Genius, genius, genius. Funny, inciteful, her face - SO expressive. Lily Tomlin has been my favorite since I was a kid & saw her on "Laugh In". One of the greats!
I saw her in Vegas on May 5th doing this same bit, along with several other classics, although I didn't remember seeing this before (managed to score a free ticket, front row, so she was at times ten feet away from me). She was excellent and well worth seeing if you get the chance.
moi aussi... je manque beaucoup tout ça... missing so much the curves, the relief, the geniusness of tghose real, r/e/a/l artists!! but more and more we're becoming pre-hystorical. these new generations don't know what real beauty, real art is. art is supossed to tmake us transcend!
Lily had come a long way by 1977. She did a tour of U.S. concert halls in the spring of 1972 when she was starring on Laugh-In. That was a mistake. I went to see her and it was a big disappointment. Her background was 10 to 15 minute stand up routines in coffee houses and night clubs. She didn't have enough material to do a full show like that and it was unfair to paying customers. She had a horrible women singer with her who spent as much time or more on stage as Lily, who didn't reappear for quite a while. The crowd was getting irritated listening to this lousy singer in her red velvet gown and construction worker boots! There were many angry customers including me when the show was over. It apparently took her another five years to develop enough material and characters to come up with the successful "Appearing Nightly" show. In recent years and in her late 70's, she still has been touring but one review didn't sound too encouraging. She would appear for a little while and then show old video clips on a big screen of her famous characters. She then reappeared and launched into some type of political tirade against Bush or something like that. I'm not paying to see that.
