Special Report: Love, Gilda (2018)

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Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Mike talks to director Lisa D'Apolito about her feature documentary debut, Love, Gilda (2018), a portrait of Detroit's own Gilda Radner who took the world by storm in the 1970s and whose legacy continues to make a difference today.

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Hi, I'm Gilda Radner.
0:06.7	And, uh, okay, now.
0:11.7	I can't believe this is her handwriting.
0:14.6	This is a real honor.
0:16.7	Like, seriously, this is huge.
0:17.9	Are these actually her papers? Like what she...
0:21.6	This is, um, Gilda Radner, her voice and her writing.
0:29.1	She was a very first performer, chosen for the cast of Saturday Night Live.
0:34.9	Dear Rosanna, Rosanna, Dan.
0:40.3	From the time I was a kid, I loved to pretend. I can't imagine how I got famous.
0:43.3	I just took the next job and millions of people were watching me do it.
0:46.3	There was so much in the world that had yet to be carved out for women.
0:52.3	The guys weren't saying, hey, let's think of a way to put Gilda in the sketch.
0:56.4	But he was always funny.
0:59.6	I suppose being in the thick of it,
1:01.3	I don't even realize what strides we were making.
1:04.0	Boom, bab, boom!
1:06.2	The ratings turned them from, what,
1:07.8	$2 million into $5 million?
1:09.6	30 million?
1:11.6	I mean, they just loved her.
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