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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' Continued from preceding page 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.