Well, yes, I did write all about the auction preview party and all the fun people, and I did take a few pictures. I promise I am going to get them downloaded onto this computer sometime in my lifetime. Maybe next week. I wish I had taken more, but in the excitement of the moment I just didn’t think about it. There was so much to see. And yes it was typical Hollywood. There was posturing and posing, air kisses and cries of “Dah-ling! So good to see you!” from people hoping someone important would notice them. And the bad face-lifts! Oh, my gosh!! I can’t imagine letting anyone get near my face with a knife, but if I were going to, it wouldn’t be with a doctor who offered Groupons! Geez, people, what were you thinking? Were you thinking? Phyllis Diller at 92 with her “Dustbiters” Phyllis Diller had blazed that trail,… Read More »
Phyllis Diller’s last luncheon
For about 8 years, Phyllis Diller had hosted an annual “Dustbiter luncheon” at her home. It began with a party that Sandy Beach (really), the secretary who replaced me, gave to celebrate Phyllis’s birthday back in 2003 or 04 — I can’t remember exactly. Phyllis had so much fun with the 6 of us that she decided to have a reunion at her house every year after that. It started out as a birthday party, but Phyllis didn’t like the idea of everyone bringing her presents, so she changed it to the third Sunday in August and that’s when the handful of us gathered at her mansion every year until this last reunion in 2011. In this picture, Phyllis is 94 years old and dang if she doesn’t look better than I do! (Let’s hear it for plastic surgery.) Part of it, I’m sure, was Phyllis’s constant drive to be… Read More »
