| re: Billy Porter | |
| Posted by: AlexanderKat 04:49 pm EDT 03/21/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Billy Porter - BruceinIthaca 02:28 pm EDT 03/21/22 | |
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| My most memorable encounter with someone I'd always enjoyed was with Joan Rivers. It was back in the seventies and I approached her to ask if a TV movie she had written titled, "The Girl Most Likely To..." would be repeated on TV. She loudly replied, "Write those sons of bitches at ABC! Since Stockard Channing has been signed to star in a film with Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson (THE FORTUNE) the network has decided to hold back on repeating the movie for whatever reasons." I mentioned to her that I had made reservations to see her at Ye Little Club in Beverly Hills the following week and was looking forward to seeing her. She told me to mention a very simple name when I was being seated at the club. I said okay I'd remember it yet she literally hit me in the arm and said, "Write it down! Write it down! which I of course did. As soon as I was seated at the club, a bottle of champagne arrived compliments of Ms. Rivers. After the show, the waiter told us Ms. Rivers had taken care of the check and invited us backstage to say hello. Standing in her dressing room were dear Florence Henderson and smarmy Roddy McDowell (who also did the slow Porter head-to-toe routine). Ms. Rivers was seated at her vanity table and asked me to sit in a chair next to her. She was full of questions and wanted to know all about me. I mentioned I was born and raised in NY and she lit up and said, "A New Yorker!, I knew there was something about you I liked." She couldn't have been more gracious and kind. A truly wonderful evening. So to the OP, my advice is to continue letting people you admire know how much you've appreciated them. Hopefully, the unpleasant Porter experience was simply a case of "one bad apple don't spoil the whole darn bunch." |
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