But I didn’t know he was when I called him. And he says, “I love doing it for you.” Because Barry was always very honest with me. I said, “I’m sorry they called you!” I didn’t call him. Yeah, well I didn’t know who he was! He was there last night. There’s that scene in the book, back in the Laverne and Shirley days, where you called up Barry Diller when he was the president of Paramount to ask him to open up the Gower gate on the lot because it was taking you too long to cross the parking lot. Do you guys remember Laverne being this cool? Vulture spoke to Marshall yesterday afternoon and, mesmerized by her Bronx accent, found out what she was thinking when she defended Britney Spears on Entertainment Tonight, how to laugh at Albert Brooks, and why she goes to so many basketball games. In it, she talks dropping acid with Princess Leia, getting Simon and Garfunkel back together, co-hosting the third episode ever of Saturday Night Live (along with her then-husband Rob Reiner), switching out Robert De Niro for Tom Hanks as the lead in Big, and riding on Dennis Rodman’s motorcycle after the Bulls three-peated. Sclemeel! Schlemazel! Penny Marshall’s memoir, My Mother Was Nuts, dropped this week.
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