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Fifty am, jump off an exhausting amster wheel and injure balance.
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Living with Doctor Marissa from Miss Joy. Doctor Marissa, also
known as the Asian Oprah. Her mission to be a
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and happiness because I'm on a happy eightya mission eighty
eight million more happy people in the.
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Next eight years.
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So I have topics and guests and special series and
just a plethora of fabulous guests these past six hundred
and ninety nine consecutive weeks, that's over thirteen and a
half years. They said, I wouldn't last a year. I'm
so glad that they were wrong, because I do not
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like to start my day off pissoffedness or upset or
in fear or anxiety, and that's what the headlines do
these days.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
So here we do herdlines, and we balance out.
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All of the headlines with learning something new and talking
about not the problem but the solution.
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And we also have amazing guests.
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Speaker 4 (02:25):
Talk about.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
What you're grateful for, because that's what we're gonna start
off with as we adjust and try to find my
fabulous guest this morning, and she'll be here very soon,
and I'm gonna wiggle my fingers that way as we
sort out some links.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
But I love having breakfast with y'all.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
What that consists of taking a bite of my gratitude
sandwich top of the butte things that we're grateful for
outside of ourselves when we wake up in the morning,
instead of picking up the phone and starting ms meaningless scrolling,
we look around and say, Wow, I am grateful for
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the fact that the plants didn't crash into each other
last night, and I have a new day to live. Love, laugh, learn, create, innovate, hug, respect.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Laugh a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
That's my favorite sound in life, and just a plethor
of other things that you can do because you're alive.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I'm grateful that I have a hot shower. I'm grateful
that I have coffee in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I'm grateful that I have a refrigerator that I can
store things that I want to be cold. I'm grateful
that my manicurist slash friend Lucy grows amazing sweet, wonderful
dragon fruit that I finished yesterday. Young ya. If you've
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never tried dragon fruit, gott to give it a try.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
It's really funny looking.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It's beautiful fuchia pink with green tips like armor, and
the inside is like little black seeds.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
It's a piece of art. But it tastes as good
as it looks. Well, maybe it doesn't look it.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
But I digress.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
What else am I grateful for? I am grateful.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
That I have.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
I have so much these days.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I've been processing through the loss of my ability to
fly without risk because of two dbts and a former
DVT in ninety six in a pulmonary embolism.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
And instead of I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm actually feeling it.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
And it's also allowed me to really appreciate all the
things that I have done in the past, not to
say I can't do stuff in.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
The future, but it's certainly, Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I get out of my pity pot. I don't want
to stay there too long by uh looking at what
I have been able to do instead.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Of what I'm missing. And guess who's here.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
We have my.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
There she is.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And as she's getting sorted out, I hear you, Ruda,
and uh, your camera's.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
A little bit more, my darling, my darling, Rutaali, I
am my darling.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Doctor. I can tell you. Is I tap dance, I sing,
I do car, I don't do computer.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Well, you're doing just fine, and you look as beautiful
and ageless and timeless as usual.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
That is so nice to hear, especially from a ninety
year old. It's just a miracle that my fanny is
even moving.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
You're ninety now.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
I am I celebrated my ninetieth birthday birthday May thirtieth,
And how did I do it? I spent it doing
a show at the El Portal Theater and I had
some wonderful guest stars come and help me with my
one woman show, and we raised a bunch of money
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for the Thaliens, which of course is Hollywood for Mental Health.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Yeah. I didn't know you.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So you definitely win the award for the youngest looking,
still performing.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
And fabulous brutally definitely. I mean you just you are ageless.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Coming from a beauty like you, that is a great compliment.
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Oh well, I don't deserve it, but you definitely deserve it.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
And I'm so darling. We both deserve it.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I accept. I accept. And you came just in time
to have breakfast with me.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I don't know I did this.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
The last time you were here.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
But I'm just finishing up gratitude, taking a bite of
my gratitude sandwich.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
I've got my little plate ready to go.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Oh good, So the gratitude. Oh there's the sirens. Sirens.
Ours are a signed that everything that we're doing right.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Now is true and good. So I like to start
my day with my guests and saying, what are we
grateful for?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
That's the bite of my gratitude sandwich.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Top of the butt is things outside of ourselves that
we're grateful for. Bottom of the butt is things that
we're grateful for inside of ourselves, or what we like
about ourselves. So what's one thing that you're grateful for
outside of yourself? I just said my coffee, my refrigerator,
and my shower, so you get to wrap that up.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Mine is kind of interesting. It's my need to do
for those who can't do for themselves, and it applies
to every part of my life. I have been fundraising
for so many years for worthwhile charities, especially my own,
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which is mental health. And I'm grateful that I have
the energy that I have been blessed with the push
and the drive to keep doing it even when I'm
very tired. And so I'm grateful for that because it
lets me sleep well at night, It lets me enjoy
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every martini, it lets me enjoy every slice of bread
and butter, and it also lets me enjoy my good
night's sleep because I feel like I've maybe accomplished a
little something.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Absolutely you embody. Ralph Wilde Emerce's definition of success, which
is to know that one life has breathed easier because
you have lived, and many lives have breathed easier because
you have lived, and to acknowledge all that you've done
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and you continue to do. I am giving you again,
doctor Maurice's beneficial presence on the planet A war oh.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
I fully accept. And you know I also accept in
the name of my sister in charity, my beloved best
friend who had the dreadful nerve leave me before I
was ready for her to go. She taught me a
great deal about charity. She said, you know, dear, you
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can ask anybody in the world for anything, as long
as it isn't for yourself. And I truly believe it.
And I've lived by that cradle thanks to Debbie Well.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
She's smiling at us from afar, from the other side,
and she knows that and she appreciates that. I feel it.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
And every time.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
The last time when I was there with you for
the Aliens at the Brentwood Country Club, it was such,
it was so mad. I could feel the love in action.
I have to say, when you sang when you were
em seeing and honoring Gary Sinise, and he was so
what a humble, beautiful man that was who really received
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and was so like in what you do, you really
bring out the best side of Hollywood, which Lord knows
we need in media. They seem to like to show
the worst side of Hollywood. But knowing that you and
what you and Debbie Reynolds started with the Italiens that
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continued to do ninety years young amazing that really actually
that that award also goes to Debbie as you continue
to do that. So I'm here to attest to it's
a very worthy because it's in December this year, I
believe we're gonna.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Yes, we are honoring the one wonderfully talented, wonderfully gifted,
and wonderfully generous human being, Neil Sedaka with the Mister
Wonderful Award, and as you know, doctor Marissa, the beautiful
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award that we give, the Goofy Award. The Mister Wonderful
Award was designed for us by the one and only
Walt Disney, and it's a joy to present it. It's
Goofy holding the rules of law and the Caducius and
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it's very very much beloved by the people in our industry.
And this year, of course it's Neil Sedaka, and the
event is going to be at a very Swazi place
you will love it. A country club and it's been
redone and it's absolutely gorgeous. And it's on December the sixth,
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and we're going to have a performance not only by
Neil Sedaka, I mean the honoree is going to perform,
but we also have my best friend and sister in
charity and almost sister in nationality. We're both Lithuanian.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
That's awesome. Oh, I think I lost you just a
little bit there you are. I think if you turn
your phone off, I think you'll get more power in
your internet because you're freezing just a little bit. So
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I'm trying to fix that on my end here, but
it would help if you turn the phone off. I
think it is still Frozenant.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Let it go, Let it go. It is all right.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
We have in studio today the beautiful, the timeless, the
uh limitless and ageless brutal Lye. She is an actress
as well as humanitarian. We had her for a minute
ear and we will continue to have her. I'm gonna
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try to fix something here and see if that doesn't
do it.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
All right, she.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Is gonna come back in and see if we can't
fix that. And if you've just tuned in as going
on the studio today, this is take my advice.
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I'm not using a gift balance with Doctor Marissa Good
Morning Show here on NBC News Radio OKCAA AM ten
fifty FM one O six point five and streaming everywhere.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And you know that for the past six hundred and
ninety nine consecutive weeks, we are continuing to promote hope
and happiness, balancing out bad news with good news, good people,
great guests, and Rude Lee is certainly one of them,
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so U she was mentioning their computers, but are are
are not sincerely her favorite friends. So we're gonna work
on that to get her back here. But it's just
amazing that she's ninety. I didn't realize that she turned ninety.
I am surrounded by amazing women to model after Mary
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and Ross came to my studio in person when I
was at Suncic Gower at eighty nine, and she's wonder
she came back again on the computer in.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
A remote but.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
She was ninety three.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
I think she's like ninety five now.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Really is still just amazing, as you could just tell
from her conversation and her voice as we.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Try to get her back on here.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Let's go to the bottom of the bun which is
what are you grateful for inside of yourself? And that
is the weight training that we're doing where we want
to know how good we are without having people approve
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of us. That is the point of the bottom of
the bud which is a good life habit, a hashtag discipline,
because when you can approve of yourself, you're not walking
around looking for love and all the wrong places for
antenna up looking for likes and on social media literally
these days.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
So what do you like about yourself?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I like that I am I am a good teacher.
How's that I got to teach yesterday at the Mondays
at the Mission, the Union Union Rescue Mission downtown Los Angeles,
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in the middle of a lot of people who are
feeling the effects of not having enough to provide housing,
and I found out something new. I love knowing that
there are organizations out there. They never turn away women
and children, and they are doing an amazing job in
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this building bringing kids into the fold so they can
still go to school.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
They're not on the.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Streets in the middle of the kind of scary stuff
that's going on there. It's I kind of understand though.
You know, when you're living in a place where you're
not proud of or you're not feeling your best, how
easy it is to get into addiction. It is an escape,
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and so the fact that the kids are on the
streets is.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
A little bit sad.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
But at the same time there is organizations like the
Union Rescue Mission.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
That are providing solutions.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So I was so blessed to be able to go
and speak there last night, and I'll be putting some
clips up today. But what a beautiful feeling that was.
So I am going to try to get Rudi Lee
back on. In the meantime, i'd like you to take
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a look at Let's see what haven't we put on here?
Speaker 6 (19:32):
For a bit, I'm going to do my.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
PPP pose pandemic possibilities. It's a short film that I
actually wanted a lauda for my first shot at a
short film. And we'll look at the trailer and see
if I can't get Rude Lee back, we'll be back
into and two Don't Go Away.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
What in Informing to the World was exploring the world?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
What if the question what do you want to be
when you grow up in a world turns into.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
How many streets of what you have to explore?
Speaker 9 (20:22):
What if the purpose of life is not to die
with the most toys to leave our squabbling relatives. What
if the purpose of life was to do things that
we enjoy most of the time, have relationships that we
enjoy most of the time, and use our unique.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Talents, gives and abilities to fully.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Express in the dash between earth and death.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
What if, as a direct result of this horrible pandemic,
we could rise out of the ashes with new PPP
host pandemic possibilities.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
The sooner you turn.
Speaker 10 (21:03):
It's impossible to finem possible, the what ifs come possible too,
because you are.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
Loving, lovable, and love wrapped in a warm blanket of worthiness.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
But it may start with getting out of bed and
making it.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
What if starts with.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
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state of stoffidness, because I am on a happy eighty
eight mission eighty eight million more happy people in the
next eight years, and I'm so delighted that we have back.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Oh. I was so excited. Did she was?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
She got here on her own during that little uh
fishing break, but we lost her again. But she is
rude to Lee, and I am going to keep trying.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Let's see two, let's see. The easiest way is to
to just call.
Speaker 11 (23:24):
I don't think she can actually get her vocal, but
at least this way I will get to talk to
one of my favorite, my favorite publicists.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
But I think he's on the line with her.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I am going to hi there. She was able to
come back in, but then she dropped out again because
her Internet is not strong enough.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
But tell her to please keep trying and third times
in charm.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Oh yeah, she's here again. I don't know if you
can hear me riddily, but I'm so grateful that you're
continuing to try to come back in. Uh, it is there,
you are there, you are third time the charm.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
No, it is Yes.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
It is great, and we're just gonna move right on
just in case. But I'm so glad that you came
back in. We just finished breakfast and now for the
topic of the day, it says everything is awesome. The
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topic of today is my beautiful guest inside and out beauty.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
She is.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Let me read you a little bit about you. She's
certainly one of Hollywood's most glamorous ladies. Really is also
one of its most multi faceted and top notch civic contributors.
She was signed by MGM as the youngest of the
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and subsequently in Funny Face
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with Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn as Tyrone Powell's secret
love and witness for the prosecution with Marlene Dietrich and
Frank Sinada's leading lady in Sergeant's Three, to name just
a few shoes. Also in a film with the rap Pack.
I was just delighted to.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Watch the clips.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
She's also highly acclaimed for her leadership role in The Aliens,
a charitable organization founded with her friend Debbie Reynolds, which
is committed to good mental health from pediatric to geriatric.
This year's was a wonderful award designed by Walt Disney himself,
will be presented, as she mentioned earlier, to singer and
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songwriting icon Mulsadaka and with the special performance by award
winning artists and icon on stage and screen and Julian.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
It's going to be held at the bel Air.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Country Club December the sixth five. Please welcome back to
my studio, Rude Ali.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
We got the formal introduction and I'm there you go.
I was just going to say, you, like me, are
hard to mute, but sometimes there.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
You are so much information coming at us from so
many directions. Thank you for being the kind of lady
that is direct to the point, doesn't diddle around, and
doesn't worry about all the noise in the world around you.
You're very good at that, and you can teach the
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rest of us how to do it.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Oh, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I'm sure that Harland making sure that because I just
texted them, and I'm so glad that you found your
way back here. I wanted just to pull up your website,
which is really good. Look at all of the people
who you all know. These are These are like the
Golden Age of Hollywood or the Platinum Age. I'll say
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I called the early early the Golden age. But look
at if you haven't seen Rudi Lee on the film,
there's a lot of really great clips. And I have
to admit I texted Harlan yesterday rude because I didn't
watch your performance. I was more focused on what they
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only hands last time.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
But wow, you have been.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
I mean you have been on camera with so many
I mean.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
You're great, but the big names.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I was so impressed.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Listen, I'm impressed too. I've never stopped being impressed by
the wonderful fortune that I've had of working with some
of the most important, some of the best. Listen, some
of the worst too. But what the heck you get
to play a little bit with everybody, you know? Doctor.
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I do have to mention to your listeners that I
wrote a book called Consider your Ass Kissed, and I
mean it from the bottom of my art to anybody
who turned a television set on because I was going
to be on, or came to a theater to see me,
or bought a ticket for a movie to see me,
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or bought my book in which I talk about just
about everybody that I've ever worked with in Hollywood. And
there's nothing means spirited about my book. It's a tell all,
but it's a nice tell all, and I'm hoping that
everybody will pick it up either at their local bookstore
or go to Amazon dot com and look up consider
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your Ass Kissed. And the title comes from an expression
that I've used all these many years, seventy years of
raising money for the Thaliens, whenever anybody gave me five
dollars or fifty dollars or five hundred thousand dollars. What
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else could I say besides thank you, which is underused,
never bind overused, but to say, consider your darling ass kissed.
And George Panacchio, who is the ABC's red carpet band
and the man who does all the major events in
Hollywood and reportage, said to me, Rude, if you ever
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get that book finished, because it took me forever, then
please use that expression as your title, and I thank
you for bringing it up.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Absolutely so if you want to know the inside, and
I love that it's not mean spirited, which is also
unusual for media. I don't know why they feel the
need to be mean about people. I got to interview
Halle Berry, John Travolta, Quincy Jones, and it's amazing how
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all of the things that I had heard about them
are not true, you know when I actually it's it's
really a shame that people have to go to that
worst common denominator. But hey, if they want to be unhappy.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
That's their choice.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I choose to focus on what is so good about people,
and so good especially my favorite kind of people is
those stars like Ruda Lee who take their limelight and
attention and their ability to rally to help those who
are in temporary darkness. So if you are feeling sorry
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for yourself right now, you can buy a ticket to
this incredible event in December. I'm assuming that I'm invited again.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Oh well, I'm assuming you will be there.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I will be there of course too. I love being
on your red carpet and just meeting all these really Actually,
that's where I met rich little was on our red carpet,
and I got to interview him in his house and
we become friends. And I went to see him when
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he was in the Inland Empire, and I just love him.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
So he's a really one of the nicest people God
put on this earth. And I have to say the
same for Nil Sadaka, another wonderful, lovely human being. And
you know, talking about how the press and people seem
to pick up on one itty, bitty little item and
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expand it to where it becomes a big, hellish mess,
and that used to be the life and times of
Frank Sinatra. I mean, when you think of Frank Sinatra,
you think of an angry person who's always getting, you know,
into fistfights. Well that's not true. The only time I
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ever saw him, and I spend a lot of time
around Frank Sinatra, the only time I ever saw him
get angry was if he was putting a fork full
of pasta into his mouth and somebody grabbed his hand
and said, Frank, come take a picture with my girl. Yes,
he would get a little bit miffed about that, as
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he said, you and I, you know, And Frank was
one of the people in this world that was not
Harold for the good that he did. Very few people
knew that he picked up hospital tabs and hotel bills
and restaurant tabs and whatever to help people who were
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in trouble. He was just great, and I do write
a little bit about him.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Great.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Great, Yeah, definitely pick up the book. I hope I
don't get an FCC violation on the title.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Well, Marissa Darling, my beautiful doctor Marissa. I figure if
God and Jesus himself could ride into Jerusalem on an ass,
I can kiss that ass and not worry about it.
And if anybody else doesn't see the humor and the
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fitness and that they've got problems.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Yes, yes, absolutely so. I also found out that you
have not one, but three the stars. You have one
on the Hollywood Walk of thing, which is the big one,
and the story behind that. You have to tell the
story that your first job was actually you got fired,
and then you tell the stories.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Well, I, like everybody, wanted to make some money during
the summer months when I was going to Hollywood High
I had always been in Catholic schools parochial schools, and
the nuns taught me everything I ever learned, but I
was going to Hollywood High which was great, but during
the summer I needed to get a job to make
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a few dollars so that I am spending money. Well,
of course, what was better than being an usherette in
a theater. Nowadays we don't have ushers and usharettes. But
I got a job at Grummin's Chinese Wow, the Creme
de la Creme. And there I stood in my little
red tunic and black pants with a flashlight at the
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top of the aisle and showed people to seats on
wherever they wanted to sit. And I could stand at
the top of the aisle and watch my movie queens
Betty Grable and June Haver and Mitzi Gayner and ethel
Merman and go oh, I pray and say, oh, dear God,
please please let me do that someday, Please let me
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dance on film like this. Well that was great, but
I got a job. I got boosted up in my
career to be the candy girl. And I panicked because
math has never been my long suit. But I could
deal with the math here because everything was ten cents,
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fifteen cents, twenty five cents. I could do that. That
was fine. I could also then step out from behind
the counter and watch my movie Queens. Well, one night
the girl in the box office got sick and I
got promoted to box office, and I said to the manager, Oh,
dear God, I can't I don't know how to do
those numbers. I can't add and subtract quickly. He said, no, no, no,
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it's not a problem. You simply put punch in two
tickets at a dollar ninety eight or two thirty five
or whatever it is, and then put in five dollars
and it'll give you the right change. Well, we were
forty dollars short that night, and I got fired, and
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in big tears, I said, you're making a mistake. I
did not steal the money. I just am lousy at math. Well,
fade out, fade in on. Teen years later, Where did
I get my star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
That wonderful, prestigious start right in front of the box office.
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Is that the dear Lord working in mysterious ways? Isn't
that marvelous?
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yes? Sense of humor, My God has a sense of you.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
I have my star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
I have a star on the Walk of Fame. A
star at Cedar Sinai in front of the Thaliens Community
Mental Health Center, which is no longer called that, but
here's one for the books. Instead of a star in
cannab Utah, which is called Little Hollywood because almost every
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Western was shot in cannab Utah because the scenery in
Utah is so gorgeous. Instead of a star, they have hitch.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
Oh we lost the last part of that. They have what.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
A hitching post? Oh, horses a hitching post. So that's
pretty nice.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
That is pretty funny.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Has has a room in my honor, which is rather wonderful. Oh.
I love to send people up to canab Utah. It's
so pretty right, right?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
And how did you get Walt Disney to design the
Mister Wonderful or Miss Wonderful Awar.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
I'd love to take credit for it, but I cannot.
It was all done by my darling sister and Charity,
Debbie Reynolds. She of course was a big star, and
she went to Walt Disney and pleaded with him to
design something wonderful for the Thaliens, which he did. And
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that award has gone to everybody from Frank Sinatra through
Lucille Ball through June Haver through Whoope Goldberg and they're
all so proud and honored to have this wonderful Goofy.
That is mister or miss wonderful and that's what goes
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to Neil Sedaka. Of course come this fabulous Christmas season.
Isn't that a nice way to start off the Christmas season?
Speaker 6 (39:04):
Yes, here's the award. If you can see this?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Now, who who's this is?
Speaker 6 (39:11):
Let's see this? Who's the recipient?
Speaker 5 (39:15):
I don't, I can't. I can't see it on the screen.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Okay, yeah, it's know it is whoever there.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
We always honor somebody that's very famous. There we go
on either the screen small or large.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Okay, it's okay, but that is I know why you're saying.
It looks Goofy, it's got app.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
That's our James Bond.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
So so that's that's a feat right there, which is
really great that Walt Disney did that for y'all. Now,
how do you decide how who you're honoring? Nil Sadaka fabulous.
He's you know, obviously a household name when it comes
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to great music, has lasted, you know a long time
with his uh music and hits.
Speaker 6 (40:21):
But what is your criteria.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Well, it has to be somebody, of course, that is
well known, and it has to be somebody that didn't
just dazzle us with their performances on screen, larger or small,
or on stage, but who dazzled us with their philanthropic
performances as well. And every one of these people that
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we have honored have been good to their fellow men
or woman in kind. And Nil Sadaka has done great
humanitarian works and given concerts and everything to raise money
for the needy, and so he seemed like a very
good person. So we get together and we sit down
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at a meeting and decide, well, it would be good
to honor this one and this one and this one,
But now to get this one and this one and
this one is not easy. Everybody's schedule is very different.
They don't know a year in advance if they're going
to be available, and it takes us at least a
year to put a big, proper show together. We've stopped
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doing the great, big, huge events for fifteen hundred people
because they're just too expensive to do. We do smaller
events now, but it still takes time for somebody to
be able to say yes and so while you're waiting
for Neil Sedaka to look at his calendar, you sort
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of have Plan B and Plan C in mind, hoping
that you can get in case Neil says I can't
because I'm going to be performing in New York or whatever.
You don't. So it's not an easy job putting together
any event where you are depending on a star to appear,
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and of course they all appear, Gradis. It's one thing
if you say, we've got one hundred thousand dollars to
give you a star to appear, but we don't. We
do everything, Gradis. Everybody who appears appears, Gradis. I didn't
know that. Yeah, every penny that we make goes to
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the mental health. And of course we built you know,
as you know, we started out back in sixty five
and we built the Saliens Community Mental Health Center. And
then about ten years ago a little more now, a
friend came to me and said, you know, you Saliens
are missing the boat on one thing. And I said,
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what is that? We deal with mental health from pediatric
through geriatric, and he said, you are not paying attention
to our returning veterans. And he was right, Those beautiful
young people that put their lives on the line, no
matter what hell hole in the world we sell them
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send them to. They are willing to die for America
and Americans, and yet they come back home, sometimes injured physically,
sometimes injured mentally, and they fall through the crack. Sometimes
they're not. They should be given the very best America
has to offer, and sometimes they do slip through the cracks.
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So we joined Operation Men UCLA's Operation Men at the
Ronald Reagan Hospital. Op mend heals the broken and fractured
bodies of these gorgeous young people. We Faliens try to
deal with a broken and fractured mind and spirit of
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our returning veterans. And I'm very proud of the work
we do, and I'm exceedingly grateful to anybody who will
join us in the fight. And the best way to
do that is to go to our website, which is
the Faliens th H A l I A n s.
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Falia was the goddess of comedy and astray Lambs seemed
like an appropriate name for us. Anyway. It's the Faliens
dot org, dot com dot org, and you can read
all about us. You can read about what we do,
and please please buy a ticket. If you can't come
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to the event, send us whatever cash you can spare.
It doesn't matter how small or how big, it will
be very very much appreciated. Let me know that you
have UH by sending a small note saying Ruda, I'm
doing this for you. Thank you. And all I can
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say is consider your ass kiss absolutely.
Speaker 3 (45:14):
And I just pulled up the website for you. You
can see there's a very impressive photo gallery with all
of the past recipients. Ruda has mentioned some of them,
the history of why. This was a beautiful picture of
Ruda Lee with Let's see, where's the wie Reynolds one
(45:38):
that I like right here? This one here opes that
one went to a different.
Speaker 6 (45:44):
Link, but there's a that's a good donate link. Oh,
here's the let's see if you can here's the award.
One of them is.
Speaker 5 (45:57):
God bless them. They're both with their maker.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Oh this is Debbie and carry sorry.
Speaker 5 (46:02):
There's thank you for anything you can do for the faliens.
They both spend their lives for the fliens.
Speaker 6 (46:13):
There's Hugh Heffler. Yes, have lots of just really great people.
Here's a good picture. This is you and Debbie right, yes, yes, yes,
that's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (46:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Aliens dot org is your destination for getting a ticket
joining me on the red carpets for the Aliens Annual.
It's the only time really that you guys raise funds
in a concerted effort. They have teamed up with and
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I love U c l A. You know, I taught
there for six years in the Anderson Business School and
then just got there again last year for a special
show Leadership, Success and Happiness because of the book's gone
national bestseller now, so I absolutely want to support I'll
be there. Please go to the Aliens dot org buy
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a ticket, Come meet Ritily, ninety years young.
Speaker 5 (47:18):
Still going.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
People call me the energizer bunny cross with the Tasmanian Devil.
If that is me, then you are on top of
that on steroids. So you're a beautiful role model for
me to follow in your footsteps, to just know that
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you can do this. You know, it doesn't matter how
young you are. You know what keeps you young.
Speaker 6 (47:48):
Let's talk about that for a second.
Speaker 3 (47:50):
What do you think is your beauty secret? Although I
already know what it is when I asked Gosh, Elvis
Presley's former wife, why am I blanking on her name, Presley,
Pascilla Presley.
Speaker 6 (48:05):
What her beauty secret was? You know what she said?
What she said good lighting.
Speaker 5 (48:13):
Yes, she's absolutely right. Good lighting makes all the difference
in the world. But I don't have any secrets. It's
good genes, a very very strong work ethic that I
got from my parents, and I think all Middle Europeans
are very strong workers. You know, in America we're very blessed.
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If you are not afraid of hard work, you can
achieve absolute wondrous miracles in this wonderful country. And we
are also, as far as I'm concerned, doctor Marissa, the
most generous nation in the world too. I think if
ever you have a good story, and certainly I have
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a good one about mental health for our returning veterans,
people will support it. People will help each other. And
I think we've been blessed by the Almighty with that
generosity gene in America, and I'm very grateful for it,
and to you for spreading only good news, good works,
(49:25):
good news, good humor above all, good humor. If we
can't laugh our way through our problems, we're in deep
doo doo here.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
Yes, absolutely, I love that saying, you don't stop laughing
because you grow older. You grow old.
Speaker 6 (49:44):
Because you stop laughing.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
And I think that is your secret is you laugh
often and much, which is another Emerson definition for success.
You do work hard. I think that your belief that
you can do anything that you put your heart and
mind to is something that I was taught by my
tenth grade math teacher, who knew that I had a
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tough home life and he's had me stay after school
and he looked me in nine and he said that.
And I'm going to get Tiri in a second, because
that moment was so critical in me believing in myself.
And I was so grateful last night. I'd love to
bring you there. I was asked to speak at Union
Mission Rescue Downtown its kid row and I.
Speaker 6 (50:35):
Them, Oh, how cool is that?
Speaker 5 (50:38):
I was just the last NAK coming Thanksgiving is coming.
Speaker 3 (50:43):
Talking to the kids and I got to look them
in the eye and tell them that, and so oh chills.
Speaker 6 (50:51):
I just I'm so grateful.
Speaker 3 (50:53):
That I had the opportunity to do that because it
was done for me, you know, And it is wonderful.
Speaker 5 (51:03):
They feed not only the body, but they feed the
spirit and the soul and that's what you're doing. And
thank you very much, doctor.
Speaker 3 (51:10):
And thank you you know you've been doing it way
longer than I have. But this is a you can
tell there's a mutual love going on here if you've
just tuned in and wondering what's going on in studio today.
I have the amazing, ageless, timeless, relentless lover of those
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who do not have as much and has dedicated their
entire life not just entertaining us on stage on screen,
but also raising the awareness and the funds to help
those who are temporarily less fortunate than ourselves. Aliens dot
org is where you're gonna.
Speaker 6 (51:52):
Head after that. This this is your hell to action.
Speaker 3 (51:57):
You can have the.
Speaker 6 (52:01):
You can buy the tickets.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
The date is December the six. It is a Friday
or Saturday night, Saturday Saturday night. It's at the bel
Air Country Clubs. Yes, I'm so excited to be there.
I'll meet you on the red carpet. It's a very
worthy organization and you'll have fun.
Speaker 12 (52:27):
But I'm sure if it's anything like that last year,
there's lots and lots of entertainment, really good food, so you'll.
Speaker 5 (52:38):
Have to go.
Speaker 3 (52:38):
You'll see Gouda up there, singing and entertaining and introducing
and a warning. It really is a fun event, great
for the holidays, So treat yourself, treat your family. I
didn't see a lot of kids, but I did see
a lot of really a list celebrities. There have to
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say you come out to support this very worthy organization.
Speaker 5 (53:08):
Yes so much. Yes, just for talking about it and
sharing your audience, but especially for being there. Cutie, you
always dressed so beautifully and it's an opportunity for the
girls to get out their prettiest dragon.
Speaker 6 (53:23):
I already have the outfit. You're gonna love it.
Speaker 3 (53:27):
We love we love doing the fashionista thing for sure,
So so we have just a little time left. I
was curious about the rat pack. You could a move
me with the entire forking rat pack, And I watched
the clip and I'm like, I cannot believe you just
(53:47):
told your own.
Speaker 6 (53:48):
You're such a strong actress.
Speaker 3 (53:51):
I mean you you went from like you did almost
every type of role, comedic, you did the westerns.
Speaker 6 (54:00):
You're like missed Western.
Speaker 3 (54:03):
You were on screen for a period of time, like
every week you were on TV or on.
Speaker 6 (54:07):
The big screen. So what was it like, We're getting
with the Rapac.
Speaker 5 (54:11):
Well, first of all, I have to say, and I'm
telling you now that having played every different kind of part,
the bad girls are always more fun to play than
the good girls. I mean, it is great fun to
just be wicked and awful and terrible, and they were
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my favorite roles. But of course I was in the
rat Pack movie, which was Sergeants three is the name
of it, and that was a remake of Gungadeen the
as a Western, as an American Western. Instead of the Indians,
it was American Indians that we had here, and it
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was such fun to be with them. And I felt
so sorry for John's Sturgis, our director, because it was
like wrangling cats to get everybody to calm down to
do the scene. I mean, when you had Dean Martin,
who was, without a doubt, one of the funniest human
beings God ever put on this earth. I mean there
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he was teamed with Jerry Lewis all those years, but
if you stop to think about it, Dean was the
funniest guy. Frank of course, Sammy Davis one of the
most gifted human beings I've ever known in my life.
Peter Law for Joey Bishop, the Crosby Boys being Crosby's
three sons were in it, and just me, little old
(55:39):
me was the female in the piece. I never had
so much fun in my life. And we were on
location in Canab, Utah and doctor Marissa. Frank had a
fleet of planes that would fly us back and forth
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to Las Vegas because the deal was that during the
shoot we were up there for six or eight weeks
or whatever. One week Frank was playing Vegas. So we
go down for the opening of Frank, and then we
go down for the closing of Frank. Then we go
down for the opening of Dean Martin. This is by openings,
I mean at the Sands Hotel and then his closing.
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And this went on and I wasn't prepared for that.
I brought one little cotton dress because I thought I
could have Utah, what's the big deal to do? That
is to walk down the street and get a dairy queen.
You know about the excitement of there. But it was
the most incredible experience I ever had. Frank gave a
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birthday party for Dean Martin at the Sands Hotel and
I can't remember who was playing in, but all the
guys were on stage. The entire rat pack was there.
But I was sitting at a table in my little
cotton dress, and sitting across from me was Elizabeth Taylor,
then married to Eddie Fisher, at the height of her beauty.
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Next to me was John Wayne. On the other side
it was Milton Burle. And I'm surrounded by the bevy
of stars. And into the room from the back of
the house walked Frank Sinatra with Marilyn Monroe on his arm.
Speaker 6 (57:35):
I was just going to guess that.
Speaker 5 (57:37):
In my life, I have never seen a room light up.
You would have thought a clean light, a spotlight had
hit them. There was something about Maryland that simply glowed.
You know who else had it? The Gabourg girls.
Speaker 3 (57:59):
But changed you have it, and you have it rudal Lye.
Speaker 6 (58:03):
I'm sorry you have it.
Speaker 5 (58:05):
But I just I couldn't believe it. And I don't
know whether it was the platinum blonde hair, whether it
was the beaded white dress, whether it was the white
fox that she was wrapped in, but she looked like
this glowing angel. And when she came to the table,
Elizabeth Taylor, in her unbelievable beauty, got lost in the
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glow of Marilyn Monroe. Now that's an incredible thing to say,
because I don't know that anybody was any prettier than
Elizabeth Taylor, you know. But oh my god, that was
the one and only time that I met Marilyn, and
I'm sorry to say that I didn't know her better.
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I think she probably was an endurable girl. She was
very sweet, but I didn't spend any time with.
Speaker 6 (58:57):
Her, right right, But did you spend time with Elizabeth Tiller?
Was she was?
Speaker 5 (59:02):
She also was darling. She was absolutely charming and sweet
and wonderful. I got to spend a little more time
with her because she used to come to the Failien events.
And eventually, in spite of the fact that they were
both missus Eddie Fisher's Debbie and she, you know, were
friends from MGM days, and they resumed their friendship later
(59:27):
on when they could both say, eh, he was a
schmuck to Eddie Fisher. God keeps smiling on America.
Speaker 3 (59:38):
Absolutely, Now go and have the best day ever.
Speaker 6 (59:43):
I'll see you guys tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (59:55):
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Next eight years.
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just a plethora of fabulous guests these past six hundred
and ninety nine consecutive weeks, that's over thirteen and a
half years. They said, I wouldn't last a year. I'm
so glad that they were wrong, because I do not
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like to start my day off pissoffedness or upset or
in fear or anxiety, and that's what the headlines do
these days.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
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All of the headlines with learning something new and talking
about not the problem but the solution.
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Speaker 4 (02:25):
Talk about.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
What you're grateful for, because that's what we're gonna start
off with as we adjust and try to find my
fabulous guest this morning, and she'll be here very soon,
and I'm gonna wiggle my fingers that way as we
sort out some links.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
But I love having breakfast with y'all.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
What that consists of taking a bite of my gratitude
sandwich top of the butte things that we're grateful for
outside of ourselves when we wake up in the morning,
instead of picking up the phone and starting ms meaningless scrolling,
we look around and say, Wow, I am grateful for
(03:11):
the fact that the plants didn't crash into each other
last night, and I have a new day to live. Love, laugh, learn, create, innovate, hug, respect.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Laugh a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
That's my favorite sound in life, and just a plethor
of other things that you can do because you're alive.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I'm grateful that I have a hot shower. I'm grateful
that I have coffee in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I'm grateful that I have a refrigerator that I can
store things that I want to be cold. I'm grateful
that my manicurist slash friend Lucy grows amazing sweet, wonderful
dragon fruit that I finished yesterday. Young ya. If you've
(04:00):
never tried dragon fruit, gott to give it a try.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
It's really funny looking.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It's beautiful fuchia pink with green tips like armor, and
the inside is like little black seeds.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
It's a piece of art. But it tastes as good
as it looks. Well, maybe it doesn't look it.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
But I digress.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
What else am I grateful for? I am grateful.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
That I have.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
I have so much these days.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I've been processing through the loss of my ability to
fly without risk because of two dbts and a former
DVT in ninety six in a pulmonary embolism.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
And instead of I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm actually feeling it.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
And it's also allowed me to really appreciate all the
things that I have done in the past, not to
say I can't do stuff in.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
The future, but it's certainly, Uh.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I get out of my pity pot. I don't want
to stay there too long by uh looking at what
I have been able to do instead.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Of what I'm missing. And guess who's here.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
We have my.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
There she is.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And as she's getting sorted out, I hear you, Ruda,
and uh, your camera's.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
A little bit more, my darling, my darling, Rutaali, I
am my darling.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Doctor. I can tell you. Is I tap dance, I sing,
I do car, I don't do computer.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Well, you're doing just fine, and you look as beautiful
and ageless and timeless as usual.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
That is so nice to hear, especially from a ninety
year old. It's just a miracle that my fanny is
even moving.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
You're ninety now.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
I am I celebrated my ninetieth birthday birthday May thirtieth,
And how did I do it? I spent it doing
a show at the El Portal Theater and I had
some wonderful guest stars come and help me with my
one woman show, and we raised a bunch of money
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for the Thaliens, which of course is Hollywood for Mental Health.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Yeah. I didn't know you.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So you definitely win the award for the youngest looking,
still performing.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
And fabulous brutally definitely. I mean you just you are ageless.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Coming from a beauty like you, that is a great compliment.
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Oh well, I don't deserve it, but you definitely deserve it.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
And I'm so darling. We both deserve it.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I accept. I accept. And you came just in time
to have breakfast with me.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I don't know I did this.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
The last time you were here.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
But I'm just finishing up gratitude, taking a bite of
my gratitude sandwich.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
I've got my little plate ready to go.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Oh good, So the gratitude. Oh there's the sirens. Sirens.
Ours are a signed that everything that we're doing right.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Now is true and good. So I like to start
my day with my guests and saying, what are we
grateful for?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
That's the bite of my gratitude sandwich.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Top of the butt is things outside of ourselves that
we're grateful for. Bottom of the butt is things that
we're grateful for inside of ourselves, or what we like
about ourselves. So what's one thing that you're grateful for
outside of yourself? I just said my coffee, my refrigerator,
and my shower, so you get to wrap that up.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Mine is kind of interesting. It's my need to do
for those who can't do for themselves, and it applies
to every part of my life. I have been fundraising
for so many years for worthwhile charities, especially my own,
(08:46):
which is mental health. And I'm grateful that I have
the energy that I have been blessed with the push
and the drive to keep doing it even when I'm
very tired. And so I'm grateful for that because it
lets me sleep well at night, It lets me enjoy
(09:07):
every martini, it lets me enjoy every slice of bread
and butter, and it also lets me enjoy my good
night's sleep because I feel like I've maybe accomplished a
little something.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Absolutely you embody. Ralph Wilde Emerce's definition of success, which
is to know that one life has breathed easier because
you have lived, and many lives have breathed easier because
you have lived, and to acknowledge all that you've done
(09:47):
and you continue to do. I am giving you again,
doctor Maurice's beneficial presence on the planet A war oh.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
I fully accept. And you know I also accept in
the name of my sister in charity, my beloved best
friend who had the dreadful nerve leave me before I
was ready for her to go. She taught me a
great deal about charity. She said, you know, dear, you
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can ask anybody in the world for anything, as long
as it isn't for yourself. And I truly believe it.
And I've lived by that cradle thanks to Debbie Well.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
She's smiling at us from afar, from the other side,
and she knows that and she appreciates that. I feel it.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
And every time.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
The last time when I was there with you for
the Aliens at the Brentwood Country Club, it was such,
it was so mad. I could feel the love in action.
I have to say, when you sang when you were
em seeing and honoring Gary Sinise, and he was so
what a humble, beautiful man that was who really received
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and was so like in what you do, you really
bring out the best side of Hollywood, which Lord knows
we need in media. They seem to like to show
the worst side of Hollywood. But knowing that you and
what you and Debbie Reynolds started with the Italiens that
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continued to do ninety years young amazing that really actually
that that award also goes to Debbie as you continue
to do that. So I'm here to attest to it's
a very worthy because it's in December this year, I
believe we're gonna.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Yes, we are honoring the one wonderfully talented, wonderfully gifted,
and wonderfully generous human being, Neil Sedaka with the Mister
Wonderful Award, and as you know, doctor Marissa, the beautiful
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award that we give, the Goofy Award. The Mister Wonderful
Award was designed for us by the one and only
Walt Disney, and it's a joy to present it. It's
Goofy holding the rules of law and the Caducius and
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it's very very much beloved by the people in our industry.
And this year, of course it's Neil Sedaka, and the
event is going to be at a very Swazi place
you will love it. A country club and it's been
redone and it's absolutely gorgeous. And it's on December the sixth,
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and we're going to have a performance not only by
Neil Sedaka, I mean the honoree is going to perform,
but we also have my best friend and sister in
charity and almost sister in nationality. We're both Lithuanian.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
That's awesome. Oh, I think I lost you just a
little bit there you are. I think if you turn
your phone off, I think you'll get more power in
your internet because you're freezing just a little bit. So
(13:45):
I'm trying to fix that on my end here, but
it would help if you turn the phone off. I
think it is still Frozenant.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Let it go, Let it go. It is all right.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
We have in studio today the beautiful, the timeless, the
uh limitless and ageless brutal Lye. She is an actress
as well as humanitarian. We had her for a minute
ear and we will continue to have her. I'm gonna
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try to fix something here and see if that doesn't
do it.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
All right, she.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Is gonna come back in and see if we can't
fix that. And if you've just tuned in as going
on the studio today, this is take my advice.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
I'm not using a gift balance with Doctor Marissa Good
Morning Show here on NBC News Radio OKCAA AM ten
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Speaker 3 (15:33):
And you know that for the past six hundred and
ninety nine consecutive weeks, we are continuing to promote hope
and happiness, balancing out bad news with good news, good people,
great guests, and Rude Lee is certainly one of them,
(15:53):
so U she was mentioning their computers, but are are
are not sincerely her favorite friends. So we're gonna work
on that to get her back here. But it's just
amazing that she's ninety. I didn't realize that she turned ninety.
I am surrounded by amazing women to model after Mary
(16:15):
and Ross came to my studio in person when I
was at Suncic Gower at eighty nine, and she's wonder
she came back again on the computer in.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
A remote but.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
She was ninety three.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
I think she's like ninety five now.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Really is still just amazing, as you could just tell
from her conversation and her voice as we.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Try to get her back on here.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Let's go to the bottom of the bun which is
what are you grateful for inside of yourself? And that
is the weight training that we're doing where we want
to know how good we are without having people approve
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of us. That is the point of the bottom of
the bud which is a good life habit, a hashtag discipline,
because when you can approve of yourself, you're not walking
around looking for love and all the wrong places for
antenna up looking for likes and on social media literally
these days.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
So what do you like about yourself?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I like that I am I am a good teacher.
How's that I got to teach yesterday at the Mondays
at the Mission, the Union Union Rescue Mission downtown Los Angeles,
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in the middle of a lot of people who are
feeling the effects of not having enough to provide housing,
and I found out something new. I love knowing that
there are organizations out there. They never turn away women
and children, and they are doing an amazing job in
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this building bringing kids into the fold so they can
still go to school.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
They're not on the.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Streets in the middle of the kind of scary stuff
that's going on there. It's I kind of understand though.
You know, when you're living in a place where you're
not proud of or you're not feeling your best, how
easy it is to get into addiction. It is an escape,
(18:46):
and so the fact that the kids are on the
streets is.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
A little bit sad.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
But at the same time there is organizations like the
Union Rescue Mission.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
That are providing solutions.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So I was so blessed to be able to go
and speak there last night, and I'll be putting some
clips up today. But what a beautiful feeling that was.
So I am going to try to get Rudi Lee
back on. In the meantime, i'd like you to take
(19:25):
a look at Let's see what haven't we put on here?
Speaker 6 (19:32):
For a bit, I'm going to do my.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
PPP pose pandemic possibilities. It's a short film that I
actually wanted a lauda for my first shot at a
short film. And we'll look at the trailer and see
if I can't get Rude Lee back, we'll be back
into and two Don't Go Away.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
What in Informing to the World was exploring the world?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
What if the question what do you want to be
when you grow up in a world turns into.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
How many streets of what you have to explore?
Speaker 9 (20:22):
What if the purpose of life is not to die
with the most toys to leave our squabbling relatives. What
if the purpose of life was to do things that
we enjoy most of the time, have relationships that we
enjoy most of the time, and use our unique.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Talents, gives and abilities to fully.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Express in the dash between earth and death.
Speaker 9 (20:48):
What if, as a direct result of this horrible pandemic,
we could rise out of the ashes with new PPP
host pandemic possibilities.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
The sooner you turn.
Speaker 10 (21:03):
It's impossible to finem possible, the what ifs come possible too,
because you are.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
Loving, lovable, and love wrapped in a warm blanket of worthiness.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
But it may start with getting out of bed and
making it.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
What if starts with.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
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state of stoffidness, because I am on a happy eighty
eight mission eighty eight million more happy people in the
next eight years, and I'm so delighted that we have back.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Oh. I was so excited. Did she was?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
She got here on her own during that little uh
fishing break, but we lost her again. But she is
rude to Lee, and I am going to keep trying.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Let's see two, let's see. The easiest way is to
to just call.
Speaker 11 (23:24):
I don't think she can actually get her vocal, but
at least this way I will get to talk to
one of my favorite, my favorite publicists.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
But I think he's on the line with her.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I am going to hi there. She was able to
come back in, but then she dropped out again because
her Internet is not strong enough.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
But tell her to please keep trying and third times
in charm.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Oh yeah, she's here again. I don't know if you
can hear me riddily, but I'm so grateful that you're
continuing to try to come back in. Uh, it is there,
you are there, you are third time the charm.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
No, it is Yes.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
It is great, and we're just gonna move right on
just in case. But I'm so glad that you came
back in. We just finished breakfast and now for the
topic of the day, it says everything is awesome. The
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topic of today is my beautiful guest inside and out beauty.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
She is.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Let me read you a little bit about you. She's
certainly one of Hollywood's most glamorous ladies. Really is also
one of its most multi faceted and top notch civic contributors.
She was signed by MGM as the youngest of the
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and subsequently in Funny Face
(25:06):
with Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn as Tyrone Powell's secret
love and witness for the prosecution with Marlene Dietrich and
Frank Sinada's leading lady in Sergeant's Three, to name just
a few shoes. Also in a film with the rap Pack.
I was just delighted to.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Watch the clips.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
She's also highly acclaimed for her leadership role in The Aliens,
a charitable organization founded with her friend Debbie Reynolds, which
is committed to good mental health from pediatric to geriatric.
This year's was a wonderful award designed by Walt Disney himself,
will be presented, as she mentioned earlier, to singer and
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songwriting icon Mulsadaka and with the special performance by award
winning artists and icon on stage and screen and Julian.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
It's going to be held at the bel Air.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Country Club December the sixth five. Please welcome back to
my studio, Rude Ali.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
We got the formal introduction and I'm there you go.
I was just going to say, you, like me, are
hard to mute, but sometimes there.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
You are so much information coming at us from so
many directions. Thank you for being the kind of lady
that is direct to the point, doesn't diddle around, and
doesn't worry about all the noise in the world around you.
You're very good at that, and you can teach the
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rest of us how to do it.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Oh, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
I'm sure that Harland making sure that because I just
texted them, and I'm so glad that you found your
way back here. I wanted just to pull up your website,
which is really good. Look at all of the people
who you all know. These are These are like the
Golden Age of Hollywood or the Platinum Age. I'll say
(27:25):
I called the early early the Golden age. But look
at if you haven't seen Rudi Lee on the film,
there's a lot of really great clips. And I have
to admit I texted Harlan yesterday rude because I didn't
watch your performance. I was more focused on what they
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only hands last time.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
But wow, you have been.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
I mean you have been on camera with so many
I mean.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
You're great, but the big names.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I was so impressed.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Listen, I'm impressed too. I've never stopped being impressed by
the wonderful fortune that I've had of working with some
of the most important, some of the best. Listen, some
of the worst too. But what the heck you get
to play a little bit with everybody, you know? Doctor.
(28:25):
I do have to mention to your listeners that I
wrote a book called Consider your Ass Kissed, and I
mean it from the bottom of my art to anybody
who turned a television set on because I was going
to be on, or came to a theater to see me,
or bought a ticket for a movie to see me,
(28:46):
or bought my book in which I talk about just
about everybody that I've ever worked with in Hollywood. And
there's nothing means spirited about my book. It's a tell all,
but it's a nice tell all, and I'm hoping that
everybody will pick it up either at their local bookstore
or go to Amazon dot com and look up consider
(29:09):
your Ass Kissed. And the title comes from an expression
that I've used all these many years, seventy years of
raising money for the Thaliens, whenever anybody gave me five
dollars or fifty dollars or five hundred thousand dollars. What
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else could I say besides thank you, which is underused,
never bind overused, but to say, consider your darling ass kissed.
And George Panacchio, who is the ABC's red carpet band
and the man who does all the major events in
Hollywood and reportage, said to me, Rude, if you ever
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get that book finished, because it took me forever, then
please use that expression as your title, and I thank
you for bringing it up.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Absolutely so if you want to know the inside, and
I love that it's not mean spirited, which is also
unusual for media. I don't know why they feel the
need to be mean about people. I got to interview
Halle Berry, John Travolta, Quincy Jones, and it's amazing how
(30:30):
all of the things that I had heard about them
are not true, you know when I actually it's it's
really a shame that people have to go to that
worst common denominator. But hey, if they want to be unhappy.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
That's their choice.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I choose to focus on what is so good about people,
and so good especially my favorite kind of people is
those stars like Ruda Lee who take their limelight and
attention and their ability to rally to help those who
are in temporary darkness. So if you are feeling sorry
(31:09):
for yourself right now, you can buy a ticket to
this incredible event in December. I'm assuming that I'm invited again.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
Oh well, I'm assuming you will be there.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I will be there of course too. I love being
on your red carpet and just meeting all these really Actually,
that's where I met rich little was on our red carpet,
and I got to interview him in his house and
we become friends. And I went to see him when
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he was in the Inland Empire, and I just love him.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
So he's a really one of the nicest people God
put on this earth. And I have to say the
same for Nil Sadaka, another wonderful, lovely human being. And
you know, talking about how the press and people seem
to pick up on one itty, bitty little item and
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expand it to where it becomes a big, hellish mess,
and that used to be the life and times of
Frank Sinatra. I mean, when you think of Frank Sinatra,
you think of an angry person who's always getting, you know,
into fistfights. Well that's not true. The only time I
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ever saw him, and I spend a lot of time
around Frank Sinatra, the only time I ever saw him
get angry was if he was putting a fork full
of pasta into his mouth and somebody grabbed his hand
and said, Frank, come take a picture with my girl. Yes,
he would get a little bit miffed about that, as
(32:51):
he said, you and I, you know, And Frank was
one of the people in this world that was not
Harold for the good that he did. Very few people
knew that he picked up hospital tabs and hotel bills
and restaurant tabs and whatever to help people who were
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in trouble. He was just great, and I do write
a little bit about him.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Great.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Great, Yeah, definitely pick up the book. I hope I
don't get an FCC violation on the title.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Well, Marissa Darling, my beautiful doctor Marissa. I figure if
God and Jesus himself could ride into Jerusalem on an ass,
I can kiss that ass and not worry about it.
And if anybody else doesn't see the humor and the
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fitness and that they've got problems.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Yes, yes, absolutely so. I also found out that you
have not one, but three the stars. You have one
on the Hollywood Walk of thing, which is the big one,
and the story behind that. You have to tell the
story that your first job was actually you got fired,
and then you tell the stories.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
Well, I, like everybody, wanted to make some money during
the summer months when I was going to Hollywood High
I had always been in Catholic schools parochial schools, and
the nuns taught me everything I ever learned, but I
was going to Hollywood High which was great, but during
the summer I needed to get a job to make
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a few dollars so that I am spending money. Well,
of course, what was better than being an usherette in
a theater. Nowadays we don't have ushers and usharettes. But
I got a job at Grummin's Chinese Wow, the Creme
de la Creme. And there I stood in my little
red tunic and black pants with a flashlight at the
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top of the aisle and showed people to seats on
wherever they wanted to sit. And I could stand at
the top of the aisle and watch my movie queens
Betty Grable and June Haver and Mitzi Gayner and ethel
Merman and go oh, I pray and say, oh, dear God,
please please let me do that someday, Please let me
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dance on film like this. Well that was great, but
I got a job. I got boosted up in my
career to be the candy girl. And I panicked because
math has never been my long suit. But I could
deal with the math here because everything was ten cents,
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fifteen cents, twenty five cents. I could do that. That
was fine. I could also then step out from behind
the counter and watch my movie Queens. Well, one night
the girl in the box office got sick and I
got promoted to box office, and I said to the manager, Oh,
dear God, I can't I don't know how to do
those numbers. I can't add and subtract quickly. He said, no, no, no,
(36:03):
it's not a problem. You simply put punch in two
tickets at a dollar ninety eight or two thirty five
or whatever it is, and then put in five dollars
and it'll give you the right change. Well, we were
forty dollars short that night, and I got fired, and
(36:25):
in big tears, I said, you're making a mistake. I
did not steal the money. I just am lousy at math. Well,
fade out, fade in on. Teen years later, Where did
I get my star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
That wonderful, prestigious start right in front of the box office.
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Is that the dear Lord working in mysterious ways? Isn't
that marvelous?
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yes? Sense of humor, My God has a sense of you.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
I have my star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
I have a star on the Walk of Fame. A
star at Cedar Sinai in front of the Thaliens Community
Mental Health Center, which is no longer called that, but
here's one for the books. Instead of a star in
cannab Utah, which is called Little Hollywood because almost every
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Western was shot in cannab Utah because the scenery in
Utah is so gorgeous. Instead of a star, they have hitch.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
Oh we lost the last part of that. They have what.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
A hitching post? Oh, horses a hitching post. So that's
pretty nice.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
That is pretty funny.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Has has a room in my honor, which is rather wonderful. Oh.
I love to send people up to canab Utah. It's
so pretty right, right?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
And how did you get Walt Disney to design the
Mister Wonderful or Miss Wonderful Awar.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
I'd love to take credit for it, but I cannot.
It was all done by my darling sister and Charity,
Debbie Reynolds. She of course was a big star, and
she went to Walt Disney and pleaded with him to
design something wonderful for the Thaliens, which he did. And
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that award has gone to everybody from Frank Sinatra through
Lucille Ball through June Haver through Whoope Goldberg and they're
all so proud and honored to have this wonderful Goofy.
That is mister or miss wonderful and that's what goes
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to Neil Sedaka. Of course come this fabulous Christmas season.
Isn't that a nice way to start off the Christmas season?
Speaker 6 (39:04):
Yes, here's the award. If you can see this?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Now, who who's this is?
Speaker 6 (39:11):
Let's see this? Who's the recipient?
Speaker 5 (39:15):
I don't, I can't. I can't see it on the screen.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Okay, yeah, it's know it is whoever there.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
We always honor somebody that's very famous. There we go
on either the screen small or large.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Okay, it's okay, but that is I know why you're saying.
It looks Goofy, it's got app.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
That's our James Bond.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
So so that's that's a feat right there, which is
really great that Walt Disney did that for y'all. Now,
how do you decide how who you're honoring? Nil Sadaka fabulous.
He's you know, obviously a household name when it comes
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to great music, has lasted, you know a long time
with his uh music and hits.
Speaker 6 (40:21):
But what is your criteria.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Well, it has to be somebody, of course, that is
well known, and it has to be somebody that didn't
just dazzle us with their performances on screen, larger or small,
or on stage, but who dazzled us with their philanthropic
performances as well. And every one of these people that
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we have honored have been good to their fellow men
or woman in kind. And Nil Sadaka has done great
humanitarian works and given concerts and everything to raise money
for the needy, and so he seemed like a very
good person. So we get together and we sit down
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at a meeting and decide, well, it would be good
to honor this one and this one and this one,
But now to get this one and this one and
this one is not easy. Everybody's schedule is very different.
They don't know a year in advance if they're going
to be available, and it takes us at least a
year to put a big, proper show together. We've stopped
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doing the great, big, huge events for fifteen hundred people
because they're just too expensive to do. We do smaller
events now, but it still takes time for somebody to
be able to say yes and so while you're waiting
for Neil Sedaka to look at his calendar, you sort
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of have Plan B and Plan C in mind, hoping
that you can get in case Neil says I can't
because I'm going to be performing in New York or whatever.
You don't. So it's not an easy job putting together
any event where you are depending on a star to appear,
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and of course they all appear, Gradis. It's one thing
if you say, we've got one hundred thousand dollars to
give you a star to appear, but we don't. We
do everything, Gradis. Everybody who appears appears, Gradis. I didn't
know that. Yeah, every penny that we make goes to
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the mental health. And of course we built you know,
as you know, we started out back in sixty five
and we built the Saliens Community Mental Health Center. And
then about ten years ago a little more now, a
friend came to me and said, you know, you Saliens
are missing the boat on one thing. And I said,
(42:56):
what is that? We deal with mental health from pediatric
through geriatric, and he said, you are not paying attention
to our returning veterans. And he was right, Those beautiful
young people that put their lives on the line, no
matter what hell hole in the world we sell them
(43:19):
send them to. They are willing to die for America
and Americans, and yet they come back home, sometimes injured physically,
sometimes injured mentally, and they fall through the crack. Sometimes
they're not. They should be given the very best America
has to offer, and sometimes they do slip through the cracks.
(43:43):
So we joined Operation Men UCLA's Operation Men at the
Ronald Reagan Hospital. Op mend heals the broken and fractured
bodies of these gorgeous young people. We Faliens try to
deal with a broken and fractured mind and spirit of
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our returning veterans. And I'm very proud of the work
we do, and I'm exceedingly grateful to anybody who will
join us in the fight. And the best way to
do that is to go to our website, which is
the Faliens th H A l I A n s.
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Falia was the goddess of comedy and astray Lambs seemed
like an appropriate name for us. Anyway. It's the Faliens
dot org, dot com dot org, and you can read
all about us. You can read about what we do,
and please please buy a ticket. If you can't come
(44:48):
to the event, send us whatever cash you can spare.
It doesn't matter how small or how big, it will
be very very much appreciated. Let me know that you
have UH by sending a small note saying Ruda, I'm
doing this for you. Thank you. And all I can
(45:08):
say is consider your ass kiss absolutely.
Speaker 3 (45:14):
And I just pulled up the website for you. You
can see there's a very impressive photo gallery with all
of the past recipients. Ruda has mentioned some of them,
the history of why. This was a beautiful picture of
Ruda Lee with Let's see, where's the wie Reynolds one
(45:38):
that I like right here? This one here opes that
one went to a different.
Speaker 6 (45:44):
Link, but there's a that's a good donate link. Oh,
here's the let's see if you can here's the award.
One of them is.
Speaker 5 (45:57):
God bless them. They're both with their maker.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Oh this is Debbie and carry sorry.
Speaker 5 (46:02):
There's thank you for anything you can do for the faliens.
They both spend their lives for the fliens.
Speaker 6 (46:13):
There's Hugh Heffler. Yes, have lots of just really great people.
Here's a good picture. This is you and Debbie right, yes, yes, yes,
that's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (46:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Aliens dot org is your destination for getting a ticket
joining me on the red carpets for the Aliens Annual.
It's the only time really that you guys raise funds
in a concerted effort. They have teamed up with and
(46:51):
I love U c l A. You know, I taught
there for six years in the Anderson Business School and
then just got there again last year for a special
show Leadership, Success and Happiness because of the book's gone
national bestseller now, so I absolutely want to support I'll
be there. Please go to the Aliens dot org buy
(47:14):
a ticket, Come meet Ritily, ninety years young.
Speaker 5 (47:18):
Still going.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
People call me the energizer bunny cross with the Tasmanian Devil.
If that is me, then you are on top of
that on steroids. So you're a beautiful role model for
me to follow in your footsteps, to just know that
(47:42):
you can do this. You know, it doesn't matter how
young you are. You know what keeps you young.
Speaker 6 (47:48):
Let's talk about that for a second.
Speaker 3 (47:50):
What do you think is your beauty secret? Although I
already know what it is when I asked Gosh, Elvis
Presley's former wife, why am I blanking on her name, Presley,
Pascilla Presley.
Speaker 6 (48:05):
What her beauty secret was? You know what she said?
What she said good lighting.
Speaker 5 (48:13):
Yes, she's absolutely right. Good lighting makes all the difference
in the world. But I don't have any secrets. It's
good genes, a very very strong work ethic that I
got from my parents, and I think all Middle Europeans
are very strong workers. You know, in America we're very blessed.
(48:39):
If you are not afraid of hard work, you can
achieve absolute wondrous miracles in this wonderful country. And we
are also, as far as I'm concerned, doctor Marissa, the
most generous nation in the world too. I think if
ever you have a good story, and certainly I have
(49:00):
a good one about mental health for our returning veterans,
people will support it. People will help each other. And
I think we've been blessed by the Almighty with that
generosity gene in America, and I'm very grateful for it,
and to you for spreading only good news, good works,
(49:25):
good news, good humor above all, good humor. If we
can't laugh our way through our problems, we're in deep
doo doo here.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
Yes, absolutely, I love that saying, you don't stop laughing
because you grow older. You grow old.
Speaker 6 (49:44):
Because you stop laughing.
Speaker 3 (49:46):
And I think that is your secret is you laugh
often and much, which is another Emerson definition for success.
You do work hard. I think that your belief that
you can do anything that you put your heart and
mind to is something that I was taught by my
tenth grade math teacher, who knew that I had a
(50:10):
tough home life and he's had me stay after school
and he looked me in nine and he said that.
And I'm going to get Tiri in a second, because
that moment was so critical in me believing in myself.
And I was so grateful last night. I'd love to
bring you there. I was asked to speak at Union
Mission Rescue Downtown its kid row and I.
Speaker 6 (50:35):
Them, Oh, how cool is that?
Speaker 5 (50:38):
I was just the last NAK coming Thanksgiving is coming.
Speaker 3 (50:43):
Talking to the kids and I got to look them
in the eye and tell them that, and so oh chills.
Speaker 6 (50:51):
I just I'm so grateful.
Speaker 3 (50:53):
That I had the opportunity to do that because it
was done for me, you know, And it is wonderful.
Speaker 5 (51:03):
They feed not only the body, but they feed the
spirit and the soul and that's what you're doing. And
thank you very much, doctor.
Speaker 3 (51:10):
And thank you you know you've been doing it way
longer than I have. But this is a you can
tell there's a mutual love going on here if you've
just tuned in and wondering what's going on in studio today.
I have the amazing, ageless, timeless, relentless lover of those
(51:32):
who do not have as much and has dedicated their
entire life not just entertaining us on stage on screen,
but also raising the awareness and the funds to help
those who are temporarily less fortunate than ourselves. Aliens dot
org is where you're gonna.
Speaker 6 (51:52):
Head after that. This this is your hell to action.
Speaker 3 (51:57):
You can have the.
Speaker 6 (52:01):
You can buy the tickets.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
The date is December the six. It is a Friday
or Saturday night, Saturday Saturday night. It's at the bel
Air Country Clubs. Yes, I'm so excited to be there.
I'll meet you on the red carpet. It's a very
worthy organization and you'll have fun.
Speaker 12 (52:27):
But I'm sure if it's anything like that last year,
there's lots and lots of entertainment, really good food, so you'll.
Speaker 5 (52:38):
Have to go.
Speaker 3 (52:38):
You'll see Gouda up there, singing and entertaining and introducing
and a warning. It really is a fun event, great
for the holidays, So treat yourself, treat your family. I
didn't see a lot of kids, but I did see
a lot of really a list celebrities. There have to
(53:00):
say you come out to support this very worthy organization.
Speaker 5 (53:08):
Yes so much. Yes, just for talking about it and
sharing your audience, but especially for being there. Cutie, you
always dressed so beautifully and it's an opportunity for the
girls to get out their prettiest dragon.
Speaker 6 (53:23):
I already have the outfit. You're gonna love it.
Speaker 3 (53:27):
We love we love doing the fashionista thing for sure,
So so we have just a little time left. I
was curious about the rat pack. You could a move
me with the entire forking rat pack, And I watched
the clip and I'm like, I cannot believe you just
(53:47):
told your own.
Speaker 6 (53:48):
You're such a strong actress.
Speaker 3 (53:51):
I mean you you went from like you did almost
every type of role, comedic, you did the westerns.
Speaker 6 (54:00):
You're like missed Western.
Speaker 3 (54:03):
You were on screen for a period of time, like
every week you were on TV or on.
Speaker 6 (54:07):
The big screen. So what was it like, We're getting
with the Rapac.
Speaker 5 (54:11):
Well, first of all, I have to say, and I'm
telling you now that having played every different kind of part,
the bad girls are always more fun to play than
the good girls. I mean, it is great fun to
just be wicked and awful and terrible, and they were
(54:33):
my favorite roles. But of course I was in the
rat Pack movie, which was Sergeants three is the name
of it, and that was a remake of Gungadeen the
as a Western, as an American Western. Instead of the Indians,
it was American Indians that we had here, and it
(54:54):
was such fun to be with them. And I felt
so sorry for John's Sturgis, our director, because it was
like wrangling cats to get everybody to calm down to
do the scene. I mean, when you had Dean Martin,
who was, without a doubt, one of the funniest human
beings God ever put on this earth. I mean there
(55:17):
he was teamed with Jerry Lewis all those years, but
if you stop to think about it, Dean was the
funniest guy. Frank of course, Sammy Davis one of the
most gifted human beings I've ever known in my life.
Peter Law for Joey Bishop, the Crosby Boys being Crosby's
three sons were in it, and just me, little old
(55:39):
me was the female in the piece. I never had
so much fun in my life. And we were on
location in Canab, Utah and doctor Marissa. Frank had a
fleet of planes that would fly us back and forth
(56:00):
to Las Vegas because the deal was that during the
shoot we were up there for six or eight weeks
or whatever. One week Frank was playing Vegas. So we
go down for the opening of Frank, and then we
go down for the closing of Frank. Then we go
down for the opening of Dean Martin. This is by openings,
I mean at the Sands Hotel and then his closing.
(56:23):
And this went on and I wasn't prepared for that.
I brought one little cotton dress because I thought I
could have Utah, what's the big deal to do? That
is to walk down the street and get a dairy queen.
You know about the excitement of there. But it was
the most incredible experience I ever had. Frank gave a
(56:49):
birthday party for Dean Martin at the Sands Hotel and
I can't remember who was playing in, but all the
guys were on stage. The entire rat pack was there.
But I was sitting at a table in my little
cotton dress, and sitting across from me was Elizabeth Taylor,
then married to Eddie Fisher, at the height of her beauty.
(57:14):
Next to me was John Wayne. On the other side
it was Milton Burle. And I'm surrounded by the bevy
of stars. And into the room from the back of
the house walked Frank Sinatra with Marilyn Monroe on his arm.
Speaker 6 (57:35):
I was just going to guess that.
Speaker 5 (57:37):
In my life, I have never seen a room light up.
You would have thought a clean light, a spotlight had
hit them. There was something about Maryland that simply glowed.
You know who else had it? The Gabourg girls.
Speaker 3 (57:59):
But changed you have it, and you have it rudal Lye.
Speaker 6 (58:03):
I'm sorry you have it.
Speaker 5 (58:05):
But I just I couldn't believe it. And I don't
know whether it was the platinum blonde hair, whether it
was the beaded white dress, whether it was the white
fox that she was wrapped in, but she looked like
this glowing angel. And when she came to the table,
Elizabeth Taylor, in her unbelievable beauty, got lost in the
(58:30):
glow of Marilyn Monroe. Now that's an incredible thing to say,
because I don't know that anybody was any prettier than
Elizabeth Taylor, you know. But oh my god, that was
the one and only time that I met Marilyn, and
I'm sorry to say that I didn't know her better.
(58:51):
I think she probably was an endurable girl. She was
very sweet, but I didn't spend any time with.
Speaker 6 (58:57):
Her, right right, But did you spend time with Elizabeth Tiller?
Was she was?
Speaker 5 (59:02):
She also was darling. She was absolutely charming and sweet
and wonderful. I got to spend a little more time
with her because she used to come to the Failien events.
And eventually, in spite of the fact that they were
both missus Eddie Fisher's Debbie and she, you know, were
friends from MGM days, and they resumed their friendship later
(59:27):
on when they could both say, eh, he was a
schmuck to Eddie Fisher. God keeps smiling on America.
Speaker 3 (59:38):
Absolutely, Now go and have the best day ever.
Speaker 6 (59:43):
I'll see you guys tomorrow.
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