Word: diller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a Pricked Bubble. Even among victims of strokes on the dominant side of the brain, says Psychologist Leonard Diller of New York's Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, there are two drastically different effects, depending on the severity of the brain damage. ''One type," he says, "is like a pricked bubble-after you've pricked it, the bubble isn't there any more. The personality seems to have vanished. The second seems unchanged in basic type, but less efficient...
Hillside, III., Melody Top: The permanently demented Phyllis Diller in Wonderful Town...
...cattier than a back fence. Not even exotic maharanis are safe from Killer Diller, who tells people not to be fooled by the big single jewel on thai lovely Punjabi forehead. "I mean, it's got to be covering something," says Phyllis "Like, a tunnel." Much of her self-written act centers in the everyday household which she usually populates with schizos now and then tossing in a normal person like the mother who said, "Eat, Chester Have you any idea how many poor people in China would want that oatmeal?" Say Chester: "Name...
Compulsive Talker. Comedienne Diller nearly always mentions her own brood of children: "They're for sale, and those who aren't working are marked down." The oldest is a 20-year-old college stu dent, and all five live with an aunt and a grandmother. Their father, Sherwood Diller, travels the circuit with Phyllis as husband-manager (by train, since she is fond of dresses, uses 22 suitcases...
...Sherwood who suggested in 1955 that his compulsively talking, ever-quipping wife try for an audition as a comedienne at San Francisco's Purple On ion. She ran 89 weeks. Warm, friendly and modest about everything but her jokes, Mrs. Diller is one successful per former who finds it easy to believe what is happening to her. "The older I get, the funnier I get," she says. "Think what I'll save in not having my face lifted...