We all quit our classes and quit our studies and run into the TV room and watch this show." I said, "They want me to play Catwoman." He said, "Do it!" So I said, "Okay, I'll do it.". I mean he physically levitated and said, "Batman! That's the favorite show at Harvard. I got up and answered it, and it was this agent or someone in Hollywood, who said, "Miss Newmar, would you like to play Catwoman on the Batman series? They are casting it out here." I was insulted because he said, "It starts Monday." I said, "What is this?" That's how television is done: they never know what they are doing until yesterday. I remember it was a weekend, Friday or Saturday, and my brother had come down from Harvard with five or six of his friends, and we were all sitting around the sofa, just chatting away, when the phone rang. I had lived in New York at the time on Beekman Place. It was so satisfying I can't tell you how satisfying it was. It was so wonderful being on Batman (1966) because you could be nasty and mean, and in the '50s, women could never - unless you were some 'B' picture actress - be mean, bad and nasty. Star Trek (1966) - oh my goodness, what a following that show has! I get asked about it all the time, and I receive lots of fan mail from it, even though I only did one episode. I've been encouraged by the many men who have offered me their shoulders. If I'm out in public, I grab on to some charming, darling fellow who can steady me. People might think I've had too much to drink, but I never drank, smoked or took drugs my entire life. (July 2008) Today, I walk - but very slowly. On Catwoman fans: It's an honor - it really is - that something stays for so long with people in the sweet depths of their feelings. On seeing a Catwoman tattoo: I've seen some interesting flesh. Newmar, did you know that you were my first turn-on?. Whenever I'm stopped on the street, men tell, "Ms. But then they tell me to "keep up the good work", and so I do. On one hand, they haven't made much money off of me over the past few decades. I've had a curious relationship with my doctors.
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