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"PIPE DREAMS'
The temperature was so low,
* the thermometer had run out of
numbers. The actress was pregnant.
And she was working from
5:30 AM untit late at night.
But, according to Gladys
Knight, filming <4PIPE,
DREAMS" in Alaska was the
-most "exhilarating and wonder-?
ful experience of my career.*'
The Avco-Embassy release, a
romantic adventure set against
the construction of the Alaska
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Gladys portrays Maria Wilson,
a determined young woman who
follows her husband to the pipeline's
northern outpost in a last
ditch attempt to save their marriage.
The role of her husband ?
a vagabond "chopper" pilot ? ?
is played by Barry. Hankerson,
who "happens to be^ Gladys'
spouse in real life, as well as the
picture's Executive Producer.
"That's one of the reasons I
felt so 'warm' about Alaska, even
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feet and the thermometer
dropped to twenty below," she
pointed out. 4tAs hard as we
worked, it was one -of^the-most?
idyllic times of our marriage. We
were totally united...working together...toward
the same goal.
To make a movie we'd be proud
of.
%4I remember getting up at 5:30
AM, putting on a goose down
parka and walking toward the*
make-up trailer, where I would
also have breakfast, I could hear
the snow crunching underfoot as
I breathed in the most incredibly
clean air anywhere in the world."
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Adding another dimension to
tne experience was a medical
report the Hankersons received
shortly before flying to Alaska.
Gladys waSN in the first months
of pregnancy. Early this summer,
she gave birth to a son, ShangaA4i,
named after the couple's
.close friend, heavyweight champion
Muhammed Ali.
"PIPE DREAMS" is Gladys'
9 first motion picture appearance,
although the acclaimed songstress
cut the sound track of the
James Earl Jones-Diahann Carroll
hit, "Claudine." 0 *
*. "People seem surprised when
a singer carries off a dramatic
role,' she said. "Yet it happens
all the time...look at F^ank Sinatra
and Diana Ross and David"
Bowie. I think it's because a good
singer is an actor (or actress) to
begin with. When I'm on stage,
I imagine that I'm the person the
song was written about. Then I
share my emotions ? sadness,
happiness*, loneliness, love ? ,
with the audience."
>In choosing a vehicle for
Gladys, she and her husband
- waded through more than 300
scripts. Some adders wanted
her to play a flamboyant role.
"They thought I should come on
strong as a female 'Shaft' or a
prostitute with a heart of gold,"
she recalled.
But she and Barry preferred a
character ? nearer her own
personality^"As
Maria, Gladys is warm ,
sympathetic, wonderfully goodhumored
and able to endure all ,
kinds of hardship without com-?
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her motion picture debut in "Pipe Dreams,
" an A vco ? Embassy release
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Theatre. The romantic adventure
set against the building of the
Alaska oil pipeline co-stars Harry
Hankerson.
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plaining," said Barry. "Which
is the way she really is. To irritate
her, you really have to go
out of the way. But when you do
get underneath her skin, watch
out!'"
Gladys laughed. "That's what
made it so easy to play the scene
where I walk in on Barry and he's
got another woman in his trail
er," she noted. "I reacted exactly
as I would in real life.
"On the other hand, there's a .
scene which was very difficult
for me. In the story, I share an
apartment with Loretta (Sherry ^
Bain), a $100 a night call girl > who's
the personal 'merchandised
of a local politico. When he refuses
to let her have their child,
she commits suicide' and I find
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