Debbie Reynolds on bad men choices + life on the road - Later with Bob Costas 3/24/92 

Bob really was a great interview talent. His interview of Paul McCartney is probably the best, most in-depth rock interview I've ever seen.

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Some of these memoirs come across as smacking of desperation for attention and/or money, specifically ones that are gossip heavy. Sharing such personal information that involves others has never struck me as something a respectable adult would do. You really have to consider how much of a "birdbrain" Reynolds was when it came to choosing whom to date and/or marry.

@@bubufubu How much of a "birdbrain" was Debbie Reynolds? Well, she wasn't a "birdbrain" (no more than most people when it comes to romantic entanglements). Fisher was very attentive to her and chivalrous in images I have seen of him with Debbie. At some point in the marriage he soured. Debbie was no pushover and assertive, which when you are a woman will be held against you (although most things are sooner or later when a man isn't getting something from you he wants). He hasn't been that complimentary about his wife Connie Stevens either. But he particularly lashed out at Debbie because she made him a comic punchline in her stage shows and appearances. She had the last laugh.

@@Dory8 My experience has shown me that females are...just a little bit different when it comes to romantic entanglements. They tend to be very, very poor at choosing male partners. They're notorious for lack of accountability and for wanting to have their cake and eat it, too. You can't have it both ways. You can't willfully choose to be with a guy who is not a good person (or at least not a good fit for you), marry him, have kids with him, stay with him for years, and then write a book, give recorded interviews, make fun of him on stage, or gossip to close friends about how bad the guy is/was. It just serves to make you look even more foolish for choosing that partner (and staying with him) in the first place. Reynolds had the last laugh? You sure about that? She was married three times and they all ended in divorce. Bottom line: She made poor choices.

@@bubufubu What sweeping generalizations! Not every woman is 'poor at choosing male partners' just as not every man is six feet tall or muscly. Has Meryl Streep been? Ann Margret? Ann Bancroft? Joanne Woodward? How did you arrive at this ridiculous farfetched notion that women are "notorious for lack of accountability" and want to "have their cake and eat it too"? Did you do a door knock? What study did you undertake? Have you personally met every woman? Sounds more like the misogynistic contrivance of a bitter man hoping to convince himself that women are to blame for everything. We most certainly are not. We are not the rulers of this world. We are not the ones prosecuting wars around the globe. And we most certainly aren't the ones committing homicides or rapes. As for the cake part, most of us don't eat it lest we be shamed for not being swelte. Debbie Reynolds was in fact a very kind woman; that is well known (even her third husband stated as much, and they didn't even part on good terms). Nor did she write a book about her first husband demeaning him; he (through a ghost writer) badmouthed her in two books. She just made hay of it via wit (as clever women often do). Bottom line: Everyone loved her. That Fisher didn't says more about him than it does her.

@@bubufubu Sheesh, just generalize "that females are...". Must know ALL of them