Whoops, I forgot to blend my makeup! Enjoy the interview. My favorite part is when they show
pictures of me as a baby with my Mother and in high school with my Father. Nice memories. Thanks
Canadian TV!
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By Susan Silver
By Susan Silver
By Susan Silver
Well the E Book went up on April 14 and some people are reading it already! That is exciting and especially when they call or email to say they are loving it! Thanks! The Print version comes out on Amazon April 27. And my dear friend John Demsey, President of Estee Lauder, threw me a book party at Michael’s restaurant. Very exciting. WHAT A NIGHT! It was just great and a lot of love from good friends, some great new press contacts and a good time was had by all. Seriously, people said most book parties are kind of dull, this was so fun. I did not read from the book. Nothing more boring than a writer standing reading and the crowd standing watching!
I did tell a few stories of famous people in my Zelig like life…and about some of the themes in the book…reinvention, finding your passion and the ups and downs we all go through in life. Thanks to my dear friend John and everyone who came and stayed…I was exhausted and left at 8:45 and others were still schmoozing.
By Susan Silver
I took my second Newhart episode directly from my husband’s experience, too. Suzanne plans a trip, but Bob is not excited. Sound familiar? He doesn’t show excitement. Hmm. It was called “Backlash.” Arthur once had a bad back, so this episode really was very much true of our lives and personalities. I put Bob in this position by injuring his back when a patient whacks him as they are working on “showing emotion.” Are you sensing I have a theme here? And they have to cancel the trip. When Arthur had to take pain pills, he drove me crazy talking so slowly. I had Suzanne say, “You talk so slowly I want to jump into your mouth and pull the words out!” I didn’t say it in real life, or maybe I did.
The director, George “Buddy” Tyne, worked with Newhart to develop a hysterical bad back walk, which was, as he says, “a bad Boris Karloff imitation,” and Bob does more physical comedy in this episode than usual. I had him watching soap operas while bedridden, one of my favorite things to do—and as one does, he gets totally swept up in the amnesia attacks, illegitimate babies, all overacted to dramatic music chords called “stingers.” I loved the way this show turned out. I just watched it on YouTube. No rerun payment. This ended in 1973 as the Writers Guild had a strike about the issue of being paid for reruns in perpetuity rather than just ten as it used to be. I’d stopped doing episodes by then, unfortunately.
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Don Rickles passed away at the age of 90! Wow, I worked for him on his short lived “The Don Rickles Show” a sitcom half
hour where he was a “normal guy” married to the actress Louise Sorel. The only good thing that came out of it was that she and I became and are still friends.