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Michele Lee portrays the best-selling author of
"Valley of the Dolls" in "Scandalous Me:
The Jacqueline Susann Story."

CURT SCHLEIER

Special to The Jewish. News

he multitalented
Michele Lee sees sim-
ilarities between her-
self and author
Jacqueline Susann, the character
she portrays in "Scandalous Me:
The Jacqueline Susann Story,
which airs next week on the
USA Network cable channel.
"I think I make things hap-
pen for myself and that's what
Jackie did," says Lee. "She was
the quintessential American suc-
cess story. She lived the
American dream, as corny as it
sounds, and found her individ-
ual place in society. I may not
be as much in your face as
Jackie was, but I make things
happen for me. I want my piece
of the pie."
In addition to Lee, who is
also executive producer, the film
stars the always excellent, always
stoic Peter Riegert (Crossing
Delancey) as Susann's long-suf-
fering husband, publicist/pro-
ducer Irving Mansfield.
"Scandalous Me" deals quite
well with the issues that defined
Susann.
She was the daughter of a
famous portrait artist father who
gave his affection freely to mod-
els but not to his daughter.
When Susann's mentally ill son was
institutionalized, she pretended to the
world that he was away at an exclusive
boarding school, then adopted a poo-
dle to comfort and nurture. Her battle
with pills; her siege with breast cancer
and her occasional sexually ambiguous
extramarital affairs are all there.
But the film deals with Susann's
better times, too, especially her best-
sellers that reshaped the terrain of
American publishing. With TV, radio
and bookstore appearances, Susann

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Curt Schleier is a New Jersey-based

freelance

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revolutionized the way books are sold
and gained the fame she so yearned
for.
"She understood mass psychology
and she had an understanding of the
common person," Lee says. "That's
how she was able to sell The Valley of
the Dolls." (Despite receiving poor
reviews, the chronicle of life among
sexually promiscuous pill-popping
society women in the seductive spiral
of fame is still one of the Top 10 best-
selling novels of all time.)
"There's a complexity there," says
Lee. "Happy times. And bitter herbs."
Lee breaks out in laughter. Not lit-
tle feminine giggles, but longshoreman