“Kardashians!” Carol Burnett said when asked what she would like to do like before on her iconic variety series.
The 90-year-old living legend opens up about his career in the 100th podcast episode of The Art of Kindness with Robert Peterpaul’s, which will air on World Kindness Day on Monday, November 13th.
“Actually, my favorite thing to impersonate was old movies,” Burnett says. “When we had money, Nanny and I would go to the movies. I grew up watching movies from the ’40s and ’50s. So when I got my own show, I went to the movies with ‘Mildred Pierce.’ , “Gone with the Wind,” “Double Indemnity,” “The African Queen,” and “The Postman Always Rings Twice.” It was a thrill for me to be able to take off on those. did.”
She confessed that her most famous costume to date, playing Scarlett O’Hara in a dress shoddily made from cod curtains, almost never happened.
“That was the genius of costume designer Bob Mackie. “He came up with the idea,” she recalls. “Originally they wrote the song for me to come down the stairs with the curtains hanging, but Bob thought, ‘That’s not funny.'” When we went to meet him, he said, “I have an idea for a curtain dress.” I walked in and he was putting it on a mannequin. I fell to the floor laughing. I said, “This is going to be one of the greatest gags in the history of television.” And so it is. It’s in the Smithsonian Institution. ”
Barnett said doing a podcast to commemorate World Kindness Day was “really important”.
“I am very happy.”
Peter Paul, the show’s host and producer, added: It’s using your time on this earth to brighten someone else’s life. Carol Burnett has done it a million times for all of us. She has created the most beautiful legacy of kindness in art and is a dream guest on her 100th episode of the podcast “The Art of Kindness.” I’m so grateful and still can’t believe it happened! ”
Watch “The Art of Kindness with Robert Peter Paul.” hereor listen to your favorite podcasts anywhere.
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