Show V w- - 6— The Herald JoumalCache Sunday June 28 1987 MarHyn Beck's Hollywood Shaun Cassidy ‘returns’ to Jumping-of- f point because new wife and have babies and tax didn’t “tt my acting ability play househusband to a while'’ About his recent decision to and I could learn" Then he got Take celebrity and the matter of being a teen idoL At 17 his senior year in high school Cassidy was touring Europe doing concerts and making records By Pat Hilton tor Marilyn Beck Even the Hardy boyi must grow up and Shaun Cassidy Is no exception The ictorsinger who played Joe Hardy on the teen detective series in the late '70s has become a family man It’s his favorite role His recent decision to accept h a part on “General Hospital” as the musical drifter Dusty Walker was even made with family in mind "I had been offered a lot of series through the years but it's really important to me to have a life outside of this business — and it’s very difficult when you’re on a primetime hour show” Family is his wife of eight years sometime model Ann Pennington good jranr to “It didn’t do much for my to Sades" he says “It's hard seriously when just played a concert Berlin" And when you S've three-mont- couldn't go out on the street without being mobbed “I couldn’t leave my hotel rooms three years All you know is room service” to He says he never took Us celebrity seriously “I’d been making 820 a week allowance and au of a sudden Pm on The Hardy Boys' making lots of money Suddenly I’m different?” He shakes Us head “I’m the same guy I’d who had David (Us hter i had his own meteoric teen-idinandMei I’d seat He's frankly craxy about Us career) go through wife “She is the most soulful my mother (setresssinger real beautiful woman I’ve ever Shirley Jones) and my father met And she happens to be (the late actor Jack Cassidy) go beautiful physically too which through it at different levels No matter who it is if your initial is like icing on the cake” thing is a big explosion it He met her when he was 18 ends" and was spending his days For him making the transiworking on televiiion his nights in the recording studio ana his tion from a singing to an acting weekends flying off to concerts career came almost by acciaround the country He met her dent because her young daughter His parents had never enwanted his autograph He took such an aim His one look at Ann and couldn’t get couraged mother hoped he would become the lady out of his mind bin it an artist It was his manager took a year some fruitless “who said I should start going broken and a searching out on acting auditions" engagement (hers) before they finally got together His first audition was to “The Shootist” with John brown-haired slender The “It came down between Wayne his Cassidy looks younger than 28 years He’s given to quick me and Ronnie Howard and s and dry remarks Ron got the Job but my manager was very excited that" notes he (which probably do not “The Hardy Boys" came translate readily to print) and he has his feet planted squarely along shortly afterward and then he says his manager on reality half-broth- er ol it half-smile- TV Shaun Cassidy fretted that the series would get in the way of Us record career (She needn’t have worried Us album “Shaun Cassidy” — “An innovative title” Cassidy notes sardonically — was released simultaneously with the series and they “both took off’’) He felt “Hardy Boys" was a That did tax him and the turn down one of their prunedirector acknowledging time shows for a daytime show Cassidy’s enthusiasm to act but it’s a hit show with a large ing advised Urn "If you really college audience they tell me want to be an actor as opposed That sounded good to me to being a celebrity go work in because it’s a kind of reunion I the theater" Cassidy took Us shared a growth experience advice “The first thing I had to with a large generation of do was stop being so visible people Millions who saw me in stop working on television so concert as kids are in college and here we are today not too people wouldforget about me" That decision coincided with much the worse to wear" Even though only a few his marriage and the new pursuits made a happy blend episodes have aired he already At first he took parts in “the- is being stopped on the street ater that was less visible He notes with amusement their because if I was going to fall on comments run in the tenor of my face I didn’t want the world “Welcome back! Good to see out there watching" you working" “I was lucky I had made Shaun Cassidy has never been enough money early on to away He has been on stage subsidise my stage career honing his craft and away from because you don’t get a lot of the cameras home with his money in the theater It also family e 19S7 Tribune Madia Service Inc allowed me time to be with my to CHINESE and AMERICAN FOOD HOUSE SPECIAL CHOICE TOP SIRLOIN STEAK and SEAFOOD PLATTER Served with soup salad garlic bread and potato Only Served All Day 549 SALMON STEAK up sal 475 r VtHWSE' 150 m 'heotauhant -- Please try our fresh baked 107NMeln7SM55A ’ FAMILY NNWG BANQUET FACILITIES fosuftoho pies ’ i £:12!Liili- - w TIMES PUBLISHED ARE FOR TODAY ONLY Ml I It 4 1 ’ |