Phyllis was the most unpretentious person ever. no hidden agenda, no ulterior motive; what you see is what you get. same with everyone. she was the same phyllis with shleps or celebrities: ray romano or ray bradbury in the libraries, caroline kennedy or jay leno in the store, larry bird or garrison keillor in the airport. and many more. we went to multiples of her favorites concerts: beach boys, mccartney, manilow, neil diamond (true love is me sitting beside her through multiple neil diamond concerts without committing hara-kiri); but her fave was joan rivers. not only did we sit in front at her concert, but phyl bought and wore joan rivers qvc jewelry. our drama class had scheduled a weekday night performance the same night joan rivers was doing a book reading in hollywood. i had to end our performance early to get to hollywood. when phyl arrived, she walked right through the admirers surrounding joan rivers, who undoubtedly, as i did, expected a request for her autograph. phyl said, “joan, the watch i bought from you isn’t working. it’s warranteed, and i’d like a replacement please.”
Posted on: Sat, 17 May 2014 04:50:00 +0000