WHO MAKES ME LAUGH?
The TCM Film Festival 2017 Red Carpet
Working the TCM Film Festival Red Carpet on April 6, 2017, afforded me the opportunity to ask celebrities, writers, actors, producers and TCM staff a question that follows the theme of the festival, Make ‘Em Laugh: Comedy in the Movies. I wanted to know who makes them laugh. Here’s what they said:
TCM’s Kellie O’Neal: “Charlie Chaplan!”
The Czar of Noir, the CEO of The Film Noir Foundation, and host of TCM’s Noir Alley on Sunday mornings, Eddie Muller: “My wife! That’s why I married her.”
Diane Baker greets Martin Landau during the Red Carpet Rush on Thursday, April 6. Landau participated in a special interview during the festival.
Actress and Educator Diane Baker, a close friend of the late TCM Host Robert Osborne: “The Golden Girls because it’s timeless, Betty White and her deadpan delivery, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Judy Dench in As Time Goes By.”
Actor Chris Tucker and the legendary Quincy Jones visit with credentialed media on the Red Carpet. (Photo courtesy of Getty Images for TCM)
Martha Rogers pointed to the man standing to her left.
“My husband, Dick Cavett, makes me laugh. Sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night and says something hysterically funny!”
(Photo by Getty News for TCM)
TCM’s Mark Wynns, who made the final film introduction on Sunday evening for Lady in the Dark at the Egyptian: “My three-year-old son!”
Stathis Giallelis, who attended a screening of Elia Kazan’s America, America!:
“Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, and my family!”
(Photo by Getty News for TCM)
TCM Producer Anne Wilson: “The people I work with!”
Sara Karloff: “Mel Brooks!”
Keir Dullea: “Danny Kaye! He was hysterical.” Dullea attended a screening of David and Lisa. (Photo courtersy of Michelle Conte)
TCM’s Charlie Tabesh: “Elaine May. I tried to get her to come to the festival. Mel Brooks, Jim Abrahams, David and Jerry Zucker…”
Director Sean Cameron: “Steve Martin!”
Cameron was the emcee for the evening and introduced special guests to the fan gallery.
Wyatt McCrea: “My uncle, Jody McCrea! He could make my grandfather (legendary actor Joel McCrea) fall on the floor laughing!” McCrea attended a screening of The Palm Beach Story.
Actors Rusty Goffe, Julie Dawn Cole, and Paris Themmen attend the 50th anniversary screening of In the Heat of the Night and were in attendance for the poolside screening of Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory.
Goffe: “Mel Brooks!”
Cole: : “Mel Brooks!
Themmen: “Christopher Guest”
(Photo courstesy of Getty Images for TCM)
TCM’s Pola Changnon: “My husband, Dustin Hoffman, and Jack Lemmon!”
TCM’s host of Trailblazing Women, Illeana Douglas: “Jerry Lewis, Carl Reiner, and Albert Brooks, who is truly a genius!”
Beau Bridges greets Lee Grant on the Red Carpet…
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Historian, writer and popular #TCMFF presenter Cari Beauchamp (with son Jake): “Sue Lloyd!” Beauchamp introduced 5 films, two of which were added as TBAs. Beauchamp wrote Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood and My First Time in Hollywood.
TCM’s General Manager Jennifer Dorian, here greeting a fan: “My girlfriends!”
Actress, Thalians officer and friend of Debbie Reynolds, Ruta Lee chats and giggles during her interview on The Red Carpet. Lee once claimed Reynolds was one of the funniest ladies she’d ever met, and was in attendance at a screening of Singin’ In The Rain with Todd Fisher.
Historian, author, and host of Treasures From the Disney Vault on TCM, Leonard Maltin:
“My wife and I have made each other laugh for 42 years! ”
(Photo courtesy of Getty Images for TCM)
Todd Fisher, sister of Carrie Fisher, and son of legendary triple-threat Debbie Reynolds was happy to talk to credentialed media on the #TCMFF Red Carpet. When told this reporter was a native Texan, Fisher replied “You know, my mother was from Texas, and she enjoyed acknowledging it. My mother was very funny. But I have to say that the funniest person I ever knew was my sister, Carrie.”
Fisher appeared at the TCM Film Festival for screenings of “Singin’In The Rain”and “Postcards From The Edge,” and participated in memorializing his mother and sister. During the pre-interview for the screening of “Postcards From The Edge” with Richard Dreyfuss, Dreyfuss broke down in tears, was unable to speak for a few moments, and admitted it was the first time he had “broken down”since Carrie Fisher’s death, even though he had been close to her.
The TCM Film Festival 2017 was dedicated to the memory of TCM Host Robert Osborne.
Memorials for Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds were also part of the festival events.
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