Word: tomlin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lily Tomlin [March 28] brings to mind Marianne Moore's description of poetry: "Imaginary gardens with real toads." Lily is poetry...
...kids were immediately imitating Ernestine's "Is this the party to whom I am speaking?" the way they said "dyno-mite" like Good Times' Jimmy Walker last year. Schlatter left Laugh-In in 1972, and the show, reflecting the strait-laced Nixon years, had less room for Tomlin's wild, irreverent humor. Before it folded in 1973, she was suing NBC to be released...
Both CBS and ABC hired her for specials, with the possibility of a regular show, but the Sixth Avenue hot-shots ran nervously for their Di-Gel every time she appeared on the screen. Tomlin, went the word, was not safe-something Lily could have told them at the start. Says she: "Commercial television specializes in escapist fantasy. I deal with culture reality." Adds Jane Wagner, who co-produced two of the TV specials: "The network bosses think Lily is a genius, but they are also scared to death...
...will be ready for them. There is really very little that daunts Lily Tomlin. When the crew of The Late Show gave her a hard time-or what she thought was a hard time-she marched right up to them. "Listen, you bastards," she said, sounding a little like Mary Jean from Detroit. "I know what's going to happen to me after this movie. I'm going to get good notices and do another film. Do you know what's going to happen to you? Maybe you won't work again for another year...
Wherever she goes, Lily Tomlin takes her notebooks. And wherever she goes, she writes the maxims that zing through her act like ricocheting bullets. A sampler...