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JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Yeah, the day before. Saturday the 21st was Ginger Rogers. Sunday the 22nd was Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes. I have a picture of me and Ginger in the lobby of the Castro. On the wall in there. Boy, Ginger was . . . SHEILA CADIGAN: Sauced? JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Oh, yeah. She was rough. I mean, she’s such a right-wing Republican and for her to be at the Castro! I just remember there were some sparks. MIGUEL PENDÁS: What happened? JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: I don’t know. She made some remarks about gay people. Yeah. The one at the Castro that was hilarious was Tuesday Weld. Do you have her on the thing? SHEILA CADIGAN: No. JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Tuesday Weld, she was the year that Bobby Duvall and Gene Hackman—Tender Mercies. Eighty-five? Maybe it was ’85. SHEILA CADIGAN: It could have been earlier. JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Earlier was Bob Mitchum. Oh, that was fun. He held court here in this booth for three days. SHEILA CADIGAN: I didn’t even know he was honored. JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Yeah. Robert Mitchum. Tuesday Weld was hilarious because Lenny Michaels—he’s a writer—lived in Berkeley, had the biggest crush on Tuesday Weld. Here, tribute to Tuesday Weld, 1983. That was the year of Duvall and Hackman—oh, how much fun did we have! SHEILA CADIGAN: How much fun DID you have? That’s what we’re here for. 41
JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: A lot of fun! So Tom Luddy talked them into letting Lenny Michaels do the on-stage interview with Tuesday Weld. MIGUEL PENDÁS: Who is Lenny Michaels? JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Lenny Michaels is a writer, lived in Berkeley. I haven’t seen him in years. Ask Tom, he’s great friends with Tom. So they get him to do this on-stage interview, and she’s very, very shy, and she has a really hard time with crowds. She called me as soon as she arrived. I didn’t know her, but we had a mutual friend—Jessica Lange—so Jessica had given her my phone number and said, “Call Jeannette, she’ll take care of you.” She was frightened like a rabbit, you know? Scared. Well, it turned out she had a stalker. Because when we got into the car from the Castro to go have dinner, this stalker jumped into the car and started ranting and raving. Then security at the Castro pulled him out and we left, and then she told me about this guy who apparently was like sitting on her doorstep in New York. So I said, “Not to worry.” I have all these friends who are cops, so we came straight here, and the rest of the night she had two cops the whole time she was here. Friends of mine were bodyguarding her. But anyway, so they get on stage, Lenny and Tuesday. He is so enamored of her that he can’t open his mouth. Now it’s like a one-way interview, and the girl is petrified, and he’s sitting here like a bump on a log and he can’t say anything. It was a disaster! And she said, “Maybe there’s some questions in the audience.” She saved it. Because he was so enamored of her that he couldn’t put a sentence together. It was very funny. SHEILA CADIGAN: Sounds like ’84 was a big year. In 1985 I have Vincent Price. JEANNETTE SHAHEEN: I remember. I was there. JEANNETTE ETHEREDGE: Oh! Do you have the photo of him lying in the doorway here? MIGUEL PENDÁS: We have some pictures of him when he came, but I don’t remember that. 42
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