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Originally Posted by joe68
Hi again, one more question...
Right after Joan Rivers started her first talk show (maybe even the first episode) she had snippets of celebrities giving comical excuses why they wouldnt do her show. They showed Stevie in her bedroom and she said she had to give her dog a bath and couldnt do the show.
Have I lost my mind or does anyone else remember this? Any video of this exist??
Pleae help! 
Thanks....
(Mike Bise????) |
I kid you not but I saw this too. It was not Joan Rivers but it was the Tonight Show. Carole Bayer Sager, the lovely songwriter who was married to Burt Bacharach at the time, was the guest host. At the start of the show she was standing at the piano with Burt and she was telling him about all her friends she had asked to come on the show. That's when they showed the clip of her friends talking to her on the phone and making excuses why they could not make it. Stevie was shown holding one of her dogs and saying she had to give her dog a bath. Stevie started to laugh after she said this. I remember I jumped up and popped a tape in the VCR and started to record the show in hopes that Stevie would, in fact, show up but she didn't and I was bummed out. This was back in the mid 80's when you'd get that new issue of "Dreams" ( anybody remember that fanzine?) and you'd read that Stevie was going to do this show or be on that show and it would never happen. It was during this time that David Letterman was having fun with Stevie because "her people" had told him she would not come on his show.