Really Big Hits Would Be Boom Meringues
What’s so funny about a pie in the face? Ask Soupy Sales.
“Pies are only funny if they’re used right,” said the 69-year-old comedian, who figures he took 20,000 pies in the puss during his illustrious television career. “They’ve gotta hit you hard and tear your head off.”
It was an evolving technology, Sales told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “Before 1954, we had to use egg whites and whipping cream. When aerosol shaving cream came in, it was perfect. Because you could just wipe it off and be ready to go again.”
The biggest name to get pied on Soupy’s show: Frank Sinatra. “He was a big fan of the show, and that was his way of being nice to me,” Sales said. “It was his idea to get a pie in the face. I never would have suggested that.”
Loose talk
George Burns, on his plans to play Las Vegas on his 100th birthday Jan. 20: “How can I die? I’m BOOKED.”
Hey, Soupy, he’s working without Annette!
Frankie Avalon turns 55 today.
He wouldn’t be caught dead in that kind of club
Chi Chi Rodriguez sees nothing funny at all about the hit comedy “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar.” The 59-year-old golfer is suing the movie’s production company and Universal Pictures over a drag queen character bearing his name, played by John Leguizamo, who “engages in numerous disreputable acts and is portrayed as sexually promiscuous.”
When the cash comes, they’ll all be beaming
Four cast members from the original Star Trek television series - James Doohan (Scottie), Walter Koenig (Chekov), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) and George Takei (Sulu) - have reached a reported $1 million settlement with Paramount over disputed merchandising royalties. As part of the deal, all agreed to appear at next year’s opening of a “Star Trek” theme park in Las Vegas.
In his biography, it will be but a footnote
From Birkenstock comes word that while Norman Schwarzkopf, Steve Young, Michelle Pfeiffer, Madonna, Marlon Brando, Willard Scott, Jamie Lee Curtis and Whoopi Goldberg wear the designer sandals, “Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead never owned a single pair.”
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Producer Garry Marshall, on his changing career fears: “I always had a nightmare in the ‘70s that I was doing ‘The Last Supper’ as a movie of the week and the network would come to me and say, ‘Judas isn’t testing well. Could you give him a dog or something?’ In the ‘90s, as I direct ‘The Last Supper,’ for financial reasons two of the disciples have Coca-Cola cans in front of them.”
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