How was the free coffee? 😉

oscars are bought, not won.

@joeybaseball7352 not true always, I could easily cite many examples

@@timgriffin3368 because its pay to play. it's just as political as running for office is. you have to campaign. even mo'nique stated publicly on many occasions that she was completely blackballed from the motion picture industry for not playing the game. no different than the team who wins the superbowl, or any major sporting event, the organization spent millions assembling their team to win. those players arent playing for free, or because they love the team so much. even tom brady jumped ship as soon as he was a free agent, and the bucs offered him more money. and he ends up winning with the bucs.

She was sensational, but this was one of the five best lineups of Best Actresses the Oscars have ever had. Sissy Spacek not only gave the best performance by an actress that year, she gave the best performance by any actor male or female, supporting or lead that year.

The big mistake was to submit her as lead actress. She was really a supporting character, and would have absolutely won if she was entered in that category. No way was anyone going to beat Sissy Spacek, especially since Sissy was the actual lead of her movie.

Agreed!

The film was just fantastic, a work of art.

To think she would lose her son just the next day after this interview.

...And she also really made it big, after all. Lol!

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earl campbell David Letterman had a late night talk show that aired in the daytime, which is why it was canceled. David Letterman was no Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas or John Davidson. He was much, much better than all of them, which is why he got 2 late night talk shows on two networks and was around for 32 years. I still miss David Letterman. There won’t be another talk show host like him.

I was 13 when it went on, and 14 when it went off. None of us knew he'd be back.

@@collegeman1988 Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say that he was "better" or "worse" than Merv, Mike, or John. He was *different,* yes, but they all were from each other. Merv Griffin was a successful host in his own right throughout the 60s and 70s. In fact, Merv was considered for replacing Jack Paar on the Tonight Show before Johnny got it. I think his then-wife Joanne (sp?) played a part in his getting the Tonight Show. Dave did a different kind of show than John Davidson did. Dave was more into the edgy comedy than John Davidson was, along the lines of Steve Allen and Ernie Kovacs, whereas John Davidson did more of a traditional talk show (much like Merv and Mike). But having watched all four, I wouldn't say that Dave was *better* than they were UNLESS that's what you PREFER. I liked all four hosts for different reasons because they did different styles of shows, and thus, catered to different audiences. For the same reason, I wouldn't say that Rick Dees or Scott Shannon are better than Howard Stern, just different.

@@ApartmentKing66 I can't imagine Merv Griffin in The Tonight Show role...how awful that would've been! I think he was a bit of a schmuck & a major suck up.

Same age as me. I think once September rolled around Dave lost half his audience.

It’s excellent, Donald Sutherland (and the entire cast) does a great job.

Longer than the average interview/ segment on any talk show these days

David her son committed suicide at this time and her next divorce was the next big step in her personal life.

Julian Anton exactly...you just made my point.

Julian Anton , she had no idea her son accidentally would shoot himself the following day.

Apparently her son died a day or two AFTER this aired, from an accidental gunshot wound, but he had been having huge problems. She admitted, after the fact, to not being the best mother to him, as she & her husband put their careers first. She had many problems growing up in a not so happy household, an alcoholic mother & very distant father, along with her own problems with alcohol she had kept very well hidden from the public. She had a LOT to draw on for her role in Ordinary People, that is for sure.

@@juliananton7800, it was not suicide. It was an accidental discharge of his gun. Later that year, that model of gun was taken off the market because of its hair trigger.

Good Lord, only two days later? That makes this a very haunting interview.

Remember, Mary helped get Dave his start by casting him as a regular on her short lived 1978 Variety Show Hour ( along with Michael Keaton, Swoosie Kurtz, & others )

I never watched the movie just saw bits and pieces of it I didn't like her character I guess I got used to her being on the Mary Tyler Moore Show maybe I'll watch it someday it's sad what happened to her son I think in a little bit the movie she was kind of like that they said she wasn't there for her son or her sister and her sister died from overdose her sister wanted to live with her to get away from her mom and dad but she won't let her I always liked her on the Mary Tyler Moore Show that's one of my favorite shows

I just saw that! What a tragic loss she will suffer the very next day!

He died from gunshot right so it was sudden right ?

I knew her son died around this time...but you could tell that it hadn't happened at the time of this interview. She is carefree in this interview.

really?! damn that's SO sad that she lost a son in real life and not just in the movie. at least they're reunited now.

Well ... I mean ... she's MARY TYLER MOORE and he's just david letterman.

She also made him dance in her previous show.

@@davanmani556 The worst time of his life, according to him.

You tend to focus on things that really aren't all that important.

@@dongiller Sorry, very sensitive to this stuff. I'm amazed that so few people notice this even the aspect ratio is WAY off!

@@dongiller I was just giving you a heads-up. All of your videos have been consistent up to this point.

I could explain that I'm more than aware of the aspect-ratio. I could also explain that it can't be helped. and that some sources are to be accepted as is. But I won't. Instead, try to appreciate the rarity of what's being shared here without the constant and increasingly irritating need to point out imperfections. Life is just too damn short.

@@dongiller Sorry, Don. I am truly impressed at your collection.

She played the perfect major league super uptight bitch!

@Raphaella Velasquez ...lol....

He had worked on her variety show two years earlier. They knew each other relatively well, better than other guests.

Yep, when they mentioned it I remembered they knew each other, and that's likely why he went easy on her. @@dongiller

Morning show? Late Night? Late Show?

@@dongiller Pretty sure it was Late Night, probably for Viewer Mail

Shae Fox Found it - December 22, 1983. I uploaded it in September 2017: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hLSDeNqptLKRqJ8.html

@@dongiller THANK YOU SO MUCH

www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/mary-tyler-moore-recalled-sons-accidental-death-at-24-in-memoir-w463205/

Dave must have felt awful for her having just spent time with her on his show when that news broke a day or two later

OH MY GOD. This interview was just two days before her only son, Richie Meeker died of an accidental gunshot to the head while playing with his gun on October 15, 1980. (Although it was rumored that it was a suicide.) May she and her son Rest In Peace. Rest In Peace: Mary Tyler Moore, (1936-2017) Richie Meeker,(1956-1980)

@@Reader1984 i'm not calling her son richie stupid but why the fuck would you play with a gun and have it aimed near your head?! was he high on drugs and fooling around you think?

Daniel J. Hathaway was credited with Electronic Graphics. And Bob Pook for Graphics. Perhaps Edd Hall also had a hand. Both Bob and Edd continued with Dave into Late Night.

The Electronic Graphics credit usually meant the person who operated the Chyron computer, so Pook seems to be the most likely artist.

And Swoosie Kurtz

Lol I was thinking her hair looks like Valeries from season 5 of Rhoda

Ya it wasn't nice on her or anyone I think she was letting it grow out

This had to be in the mid 80's or early 90's. The hair styles for women AND men were awful! Big & too much! Ick... Agreed, her hair style here was matronly & very unflattering.

@@coldwinter5710 The date is in the title!

@ Oh my goodness! LOL...My bad! However, I stand by my response...A horrible decade for hair (& fashion) was the 80's, & on into the mid 90's, for so many.

John, I didn't know Mary and Redford had an affair during the filming.

@@kennethrussll6059 Yeah, it's one of those things that's an open secret- if you read Mary's autobiography it's there between the lines. Whatever was going on at the time worked to their advantage because she gives one hell of a performance.

@Dusk Hollow Kathy Griffin old a story about meeting MTM at the Emmys backstage. Don Rickles was there. Kathy told Mary how much she meant to hear growing up, the whole nine yards. Mary politely thanked Kathy and went on her way. Rickles, having witnessed the exchange, said to Kathy "Mary isn't what you'd call warm" That is the kind of thing I meant. Self-protective to the point of seeming cold.

​@Dusk Hollow That to an observer, or to someone she was meeting for the first time, her protectiveness may have been seen as coldness. That Don Rickles may have been out of touch, or senile when he met Kevin Hart has no bearing on any of this.

Add to the two of them Lucille Ball. Serious, nothing like Lucy Ricardo at all.

I first checked to see if other clips from "Ordinary People" had been uploaded. They had. So I figured it was safe.

@@dongiller As others have said, thanks for the morning show stuff! And man did MTM look good here.

Back in the old days when consideration to attention spans wasn't as big of a concern :)

@@leonardstilwell1894 That and for part of its run, tDLS aired for 90 minutes ...