Repost of Ann's book review.
Phyllis Diller 1917 – 2012: News, Quotes, Interview
I always liked Phyllis Diller. She was funny on talk shows and game shows and on Scooby Doo. I also liked her in movies like 8 On The Lam -- where she's partnered with Jonathan Winters and played Bob Hope's house cleaner Golda. She's hilarious in that and also in another movie she made with Bob Hope, Boy, Did I Get A Wrong Number.
She was an inspiration for many comics -- male and female -- and she was a ground breaker.
So I saw, in Amazon's Kindle Books, Phyllis Diller 1917-2012: News, Quotes, Interviews by Almanzo Wilder Jr.
So what to think?
The positive: A book on Phyllis, no matter good or bad, is a sign that she is remembered.
The negative? This is a glorified Wikipedia entry. A great deal of the book can, in fact, be found at Wikipedia.
It skims along adding up to very little. What I told you about Golda, Phyliss' character in 8 On The Lam? More detail than you get in the 'book.' In fact, in Boy, Did I Get A Wrong Number, Phyllis plays Lily, the housekeeper of Marjorie Lord and Bob Hope. She's good in the film but I like her better in 8 On The Lamb because the kids love her. In both films, she and Hope bicker and get their insults in but in 8 On The Lamb, Hope's kids like her and that tilts the balance in her favor. Otherwise, Hope's just verbally beating up on an employee.
The book offers a filmography (from Wikipedia -- of course).
This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
