Lethal Dose

Ewww. My least favorite star - Mickey Rooney - is still pounding the boards at 87, this time
in England, doing “Panto.” Some highlights from the Telegraph’s recent interview:

“THE SPICE GIRLS?” booms Mickey. “Who are the Spice Girls?”

“You know who the Spice Girls are, honey!”

“I don’t,” he says, with a dismissive scrunch of the nose. “And I don’t like anything with a name like the Spice Girls.”

“What’s wrong with their name?”

“I’m sorry,” he says waving his hands in the air. “I’m from a different era. I’ve done film after film… Black Stallion, Boys Town. I’ve done musicals with Judy. Nineteen Andy Hardy pictures. I’ve known Sinatra and Sammy Davis Junior. I’ve worked with June Allyson and Perry Como…”

What follows is a fascinating romp through his depleted memory banks: entertaining the troops during the Second World War, earning a medal for his bravery which he is wearing today on his tweed blazer; how he reported at the Nuremberg trials for a newspaper; a visit to Hitler’s lair.

Read the rest here.