Phyllis Diller
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Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life.
And the real genius is that you can wear everything. It’s not like those fashion shows where you wonder, ‘How can I wear that in my real life without looking like Phyllis Diller?’More quotes »
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Seaside skinny
Phyllis Diller once said, “I wore a bikini and the tide wouldn’t come in.” Follow the lead of these mags and maybe that won’t happen to you. Self will get you pumped up for summer with lots of talk (and pictures) about skin care and swimsuits, including how from New York Post Read more »
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Working for comic had a few laughs
like it’s a dirty little secret, but Robin Skone-Palmer seldom brings up that she was a personal secretary for comedian Phyllis Diller and knows the ups and downs of working for a celebrity. The Las Vegas woman doesn’t usually dwell on that job, but that changed from Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com Read more »
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Watch: Phyllis Diller's Final TV Appearance
Diller liked to described a smile as a "curve that could set anything straight." The smile does has its limits, thankfully, because if it could set anything straight, then Diller's final television appearance, airing this evening on Bravo's Dukes of Melrose, from Out Magazine Read more »
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Elaine Stritch Is Having a Moment Grumpily
rite of passage for elderly showbiz survivors. Still-here cinema is a subgenre at this point: Joan Rivers, Carol Channing, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles and Charles Nelson Reilly are a few whose career arcs have been explored alongside current footage in recent from Gawker Read more »
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Groundbreaking improv comic Jonathan Winters dies
Winters appears in drag to play his mother in a scene from the 1967 movie "Eight on the Lam," which also starred Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller. The Ohio native died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, said Joe Petro III, a longtime from The Portland Maine Press Herald Read more »
