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Big Spring Herald, Wednesday, June 27,1990_7-AFormer Miss Big Spring appears on Donahue showBy DEBBIE LINCECUM Staff WriterAuthor and businesswoman Ginie Polo Sayles, formerly of Big Spring, made a guest appearance on the “Donahue” TV talk show Thursday.Known as Virginia Morris while she lived here, Sayles was a 1962 graduate of Big Spring High School and 1963 “Miss Big Spring.”The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T.R. Morris of Big Spring, she was Phil Donahue’s guest to talk about the courses she teaches on “How To Marry the Rich.” She has made an audio cassette album with the same title. She is also the author of “How to Win Pageants,” a beauty pageant primer, and teaches a number of other “How To” dating classes.“Phil Donahue was just wonderful,” Sayles said Friday in a telephone interview from herArkansas home. “We had a great audience, too. It was a whole lot of fun.”Sayles, her husband Reed Sayles, and three women who had taken the course ap- ginie sayles peared on the show in New York, taped Wednesday. Audience members, callers to the show and Phil Donahue asked questions and expressed opinions about the course’s theme.“I want to tell you that PhilDonahue is a phenomenon,” Sayles said. “He’s a wonderful entertainer and so good with the audience.”Though audience members did not all appreciate Sayles’philosophy — “The rich are going to marry someone, why not you?” — Sayles said she was not uncomfortable.Sayles said that before the show Donahue came out to meet them and said, “Don’t worry, I’m on your side.”“I deal with people all the time,” she said. “I’ve been on a number of other talk shows. My courses are really very popular, though some people don’t agree with them.”Sayles, her husband and three guests were flown from their home in Little Rock to New York. They were met at the airport by a Donahue staffer holding up a sign which read “Sayles.” They were ushered into a stretch limousine and taken to the posh Drake Hotel.“It was a beautiful 1927 hotel, right across from Trump Tower,” Sayles said. “It had a wonderful five-star restaurant.”They were allowed to charge their food and expenses to the Donahue show account, she said. The same afternoon a limousine took them to NBC, where they were met by the crowds of people trying to buy tickets to the show.“One by one they took us intomakeup,” Sayles said. “Even myhusband was made-up some. Thenthey told us what order to sit in. Aswe walked onstage the crew was alllined up in the hallway. I guessthey wanted to see what we looked like.”Sayles said she was not nervous at all.“The scariest part for me was riding on the planes to and from,”she said.On the show, Sayles and the other women were described as “gold diggers,” but Sayles said she does not think wanting to marry someone rich should have a negativeconnotation.‘‘Everybody is a hypocrite . . . I’m just up front about my hypocrisy,” Sayles said on the show.The courses, for men and women, center on where to meet the rich, how to dress, act and talk to them and how to get them to marry you, Sayles said on the show. Donahue read a list of her “Tips for Marrying the Rich” during the one-hour program.“Sometimes people don’t understand what we do,” Sayles said. “It’s not about money. It’s about learning how to love. I just love to see two find people find each other,whether rich, poor, whatever.”Since the show aired, Sayles said she has already received calls from all over the United States and several other countries asking for tapes and inviting her to speak to groups.
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