To: ROUTING 3-1-94 ENTERTAINMENT a Re-‘Vision’ Eden returns in TV sequel lationship helped her find the reality was raised Huffman. We don't talk They call it “Eyes of Terror,” but in a character who has a supernatur- about Moorhead.” let's think of it as double vision: It's al power. And Eden focused on this On a lighter note, an old name the sequel to“Visions of Murder” last prodigal-daughter aspect despite the popped up in association with her re- year’s NBC TV movie starring Bar- pain she knew it would bring curring character on the last season bara Eden as a reluctant psychic in- “I tost_a baby myself,” says Eden of “Dallas,” which reunited her with vestigator. Airing Friday, March 18, quietly. “I know how this happens, and “I Dream of Jeannie” co-star Larry it again casts the eternal gamine it did destroy my marriage.” She was Hagman. The maiden name of her Eden as Jesse Newman, a psychic married to actor Michael Ansara from character, oil mogul LeeAnn De La helping police on a murder case. And 1958-73. “In our ease, the baby died in Vega, was Nelson — the same name Eden, both amazingly and appropri- the seventh month in the womb, and as Hagman’s character on “Jeannie.” ately, remains a vision herself wwe didn’t know it, and I carried it two In real life, in 1991, Eden married ‘do take vitamins, but not mega- more months.” This stillbirth, she Jon Ficholtz, a real-estate developer doses,” says the actress forever says, “drove me crazy. I was de- and structural engineer. As the perky known to baby boomers as the sexy pressed and didn’t know it, And final. Eden relates, romance blossomed sprite of “1 Dream of Jeannie.” *Ilove ly the doctor told me, ‘Look, you can't against the odds. steak once in a while, though Idon't work” This was after “Jeannie,” two “I just didn’t really have a lot of overdo anything, except maybe years before her divorce. (Happily, time’ to meet people,” she remem: ‘candy, which I avoid because I love bers. “I truly didn’t. Then one day, a {t'so much. T go to the gym every fiend aed me anda she and ‘moming when Tim not working on & 2 fer husband had dinner next to tin: Tdelovimpat arabes and Ome@ YOU're an actor, — someone iat a banque) who vas half hour of situps, And I don't use a yeygy' 1 wonderful and that she thought td lotof faney cleaners to wash my face, YOU'Fe an actor! love to meet. But I was shooting fst an antibacterial soap, Visohex, ‘Brand New Life” doing six days 8 that used to not be preseription but week, 1¢hour days, So our fist date" now is Eden, who was pregnant through the she says, "was a quick dinner, and it Allthat and whatever else she does first season of “Jeannie.” has a son, {00k us four weeks to get to that! It has worked so wondrously that Eden, Matthew, now in his late 20s) took us eight months to get to know bor in 1834, ooked as remarkable Eden eventually put herself back to- each other well, One night we were as ever wearing the skimpy genie gether. She shot a 1973 siteom pilot, invited to Danay and Hose Marie ‘utits ofthe TV movies “I Dream of "The Barbara Eden Show,” cast as @ Thomas for Christmas dinner. and 1 dJeannie., 15 Years Later” and IStill divorced mom who writes a popular was night-shooting. Jon met me on Dream of Jeannie.” Yet ironically, a soap opera. She had another unsold — the set, took me to dinner, and Thad ‘TV generation's love-affair with her pilot in 1977 (the detective movie to leave early to get back to the set often obscures the fact that Eden is *stonestreet: Who Killed the Center. It was that kindof dating! 918b-12z (008) 99101 AN ‘HIOA MON “oY Hred 00Z NOLLVIOOSSV SSTWdUALNA WdvaSMAN fan appealing, versatile and some- fold Model?"), and that same year And what with romance, her new times — as in the fantasy classic “7 married Chicago newspaper executive _ three-year TV-movie deal with NBC, Faces of Dr. Lao” (964) — power- Charles Donald Fegert."It didn't last and a possible TV movie based on the fully touching actress, very long,” Eden says. “I had thought movie “Beaches,” it looks like & lot In “Byes of Terror,” Eden reprises 1 might try to change my life, but,” ofthis genie's wishes have come true. her role a San Francisco psy- she adds chuckling, “once you're an © 196 NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN. chotherapist whose psychic git - actor, you're an actor Volve her in a homicide investigation. "Eden had acted on stage since age Inthe trst fim, her visions ofa teen 19, landing her fist movie role in STAR VIEW in trouble reunited her with adaugh- “Back From Eternity” (1956), though ter she'd been told was stillborn. In some reference books erroneously list the sequel, Jesse is now a police-de- 1957"s “The Wayward Girl” as her Partment counselor, whose visions of debut Some sources also list her birth noffcer’s killer continue even after name as Barbara Huffman and her ERONE the cops collar a suspect. Michael birthplace as Tucson, Ara, She was LOVECE Nouri (“Love & War”) co-stars, with actually born Barbara Jean Moor. Missy Crider playing the 16-year-old head, and though she is vague about daughter who'd been separated from her birthplace she was raised in San her all that time. Francisco. Eden herself, graciously