Beyond the spotlight
Subtitle: On the road with Phyllis Diller
By: Robin Skone-Palmer
Edition: First edition
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780985972882
Subjects: Biography; Comedians; Women comedians; American Humorists
Other titles: On the road with Phyllis Diller
Description: "As Robin Skone-Palmer approached the mansion on Rockingham Avenue one hot September afternoon, she didn't know what to expect. "Ask for Phyllis Diller," the employment agent had said. Curious as much as nervous, she studied the beautiful house. Three-and-a-half hours later, she walked away wondering if she'd just stepped into Alice's Wonderland. Plane travel, foreign countries, celebrities, and television studios became part of everyday life--from "This Is Tom Jones" in London to the Glass Festival in Elwood, Indiana. They shared raucous laughter, mind-numbing boredom, and occasionally absolute terror. The work relationship became a friendship that lasted to the day of Phyllis's death at that same Rockingham mansion in Brentwood" --p.[4] of cover.