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Show glib young lady who catches a ride with Michael Caine aboard a cargo vessel bound for Africa to salvage the treasure in the sunken Poseidon. Sally, who was paid $150,000 for Norma Rae and $350,000 for Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, explains: "My instinct was to say no to Poseidon. But my agent, Stan Kamen of the William Morris office he said, 'Listen, Norma Rae may be a wonderful film, but it's not going to be another Star Wars. You need a big commercial sell like Poseidon. Blah, blah, blah.' listened to him. But blame only myself. It may be fine for some people to comgo off and do a big, mercial film like Poseidon and guess did it for the money but hate myself for it, and will never, never, never do it again. I've lived I I star-lade-n I I I I Of her romance with Burt Reynolds she talks guardedly and poignantly. "When we began going together," she recalls, "Burt warned me about the media. 'You must promise me he said, 'that you won't be affected by the garbage they're going to print about us.' And then he laid out the scenario: 'First, they're going to pair us in the headlines "Burt Reynolds and the Flying Nun." That's a natural, it makes good copy. Number 2, they're going to break us up every few weeks: "The Flying Nun Flies Off. Burt and Sally Call It Quits." Number 3, they're going to accuse us of cheating on one another, most likely with me as the one who's doing the cheating, because I'm the one who makes the better copy.' Burt predicted has "Everything me as a stupid, fool who's being duped naive, gullible over and over again by that big Don Juan. "For example, everyone wants to know whether Burt and I plan to marry. I can't answer that. Is he afraid of marriage, having been married before people regarding once, to English comedienne Judy Carne? can't answer that. I'm not afraid of marriage, but certainly wouldn't be quick to marry anybody. And can tell you this if were involved with a man in a relationship which had no future, no prospects for I I I I growth, I'd walk out. "In the three years I've been with Burt, I have really grown. He has a tremendous love of life, an easiness with and appreciation of people I don't have. I'm a skeptic. I'm afraid of peo- - thought they were laughing at me. "Burt's been hurt. But the more he gets hurt, the more he wants to give. He's opened a dinner theater in Jupiter, Fla. where Sally and he have been starring in The Rainmakerl and when he did, I said, 'Why are you sticking your neck out? People are going to come down here and ridicule you and your theater.' And he said, 'No, they won't.' And said, 'Oh yes, they will. They're going to say, "This is Burt Reynolds's Dinner Theater, and it stinks." ' But people have come, and they've been nothing but respectful, appreciative, and responsive. So I've learned something about human relationships from him. "And a good deal about doing comedy, too. There are certain areas of acting in which I've had more experi- I I Pk Inna I Parade st I since. She was married to her high school sweetheart, Steve Craig, for almost eight years and from that marriage has and Eli, 6, who live with Sally and her divorced mother house Maggie in a modest in Studio City. two-stor- y PARADE MAY 13. 1979 5 Informal shot shows the actress's "impish, cute, quality. She's also a bulldog for work. been together three years. She admires his "love of life" but says she doesn't know if they'll marry. This is Sally Field in "Norma Rae," the hit movie that finally establishes her as a serious actress. come to pass," Sally says ruefully. "A few weeks ago when he was on location with Candy Bergen and Jill pie. Maybe I'm insecure because I don't have a college education. Not Burt. He walks into a room with an open heart, ready to love every living, human, walking person in the room. And I look at him as if he's out of his mind. I mean, I become the protective adult, wary and jaundiced, and he be- ence than he has. But in terms of timing, he's an absolute genius. I'm running down the road after him, playing catch-up- . His timing isn't to be believed. It's perfect. He can take a sketch or a bit of business which is awful and in five minutes make it something hysterical. mean, I'm in awe of that kind of mind." And the body that goes with it. But not to the point of obsession. A director who's worked with Sally Field and knows her well says: "What this girl has most are talent and resiliency. In this town, that's an unbeatable compound. Regardless of what happens to her affair with Burt Reynolds and she's obviously smitten by the guy she'll be around for some time." pug-nose- without earning money before, and can do it again." Sally was born in Pasadena, Nov. 6, 1946, and educated at Portola Junior and Birmingham High Schools in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. She enrolled in an acting class at Columbia Studios. A film executive tested her for the Cidget TV series when she was 17 and other than for a three-yea- r hiatus, she has been working ever 8, o nd Burt Reynolds "The Flying Nun" television series made Sally famous, but it her in a role that also type-cashe's had to live down ever since. two sons, Peter, Century-f- Clay-burg- h one in New York for Starting Over, paper printed that it cost him $50,000 in gifts because I caught him in the hay with Candy. They said he gave me a $25,000 mink coat from Bergdorf's and Candy a $25,000 diamond bracelet from Tiffany's to calm us down. Another newspaper had him fooling around with Jill Clayburgh just about the time she decided to get married to her boyfriend. "Mostly take such fiction in stride. It doesn't bother Burt, but some of it bothers me, because people are buying that garbage, and find myself responding to it because don't like I I I comes the child, trusting and loving. It's insane. But there it is. "I don't know why I'm so distrusting. People hurt me when worked in The Flying Nun. Maybe I can trace it a to that. was a continual national joke, a running gag. Everybody had jokes about me Bob Hope, every comedian. And every gag couldn't went right to my heart. The Flying Nun. separate myself from I I put-dow- I I P |
