F.O. If it's something thats gonna damage our relationship or the kids life, Id say no. If it's a matter of opinion, it's gotta be talked out. But the bottom line is what I know. Like if my old lady started shooting smack tomorrow, I'd have her put in jail. That's an extreme example. But you can mellow a situation by talking it out.

[Cheryl Harrell]

Interesting read! He sounds different than Chico. I had noticed in one episode his nose looked kinda smished. Now I know why! Bless his heart! I bet he was just trying to sound big or macho for the mag but ya never know. I never knew him so who knows?

[This message has been edited by Cheryl Harrell (edited 04-29-2001).]

[Prince]

I think he was talking like that to be cool.
Actually for 21 yrs. old he sounded like it had his priorities in order. Only paid cash for items that he wanted, doesn't believe in
going out on his wife, his wife and baby came
first. Not bad for being so very young. He had a lot of love to give and I bet he was very tender in private. Just to think at 21 he was at the top of his game, married and had a baby. That's a lot of responsibility.

[croiter]

great work chica. I'm having a problem, though, copying and pasting to my site. It definitely will be added, even if I have to copy word for word. Good stuff!