Voici le copier-coller d'une interview que Ted Shackelford a donné pour le site "Dallas Decodeur",à l'occasion de sa participation dans le nouveau Dallas .               Il dit en autre qu'il lui a été facile de reprendre son rôle de Gary Ewing,et qu'il pense que la description faite par l'intervieweur est bonne  -"que c'est un peu comme monter sur une bicyclette"-(cela ne s'oublie pas).                                                  Que Ted se rassure,même si il reconnait ne jamais avoir aimé son personnage de Gary,nous les fans l'aimons.Je dois avouer que lorsqu'il a trompé Val avec Judy Trent,puis Abby,cela m'a un peu agacée.La preuve en est ,que comme de nombreux les fans de la série ,je rentrais à fond dans l'histoire et que j'avais de la compassion pour cette "pauvre Val"!

Ted Shackelford logged more than 340 hours of prime-time television playing Gary Ewing on the original “Dallas” and “Knots Landing.” Next month, he’ll revive the character for a three-week guest stint on TNT’s “Dallas.” I was thrilled to speak to Shackelford recently about Gary’s return to Southfork.

Did you ever dream you’d be playing Gary Ewing again?

No. I did it for 14 years and that’s a long, long time for anybody to do one character. I thought that would be it.

What was your process to get back into character?

There’s no magic here, man. I just learned the lines and showed up on time. It wasn’t that hard. It came back pretty fast.

Kind of like getting on a bicycle?

Yeah, that’s a pretty good description of it. A little wobbly at first but then it takes off.

I know you can’t give away any plot secrets, but what’s Gary up to these days?

I don’t think this is a plot point: He and Valene are having marital problems, and Bobby wants him to come down [to Texas] because Gary owns a third of Ewing –

The Southfork mineral rights.

Right. Whatever that is. [Laughs] You know, I’m not real clear on that. And Bobby needs me to form a voting bloc, which is why I’m there.

And you sort of get back into the thick of things, I guess.

A little bit. I don’t want to give away anything there.

Well, can you talk about what Gary’s like now? He changed a lot over the course of “Knots Landing’s” run.

Did he? How? Tell me. I’m curious. Because I never saw much change.

Really?

[“Dallas” and “Knots Landing” creator] David Jacobs called him a clenched fist in the beginning, but he seemed to mellow out towards the end of the show’s run.

Eh. Here’s the terrible truth about that: When you do a show for 14 years, after a few years, they run out of things for you to do! You’ve just about done them all! I mean, you’ve bedded everybody, you’ve gotten drunk twice and you’re an alcoholic –

Been arrested for murder a few times –

Yeah. You’ve gotten involved with mobsters. I mean, after that there’s not a whole lot they can do with you! So yeah, he does kind of mellow out because he’s just kind of there. They just kind of ran out things for him to do.

Did you like the character?

No, I never liked him.

[Laughs] You never liked Gary?

No, I didn’t.

Why is that?

Oh, I thought he was weak. I thought he never thought anything through. I didn’t see any strength of character. I mean, just once I wanted him to have some courage. And I never saw that.

He certainly attracted beautiful women.

Well, you know, there are women who like weak men they can manipulate. [Laughs] But having said all that, had he been stronger, I’m not sure I would’ve been able to play some of the things I played. I had great material. It was great stuff. There were the drunk things, and then the mobster things, and I don’t know what else. Because he was the way he was, as an actor I got to play a lot of different colors, as they say.

Well, let me share with you my theory of the Ewing brothers: Bobby is the brother you think you’re supposed to be, J.R. is the brother you’d secretly like to be and Gary is the brother you probably are.

[Laughs]

So I’ve always identified with Gary, but maybe that’s not a good thing.

Well, you know, that’s my take on it. And listen, no actor is objective. We’re all very subjective about what we do. So your take on that character is going to be far better than mine.

What was it like to be reunited with your TV wife Joan Van Ark and daughter Charlene Tilton?

Well, I didn’t have much to do with Charlene. I think we had one scene together, maybe. And [our characters] didn’t really speak. Charlene and I spoke, of course. And then they brought in Joanie for one episode for a very real reason – and a good reason. I can’t tell you that, either. But I only had one scene with Joanie. … It was crucial to both her character and my character and how they interact in Dallas.

It must have been great to perform with her again. She’s called you her acting soul mate.

That’s the beauty of it. Working with Joanie, you just learn the words and you show up. There’s already a connection there. There’s nothing to worry about. It’s so simple. I’m one of the lucky men in the business in that I had her to work with for, I guess, 13-and-a-half year because she left during the final season [of “Knots Landing”] for awhile and then came back. But you know, there was always a connection with her.

You two really do have something special.

We’re separated by three years in age but we’re a week apart in birthdays. We’re both kind of from the same part of the country. She’s from Colorado, I’m from Oklahoma. And I knew about her before I even met her. She’d done work at the Helen Bonfils Theatre in Denver. … And I remember being there in the late ’60s, looking at pictures from their past productions, and there was a picture of Joanie. So I knew who she was. And I met her – here’s the real funny part – we did a “Wonder Woman” episode –

Oh, yes. I’ve seen it!

You’ve seen it?

Absolutely.

I recently watched it, just as a giggle. I think it was on YouTube. I don’t know why I ever got work again after that. But that’s the first thing we ever did together. We did that before we did “Knots Landing.” It’s just a funny thing with her. It’s so easy. I just had lunch with her yesterday. There’s a shorthand with us. You know, it’s like a married couple. When we talk, we don’t have to finish the sentence because we know what the other person is going to say.

So let me tell you this: A certain segment of my audience is going to want to know if Gary and Bobby are going to take another dip in the Southfork swimming pool.

No, thank God. I don’t have to worry about holding my stomach in. No swimming pool for this actor!

Some of my readers are going to be disappointed.

Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. You know what, I’m 66 so. … [Laughs]

Well, I know you didn’t do a lot of “Dallas” episodes, but do you have any special memories of working on the show?

Not really. Because when I did the “Dallas” episodes I was in between the “Knots Landing” episodes, so it was pretty fast and furious. It was: Get in there, say the words and then go back to the other soundstage where “Knots” was. It was stuff you do when you’re young because you can. [Laughs]

How about your relationship with Larry Hagman?

We never hung out. I did run into him a couple of years ago at one of those autograph shows. The man was a delight. Just a delight. You could talk to him and you’d walk away feeling a little better about yourself. It was wonderful. He was a great guy.

Well, now that J.R.’s gone, there’s a void on the show for another Ewing brother. Is that something you’d be interested in?

Oh, in a New York minute. In a heartbeat. Of course.

And what about the idea of “Knots Landing” being revived as a weekly series?

I don’t know. I’d be delighted to do it. Nobody’s talking about it, though. I mean, nobody. I don’t really see that happening. But sure, I’d do it.

Even though you weren’t crazy about Gary as a person?

I mean, come on, man. I made a very good living for 14 years. Very few actors get to say that. I’m forever, forever grateful that I got to play this guy.

Source: http://dallasdecoder.com/2013/02/26/the-dallas-decoder-interview-ted-shackelford/

Voici 2 vidéos de Donna Mills et Joan Van Ark ,invitées sur le plateau de l'émission de Joan Rivers.La célèbre animatrice est décédée hier à l'âge de 81 ans.Qu'elle repose en paix.

http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2014/09/05/joan-rivers-1933-2014-reine-de-la-scene-comique-americaine_4482751_3382.html

http://www.leparisien.fr/laparisienne/actu-people/deces-de-joan-rivers-qui-a-fait-rire-l-amerique-pendant-60-ans-05-09-2014-4111751.php

http://next.liberation.fr/cinema/2014/09/05/joan-rivers-la-bitch-en-chef-raccroche_1094332

Je ne connaissais pas l'émission de Joan Rivers "Fashion Police."Je ne la connaissais qu'à travers son émission dans les années 80,dans laquelle des acteurs de Côte Ouest on été invités.Merci YouTube.

Voici une petite interview réunissant Joan Van Ark,Donna Mills,Ted Shackelford et Kevin Dobson,lors du dernier Hollywood Show en octobre 2103.

Comme à chaque fois qu'ils se retrouvent,les acteurs s'amusent bien et on ressent toujours une très bonne entente entre eux.Cela fait plaisir à voir,car aucun ne cherche à briller plus que les autres.

 Source de interview que Teri Austin a donné au TV GUIDE Canada, le 10 mai1986. http://www.oocities.org/televisioncity/8462/tvg9b.htm

  'I'm the new girl on the block!'

Toronto's Teri Austin is making waves as Knots Landing's srultry schemer

«Je suis la nouvelle fille sur le bloc!
Teri Austin de Toronto fait des vagues en temps qu'intrigante sensuelle de Knots Landing

"What's Hollywood really like . . .?"

Teri Austin's bright brown eyes momentarily glaze over.  Suddenly , they light up.   "Well, it's sort of like Mississauga without the culture and charm."   The engaging young actress laughs playfully at the expense of the sprawling suburb just west of her native Toronto.  But she will admit to one advantage that Los Angeles enjoys: "it's the only place in the world where you can rent tropical fish."

While it would appear that Teri Austin has not lost her heart to Hollywood, Hollywood has become rather smitten with Teri.  "I see a terribly charming, endearing person there," enthuses Ted Shackelford, who plays opposite her as Gary Ewing on the popular prime-time soap Knots Landing.  Producer David Jacobs saw those same qualities, and in just over a year of living in L.A., Austin has firmly established herself on the series as Jill Bennett, an intelligent and seductive young career woman.   "It's a bit of a stretch for me," teases Austin, who can still be seen weekly on CTV's Thrill of a Lifetime.  She taped all those episodes last summer, and they're still running.

A more difficult stretch was leaving her home (Austin sold her two Toronto houses), family, friends and career in Canada.  "I didn't come south because I was dying to move to the states,"  says Austin, "but if you're not doing one of the three shows that tare shot in town, you only work a couple of times a year in Canadian television.  You don't go from job to job to job."  Type-casting was also a problem.  "In Toronto, I was always cast as a kind of 'lip gloss kid.'  I started thinking that maybe casting people were only seeing me in that one light."   In fact, her Canadian credits are most extensive than she lets on.  Since graduating from the theatre program at Toronto's York University, Austin has worked steadily in theatre, radio, films ("Critical List" and "Loose Ends")   and television.

Eventually, Austin stumbled upon the irony that she was missing out on better Canadian roles because she did not live in the United States.  "I went to an audition for a minor role, and the people said, 'You know, you're really a leading-person type, and we wish we had met you in L.A. because we would have cast you there'."  After talking with a Toronto casting agent about all the Canadians who had gone south, Austin thought, "I've got to make the move.  I love Toronto, but after missing another good role in a local casting office . . ."  So she walked across the street, bought a plane ticket to Hollywood and didn't look back.  And though she's happy--and working -- Austin does miss the congeniality of Toronto.  "I invite people over for dinner, and they're shocked.  you don't invite someone into your home, and if you do, it's because you have some lavish place you want to lord over them."

Austin quickly discovered that her Canadian work experience did nothing for her U.S. credit rating.  When she tried to open an account, the banks had never heard of the Canadian film and television studios that she had worked for, "so it was like I came from Guam!" On the other hand, they Hollywood talent agencies that friends had recommended were quite impressed with her work.  In no time, she was signed and "Testing for everything."  One of her first efforts was in a losing pilot for ABC called Champions that she did with fellow countryman Duncan Regehr.   "It was one of those comedy/adventures that is just my favorite genre," states Austin, tongue firmly in cheek.  "I guess that's where you're supposed to laugh when you're getting stabbed."

Soon after, while trying out for the short-lived Lorimar series Berrengers, Austin decided to renew acquaintances with producer David Jacobs.  Her timing could not have been better.  "Teri was in a soap I produced in Canada [Loving Friends and Perfect Couples]," Jacobs recalls.  "She was only supposed to be in one or two shows, but I extended her part because I thought she was just adorable.  She had a kind of vulnerability and sweetness that I thought was terrific on Film."  Jacobs just happened to be looking  for a young actress to play a small part on Knots Landing.  "And I thought she'd be perfect for this," he says.

Once again, Austin turned a bit part into a regular series role.  "The people who influence you, like wives and friends, said, 'I like her, she's cute'," reveals Jacobs.  "And that's enough on television to make you think you better use more of her."  Austin also passed muster with another of Jacobs' most trusted advisers: a waitress at a local deli on Ventura Boulevard.  "She tells me every week what I should watch for," says Jacobs, who puts far more stock in  in unsolicited audience reaction than any "absurd network research.  That's why I think that Teri is going to have a pretty good future.  First, because she is improving all the time; and second, because although she's very beautiful, women like her and that's a big thing."

Austin's age also worked in her favor.  Jacobs was looking for a younger woman as a regular, "somebody under 30," to balance out the cast.  Austin as Jill Bennett became the solution, and her part was given more substance.

Was this Austin's thrill of a lifetime?  "Gawd!" she says, laughing.   "Actually, it is my big break.  And it's a blast being on the show.   The stories are fun--so far I'm having an affair with one man and flirting with another.  But there's not a lot of those heavy, bizarre plots found on some of the other shows, where they say, 'My Gawd!  you were raped by your brother's uncle who then went to Moldavia!'  I mean, I can't follow them.  But Knots is fun to do because the writers are very responsive.  I had a scene with Ted where Jill and Gary are together, and they way the dialogue was written, there was something wrong that she was trying to find out.  And I said, 'Listen, these people have been to bed four or five times.  you don't have to ask if you know something's wrong.' And they replied, 'Yeah, just do what you like.' And I think it turned out more tender and a bit more realistic."

At first, Austin was somewhat intimidated working with veteran Hollywood actresses such as Julie Harris and, last season, Ava Gardner.  her very first scene was with Gardner.  Even the Knots Landing soundstage caused butterflies:  They shoot on the same MGM stage where "The Wizard of OZ" was shot.  However, the rest of the cast quickly made her feel at home.  "you hear stories of other sets, where they bring on somebody, maybe a big name, and they get more money and everybody hates their guts.  On our show, it's not like that.  Lisa Hartman is from Texas, very down home, very nice.  Joan Van Ark goes out of her way to say, 'I was watching the dailies the other day, and your scene was great.'  And Michele [Lee] is the same way.  The guys, of course, are great,"  grins Austin.   "I'm the new girl on the block!"

The only people who do give her a hard time are the crew.  "Lately, I've been doing all these bedroom scenes," says Austin with a blush.  "The crew will go, 'Oh no, not again! Do we have to watch her naked again?' "

The crew also makes fun of her accent, which only goes to prove that you can take the girl out of Toronto, but you can't take the "ooot" out of the girl. "We say 'ooot and aboot'," explains Austin.  "They say 'awt and abawt.'  The producers want me to speak like they do in the U.S. Midwest.  I'll be in the middle of a scene and say, 'Matt, get ooot of my office!'  And the crew will all go, 'Ooot! Ooot! Ooot!' " Shackelford insists that he doesn't even hear the accent, and just shakes his head when a scene has to be repeated because of it.  "I mean, who cares?  If anything, it sounds a little Scottish, which I think is wonderful."   Now that she is aware of it, Austin can detect a Scottish lilt when she hears from her parents, native Torontonians.  "When I went home at Christmas, I said to my family, 'All right, knock it off.  Quit talkin' funny'."

Accent aside, one thing Austin definitely plans to hold on to is her Canadian identity.   "I'm setting up the Canadian Identity Bus Tour in Hollywood," claims Austin.  "It's for Canadians here who are complacently Canadian, or not proud to be Canadian, or unsure of their identity.  It will start off in Hollywood and end in Las Vegas.  And then, I assure you, they will know where they stand."

One thing is for sure: If the tour doesn't make them feel proud of their country, Teri Austin certainly will.

Voici une interview de Lynne Moody ,datant de novembre 2013.