Hot Slut Of The Day!
Leta Powell Drake!
My nightly routine usually involves me slapping myself in the mirror before crying at the bottom of a hot shower, but I’m going to do that something extra tonight because I can’t believe I’ve been on the internet this long and have never discovered the journalistic brilliance of THEE Leta Powell Drake! Leta Powell Drake was the moment in the 1970s and Leta Powell Drake is still the moment in 2020.
Yes, there was and is David Frost, Mike Wallace, Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters, Michael Parkinson, and Oprah, but none of them can touch the greatness of Leta Powell Drake! Leta Powell Drake, who is now 82 years old, is apparently a legend in the Nebraska local news game. She’s been inducted into the Nebraska Broadcasters Hall of Fame and the Nebraska Press Women’s Hall of Fame. And now the rest of us have finally caught up and have taken in her Don’t Give a Fuck brilliance.
Back in the olden days, actors used to have to travel the country to promote their stuff. So they’d visit towns like Lincoln, Nebraska to be interviewed by reporters like Leta Powell Drake, who was the program director of KOLN-TV. And a treasure trove of Leta Powell Drake’s interviews are on YouTube and Twitter user John Frankensteiner sorted through all her gems to deliver her greatest hits. Here’s some of them in text form:
Leta to Lee Remick: You got to work with Richard Burton in The Tempest…and now he’s dead.
Leta to Kurt Russell: Do you know who his dad is? His dad, I’m sure you watch the re-runs of Bonanza, was the sheriff on Bonanza. Bing Russell. Is he still alive, Kurt?
Leta to Gene Hackman: You’ve done some brilliant pictures, you’ve done some stinkers.
Leta to Elliott Gould: Do you have any regrets about not going into the series for M*A*S*H? No? They’ve all made a fortune, though.
Leta about Tim Curry: He looks evil in many ways.
Leta to Tom Hanks: Tom, how do you kiss underwater without bubbles coming out of your nose or mouth?
Leta to Lee Remick: Let me ask you, how would you feel, as a mother, if your daughter was involved with your former love?
Leta to Elliott Gould: You don’t consider yourself a great actor, do you?
And here’s the original Jiminy Glick making many an actor think, “I’m never coming back to Lincoln again“, except for Telly Savalas…
Currently obsessed with Leta Powell Drake, the greatest interviewer of all time. pic.twitter.com/3oCYAd9vZD
— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) November 12, 2020
Everyone keeps comparing Leta to Between Two Ferns, but please, she could make those ferns wilt with her savageness. And like I said above, this gift to the world is still alive (and is on Twitter), so Jimmy Fallon can go ahead and clean out his Tonight Show dressing room because here comes a true interviewer!
Pic: Twitter