okay. i had wanted to wrap this up in a neat little package about a girl who is a comedienne from detroit, becomes famous in new york with all the world coming her way, gets this horrible disease of cancer, then fights it, and then miraculously things neatly tie up and she gets well. i wanted a perfect ending.
clothes on sweetie, baby, longer than you do honey, kiss me with your mouth closed just like you love me and i love you i m proud that i did that show. but what i learned was that wasn t what i wanted to do. i didn t want to be gilda radner, a solo performer personality. i saw what could happen, that you could end up being just gilda radner. and when you weren t being gilda radner, you had to stay in your room. and i was lonesome.
so i sat down to write the book with the ending in place before there even was an ending. now i ve learned the hard way it s about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what s going to happen next. honey, touch me with my clothes on sweetie, baby, longer than you do honey, kiss me with your mouth
mwah, mwah, mwah. gilda was in remission, and we were thrilled about it. how often do we get to know exactly what our battles are or get to find out what we re actually made of or how brave we are? i kept thinking there must be a purpose to this somewhere, that a comedienne does, you know, roseanne roseannadanna and all this stupid stuff gets the most unfunny thing in the world. how am i going to get people to laugh about it, to be able to speak the words, to be able to not be afraid to be treated for it? iand automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. it s the final days of the lowest prices of the season.
i never graduated from the university of michigan because i fell in love with a canadian sculptor and wanted to be his wife and a homemaker. she was cooking and decorating their apartment. he loved having her do that like he was being taken care of that way. jeff couldn t handle if i was ever funny and it was very frustrating. there was just a part of me that wasn t being used. and i actually reached a point where i felt like i was dying. one day i went to the theater and i sat there and i thought oh, i just felt so good, you know. that feeling i felt like i belonged, even in the audience. and so i ended up asking if i could work in their box office. they came in and she goes and peeks through the little cubby