`Beas' lucks out on TV // Charms win role in `Moonlighting'

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: April 1, 1986| Author: Jerry Buck | Copyright information

LOS ANGELES Actors are cast in roles for many different reasons. A certain look, sex appeal, even talent. Allyce Beasley says she got her job in ABC's "Moonlighting" because of a tinkling charm bracelet.

She's only half-kidding about the effect of the bracelet on those at the audition.

"It's my good-luck charm," she said. "It's got thousands of little charms. They tinkle and it makes people giggle." Which, of course, is the whole point behind "Moonlighting," the closest tel...

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