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Q: Harley, I see you're still getting
settled here in california. When do you expect to get some furniture?
A: I don't. I left everything back in New York and I find I'm
living pretty well without things. I did buy a TV and VCR, as
you can see. I don't have a stereo yet, so to listen to music,
I go out and sit in my car.
Q: Yes, well, enough about interior
decorating. What our readers are hoping for is some nitty-gritty,
some glamour, some dirt. Like, do you have any illegitimate children
and what do you do with all that money and does Lane Davies (Mason
Capwell) kiss well and where did you really get that name?
A: O.K.
Q: To begin. Harley, for the longest
time, you've been playing the oldest virgin in daytime. How does
that feel?
A: It's all relative, really. A year ago, Mary was living in
a convent, wearing a habit, calling home to Mother Superior.
Compared to that, life today is pretty racy.
Q: You went from playing a popular character
on a popular show to playing a nun on a low-rated show. How did
they talk you into that?
A: One had nothing to do with the other. I left GL because I'd
been doing it for two years and it was beginning to feel likea
job. SB didn't come into the picture till a week later and I
took the part because it seemed like an adventurous thing to
do. I liked that it was a new show. There was some great acting
on it. And besides that, I was being evicted from m apartment
in New York. I had to move anyway so I figured, why not move
to California?
Q: Do you miss New York?
A: Yes. Painfully.
Q: What do you like about California?
A: My car. The Pacific Coast Highway. Mexican Food.
Q: What's the biggest difference between
California soaps and New York soaps, in your experience?
A: Dressing rooms. On GL, Kim Zimmer and I shared a dressing
room the size of a bread box. We always meant to clean out the
remains of the forty-three previous actors who inhabited it,
but we never got around to it--possibly out of fear of finding
the corpses of Alan Spaulding underneath it all. On SB, the dressing
rooms are big enough for a family of three, with separate baths
and, if you play your cards right, TVs, phones, refrigerators....
Q: Since you left GL, its ratings have
dropped and SB's ratings have risen. Do you feel personally responsible
for this?
A: No. There's an enormous amount of talent on our show.
Q: Don't you ever get tired of wearing
dowdy clothes and playing goody two shoes characters?
A: Brett Wheeler (Texas) never wore dowdy clothes. And just because
my characters are generally morally upright people, that doesn't
mean tey don't get to be psychotic, psychic, adulterous, hallucinatory,
deceitful, violent and have as many erotic dreams as the next
guy.
Q: You have played several story lines
dealing with the supernatural. How about you? Are you psychic?
A: I knew you were going to ask that question.
Q: What else do you "know"
about me?
A: I feel you are the youngest of eight children. You had a very
happy childhood. You were born in Pennsylvania, but you grew
up on a farm in....Kansas.
Q: Nebraska.
A: Whatever.
Q: Amazing. Now, Harley, let's get personal.
Did you really have an affair with Kin Shriner as reported in
the press?
A: That's a pretty tacky question.
Q: That's my job.
A: Look, I have to save something for my memoirs. However, I'll
say this: Kin Shriner taught me three things when I came to LA.
One, how to get to Disneyland; two, how to break into a house
using a credit card; and three, that every experience in life
is a potential half-baked idea for a screenplay. And for this,
I'll always love him.
Q: Are you sleeping with anyone now?
A: I've learned never to answer that question, not only in the
interest of good taste, but because by the time the article is
printed, all such situations can and usually do change.
Q: Do you keep in touch with any of
your old soap friends?
A: Yes, it's sort of Springfield West, out here. If you're wondering
where old GL characters go, I can tell you--they're all having
pasta at Spago.
Q: Can you name drop?
A: Sure. I hang out a lot with Carolyn Ann Clark and Michael
Woods and every few months I'll run into Marsha clark, Grant
Aleksander, Phil MacGregor, Kim Morgan Green, Lee Lawson, Vincent
Irizarry, and of course Robert Newman. Even Harley Venton showed
up this week.
Q: What do you spend your money on?
A: I have a wonderful house in the north woods of Minnesota on
a lake, with seven acres of land. I have a piano in New York
that lives with my cousin Bobby, a car in the garage, and I eat
a lot sushi and rent a lot of movies and that pretty much takes
care of it.
Q: You rent a lot of movies. That's
what you do for a good time?
A: Yeah, I'll get attached to a movie and play it over and over
till I have it memorized. Once I had a movie out for thirty-seven
days. When that happens, it because cheaper to buy the movie.
Q: I guess that explains why we have
Blade Runner going on now in the background?
A: Yeah, it's my current favorite. It makes me cry.
Q: You've mentioned your car a few times.
What's the big deal?
A: That's what I always wondered, "What's the big deal?"
I always loved subways, and my husband showed me that '53 Chevy
pickup trucks are definitely human and, of course, motorcycles
are, but I never understood cars.
Q: Waitaminute. You're married?
A: Used to be. Anyway, I got to california and I'd had my license
about two days and suddenly I noticed cars. The ones I really
noticed were Porsches, Ferraris and Rolls Royce Corniche convertibles.
But, as Michael Woods pointed out to me, "A car is not a
house." Meaning, this is not Miami Vice. Meaning,
why not try for something more economical? Meaning, nobody would
insure a person like you in a car like that. So, I got Huey,
a charcoal grey Mazada RX7, but the funny thing is, Huey is like
a house to me....and a pet, a best friend, a shrink, a rock concert,
ego....
Q: Speaking of ego, you once stated
you'd like to win an Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy and Pulitzer Prize.
When will you start?
A: I changed my mind. It's a stupid ambition. If nominated, I'd
run out and buy some ridiculously expensive dress and lose sleep
and be impossible to live with. If I didn't win, I'd be hideously
depressed and if I did win, I'd be depressed a few days later
when the shock wore off and life went on, and then what would
I have? A ridiculously expensive dress and nowhere to wear it.
Obviously, creativity is its own reward.
Q: So if nominated, you'd just stay
home?
A: What are you crazy?
(At this point, Harley excuses
herself in order to cancel her English riding lesson.)
Q: Do you have a horse?
A: Heck, no. I'm still trying to get my boots on and off by myself.
Robin Mattson and I are thinking of buying a horse together,
but I don't know. I think I'll be ready for a horse in about
two more years, once I reach the opint where I can saddle him
in under three hours.
Q: So, in between eating sushi and saddling
horses, you still find time to be a record producer, right?
A: Yes. If you're a fan of bluegrass, you will love the album,
PETE KOZAK: DRINKING WITH FRIENDS, featuring my own song, "Under
the Table Again," as well as a photo of Pete and me and
friends n the record jacket. Pete's my brother.
Q: Where can one buy this album?
A: Simply send $10 to: Pete Kozak / 266 SW. Cummings/ Corvallis,
Oregon 97333.
Q: Do you have a fan club?
A: No. I'm running about fourteen months behind in answering
my fan mail, so it seems to me a fan club, like a publicist or
psychotherapist, is one more thing I wouldn't be able to put
enough time into. Life is short. I'm trying to keep it simple.
Q: How old are you?
A: That's kind of apersonal. How old are you?
Q: Twenty-nine. C'mon, Harley, tell
us something controversial. How is it to kiss Lane Davies and
Jon Lindstrom?
A: They're both great kissers.
Q: Can't you tell us something shocking
about yourself?
A: I hated E.T.
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