Q 13

PLAYBOY: Gee, you're attractive. Is it tough to be both smart and beautiful?

Shelley Hack: Thank you. I don't know quite how to answer that. It's nice, but I find it strange that people find it a strange combination for an attractive woman to also be well educated, well read, intelligent and have an inquiring mind. Of course, I can speak in words with more than one syllable!

Q 14

PLAYBOY: What do you think of your film If Ever I See You Again?

Shelley Hack: Do I have to answer that?

Q 15

PLAYBOY: OK, what kind of music do you listen to?

Shelley Hack: Classical. I like Telemann, Purcell, Beethoven, Bizet. I like Mozart in the morning.

Q 16

PLAYBOY: What is romance to you?

Shelley Hack: A friend of mine lit up the Eiffel Tower for five minutes at midnight on my birthday. I wasn't even there. I was working at Zuma Beach on a Charlie's Angels episode. But that was the whole point. It was just about the most romantic thing I'd ever heard of. I loved it. I'm also the kind of person who believes in relationships. I have had some terrific ones and I hope to have more. Besides, I don't party a lot.

Q 17

PLAYBOY: Why not?

Shelley Hack: I don't see any reason to change my lifestyle. When I lived in New York, I had a farm Upstate. It was terrific, not chic. It's in a depressed area where they do dairy farming, and though it's poor, it's nice, beautiful, basic Americana. I could jog down country lanes in the quiet, fresh air. I had a little World War One reject jeep with no top that I used to take into town for supplies and food for the ducks.

Q 18

PLAYBOY: What's the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you?

Shelley Hack: It happened on the first talk show I ever did. I'm nearsighted and though I wear contact lenses now, I didn't then, and I didn't want to wear my glasses. To get out to the sitting area, you had to push through a door, walk two steps down, six steps over to the seat, take one step up, turn around and sit down. I did that all before the show, practicing, and had it down perfectly. When it was my turn to go on, I was standing by the door, looking into the monitor. They were kind of sweeping the audience. I was squinting, watching, fascinated by what they were doing. Then there was this awful silence. I was supposed to be out there! So I went slamming through this revolving door, which, of course, hit me in the butt and propelled me off the podium. I crossed the stage and looked, but they had moved the seats. I found them and headed in their direction, which was toward the right wing, and as I came shooting out, the guy introduced me as, "Here's Shelley Mack!" I had this incredible urge to go "Na-na-na-na-na-na" and forget the whole thing.

Q 19

PLAYBOY: What gets you mad?

Shelley Hack: Seeing people who can't fight back get kicked around and hurt--old people, children, animals. No one has ever kicked me around. I can fight back.

Q 20

PLAYBOY: How does a girl like you get to be a girl like you?

Shelley Hack: Wheaties for breakfast.