tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398796842887862508.post48710129287235841..comments2024-03-20T19:06:59.758-07:00Comments on Classic Television Showbiz: An Interview with Peter Marshall - Part TwoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398796842887862508.post-76654474678788378292012-10-08T16:48:36.407-07:002012-10-08T16:48:36.407-07:00Wow! What an interview! After I read each intervi...Wow! What an interview! After I read each interview, I say to myself, "This is the best one yet!" Anyhow, I thought the same thing as Clarkx said above -- regarding The Rookie. He says, in one breath, that it saved 20th Century Fox, and then in the next breath, he says that the movie only played for 2 days and was a horrible movie. And, to top that off, I did not know, until I read what Clarkx said, that The Rookie came out 4 years before Cleopatra. So, obviously, Peter Marshall, god bless him, doesn't have the best perfect recollection that he thinks he has. And he's the only one, it seems, who actually likes Jack Carter. Maybe he really hated him but couldn't remember it, I don't know. Don't get me wrong, he still gives a great interview and I'm sure that most of what he says is accurate.<br /><br />Leonard Barr was the brother of Dean Martin's mother. I checked imdb.com and Leonard Barr was not even in one Martin & Lewis film. I find that odd. Wouldn't you think that Dean would have put his uncle in all of his movies? But not even one movie?<br /><br />I also never knew that Peter Marshall did so much prior to Hollywood Squares. I found it hilarious that he only did Hollywood Squares to prevent Dan Rowan from getting it. What a great career move, as it turned out! <br /><br />Kliph, you must have a photographic memory, I swear. I was LMAO when Peter couldn't remember the street and you gave it him; couldn't remember the name of the room on the top floor, and you gave it to him; hell, you remembered his life better than he did! LOL! Kliph, I wish I was famous. I could call you and you could tell me the name of the restaurant I ate at in 1989 when I was in Phoenix. It's next to the restaurant with the blue roof. It had a parking lot! LOL!<br /><br />By the way, Kliph, I heard you with Marc Maron and it was fantastic!Bobby Wallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398796842887862508.post-22200972889567025012012-10-05T12:38:47.527-07:002012-10-05T12:38:47.527-07:00Wow. I loved reading those insights. Never would g...Wow. I loved reading those insights. Never would guessed most of this stuff!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398796842887862508.post-30690604273588544252012-10-05T09:22:07.629-07:002012-10-05T09:22:07.629-07:00These interviews are hilarious. So much hyperbole...These interviews are hilarious. So much hyperbole: I think he called three different people the best ever!<br /><br />They also prove how memory can be deceiving. "The Rookie" saved 20th Century-Fox? ROFL.<br /><br />You have access to back issues of Variety. Look up how it did for yourself! Strictly run of the mill.<br /><br />Also, it came out in 1959 and "Cleopatra" in 1963, so his memory of it saving the studio after "Cleopatra" is clearly false.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398796842887862508.post-36761497266767298532012-10-05T09:04:56.549-07:002012-10-05T09:04:56.549-07:00Again, having known next to nothing about Peter Ma...Again, having known next to nothing about Peter Marshall, I would have never guessed he had so much info to share.<br /><br />Thanks for posting.mackdaddygnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398796842887862508.post-6783152149228906482012-10-05T06:39:43.252-07:002012-10-05T06:39:43.252-07:00All those years watching "Hollywood Squares,&...All those years watching "Hollywood Squares," I never knew what a funny, interesting guy Peter Marshall was. <br /><br />I don't know how you do it, but these interviews are always wonderful and hilarious. I wonder if in 40 years, someone like you will interview, say, Louie CK and Jerry Seinfeld, and get these kinds of stories out of them. I bet they won't be as interesting.Kevin K.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2398796842887862508.post-5670664641030341522012-10-05T01:11:58.109-07:002012-10-05T01:11:58.109-07:00Wow, another great one Kliph.
So great reading ab...Wow, another great one Kliph.<br /><br />So great reading about Marshall's work before Hollywood Squares and now knowing "why" he did it.<br /><br />and also reading about Leonard Barr and the Ritz Brothers.<br /><br />Thanks again.A Moosenoreply@blogger.com