From an old David Letterman interview with her long, long ago, I learned a cool little life hack:
She moved to the big city and was getting into the entertainment industry, going around with her CV/résumé, trying to get jobs.
The most impressive things on her CV had an * next to them.
At the bottom of the page, it said, “* = l.i.e.”
Only once did someone interviewering her ask her what that means.
She said, “Oh those are lies.”
I like that. Shows it doesn't really matter, and if you're admitting up-front that it's a lie, then it's the interviewer's fault for ignoring it.
acer4666 20 minutes ago [-]
You're not really admitting it by masking it in an obtuse acronym
js2 11 minutes ago [-]
> She moved to the big city and was getting into the entertainment industry
She must have been joking. She grew up in LA. She originally trained as a dancer in NYC but went into acting because she saw dancing as a dead end for her.
js2 16 minutes ago [-]
Bummer. I recently watched One from the Heart for the first time. (I really enjoyed it. Not sure why it was so poorly received at the time.)
One thing I noticed looking at the cast was that the three male stars had died but the three women stars were still alive. I can't say that anymore. :-(
I ended up watching all of Garr's appearances on Letterman. Someone collected them all on YouTube[1]. She was a really funny lady and she had a great repartee with Letterman.
The obit doesn't mention it but she's had multiple sclerosis at least since 1982 and disclosed it in 2002.
She’ll always be the charmingly clueless young secretary in the Gary Seven episode of Star Trek: TOS to me. I wish that had been made into a series.
micah94 38 minutes ago [-]
that ep is so memorable... it was like a mix of bewitched, 6million dollar man, I dream of jeannie, mission impossible, and of course star trek all rolled into one.
euroderf 13 minutes ago [-]
Also impressive in that ep was Isis (human form).
bigstrat2003 1 hours ago [-]
If it had, it's doubtful she would've come back. I read she hated working with Roddenberry on that episode.
She moved to the big city and was getting into the entertainment industry, going around with her CV/résumé, trying to get jobs.
The most impressive things on her CV had an * next to them.
At the bottom of the page, it said, “* = l.i.e.”
Only once did someone interviewering her ask her what that means.
She said, “Oh those are lies.”
I like that. Shows it doesn't really matter, and if you're admitting up-front that it's a lie, then it's the interviewer's fault for ignoring it.
She must have been joking. She grew up in LA. She originally trained as a dancer in NYC but went into acting because she saw dancing as a dead end for her.
One thing I noticed looking at the cast was that the three male stars had died but the three women stars were still alive. I can't say that anymore. :-(
I ended up watching all of Garr's appearances on Letterman. Someone collected them all on YouTube[1]. She was a really funny lady and she had a great repartee with Letterman.
The obit doesn't mention it but she's had multiple sclerosis at least since 1982 and disclosed it in 2002.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXf9uQf6iuM (1/5. Links to all 5 parts in the video description.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987606 ("HN: Teri Garr, offbeat comic actor of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' has died")
https://ktla.com/entertainment/ap-teri-garr-offbeat-comic-ac... ("KTLA: Teri Garr, the offbeat comic actor of ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ has died")
“Oh, sank you…”