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Yo, Adrienne!
March 21, 2007

Right off, I’ve got to tell you that I hadn’t planned on talking about Adrienne Barbeau’s renowned bust when I interviewed her this morning regarding Sony’s DVD release of the first season of the controversial Seventies sitcom Maude, in which Barbeau co-starred as the titular Bea Arthur’s daughter, Carol.

But having done some quick research on the Internet, a quote from an earlier interview caught my eye and I had to confirm its authenticity.

"If the producers needed information in a scene, my character was the one to do it,” Ms. Barbeau reportedly had said. “What I didn't know is that when I said those things, I was usually walking down a flight of stairs and no one was even listening to me. They were just watching my breasts precede me."

As a boy who had grown up watching Adrienne in Maude—not to mention in a handful of Love Boat and Fantasy Island episodes and a few years of The Battle of the Network Stars (hell, even The Cannonball Run)—I had to ask her if she really said that. And, more importantly, if it was true.

“Oh yes, yes, of course,” she laughed at my query. “Of course, it’s something I found out years later. It’s something that fans pointed out to me and, well, there it is! I imagine that the way I looked was probably not what exposition or comedy people were expecting!

Wow. So now I know.

Posted by Laurence Lerman on March 21, 2007 | Comments (0)