"...Although Cindy and Henry no longer date, she still speaks of him with a lilt in her voice, and her eyes dance when she mentions his name." He was still her best friend at the time of this book. She correctly predicted that when he married, it would be for keeps. (Henry is still with his wife Stacey, since 1978!)
She incorrectly predicted that she herself would marry for keeps. She also vowed never to marry an actor, although she had dated several, including Richard Dreyfuss. Amusingly, she thought she might marry a dentist, because "they always smell very good. Their hands are fabulous." Mostly she was playing the field at that time, mainly because she was trying to focus on her career. And after a long, stressful day on the set, she'd rather be by herself, unlike Penny, who "looks forward to running home to Rob to help her ease away her traumas and get her from jitters to giggles."
But Cindy was sure that marriage and children would come along when it was meant to happen, yes, a contrast to Shirley's worries.
All of the pressly fanfiction about Henry and Cindy during this time period amuses me greatly TBH.
ReplyDeleteSo it wasn't a big romance?
DeleteI'm guessing it was a decent-sized one! But HW was with his wife like...two years after the article! So I'm guessing they became very close friends. I'm just amused by how much ink got spilled over it.
DeleteCindy's comment on dentists kills me on second reading.
The book came out in '77, so it was even sooner than that. The "dentist" line is one of Cindy's in here where I'm not sure if she knew how funny she was, so I had to include it.
DeleteHah, I love that dentist line.
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