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FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1988
ENTERTAINMENT
TFALL SPECIAL
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Barr None
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was so small "our synagogue
rented space from a
Photomat, and our rabbi was
named Christensen."
The chunky comic with the
baby face says she grew up
sharing her family's love of
humor and watching TV com-
edians, two ingredients that
she believes helped give rise
to the stunning success she is
enjoying today.
"My parents let us kids say
anything we wanted to say as
long as it was funny," Barr
recalled recently during a
conversation from her home
in Encino, Calif. "My family
was real poor, and the only
thing we had was Ed Sullivan
on Sunday nights. My father
would yell 'Comedians!' and
we'd all come running in to
watch the TV set."
Her comedic delivery, she
says, is a combination of all
those comics she watched on
TV as a child. "I can feel Jack
Benny in me, Totie Fields,
Henny Youngman. Since I
was like three years old, my
dream has alwys been to be a
comic or a comedy writer. I
think I've, been influenced by
every comic or a comedy
writer. I think I've been in-
fluenced by every comic I've
ever seen, and especially the
classic Jewish comics,
because for me, growing up in
Utah, they were like a
lifeline."
But Salt Lake City was
hardly the place to flower as
a funny lady, Barr volunteers.
"No one in Utah ever thought
anything was funny, ever."
So after quitting high
school, she moved to Colorado,
met and married Bill
Pentland, and settled down to
a life of domesticity. In fact,
she says in her. act, "I've been
married 15 years and I've got
three kids, so I breed well in
captivity!"
The fact is, most of Barr's
"breeding" years kept her
confined to a trailer home the
family shared in Denver.
Bored with her "captivity,"
Barr dieted down to 105
pounds - and got a job as a
cocktail waitress. It was while
insulting her customers that
she found her true calling.
"I was so rude to the
customers, but they always
laughed. So I decided to go in-
to comedy professionally."
A new club had opened in
Denver called The Comedy
Shop which allowed aspiring
comics to showcase their
talents. Barr prepared her
best five minutes, stepped out
on stage and was immediate-
ly accepted by the audience.
It wasn't long before Barr
made her way to Hollywood
where she was showcased at
Mitzi Shore's famous Comedy
Store on the Sunset Strip.
Barr was an instant sensa-
tion. Shore arranged for Barr
to come appear in a TV pilot.
A talent scout from Johnny
Carson's Tonight Show saw
her performance, and im-
mediately booked her on the
show. The rest, they say, is
history.
A professional comic for a
little more than five years,
Barr is riding the crest of suc-
cess much more diligently
than she cleans her house.
"Hey," she whines, "the day
I worry about cleaning my
house is the day Sears comes
out with a riding vacuum
cleaner!"
Barr brings her full-blown
feelings of womanhood into a
comic climate where stand-up
males have long made women
the butt of their jokes. Now
Roseanne Barr retaliates,
saying what many a female
has long thought but was
afraid to verbalize.
"My kids love me 'cause I'm
kinda like the mother they
never had," she says, chomp-
ing away on a piece of gum.
"The way I look at it, if the
kids are alive when my hus-
band comes home from work,
I've done my job!"
But as the mother of three
children, ages 12, 11 and 9,
Barr also has a serious side
and a yearning to take the
time to be a good Jewish
mother. "I try real hard to be
with my kids, but it's not
always easy for a working
mom. I'm like everybody else;
we're all the same woman. We
all try to do the same things,
I think. It's all about balanc-
ing, you know."
Barr knows she's getting
through because of the feed-
back she gets from other
women.. "Some women really
get what I'm saying because
I'm just so much like them,
maybe because they're in the
same baby-boomer age group,
I don't know. Some of the stuff
I get from them is really
great, like poems, or women
who write saying, 'We've
Waited for you for 30 years.' It
makes me feel so good. I've
formed some really good
friendships with people who
have written to me."
Barr has decided to stop
traveling and doing live per-
formances for the time being,
concentrating, instead, on
movies and TV "I'm real hap-
py_ about that," she says. "I'm
not going to travel or perform
live for a long, long time, so
then I'll be able to stay home
more and be like a real mom."
It's gratifying to Barr that
the tentative movie deals
already being offered are
parts that are real, three-
dimensional, sexual women.
Also in the offing is a possi-
ble television series that will
also revolve around "a real
woman."
In addition, Barr is writing
a book. Titled Stand-Up, and
hopefully due out next fall,
the tome will have funny
material in it, but will be of
a more serious nature than
anyone would expect from
her.
"It's an autobiography, sort
of, except it's not mushy. It
has things in it that I feel and
think a lot about, and I think
that other people do, too,
other people of my generation
at least. It's about feminism
and politics and the world."
Now that everything seems
to be going just right in the
life of Roseanne Barr, what
more could she want?
"If I could have anything in
the world, it would be to have
people come up to my house
and watch me perform, and
pay like $10,000 each. Then
I'd only need like two people.
And they'd come, and I
wouldn't have to get out of
bed. I could just lay there and
do my act. That would be my
dream!" ❑
GOING PLACES
I'
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admission, 577-8400.
HENRY FORD MUSEUM
Henry Ford Museum
Theater, Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs,
Saturdays, admission,
271-1620.
NIGHT CLUBS
NICKY'S
755 W. Big Beaver, Troy,
J'Massk, Tuesday through
May 28, 362-1262.
DANCE
INSTITUTE OF MUSIC
AND DANCE
Center for Creative Studies,
200 E. Kirby, Dance
Intensive on Ballet and Pas
de Deux, 1 p.m. Saturday
and Sunday, registration fee,
831-2870.
MUSIC HALL CENTER
350 Madison Ave., Detroit,
Les Ballets Trockadero De
Monte Carlo, 8 p.m. today
and Saturday, admission.
963-7622.
MISC.
UNIVERSITY OF
MICHIGAN MUSEUM
Kelsey Museum of
Archeology, Ann Arbor,
"Portals to Eternity,"
exhibit of Egyptian
artifacts, now through Jan.
15, free, 747-4417.