Candice BERGEN just gave me a belly laugh: "When you grow up 2nd fiddle to a world class Dummy..."

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Not sure whether she said "2nd fiddle" or "sister to" (a world class Dummy). This was on CBS Sunday Morning. (For the past few months I've given up the politics shows.)

Then she said, "I had the WEIRDEST upbringing ever..." Another belly laugh.

Among the nuggets, her dad apparently had the Henry FONDA syndrome -- cold to the daughter. She herself is comfortable with acknowledging her physical beauty (I say: of the conventional sort), and she said she was never vain because daddy told her, "Remember, Candice, it's the beautiful women who commit suicide." Then, because of her apparently Jane FONDA wild child antics in privileged adolescence, plus something she said to daddy, he clocked her out of his Will. Oh, and there was an entry for the Dummy: "To Charlie McCARTHY, from whom I've never spent a day apart..."

And her mother was also a spectacular beauty, and her method of mothering being all out competition. The mother's edge being that she was a good singer and Candice wasn't, hence, "But she can't SING..."

I first became aware of Candice in the movie The Group: OMZ!1 the author is Mary *McCARTHY* who was Kevin *McCARTHY*'s sister!!!!!!!!1 I don't remember the rest of the movie and plot at all, just the final scene, where a cortege of solemnly black limousines rolls by, the last one being Candy's character in a small *RED* vehicle.

Anyway, Candice always seemed uptight and stilted to me, even in her natural speaking separate from "acting" and today was no exception but she made me belly laugh!1 Back then, when Roseanne lost out on an Emmy to Candice, she said (paraphrasing), "I can 'act' better than that (WALKING STICK? or something with a stick up somewhere)!1" There being an irony there for me, since Roseanne also has a STILTED delivery.

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1. Mae WEST was banned from NBC radio because of her set with Charlie

(from Wiki)

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Charlie: "May I have a kiss good-bye?"
Dale Evans: "Well, I can't see any harm in that!"
Charlie: "Oh. I wish you could. A harmless kiss doesn't sound very thrilling."


Charlie and Mae West had this conversation on December 12, 1937. After public outrage, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) stated, "the exchange is indecent;" the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) banned Mae West from NBC radio until 1950

Charlie: "Not so loud, Mae, not so loud! All my girlfriends are listening."
Mae: "Oh, yeah! You’re all wood and a yard long."
Charlie: "Yeah."
Mae: "You weren’t so nervous and backward when you came up to see me at my apartment. In fact, you didn’t need any encouragement to kiss me."
Charlie: "Did I do that?"Mae: "Why, you certainly did. I got marks to prove it. An' splinters, too."

Charlie's feud with W. C. Fields was a regular feature of the show.

W. C. Fields: "Well, if it isn't Charlie McCarthy, the woodpecker's pinup boy!"
Charlie: "Well, if it isn't W.C. Fields, the man who keeps Seagram's in business!"
W. C. Fields: "I love children. I can remember when, with my own little unsteady legs, I toddled from room to room."
Charlie: "When was that? Last night?"
W. C. Fields: "Quiet, Wormwood, or I'll whittle you into a venetian blind."
Charlie: "Ooh, that makes me shutter!"
W. C. Fields: "Tell me, Charles, is it true that your father was a gate-leg table?"
Charlie: "If it is, your father was under it."
W. C. Fields: "Why, you stunted spruce, I'll throw a Japanese beetle on you."
Charlie: "Why, you bar-fly you, I'll stick a wick in your mouth, and use you for an alcohol lamp!"
Charlie: "Pink elephants take aspirin to get rid of W. C. Fields."
W.C. Fields: "Step out of the sun Charles. You may come unglued."
Charlie: "Mind if I stand in the shade of your nose?"

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2. Meta: What's going on -- I've spelled it Candace, Candance -- having a teeny stroke myself?!1

Plus I said Mae WEST was banned from ********T.V.********* instead of "radio".

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3. I thought this was going to be a Jeb Bush thread.

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4. My thoughts exactly! n/t