Hilarious Teri Garr Interview

by Will

The AV Club released a list of their favorite pieces from this year. Their interview with Teri Garr is really hilarious. My two favorite parts, which I offer here to get you to read it:

Asked if the script for the movie Head was produced by guys getting stoned and rambling into a tape recorder:

“I don’t know. But it certainly looks like a psychedelic acid trip, doesn’t it? I think it was actually very derivative of this artist at the time who was making underground films, Bruce Conner. He would make these films with cartoons, atom bombs, and stuff that were really quite interesting and metaphorical, about orgasms and stuff. So they copied that. I wouldn’t say “copied.” That’s a bad word. Plagiarized? No, that’s a worse word. “

Asked about her work on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour show:

“Ugh. That genius show. You know, I just thought of something yesterday, because I was in this documentary about the Villa Capri, a pizza place in Hollywood where James Dean used to hang out, and Sinatra. Anyway, on Sonny And Cher there was a pizza sketch we did called “Sonny’s Pizza,” and I remember when we did our first read-through, Sonny [Bono] looks at the script and he goes, “Okay, I’ll see you guys later. Chai-ay-oh!” And I said, “It’s ciao! Aren’t you Italian? C-i-a-o doesn’t spell ‘chai-ay-oh.’” [Laughs.] Sonny’s dead, so he won’t be embarrassed if I tell that story. “