Word: radner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wallace is referring, of course, to Gilda Radner's famous Saturday Night Live parodies and to Walters' most famous, frequently mocked question. Actually, it was a follow-up question she asked Katharine Hepburn in 1981, after the actress said she felt like a tree: "What kind of a tree are you?" (Hepburn said...
...past five years is Julia Sweeney's Pat -- and the joke is that no one knows Pat's sex. The show has all but abandoned nuanced relationship comedy in favor of TV parodies and broad, running characters that are like antic vaudeville acts. Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner used to play sketches in bed together. Now we have Operaman...
...rare shot at instant stardom -- an appearance on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live in 1975 -- misfired when producer Lorne Michaels cut his spot from six minutes to one and Crystal pulled out. "It was awful," says Crystal. "Gilda ((Radner)) walked me to the elevator. I was crying all the way home on the Long Island Railroad, the tears running down the makeup." While friends Chevy Chase and John Belushi went on to become household names, he had to settle for a spot on ABC's wacky series Soap, playing television's first prime-time homosexual. Then came...
...SCTV mimics -- Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Martin Short -- did have a problem. On TV they hid like a subversive subtext inside their brilliant impersonations. But in movies an actor doesn't disappear; he displays himself. So Short has put his mimetic, improvisatory genius on hold and marketed one facet of his personality: the winsome whiner...