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Marilyn Chambers Savors Work Before Live AudienceBy WILLIAM GLOVER AP Drama WriterNEW YORK (AP) - I was lucky to come along just when I did.” says Mar ilyn Chambers, a most happy show-off.What she might have done in a less liberated era causes a shrug and giggle I don't think I could make the housewife scene ’*As the latest very big career step. Miss Chambers is exposing the charms previously displayed in X-rated silms and male magazines picture layouts in a live stage snow called *‘Le Bellybutton '*It's the first tune I've been nude -Rf«r an actual mdknceT but that doesn't bother me a bit I get a chance to communicate very heavily ”'The revue opened at the Diplomat Cabaret, a suddenly renovated ballroom in a rundown hostelry a half block off Broadway This is not exactly in the same league with playing the Palace, but the blue-eyed and hoyden-ish 23-year-old feels she has traveled a lot further up the prestige ladder than such celebrated sister exhibitionists as Linda Lovelace and Georgina SpelvuiI’ve met them both ” she says, refraining from further comment. Chuck Traynor, a heavywet. quiet type who is always nearby, used to manage Miss Lovelace For three years he has been the mentor of the Chambers upswing, in a way that reminds one of Sven-gili's service to Trilby.Both Traynor and Miss Chambers are members of the American Institute of Hypnosis.“He taught me about hypnotism which is a very positive thing” Marilyn reports “He used it to teach Linda what she is able to do He taught me that too, but also to use it to learn dialogue.Before arriving for the current caper, Miss Chambers acted fully-clothed at Las Vegas with Phil Ford and Jane Kean in the drama The Mind with the Dirty- Man To get ready for *'Le Bcllybutton, she sometimes went to bed with a tape recorder which could repeat dialogue as she slept She also likes to perfume lavishly before slumber Miss Chambers believes strongly in olfactory pleasure at work, play or rest Music she doesn't need“I think the whole scene is chang mg.” she says of the erotic titillation so associated with her pictorial reputa-turn. The hardcore stuff is basically boring What is becoming more important is what is going on inside two people's heads and the whole romantic prelude.”Miss Chambers quite frankly regards her mission in life as arousing spectators. 'Turning them on is what turns me on.” Even if stimulation includes the possibly bizarreThere's a little voyeur in everyone.” she rationalizes Oh. yeah. I've lived all my own fantasies ”The Chambers start toward self7 Don I Think I Couhl Make I/h‘ Housewife Sceneexpression began when she was little Marilyn Briggs back in Westport, Conn. a solidly upper middle-class community full of advertising executives like her father and affluent voungstcrs like herself and her older brother and sisterI was always a stmwoff and knew that I wanted to be an actress. she recalls “By 11 or 12 1 was in the AAU Junior Olympics, doing gymnastics and diving Then I discovered boys ”She gave up high school checrlead-ing — 1 haven't worn underclothes since” — for a modeling career that didn't jibe with parental hopes. Jobs included posing for softnlnnk and hair dye ads and finally a well-publicized picture that appeared on a box of soap powderI though a bomb would explode when the film Behind the Green Door” came out But the soap people knew what they were doing — the lx»x came out afterwards and they’ve still got a 10-year contract for use of the picture ”Miss Chambers doesn't like to be called a pom queen,” because Behind the Green Door” and Resurrection of Eve” were the only sex films she has ever madeThere have been of course, a lot of widely distributed, highly imaginative still camera displays, a couple ofhooks - one with Xavicra Hollander — and a monthly advice column to sustain her reputation for sensual candor In conversation, however, she discusses matters with a decorum enlivened only with meaningful glances and a good deal of fidgetingI have an awful lot of adrenalin,” she explains “I'm very earthy ” Success has provided her with two homes, in Beverly Hills and Lake Tahoe, where she likes tn climb mountains, and two ruling horsesMaterial things are fine but 1 would rather become more secure for a little h» later so I won’t have to worry ” So most of her money is invested where I can t touch it '*Miss Chambers never has made asecret of her preference for dominant men. an attitude which brings the women libbers down on me heavily at timesWell, women never will be equal to men and 1 don't want to he I feel I'm a liberated woman I’m free, single I know what I want. There was one short marraige, at 20Miss Chambers hasn't gotten around yet to thinking about where she'll he or what she wants by the ripe age of30Her behavior, she is certain, isn't symptomatic of the decline of Western civilization.
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Albuquerque Journal
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Mon, Apr 12, 1976
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