‘Ladies of the ‘80s’ — ‘a bunch of old broads kicking a – -‘

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Morgan Fairchild (“Falcon Crest”), Linda Gray (“Dallas”), Donna Mills (“Knots Landing”), Loni Anderson (“WKRP in Cincinnati”) and Nicollette Sheridan (“Knots Landing”) to appear together onscreen for the first time.“We’re not divas — it’s an easy label to slap on powerful women,” Fairchild told The Post in a dual interview with Mills to talk about the movie. “I don’t think, having worked with these ladies, that anyone is a diva in real life … everyone is expecting you to be a diva but I have people coming up to me saying, ‘You’re so down-to-earth.”“Ladies of the ’80s” — a holiday movie premiering Dec.

2 at 8 p.m. — posits Fairchild, Mills et al. as Margaux, Lauren, Lily, Dana and Juliette, former cast mates reuniting for a live holiday finale of their long-running ’80s TV soap, “The Great Lakes,” on which their offscreen relationships mirrored their onscreen lives: infighting, jealousy, betrayal — the works.Directing “The Great Lakes” reunion special — which forces the five women to live under the same roof and somehow deal with each other — is its former child star Alex (Travis Burns), who’s corralled his ex-girlfriend, Nell (Taylor Ann Thompson), to direct the finale as the “Ladies” scheme to get the couple back together.There are jokey references to diva-hood: “Fasten your facelifts, ladies,” Fairchild’s character, Margaux, says at one point, and she refers to her “Great Lakes” co-stars as “a nest of vipers.”For good measure, and in keeping with the ’80s theme, Christopher Atkins (“The Blue Lagoon”) guest stars as Lauren’s (Gray) son, Pete.“Sometimes it’s really fun to play the diva part, even in real life, because people expect it sometimes,” said Mills, whose manager, Larry Thompson, had the idea for the movie. “But.