She was 37 years old sheevph was a late bloomer. first lady to play vegas, first headliner in a male dominated world when back then, you had jack carter, sheblg can i green, danny thomas. fil us broke through. phyllis broke through. she was on the famous show when tiny tim got married. she made no secret of the fact she had a plastic surgery. recently the american academy cosmetic surgery for taking plastic surgery out of something not to be ashamed of. absolutely. everybody kept it on the hush, hush. she got it in 1972 after watching herself on the sonny and cher show. she said, i need a facelift. she did that.
I had an egg timer on my talk show desk. i had an hour i d just turn it over and every time i d get renewed, someone from the network would come in and turn it over. yeah, i m thrilled by that. larry: rough would you ever go and do what carson did, play vegas? well, i did. i did vegas during the tour. larry: i mean during the tour. would you do a weekend in vegas? you know what i love? it s a different kind of crowd there. but i loved the there s a feeling that what i did was the corny thing i think everybody does. i paid the palm the pearl at the palms. larry: that s the young crowd. they have a this is one of another one of those moments where you pinch yourself. but they put my name up. they have a giant sign. and it looks like it should say joey bishop, dean martin. it s one of those kind of signs. and my name, you know, is in letters as big as this table.
You re here s this guy who is revered by everybody, you re allowed to think that way. larry: how long you sign for? for what? larry: for tbs? i think another two weeks. then i m done. larry: hanging by a thread? no, no. larry: how long have they got you? do we know? my producer tells me two years. larry: only two? only two? after what i ve been through, two years is huge. two years? i used to be on nbc i used to be on a 13-week schedule. larry: really? back in oh, yeah, i ve been through every i ve had i was on a 13-week contract with nbc at one point. this was years and years and years ago. i had an egg timer on my talk show desk. i had an hour i d just turn it over and every time i d get renewed, someone from the network would come in and turn it over. yeah, i m thrilled by that. larry: rough would you ever go and do what carson did, play vegas? well, i did.
I had an hour i d just turn it over and every time i d get renewed, someone from the network would come in and turn it over. yeah, i m thrilled by that. larry: rough would you ever go and do what carson did, play vegas? well, i did. i did vegas during the tour. larry: i mean during the tour. would you do a weekend in vegas? you know what i love? it s a different kind of crowd there. but i loved the there s a feeling that what i did was the corny thing i think everybody does. i paid the palm the pearl at the palms. larry: that s the young crowd. they have a this is one of another one of those moments where you pinch yourself. but they put my name up. they have a giant sign. and it looks like it should say joey bishop, dean martin. it s one of those kind of signs. and my name, you know, is in letters as big as this table. it said, tonight sold out.