Once butted heads with feminist Lily Tomlin when both appeared as guests on "The Dick Cavett Show" (1968). Tomlin walked off the set after Everett referred to his wife as "his property.".
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shareI've read about this incident many times. It was in 1972 and Lily was promoting her comedy album "And That's The Truth", with Edith Ann. From I read Lily simply got up out of her chair while Chad was talking and left the set. I'd LOVE to see that actual show. I keep surfing the net that one day a copy of it will emerge online or something.
Go Lily!!
..wow,she sure showed him!
Oh,Edith Ann,that silly thing she used to do which substituted as humor. She certainly felt important in only a few years after her fame.
Yes, that "silly thing she used to do which substituted as humor" also won her 6 Emmy awards, a Grammy award and 2 Tony's, not to mention the Mark Twain Prize for Humor. That "silly thing" sure resulted in a hell of a career that is still going strong after 40 plus years.
sharejimmylee,hon
Are we speaking about her whole act or that Ernastine thing? Re-read my post
Edith Ann and Earnestine were neither silly nor little they did win her Emmys and Grammys as well as other parts of her comedy routines. Do not belittle her beginings or the fact that she was a HUGE role model for my mother of when the album came out and for me to aspire to when i was a child, they were fixtufixtures of my youth and by no means a 'little thing' and her influence in the early '70's was not small either.
shareI saw that Cavett show when it first showed and I've seen it a couple of times since. Everett knew what kind of a humorless activist she was and was obviously just playing her to see if he could set her off, and it worked. Cheers to Chad!
sharePerhaps she walked away rather than do something worse, such as dump a beverage over his head as Shelley Winters did to the sexist Oliver Reed a few years later on the Johnny Carson show.
I suspect, in hindsight, and Ms Tomlin might agree, it would have been better to engage the silly man in a light debate, perhaps mentioning the 13th Amendment prohibition on owning people.
I have seen enough to know I have seen too much. -- ALOTO