Movie + TV trivia...Lily Tomlin interview
 

Watching Ben-Hur today... uncut... And it brings up my hubby's penchant for looking up trivia on IMDB... so he comes in and says, guess who wrote the screenplay ---but got no CREDIT?
An argument over plot issues (conservative 1950's issues) led to his name being left off. And he lost an Oscar because of it. Screenplay was not a winner of all those categories because of it.

It was Gore Vidal! so that led to a discussion about Ernestine (Lily Tomlin's character) who was always talking to "Vital" on the phone (who she revealed in her last skit as fictitious Gore Vidal, much to his annoyance!)

So I found this hilarious YouTube for those of you old enough to have enjoyed Ernestine... This is a Tonight clip with Joan Rivers, and she is pretty funny too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3AujuB_3Zs

Talking to Mr. Vital...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9e3d...eature=related

Ernestine about Health care:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF0AJ...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrRQQ...eature=related