

That's the kind of things I like to talk about. We're just talking about vaginal or venereal diseases. "AIDS, segregation in the schools, we have a rash of genital herpes and yet we have a community that won't hand out condoms. James, annoyed at the intrusion, continues. A publicity person from Disney/MGM studios tells me it's time to go. They're going to shoot up drugs because why not? their life's not going to get better anyway." You're never going to stop people from doing things when they're desperate. You've got to solve the root of the problem.

In a way I disagree with this idea of more law enforcement. "We can't not take care of the poor, we can't not take care of the drug-addicted. She's not at a loss for topics to tackle. Our talk eventually drifts through the Vietnam war, the fact that she's a partial vegetarian, her pride in her wholesome, Midwestern roots, and back to her radio show. What makes me more happy is we're going to get an opportunity to see whether somebody who came through that generation is able to take that vision and convert it into a '90s politics. They either were or they weren't (there). I say to them, 'Do you like your names?' My son, Harmony, when he was younger, in prep school, said, 'You know mom, money can buy you a lot of things, but it can't buy you old hippie parents.' They had this sort of craze of having had parents who went through the '60s and '70s. Harmony is at Beverly Hills High School finishing his senior year. It's so funny because my older kids' names are Sunshine and Harmony.
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From 1971 until 1976, she played Sally McMillan opposite Rock Hudson in the series McMillan & Wife and received four Emmy Award nominations.I told her she seemed the quintessential '70s woman: hair parted and hanging straight to her shoulders, natural makeup, attitude of cool, tattoos (she wears no pantyhose and little jewelry,-but has a tattooed-on ankle charm bracelet). She also appeared in the pilot episode of Alias Smith and Jones. At the same time she had a recurring role as Chuck, Alexander Mundy's fellow thief and "friend with benefits" in four episodes of the series It Takes a Thief. From 1968 to 1971, she had a regular part in the series The Name of the Game, winning an Emmy Award for her role in 1969. She also had a supporting role in the sequel to The Trouble with Angels: Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows. Among her early television appearances were two episodes of the first season of Ironside. Then came starring roles as Rock Hudson's younger supportive wife, Sally McMillan, in a popular 1970s crime drama, McMillan & Wife, and as Jane Curtin's childhood friend, Kate McArdle, in a 1980s sitcom, Kate & Allie.Īt 20, she moved to California where she began her acting career. Saint James became a household name at the age of 22, starring as an editorial assistant, Peggy Maxwell, on The Name of the Game. She later attended the Connecticut College for Women. During this time, she attended the Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest, Illinois. Susan Saint James is an American actress and activist, most widely known for her work in television during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.īorn Susan Jane Miller in Los Angeles, California to a Connecticut family, Saint James was raised in Rockford, Illinois where she began modeling as a teenager.
