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Carol Creighton Burnett
(born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedian, singer, dancer
and writer. Burnett started her career in New York. After becoming a hit
on Broadway, she made her television debut. After successful appearances
on The Garry Moore Show, Burnett moved to Los Angeles and began an
eleven-year run on The Carol Burnett Show which was aired on CBS
television from 1967 to 1978. With roots in vaudeville, The Carol
Burnett Show was a variety show which combined comedy sketches, song,
and dance. The comedy sketches included film parodies and character
pieces. Burnett created many characters during the show's television
run.
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Background information
Born
Carol Creighton Burnett
April 26, 1933 (age 78)
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Occupation
Actress, comedian, singer, dancer,
writer
Years active
1955–present
Spouse
Don Saroyan (m. 1955–1962)
Joe Hamilton (m. 1963–1984)
Brian Miller (m. 2001)
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Early life
Burnett was born in San Antonio,
Texas, the daughter of Ina Louise (née Creighton), a publicity writer for movie
studios, and Joseph Thomas Burnett, a movie theater manager.[1][2] Both of her
parents suffered from alcoholism, and at a young age she was left with her
grandmother, Mabel Eudora White. Her parents divorced in the late 1930s, and
Burnett and her grandmother moved to an apartment near her mother’s in an
impoverished area of Hollywood. There, they stayed in a boarding house with her
younger half-sister Chrissy.[3]
When Burnett was in the second and
half grade, she briefly invented an imaginary twin sister named Karen, with
Shirley Temple-like dimples. Motivated to further the pretense, Burnett recalled
fondly that she "fooled the other boarders in the rooming house where we lived
by frantically switching clothes and dashing in and out of the house by the fire
escape and the front door. Then I became exhausted and Karen mysteriously
vanished."[4]
For a while, she worked as an
usherette at what is now the Hollywood Pacific Theatre (the forecourt of which
is now the location of her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; see the section
in the theatre's article for more information). After graduating from Hollywood
High School in 1951, Burnett won a scholarship to UCLA, where she initially
planned on studying journalism. During her first year of college, Burnett
switched her focus to theater arts and English, with the goal of becoming a
playwright. She found she had to take an acting course to enter the playwright
program; "I wasn't really ready to do the acting thing, but I had no choice."[5]
She followed a sudden impulse in her first performance; "Don't ask me why, but
when we were in front of the audience, I suddenly decided I was going to stretch
out all my words and my first line came out 'I'm baaaaaaaack!'"[5] The audience
response moved her deeply:
They laughed and it felt great. All
of a sudden, after so much coldness and emptiness in my life, I knew the
sensation of all that warmth wrapping around me. I had always been a quiet, shy,
sad sort of girl and then everything changed for me. You spend the rest of your
life hoping you'll hear a laugh that great again.[5]
During this time, Burnett performed
in several university productions, garnering recognition for her comedic and
musical abilities. Her mother disapproved of her acting ambitions:
She wanted me to be a writer. She
said you can always write, no matter what you look like. When I was growing up
she told me to be a little lady, and a couple of times I got a whack for
crossing my eyes or making funny faces. Of course, she never, I never, dreamed I
would ever perform.[4]
The young Burnett, always insecure
about her looks, described her reaction to her mother's advice of "You can
always write, no matter what you look like", in her 1986 memoir One More Time:
"God, that hurt!"
In 1954, during her junior year, a
professor invited Burnett and some other students to perform at a black-tie
party. A man and his wife approached her afterward, as she was putting cookies
in her purse to take home to her grandmother.[6] Instead of reprimanding her,
the man complimented Burnett's performance and asked about her future plans.
When he discovered that she wanted to go try her luck with musical comedy in New
York, but did not have enough money, he offered her[6] and her boyfriend Don
Saroyan each a $1000 interest-free loan on the spot. The conditions were that it
was to be paid back in five years, his name was never to be revealed, and if she
became a success, she would help others attain their dreams.[6] Burnett took him
up on his offer. She and Saroyan left college and moved to New York to pursue
acting careers. That same year, Burnett's father died of causes related to his
alcoholism.
Career
Early
career
After spending her first year in
New York working as a hat check girl and failing to land acting jobs, Burnett
along with other girls living at The Rehearsal Club, a boarding house for women
seriously pursuing an acting career, put on The Rehearsal Club Revue on March 3,
1955. They mailed invitations to agents, who showed up along with stars like
Celeste Holm and Marlene Dietrich, and this opened doors for several of the
girls. Burnett was cast in a minor role on The Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney
Show in 1955. She played the girlfriend of a ventriloquist’s dummy on the
popular children’s program. This role led to her starring role opposite Buddy
Hackett in the short-lived sitcom Stanley from 1956 to 1957.
After Stanley, Burnett found
herself unemployed for a short time. She eventually bounced back a few months
later as a highly popular performer on the New York circuit of cabarets and
night clubs, most notably for a hit parody number called "I Made a Fool of
Myself Over John Foster Dulles" (Dulles was Secretary of State at the time). In
1957, Burnett performed this number on both The Tonight Show, hosted by Jack
Paar, and The Ed Sullivan Show. Burnett also worked as a regular on one of
television's earliest game shows, Pantomime Quiz, during this time. In 1957,
just as Burnett was achieving her first small successes, her mother died.
Burnett's first true taste of
success came with her appearance on Broadway in the 1959 musical Once Upon a
Mattress. The same year, she became a regular player on The Garry Moore Show, a
job that lasted until 1962. She won an Emmy[7] that year for her "Outstanding
Performance in a Variety or Musical Program or Series" on the show. Burnett
portrayed a number of characters, most memorably the put-upon cleaning woman who
would later become her signature alter-ego. With her success on the Moore show,
Burnett finally rose to headliner status and appeared in the 1962 special Julie
and Carol at Carnegie Hall, co-starring her friend Julie Andrews. The show was
produced by Bob Banner, directed by Joe Hamilton, and written by Mike Nichols
and Ken Welch.[8] Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall won an Emmy Award for
Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Music. Burnett also
guest-starred on a number of shows during this time, including The Twilight Zone
episode "Cavender is Coming" and a recurring role as a tough female Marine in
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.. Burnett became good friends with the latter show's star,
Jim Nabors, who would later be her first guest every season on her variety
show.[9]
In 1963, Lucille Ball became a
friend and mentor to Burnett, and after having the younger performer guest star
on The Lucy Show a number of times, Ball reportedly offered Burnett her own
sitcom called "Here's Agnes", to be produced by Desilu Productions. Burnett
declined the offer, however, deciding instead to put together a variety show.
The two remained close friends until Ball's death in 1989. Ball sent flowers
every year on her birthday. When Burnett awoke on the day of her 56th birthday
in 1989, she discovered via the morning news that Ball had died. Later that
afternoon, flowers arrived at Burnett's house with the note "Happy Birthday,
Kid. Love, Lucy."[10]
In 1964, Burnett was cast opposite
Caterina Valente and Bob Newhart on the variety show The Entertainers which ran
for only one season. She also starred in the Broadway musical Fade Out - Fade In
but was forced to quit after sustaining a neck injury in a taxi accident. The
show’s producers sued the actress for breach of contract, but the suit was later
dropped.
The
Carol Burnett Show
The hour-long Carol Burnett Show,
which debuted in 1967, garnered 23 Emmy Awards and won or was nominated for
multiple Emmy Awards every season it was on the air. Its ensemble cast included
Tim Conway (who was a guest player until the ninth season),[11] Harvey Korman,
Lyle Waggoner, and the teenaged Vicki Lawrence (who was cast partly because she
looked like a younger Burnett). The network did not want her to do a variety
show because they believed only men could be successful at variety, but
Burnett's contract required that they give her one season of whatever kind of
show she wanted to make.[12] She chose to carry on the tradition of past variety
show successes.
A true variety show, The Carol
Burnett Show struck a chord with viewers. Among other things, it parodied films
("Went With the Wind" for Gone With the Wind), television ("As the Stomach
Turns" for the soap opera As the World Turns) and commercials. Musical numbers
were also a frequent feature. Burnett and her team struck gold with the original
skit "The Family", which eventually was spun off into its own television show
called Mama's Family, starring Vicki Lawrence.
Burnett opened most shows with an
impromptu question and answer session with the audience, lasting a few minutes,
during which she often demonstrated her ability to humorously ad lib. On
numerous occasions, she obliged when asked to perform her trademark[13] Tarzan
yell.
Burnett ended each show by tugging
her ear, which was a message to her grandmother who had raised her. This was
done to let her know that she was doing well and that she loved her. During the
show's run, Burnett's grandmother died. On an Intimate Portrait episode on
Burnett, she tearfully recalled her grandmother's last moments: "She said to my
husband Joe from her hospital bed 'Joe, you see that spider up there?' There was
no spider but Joe said he did anyhow. She said 'Every few minutes a big spider
jumps on that little spider and they go at it like RABBITS!!' And then she died.
There's laughter in everything!"[14] Burnett continued the tradition of tugging
her ear.
The Carol Burnett Show ceased
production in 1978, and is generally regarded as the last successful major
network prime-time variety show[citation needed]. It continues to have success
in syndicated reruns.
Other
roles
Burnett starred in a few films
while her variety show was running, including Pete 'n' Tillie (1972). After the
show ended, Burnett assumed a number of roles that departed from comedy. She
appeared in several dramatic roles, most notably in the television movie
Friendly Fire. She appeared as Beatrice O'Reilly in the film Life of The Party:
The Story of Beatrice, a story about a woman fighting her alcoholism. Her other
film work includes The Four Seasons, Annie, and Noises Off. She also returned to
star in a different role as Queen Aggravain in the movie version of Once Upon a
Mattress.
Burnett also made occasional
returns to the stage: in 1974, she appeared at The Muny Theater in St. Louis,
Missouri, in I Do! I Do! with Rock Hudson and eleven years later, she took the
supporting role of Carlotta Campion in the 1985 concert performance of Stephen
Sondheim's Follies.
Burnett made frequent appearances
as a panelist on the game show Password, an association she maintained until the
early 1980s. She was also the first celebrity to appear on the children's series
Sesame Street, on that series' first episode on November 10, 1969.[15]
In the 1980s and 1990s, Burnett
made several attempts at starting a new variety program. She also appeared
briefly on The Carol Burnett Show's "The Family" sketches spinoff, Mama's
Family, as her stormy character, Eunice Higgins. She played the matriarch in the
cult comedy miniseries Fresno, which parodied the primetime soap opera Falcon
Crest. She returned to TV in the mid-1990s as a supporting character on the
sitcom Mad About You, playing Theresa Stemple, the mother of main character
Jamie Buchman (Helen Hunt).
Burnett has long been a fan of the
soap opera All My Children. She realized a dream when Agnes Nixon created the
role of Verla Grubbs for her. Burnett suddenly found herself playing the
long-lost daughter of Langley Wallingford (Louis Edmonds) and causing trouble
for her stepmother Phoebe Tyler-Wallingford (Ruth Warrick). She hosted a 25th
anniversary special about the show in 1995 and made a brief cameo appearance as
Verla Grubbs on the January 5, 2005, episode which celebrated the show's 35th
anniversary. Burnett reprised her role as Grubbs in September 2011 as part of
the series' finale.
In 2008, Burnett had her second
role as an animated character, in Horton Hears a Who!. Her first was in The
Trumpet of the Swan. In 2009, she made a guest appearance on the Law & Order:
Special Victims Unit, for which she was nominated for the Emmy Award for
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. In November 2010, she guest starred
on an episode of Glee as the mother of cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester.[16]
Burnett was open to her fans, never
refusing to give an autograph, and had limited patience for "Those who've made
it, then complain about loss of privacy."[4]
Personal life
The first house Burnett lived in
was the Beverly Hills house formerly owned by Harry James and Betty Grable.
Growing up in rented rooms, an actual house was "a luxury", as "A Murphy bed was
[her] idea of spacious."[4]
She married Don Saroyan on December
15, 1955; the couple divorced in 1962. On May 4, 1963, Burnett married TV
producer Joe Hamilton, a divorced father of eight, with whom she had three
daughters: actress and writer Carrie Hamilton, Jody Hamilton, and singer Erin
Hamilton. The marriage ended in divorce in 1984, and Joe Hamilton later died of
cancer (1991). On November 24, 2001, Burnett married Brian Miller (principal
drummer in and contractor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra), who is twenty-three
years her junior.
In January 2002, Carrie Hamilton
died of lung and brain cancer at the age of 38. She had become addicted to drugs
as a teenager. Burnett and Carrie wrote a play together called Hollywood Arms,
which was adapted from Burnett's bestselling memoir, One More Time. The Broadway
production featured Linda Lavin as Burnett's character's beloved grandmother,
and Michele Pawk as Burnett's mother Louise. Pawk went on to receive the 2003
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play.
In February 2012, during the taping
of the Joan Rivers show "Joan and Melissa, Joan Knows Best," Joan Rivers came
over to Carol Burnett to ask her to make an appearance at her grandson's school.
Burnett was not happy about the encounter, and tried to rebuff the invite.
Towards the end of the conversation, Rivers asked Burnett why she was agitated.
Carol Burnett said "Hawaii," and walked away.
Lawsuits
Burnett drew attention in 1981 when
she sued the tabloid newspaper National Enquirer for libel after the Enquirer
described her alleged public drunkenness, purportedly with Henry Kissinger.
Carol was particularly sensitive to the accusations because of her parents' own
alcoholism. The case, Carol Burnett v. National Enquirer, Inc., was a landmark
for libel cases involving celebrities, although the unprecedented $1.6 million
verdict for Burnett was reduced to about $800,000 on appeal. She donated a
portion of that award to the University of Hawaii and University of California
at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, saying she hoped the suit would teach
aspiring journalists the dangers of defaming individuals in articles. The money
was used to fund Law and Ethics courses at the school. Burnett said at the time
that she didn't care if she just won "cab fare", and that the lawsuit was a
matter of principle.
In March 2007, she sued 20th
Century Fox for copyright infringement, trademark violation, statutory violation
of right of privacy, and misappropriation of name and likeness over the use of
an altered version of her signature closing song and the portrayal of her
cleaning lady character "charwoman" in an episode of Family Guy.[17] On May 26,
2007, the lawsuit was dismissed by a Los Angeles federal judge.[18] The judge
used Hustler Magazine v. Falwell as the general basis for the decision.[19]
Awards
and recognition
Emmy
Awards
-
1962 – Outstanding Performance in a
Variety or Musical Program or Series, The Garry Moore Show
-
1963 – Outstanding Performance in
a Variety or Musical Program or Series, Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall and An
Evening with Carol Burnett
-
1969, 1970, 1971 – Nominated for
Outstanding Variety or Musical Series, The Carol Burnett Show
-
1972 – Outstanding Variety Series
– Musical, The Carol Burnett Show, shared with Joe Hamilton (executive producer)
and Arnie Rosen (producer)
-
1972 – Nominated for Outstanding
Single Program – Variety or Musical – Variety and Popular Music, Julie and Carol
at Lincoln Center
-
1973 – Nominated for Outstanding
Variety Musical Series, The Carol Burnett Show, with Joe Hamilton (executive
producer), and Bill Angelos, Buz Kohan, and Arnie Rosen (producers)
-
1974 – Outstanding Music-Variety
Series, The Carol Burnett Show, with Joe Hamilton (executive producer) and Ed
Simmons (producer)
-
1974 – Nominated for Best Lead
Actress in a Drama, 6 Rms Riv Vu
-
1975 – Outstanding Comedy-Variety
or Music Series, The Carol Burnett Show, with Joe Hamilton (executive producer)
and Ed Simmons (producer)
-
1976, 1977, 1978 – Nominated for
Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Series, The Carol Burnett Show, with Joe
Hamilton (executive producer) and Ed Simmons (producer)
-
1977 – Nominated for Outstanding
Special – Comedy-Variety or Music, Sills and Burnett at the Met, with Beverly
Sills and Joe Hamilton (producer)
-
1979 – Nominated for Outstanding
Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special, Friendly Fire
-
1983 – Nominated for Outstanding
Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, Texaco Star Theater:
Opening Night
-
1993 – Nominated for Outstanding
Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, The Larry Sanders Show
-
1995 – Nominated for Outstanding
Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, Men, Movies & Carol
-
1997 – Outstanding Guest Actress
in a Comedy Series, Mad About You
-
1998 – Nominated for Outstanding
Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, Mad About You
-
2002 – Nominated for Outstanding
Variety, Music or Comedy Special, Carol Burnett: Show Stoppers, with John
Hamilton and Rick Hawkins (executive producers), Jody Hamilton and Mary Jo Blue
(producers)
-
2009 – Nominated for Outstanding
Guest Actress in a Drama Series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Golden
Globe Awards
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1968 – Best TV Star – Female, The
Carol Burnett Show
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1970, 1972, 1977, 1978 – Best TV
Actress – Musical/Comedy, The Carol Burnett Show
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1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979
– Nominated for Best TV Actress – Musical/Comedy, The Carol Burnett Show
-
1973 – Nominated for Best Motion
Picture Actress – Musical/Comedy, Pete 'n' Tillie
-
1979 – Nominated for Best Motion
Picture Actress in a Supporting Role, A Wedding
-
1982 – Nominated for Best Motion
Picture Actress – Comedy/Musical, The Four Seasons
-
1983 – Nominated for Best Actress
in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical, Annie
-
1983 – Nominated for Best
Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV, Life
of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
-
1991 – Nominated for Best
Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series – Comedy/Musical, Carol & Company
Tony
Awards
Other
-
Burnett received a Peabody Award in
1962.
-
She was awarded the Women in Film
Crystal Award in 1980.[21]
-
In 1997, she was awarded the Women
in Film Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her
creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of
television.[22]
-
She was a recipient of the 2003
Kennedy Center Honors.
-
President George W. Bush awarded
Burnett the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 9, 2005.[23]
-
She was named the Grand Marshal of
the 109th Rose Parade and the 84th Rose Bowl Game on New Year's Day in 1998.
-
She was the first honoree and
presenter at second annual awards ceremony of the Back Stage West Garland Awards
in 1999
-
On December 1, 2009, she was
inducted into the California Hall of Fame at The California Museum for History,
Women and the Arts.
-
Burnett was presented a star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6439 Hollywood Blvd., in front of the
Hollywood Pacific Theatre where she worked as an usher in 1957.
Work
Television
The Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney
Show (regular in 1955)
Stanley (1956–1957)
Omnibus (October 1956)
The Garry Moore Show (regular from
1959–1962)
Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall
(1962)
The Twilight Zone (played Agnes
Grep in episode "Cavender Is Coming" – 1962)
An Evening with Carol Burnett
(1963)
Calamity Jane (1963)
Once Upon a Mattress (1964)
The Entertainers (1964–1965)
The Lucy Show (special guest
star-4 episodes-1966)
Carol + 2 (1967)
Get Smart (1967) as "Ozark" Annie
Jones in Season 3 episode "One Of Our Olives Is Missing"
The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
The Carol Burnett Show in London
(1970)
Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center
(1971)
Sesame Street (1971) giving a
lecture about noses
Once Upon a Mattress (1972)
6 Rms Riv Vu (1974)
Out to Lunch (1974)
Twigs (1975)
Cher (1975)
Sills and Burnett at the Met
(1976)
All My Children (cast member:
1976, 1983, 1995, 2005, and 2011)
Dolly and Carol in Nashville
(1978)
The Grass Is Always Greener over
the Septic Tank (1978)
Friendly Fire (1979)
Carol Burnett & Company (1979)
The Tenth Month (1979)
The Muppet Show (1980) (Guest star
Season 5, Episode 15)
Eunice (1982) (teleplay based on
the Family sketches separate from Mama's Family)
Life of the Party: The Story of
Beatrice (1982)
Between Friends (1983)
Mama's Family (cast member from
1983 to 1985)
Burnett Discovers Domingo (1984)
Magnum, P.I. (1984 and 1988 as
Susan Johnson)
The Laundromat (1985)
Follies in Concert (1986)
Fresno (1986) (miniseries)
Plaza Suite (1987) (also executive
producer)
Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin
(1987)
Fame (1987) – episode Reggie and
Rose (with Carrie Hamilton), broadcast April 27, 1987
Hostage (1988)
Julie & Carol: Together Again
(1989)
Carol & Company (1990) (canceled
after one and a half seasons)
The Carol Burnett Show (1991)
(canceled after two months)
The Larry Sanders Show (1992) -
episode The Spider Episode
The Carol Burnett Show: A Reunion
(1993)
Carol Burnett: The Special Years
(1994)
Seasons of the Heart (1994)
Men, Movies & Carol (1994)
Mad About You (Theresa Stemple,
1996–1999)
Touched by an Angel (1997) –
episode The Comeback (with Carrie Hamilton), broadcast November 23, 1997
The Marriage Fool (1998)
Putting It Together (2000)
Carol Burnett: Show Stoppers
(2001) (also executive producer)
The Carol Burnett Show: Let's Bump
Up the Lights (2004) (also executive producer)
Once Upon a Mattress (2005) (also
executive producer)
Desperate Housewives (2006) (guest
starring role as Eleanor Mason)
American Masters Tribute to Carol
Burnett (2007)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(2009) (Emmy award-nominated guest appearance[6])
The Bonnie Hunt Show (2010)
(Special guest)
Glee (2010) (Special guest
star)[16]
Conan (2012)
Filmography
Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
(1963)
Rowan & Martin at the Movies
(1968) (short subject)
Star Spangled Salesman (1968)
(short subject)
Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
The Front Page (1974)
A Wedding (1978)
Health (1980)
The Four Seasons (1981)
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
(1981)
Annie (1982)
Noises Off (1992)
Moon Over Broadway (1997)
(documentary)
Get Bruce (1999) (documentary)
The Trumpet of the Swan (2001)
(voice)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the
Legends Who Were There (2004) (documentary)
Once Upon a Mattress (2005)
Horton Hears a Who! (2008) (voice)
Post Grad (2009)
The Secret World of Arrietty
(2012) (voice)
Stage
Once Upon a Mattress (1959)
Fade Out - Fade In (1964)
Moon Over Buffalo (1995)
Putting It Together (1999)
References
1.^ Carol Burnett Biography (1933–)
2.^ That her mother's maiden name
was Creighton is confirmed in Carol's autobiography "One More Time"
3.^ Carol Burnett Fan
4.^ a b c d Joan Downs. "Here's to
you, Mrs. Hamilton." Life. Vol. 70, No. 18, May 14, 1971. pp 93–97.
5.^ a b c Ouzounian, Richard (June
6, 2009). "One laugh changed Carol Burnett's life". Toronto Star. Retrieved
September 18, 2009.
6.^ a b c d Birnie, Peter
(September 16, 2009). "Carol Burnett's comedy reign extends into dramatic role".
Vancouver Sun. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
7.^ "Carol Burnett Emmy Winner".
The Emmys. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
8.^ Shulman, Arthur; Youman, Roger
(1966). How Sweet It Was. Television: A Pictorial Commentary. Bonanza Books, a
division of Crown Publishers. Book has no page numbers; source: Chapter V, They
Called Them Spectaculars
9.^ Biography of Carol Burnett at
www.nndb.com
10.^ Fink, Mitchell. The Last Days
of Dead Celebrities. Miramax, July 2006, 288 pages.
11.^ Interview on Entertainment
Tonight. May 22, 2006.
12.^ [1] LA Times Interview
13.^ "Carol Burnett's Tarzan
Yell". allDAY on Today. March 12, 2008. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
14.^ Lifetime Channel's Intimate
Portrait episode on Burnett
15.^ Muppet Wiki: Sesame Street
episode 1
16.^ a b Hetrick, Adam (August 4,
2010). ""Glee" Nabs Carol Burnett as Sue Sylvester's Mom". Playbill.com.
Retrieved August 4, 2010.
17.^ "Carol Burnett v. Family
Guy." The Smoking Gun. Retrieved on 2010-11-23.
18.^ Carol Burnett vs. Family Guy,
10 Zen Monkeys.com. Retrieved on 3 July 2007.
19.^ "Burnett v. Twentieth Century
Fox Film Corp.". California Anti-SLAPP Project. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
"Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46, 51, 108 S.Ct. 876, 99 L.Ed.2d 41
(1988). Here, Family Guy put a cartoon version of Carol Burnett/the Charwoman in
an awkward, ridiculous, crude, and absurd situation in order to lampoon and
parody her as a public figure. Therefore, the Court finds that a parodic
character may reasonably be perceived in the Family Guy's use of the Charwoman
because it is a “literary or artistic work that broadly mimics an author's
characteristic style and holds it up to ridicule.”"
20.^ Presentation speech by Alan
King, 1969 Tony Awards broadcast on NBC
21.^ "Past Recipients: Crystal
Award". Women In Film. Retrieved May 10, 2011.
22.^ http://wif.org/past-recipients
23.^ "Carol Burnett jokes with
President George W. Bush ...". The White House. Nov. 9, 2005. Retrieved February
20, 2012.
24. Senate Medal of Honor page
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