The evidence of his battle for success isn't visible on his face, but it seems to have left its mark. Guillaume is 49, but looks like he could be in his late 20's. The ABC program that began the fall television season as the most controversial new show has since proved to be a modest hit-with “Love Boat” and “Eight Is Enough”-among the fall crop of new series. He plays Benson, the wisecracking butler on “Soap,” a nighttime satire of daytime TV serials that deals with the confused relationships between two families whose members include a homosexual son, an impotent husband and adulterous wives. Guillaume has finally realized his dream of success, although it is not quite the one he staked out back in St. I was always dreaming-that's why I had so many wrecks. “I'd sing and dream and think, maybe I'll be the first black tenor at the Met. “I had a wreck a week because I naa delusions of grandeur,” he recalls now. Louis,” he sang, too-but with different results. Louis along the same track where Judy Garland sang “The Trolley Song” in “Meet me in St. LOS ANGELES When Robert Guillaume was a young man driving a streetcar in St.
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