Gilda Radner SNL Quotes

Does anyone remember an ancient Saturday Night Live skit from January 1982 (season 7, episode 9) featuring Dan Ackroyd as FDR, actor Robert Conrad (that week's SNL guest host) as one of the president's advisers, and Gilda Radner as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.  FDR is seated at his Oval Office ...  

A few weeks ago, with zero fanfare, Warner Bros. released a DVD version of Gilda Live, the Mike Nichols-directed concert pic of Gilda Radner’s 1979 one-woman show. The disc — a bare-bones straight-from-video transfer — ended up under the piles of new releases on my desk until yesterday, when I found it, popped it in  

November 21, 2009 -- Here are a few of this week's new-to-DVD movies, led by the late Gilda Radner's 1980 concert film. "Gilda Live" (Warner, 1980; R for language,...  

Recommended THE MOVIE:During the summer of 1979, during her hiatus from Saturday Night Live, Gilda Radner performed a live Broadway show featuring many of the popular characters she had invented for the subversive late-night comedy series. Produced and directed by SNL-mastermind Lorne Michaels, Gilda Live was a big hit with audiences. The year following, a film document of the comedienne's...  

I'm trying to imagine what Michael Ignatieff would look like cross-dressed in frumpy dress, sweater and reading glasses.What's all this I hear about body bags being sent to native reserves afflicted with swine flu? Where is the humanity? Where is the decency? Oh, dear lord, how can Canadians possibly trust this government whose only response to disease among natives is to dispatch the Grim Reaper to cull their legions and bring them back in...  

Just heard from the good folks at Warner Archive that the transplendent 1980 concert film Gilda Live -- starring the unutterably adorable Gilda Radner and directed by Mike Nichols -- is at long last making an appearance on DVD. This is wonderful news on all sorts of levels, but one of them is it means that, finally, you can watch a high quality digital version of perhaps the greatest song and live musical performance of the 20th century. I...  

In her book about living with cancer, “It’s Always Something,” the late comedian Gilda Radner wrote, “Having cancer made me part of an elite club I’d rather not belong to.”Radner was the inspiration for a real club, where people living...  

John Belushi reprises his role as a Japanese warrior in bizarre situations. Clip includes (in order of appearance) Bill Murray, Jane Curtin, Larraine Newman, OJ Simpson, Dan Aykroyd, Don Novello and Gilda Radner.