True Cloris, Shining Through

Betty White may be getting all the headlines these days as
America’s elder stateswoman of comedy, but has she ever played
Vegas? Another randy grandma, Cloris Leachman, hasn’t either, but
at 84 she makes her debut on Sept. 18 and 19 at the Suncoast. The
Academy Award winner, who has also won more Emmys than any actor
ever, spoke to Steve at length in advance of that one-woman show
and brace yourself because some of this is almost as sexually
explicit as that Tony Curtis chat we gave you a while back. There
are many highlights, including Cloris sharing her experiences
with Marlon Brando, Jackie Kennedy, Judy Garland, the Reagans and
Kathryn Hepburn, although an instant classic is Cloris’ hilarious
re-enactment of a call from Joan Collins, who was having an
affair with Cloris’ husband George Englund in the 1970s. Leachman
also discusses her new Fox sitcom, "Raising Hope."

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