paul lynde biography 3

this is TV funnyman week here on biography our look at stars who filled the small screen with big laughs tonight Paul in becoming a celebrity panelist on a television game show sometimes marks a career in decline not so for Paul Lynde Paul's ability to stop any show with his deadly one-liners made him one of the hottest comics on television he was one of the few comics who could always be relied upon for his genuine round-the-clock unscripted wit but despite his manically comic public persona life for Paul Lynde was a constant struggle to control his relentless self-doubt Paul wanted to be famous he didn't care how fortunately he had a vehicle he brought excitement there are people like that there is a charisma terrific charisma here there are several approaches to the jungle my wife and I tried them all but we found being dropped from a plane the most satisfaction he was one of those real parties comedy came out of some of his discomfort underneath all that you were always was a little bit of cruelty he was hilariously funny I won drinks on two drinks he was Josef Mengele when I think of you is a blood relative I long for a transfusion I loved most about him this marvelous humor that no one else had was a joy Mount Vernon Ohio a small town in the heart of the Midwest with a population of no more than 15,000 known as the birthplace of Daniel Decatur Emmett the composer who wrote Dixie and old Dan Tucker now it's also known as the birthplace of Paul Lynde Paul Lynde was born in Mount Vernon on June 13th 1926 his father Hoyland served four years as County Sheriff and when Paul was small the family lived over the county jail when Paul's father wasn't Sheriff he was a butcher a butcher with a sense of humor Saturday mornings at the butcher shop when someone would order a rump roast ahoy Lynn would go into his act he would take his arm and lay shorty another butcher across the butcher block grab a saw and start sewing on his rump and that would bring the house down Paul's mother Sylvia was a quiet woman who doted on her children and loved to cook starches and fried food were her favorite menu items and eating was the central activity of the house they used to joke that in his family at lunch they would always talk about what they're gonna have for dinner that was just the food was just an important part of their whole family dynamic Paul was the fifth of six children and the third of four boys right from the start Paul felt worthless there was four brothers and he always listed him as Richard the athlete Cordy the brain Johnny the baby and Paul to nothing he really felt like he was just kind of lost in his huge family Paul may have felt that way about himself but no one else did his friends thought he was intelligent and entertaining in the early years he was smart articulate and very funny when Paul was 10 his appendix ruptured this was followed by an illness called peritonitis and Paul was bedridden for nearly a year during this time his mother lavished him with her Midwestern cooking and Paul gained over 100 pounds when he entered high school he weighed 260 pounds in later years he would say he looked like Kate Smith's niece he worried about his weight apparently all the time in high school and he told me that when he was playing in the school band the uniform wouldn't fit him because he was a big kid and he played the bass drum in the band because he could put it over his uniform and they wouldn't see that it didn't fit he just became the proverbial fat kid of his class and in order to compensate for that and find his own identity he just became the the fat clown of the class he knew that he could use his weight for laughs Paul fostered his comedy style with his friends a gang of kids on the fringes of the class who entertained themselves with sadistic satire as Lynn described it and pranks such as selling family furniture when their parents were out of town one of the members of this gang was a girl named Marilyn Paul considered her his girlfriend but he liked her more than I think and then she liked him we always had good times together Paul and his friends went to the movies a lot Paul himself often spent entire Saturdays in the theater he was actually obsessed with movies he really wanted to be rich and famous and he thought the only way he could do it was to become a movie star Paul was so obsessed with wealth that as a kid he would sit on the steps of a mansion near his house and wave at passing cars pretending he lived there Paul took his passion for movies and acting to school where he performed at a number of school plays and that opportunity came to go out on that stage he loved it you could just see that it's it was part of his makeup well he was a good actor but not in the leading roles and I think that was skills goes back to the weight problem after school Paul worked in his father's butcher shop he hated washing out the chicken coop and cleaning the chickens but he enjoyed working Saturday mornings when all the meat orders were called in and he could joke with the customers he had little respect however for his father's chosen profession he was embarrassed that his father was a butcher he would like to have his occupation more elevated so he always referred to him as a cattle surgeon came across a notch or two higher paul was not a great student but a speech teacher at his high school was impressed with his writing and acting ability she encouraged him to apply to her alma mater Northwestern University's Speech and Drama School Paul's father disapproved he didn't want his son to go into show business but Paul enrolled there anyway in the fall of 1944 and his father came through with the tuition we were both seventeen and freshman at Northwestern at speech school and of course it's such a large school that we didn't meet right away and finally a young fellow came to me and said is your name Lind and I said no and he said well there's a fellow here looks just like you I said oh okay about a week later this marvelous kind of fetish fellow came up and looked at me and said so you're the one and I knew it was Paul Lynde we both have kind of lots of teeth and sad green eyes Paul soon became part of a close circle of friends some of whom remained friends for life and Paul stood out right from the start with one of his first assignments when you start northwestern you take introduction to oral interpretation dr. Charlotte Lee and this is seventeen-year-old Mount Vernon Ohio he gets up and starts out with this forgive me for being out of breath but I just spoke in a high school on the other side of town and speaking of the three high schools in one day does Linda fellow and then he took off from there you know speaking of three or four different high schools in one evening does win the fellow but I'd be willing to give my last breath if I thought I could impress upon you the importance of my subject now I don't suppose there's a kid in this room that doesn't know I'm speaking on sexual relations and has come with the idea I'm getting a kick what I'm going to say those smart alecks to leave right now dr. Lee was catatonic she just she thought what is this well by then the class was screaming with laughter and so is she she couldn't believe it this was his introduction to oral and Terp he did this long monologue as this employee from the from the state health agency and his fame spread fast he was born finished I don't think he needed to learn anything he had this specific individual unique personality and a way of speaking of way of delivering a line chanted sense of humor point of view and it was contagious you wanted to be with Paul you wanted to be around Paul Paul claimed that he was intent on becoming a serious dramatic actor but not everyone believed it already he was developing his signature style I don't think he was ever really that serious about being this serious actor I saw him do an acting class a scene once with Macbeth and he was doing it very very well and then he just couldn't stand it any longer and he just had to do a side look as Paul would do with that mouth and did one of the lines as Paul Lynde would do it and of course it destroyed the whole scene and from then on out it was just people screaming his laughter but that was done on purpose Paul would try and do serious parts but he just opened his mouth and everyone would fall to the floor he couldn't couldn't make them be serious if he wasn't really serious about becoming a dramatic actor he was still very serious about something else he would say in our early-morning speech class he look over to me and say I'm gonna be rich and famous and we all said sure okay Paul would not be the only one from that class to become rich and famous among his schoolmates those years were Charlotte Rae Patricia Neal and Charlton Heston to name a few and it was a crowd that knew they were going somewhere no doubt we were the cream of the crop I mean we were it it's not bragging it's the truth it's just we were hopefuls during his years at Northwestern Paul performed in many shows and plays he was very popular with other students although he formed no serious relationships it was a pattern he'd follow for years he had no emotional attachments in school with anybody he had very very close friends very dear friends but there was a shield around him and no one could break through that shield Paul did continue to speak of a girlfriend back home but no one ever met her and he dated no other women his closest friends soon figured out he was gay but it was the kind of thing you didn't talk about and the reason we're in those days ends was very simple you go to jail get kicked out of the University was northen in 1948 Paul Lynde graduated barely from Northwestern carrying with him the honor of being named best actor of the year now he was ready to take on New York Paulin graduated from Northwestern in 1948 and immediately set out for New York ready to take Broadway by storm and he already had somewhat of a head start a young Broadway actress had seen him perform and one of his college shows I went there and I was astounded at how professional it was and how good it was and I said my god they're so talented but Paul was exceptional I mean he was so hilarious he was just wonderful and I said that guy is truly gonna be a star cave armed him with a number of introductions to theatrical agents and producers he started to make the rounds of production offices and auditions and his father continued to send money from home Paul's first year in New York was what he called his playboy period because he was living off the funds of his father and not really pushing himself to look for jobs because he had this money coming in but in February of 1949 the roof caved in both financially and emotionally Paul's beloved brother Cora Don a soldier who had been reported missing in action since the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 was officially pronounced dead then Paul's mother died a few weeks later of heart failure reportedly from the shock of the new three months after that Cordys body was shipped home for burial and the day after the funeral Paul's father died also from heart failure over a few months time Paul was left parentless and penniless when his father died he came back to New York after the funeral and he lived in some very inexpensive boarding house we're imaging coca and Marlon Brando also had roomed at the same time he would steal food from their refrigerator the community refrigerator he always talked about this is the lowest point in his life Paul could not find any acting work so he took odd jobs as a waiter and hotel clerk to make ends meet he also sold his blood every six weeks for $5 a pint on top of all this Paul received news that his high school friend Marilyn was marrying someone else he used her the rest of his life as a beard whenever anybody would ask why why weren't you married or why haven't you married he would always say that this Marilyn from his childhood broke his heart the only positive thing to come out of this period is that Paul set his mind to losing weight he realized he was not getting roles because of his appearance so over the course of two years he lost almost 100 pounds first time I saw him after college about two and a half years later I was blown away I barely recognized him he was a very handsome guy but this would not mark the end of lenss battles with weight Paul had to struggle with diets for the rest of his life to keep himself Trevor Paul Lynn and I have gained and lost 2,000 pounds in our lifetime frightening I hate people that can eat anything they want and he did to we'd go to a restaurant a look at her look at her stuffing her face well you know it was frightening on Thanksgiving Day 1950 Balls fortunes changed he wrote some funny material entered an amateur stand-up comic contest at a popular New York night spot and won for the prize he got a one-week engagement at the club this in turn led to a series of other night dates a year later he got a big break when he snagged a spot in a Broadway revue new faces of 1952 which was later made into a film there he performed his now classic monologue the trip of the Month Club where he played a hapless but determinedly upbeat survivor of a horrific tourist trip to X the next morning was one of those mornings when you hear the screech - the orangutan feel like just running around barefoot but we had already been tramping on the trail about four or five hours and the wife began to complain of her feet the only shoes she had with her were those high-heeled sling pumps she just couldn't take it so we had to leave her there out on the track only a couple of days later on the way back I found this piece of red dress along with their person gloves and to this day I don't know what happened to her performers in the show included Eartha Kitt Carol Lawrence and alice ghostley new faces became a huge Broadway hit and Lynn's performance was singled out as the funniest bit of the evening in another skit Lind was an unreformed pickpocket his manic exaggerated style was becoming his trademark hey something's happening to me no Harry you were never like that tell me I was never like that it looked like Lindh was well on his way but it would be a long time before he saw Broadway again over the next eight years he made guest appearances on variety shows and did some radio work and summer stock theater he also went back to his old eating habits and ballooned accordingly by 1958 Paul was in a deep depression and not working at all he said he was contemplating suicide he talked about around that time that he was at this party with a bunch of his friends in New York and he just stood up halfway through the party and said you know I haven't heard a word anyone said all night and I just don't think it's fair to be doing this to you and he like left the party and the very next day he decided he had to get some analysis Paul saw a psychiatrist for more than a year he later claimed she saved his life Paul's career also took a huge leap forward in 1960 director Gower champion hired him to play the father of a starstruck teenager in the new Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie Paul would play the same role in the successful movie version of the show three years who wants respect from a ten year old kids the depart was made proposal in nobody else played that guy he played just kind of a common man who'd looked a gasp to the world around him and and couldn't deal with it and was very cranky about it Bye Bye Birdie became a huge hit on Broadway and established Paul as a major comic star it was so exciting and he invited me to the premiere and I had such a marvelous time we walked into Sardis afterwards and everyone clapped for Paul who has such a fine evening I'll never forget it for the film only Paul and Dick Van Dyke were hired from the original Broadway cast but Paul was not at all pleased with the Hollywood version of Bye Bye Birdie he said it should have been called hello and Margaret at the opening of the film she comes out and she sings the title song bye-bye birdie and then at the tail end they have her doing that again so she's the last thing you remember when you go out of the theater but that was not in the original cut of it at all that was added later so it became kind of an Ann Margaret movie although everybody certainly did do well with it including Paul but I don't think Paul was quite the success in the movie that he had been on the stage because part of that that salty humor that he had was diluted somewhat in the film but Paul had bigger problems on his hands during the filming of Bye Bye Birdie than and Margaret's high-visibility a longtime fondness for drinking was turning into full-fledged alcoholism one thing that we shared at the time we talked about it many many years later in those days particularly during the movie which was about nineteen sixty three or four we were both sliding into alcohol addiction and we're not aware of it as people seldom are when is happening to them and Paul was beginning a self-destructive pattern of turning vicious when he got drunk there is a story that happened during Bye Bye Birdie that was only funny to me now he wanted to meet how primps the Broadway producer he would idolized him thought he was a genius and one a woman that we knew was having a party and how prince was coming and he pleaded with her please let me come to your party so I can meet Hal Prince so she did and he met pal Prince and immediately backed him against the wall and absolutely slash he said he had gone over the the hump there with his drinking and became his nasty self well the next day he was beside himself he said oh my idol my idol I love that man I I just tore him to pieces so he called this woman and once again pleaded please I have got to make amends you've got to let me make up to this man so she did had him back and he did this he couldn't help himself it's too bad the helpers did not have a sense of humor about it and I understand that he didn't with the success of Bye Bye Birdie Lynne decided to make a permanent move to Los Angeles he was done with the theater world for now and he was ready to see what Hollywood and television had to offer by the time Paul Lynde was 36 he was well on his way to becoming a celebrity his star turn and Bye Bye Birdie led to the recording of a comedy album and regular spots on shows like the Perry Como show over the next few years he appeared in minor roles and films like under the yum-yum tree and beach blanket bingo his role in the glass-bottom boat was significant if only because it was his first and only film appearance in drag his dance I've been watching you all evening you've been acting very suspiciously especially around the buffet tables about fate and you haven't taken a bite it was a funny scene I think it also illustrates though how limited Paul actually was as a performer and one reason perhaps why he didn't do better films and wasn't embraced by better directors is because he did the same thing over and over again Lind continued to make guest appearances on variety shows throughout the 60s he also guest-starred in many television series both dramas and sitcoms although his roles were always comedic never serious people didn't want that they wanted to convey and that was his thing and I think he could individual parts over serious and that that but you never have the opportunity instead Paul was forging a lucrative career as a character actor most notably on series like The Munsters I Dream of Jeannie and bewitched he was originally hired on bewitched to play Samantha's driving instructor would you like to join me in a cup of coffee I think we can both fit ready how am i doing how to phrase it tactfully Elizabeth Montgomery enjoyed Paul so much that the show created the regular role of uncle Arthur for him my life has no meaning I have loved and lost he was great in that because that was also a level that was good for him I mean it was not an important series it was a entertaining series it was very lightweight and all of that and it was again something that he could kind of do I think with his eyes closed director William Asher and his wife Elizabeth Montgomery became Paul's best friends and he spent an enormous amount of time with them but Paul still found it hard to be close to very many people for the most part he remained aloof his persona on camera and on stage was totally different he actually was very introverted very very shy around people he had a very close-knit group of friends but that was about it and Paul's drinking problem was getting worse after a few cocktails that genial funny guy that people saw on television lost all control became very mean sometimes violent I lived in an apartment building next to where he lived and I remember one night there was this big kerfuffle in his apartment this noise and crashing and sound and the police were called he'd had somebody over for dinner and during the course of the dinner they'd started breaking up the apartment and so the police took them off to jail so that was Paul I mean he was volatile and and crazy always a few years after Lind moved to Los Angeles his life did appear to be settling down he bought a house that was formerly owned by Errol Flynn and spent a small fortune renovating and decorating it he was however quite neurotic about protecting it when friends came to visit Paul had gorgeous taste a stunning taste in his decorating everything was perfect and I remember taking an ashtray from one table to another don't touch it okay Paul's most public and by all accounts most successful relationship was with his dog Harry McAfee who was named after Paul's character in Bye Bye Birdie he adored his dog and brought him everywhere the rest of his love life however remained extremely private everyone in Hollywood knew that Paul was gay but no one ever talked about it it wasn't spoken of as much in those days people didn't go around saying hello I'm gay you know I'm Spartacus it wasn't any of that but I mean I think everybody knew and and if they didn't know just to meet him once they they sussed his living situation you know they knew I mean there was always some you know cute guy named Chad was standing around holding him a martini glass the only very public hint of Paul's backstage life occurred in 1965 when a young actor named Jim Davidson who was staying with Paul in a hotel in San Francisco fell to his death from the ledge of the hotel window reportedly trying to impress Paul with a trick what he was doing is he crawled out the window and from and tried to pull himself up and he heard Paul tried to help him but he slept the fact that it was with Paul was enough for most people to believe he could have been pushed which says a lot about how people felt about Paul and how they themselves had been treated by him so you never really wanted to be too near an open window when you were dealing with him by the mid-60s Paul was enjoying great success as a guest star on many television shows but he had dreams of becoming something more he wanted to be the star of his own series to that end land made for different sitcom pilots none of them made it to air Paul felt that one of them a Victorian detective spoof was some of his best work a puzzle is a puzzle major Dobbs theater set to the magna carta or a piece of string duplicate this if you can a perfect triple trapezoid ABC did pick up the sedgwick pilot but after Jim Davidson's death and the surrounding gossip they were too scared to put it on the air ABC was worried about it and they were worried about Paul and what he might do Paul was bitterly disappointed but he soon had plenty to occupy his time in 1966 he made his first appearance on a new television game show it was called Hollywood Squares he was so good in it he became the permanent center square it turned out to be the longest lasting role of his life and even though he didn't write his own material the format was perfectly suited to his humor Queen Elizabeth generally swings her umbrella behind her back and immediately something happens what Lord Snowdon doubles up in pain according to Fred Astaire his mother wanted him to do it when he was 35 but he refused and he still hasn't done it done what moved out of the house there was a whip it was one line a zinger it was one thing that summed up the situation Twiggy reportedly added an inch to her bustline while making the boyfriend what does that make her bust measurement now the whole comic thing was I'm now gonna tell you the truth in one line and you can't fight me and I think that people responded to that responded in droves and fan Lyn's outrageous wit attracted an army of fans and contributed to making Hollywood Squares one of the most popular and long-running game shows in television history Paul would stay on the show for 15 years a great great amount of the success of the show was due to his participation I mean people look forward to him they loved him they would quote his jokes the day after the week after you know he received more love letters than anybody I was pretty cute in those days he got many more love letters than I did people were mad for him ironically Paul's biggest fans were women middle america housewives who never seemed to notice that Lind was a homosexual to them he was much like Liberace just lovably eccentric and flamboyant even when his humor had undeniably gay and kinky overtones I would say Paul why do motorcyclists wear leather and he says because she found wrinkles was a game the great writer George Bernard Shaw once wrote it's such a wonderful thing what a crime to waste it on children what is it a weapon Paul achieved enormous visibility and popularity through Hollywood Squares he was finally rich and famous but it wouldn't be long before he viewed the center square as a prison by the time Paul Lynde entered the 70s and his 40s he was logging over 180 hours on television each year he had to all appearances achieved his dream of wealth and fame but it didn't seem to make him happy or calm him down we all thought that that Paul's demons were something that success would cure and once he got the house and the money and the fame that that would make him nice but it didn't he only got more volatile and more complicated as time went on for one thing success never eliminated his insecurities the fat boy from Ohio still felt like the fat boy from Ohio he never knew how talented he was he never knew how handsome he was he never knew how sexy he was and he was all those things but I felt bad because he never really acknowledged it about himself you know Paul even questioned how funny he was in the early nightclub days if only because of poverty he had written all his own sketches and monologues now he required a writer wherever he went and that included his zingers on Hollywood Squares some airlines now give you a thorough frisking before permitting you to board the plane all right senator reason I fly all his material was written for him all his material was written for him some mate one of the amazing things about Paul was that he was an amazingly funny guy terrifically witty guy but he had no confidence in himself he really didn't realize how funny he was Paul was also sick of playing the center Square on Hollywood Squares he wanted to be a movie star but Hollywood he said didn't see him as anyone but that man in the box and he felt trapped I think we all feel that way I felt trapped also I'm a musical comedy performer and all of a sudden I'm a game show host he was a he'd done theater he did a thing all of a sudden he's on a game show and it's not a good it has a stigma to it he was making a fortune and he was a hugely popular recognizable personality but he was not the center of anything except Hollywood Squares and I think he felt that was a cheap thing to be the center of Paul did have some opportunities to break out of the box in 1972 he starred in his own sitcom the Paul Lynde show sex is not for housewives I've noticed that lately this time he played an uptight attorney and father who has to battle a liberal-minded son-in-law and once again the character was quintessential Paul Lynde I'll tell you what you've just done in less than a minute all by yourself you cost me a bonus that JJ is in his office signing at this moment yes stole that's an under my daddy when he's medicated the show only lasted one season although the ratings weren't bad they weren't great either and the network decided not to renew it it's like chocolate mousse yeah yeah like a taste of it but you can't have it for the whole meal he's a second banana he was not the star Paul's failure as a leading man may have contributed to the biggest problem he had drinking which was becoming evermore public during the 70's in 1974 he was arrested in Ohio after yelling obscenities at a patrol officer in 1978 he was arrested in Salt Lake City for public intoxication he was picked up for drunk driving on numerous occasions and that wasn't all it's one evening even out to a big huge gay bar in Columbus Ohio and he got exceedingly drunk and he's dancing on the dance floor and some one came over and insulted him terribly just put a cigarette out on the person's cheek I was shocking he was very very sorry after that friends began to withdraw from Paul even those who consider themselves close friends felt that it was just too difficult and hurtful to be around him when he drank he'd say to me you're never gonna get anywhere you're too overweight and I thought well I don't need this every time he comes over and has dinner he gets drunk he burden the carpet one day and I thought well hey I'm not making your kind of money don't burn my carpet so you know I couldn't I didn't want to take any more abuse from him but he was a very exceptional person I don't think anybody ever stopped loving Paul even anyone who might have been attacked by him who just loved him you just people were passionate about him he invoked great loyalty and and sorrow if he if he did something that was horrible Paul no longer made much of an effort to disguise the fact that he was gay although he never officially came out of the closet he came pretty close an interviewer once asked him in the late 70s why he wasn't married and he said why do you live in a cave Paul's romantic attachments were problematic however he spent a lot of nights cruising gay bars both in Los Angeles and on the road he had many boyfriends but he never seemed to hang on to them for very long oh I met several nice fellows the important one was Pablo the artist from Brooklyn and spoke Spanish and knew very little English and had no idea who Paul was it was a lovely man by the time the end of the 70s rolled around Paul was very rich and very well known he was also chronically unhappy and lonely it was time way past time for a fresh start by the end of the 70s Paul Lynde was in his 50s and heartily bored with Hollywood Squares even though he had no other work lined up he decided to leave the show he left happy to this season and he offers whatsoever and the producers realized that the ratings just dropped like unbelievably and they said we have to get him back somehow they finally made a deal with him and he got more money and deservedly so he should have gotten more money he came back when he returned to the squares Paul shared co-star billing with Peter Marshall the show was now in syndication and it lasted another year and in 1979 Paul made what would be his final appearance in a movie he played the role of chief nervous elk in the villain Jack Jack this Jack Slade man once again Paul Lynde was playing Paul Lynde Paul was now living in a new home his beloved dog Harry McAfee died in 1977 Paul couldn't stand to live in the Errol Flynn house without him so he bought a house in Beverly Hills once again he spent a lot of time fixing it up and once again he was weirdly protective he had a big open house party and he wouldn't let us in the house we ate outside I don't want anything messed up I said are you crazy but he was eccentric let's just say he was eccentric and I adored him I really did but much more significant changes were happening in Paul's life he was finally fed up with his offstage activities after years of boozing he decided to clean up his act he decided to give up alcohol he had become completely sober and I think he beat me to it by over by a bit and he would call me up to see how I was doing and he would tell me how good it felt and how alive and well and alert he felt in 1981 Hollywood Squares ended its 15-year run and Paul started to think about what to do next he was considering a move back to New York when he took a small part in a hidden-camera comedy show one morning the producer and crew came to pick him up for a shoot was midday and the newspaper was in the driveway and my first reaction was man he's not home he never came home last night he's out playing or doing something and he's screwin mate and later that that evening I heard from the Beverly Hills Police who you know he had been discovered he was alright but he was dead Paul had died in bed of a massive heart attack was only 55 years old I met his doctor a week after Paul had died and dr. Packard said that with the autopsy Paul had a heart of an 85 year old man and that was that story but because it was Paul Lynde Hollywood was rife with sordid tales of a male hustler at his deathbed poppers and drugs littering the bed none of these stories appear to be true what was true was that before his death Paul Lynde had finally turned his life around it made me so sad because he was just beginning to live a life where he got a feeling good in the morning and looking forward to the day and then he died he was just a very talented man he was a man who will always be remembered as a comedy genius I like if you all like to hear this poem that he wrote and I think is one of his funniest the title is trouble in the tulip bed I don't know what to say a tulip talked to me today I was trimming the hedge quite near the mountain ledge way over the mountain ledge when lo and behold my blood ran cold till it screamed at me today it was my favorite the one I call Blanche she puckered up her petals and screamed yes a tulip saved my life today now you may not think this quite so much but you see but you see Mouse tulips speak Dutch the latest version of Hollywood Squares began airing in syndication in the fall of 1998 occupying the center square now is actress Whoopi Goldberg carrying on the tradition of delivering wisecracks that are sometimes snooty sometimes kinky but always funny somewhere Paul Lynde is smiling or at least smirking tomorrow as TV funnyman Week continues everyone knows his name he's Ted Danson star of two hit TV comedies in his remarkable career that's Ted Danson Thursday for biography I'm Harry Smith goodnight a and E home video proudly presents the biography you've just seen for 1495 plus shipping and handling to order call 1-800 four two three one two one two or visit our online store at biography.com now they're criminals keeping murder in the family on American justice next on A&E for the web's best BIOS log on to biography calm

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Length: 45min 33sec (2733 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 08 2016