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Anonymous
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81.73.250.x | posted: 7/29/2004 at 5:50:35 AM ET
Has anyone read After All and the things that MTM says about Bernadette?
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 GraceAnne
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New York, NY | posted: 7/29/2004 at 8:40:07 AM ET
I did, pretty insightful stuff, though brief. She talks about how she and BP share dark places where from which their talent arose or something to that effect.
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 moljul
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| posted: 7/29/2004 at 11:14:34 AM ET
Gosh, I don't remember that part. What I do remember is the rather hysterical story of the two of them going to an all-night pharmacy so Mary could get an emergency prescription filled before she went on vacation. It ended up being a rather embarrassing moment for MTM with Bernadette (as well as pretty much every other person in the pharmacy) laughing at her. Very funny.
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Anonymous
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64.12.116.x | posted: 7/29/2004 at 11:51:14 AM ET
Does anyone have links to these stories, or could share them in more detail.
Allie =)
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moljul
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| posted: 7/29/2004 at 12:02:50 PM ET
I could have sworn it was typed up on this site during a discussion but I can't find it through a search. If I have time when I get home tonight I'll type up a small segment from the book.
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futuremamarose87
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that'd be much appreciated, moljul.
"It was like being high when you reach those high notes."
~Bernadette Peters
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 Rose
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| posted: 7/29/2004 at 12:59:27 PM ET
I have the book upstairs in my hotel room. If nobody has typed it by tomorrow I will.
"Oh no, you won't. No, not a chance. No arguements, shut up and dance."
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 BleuTwinks
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Arizona | posted: 7/30/2004 at 2:06:10 AM ET
I also only remember the pharmacy story  I haven't looked at it in a while. I know I have it around my house somewhere.
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BleuTwinks
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Found it!! I have a little time on my hands right now and don't mind typing it.
Here's what Mary says about The Last Best Year:
"In 1990 I worked with Bernadette Peters in an ABC movie called The Last Best Year. She played a lonely creature coming to terms with her life as she dies of cancer. My role was that of the also troubled psychologist who walks the journey with her to its inevitable but finally peaceful conclusion. It was a heavyweight project, and we went at it with more than a little investment of selves as we rehearsed and then filmed this true story in too few days. Neither of us thought much of the production in its on-air form, but we liked each other immediately and shared a common respect for the other's dark places that give life to the people we play and are. She's also one of the funniest people I know-her humor coming at you from around unexpected corners and hidden turns."
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BleuTwinks
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Ok here's most of the pharmacy story:
Bernadette refused to let me go alone(an all night pharmacy often looks like the emergency room of an inner-city hospital) Bless this dear friend who has given me support on a number of occasions.The pharmacy counter had a long line of variously needy people in front of it. Behind it, the pharmacist was carrying on a rather loud argument with someone, while the woman ahead of me moaned over a burned hand she held close to her chest. We'd been standing there for several minutes watching a very cranky woman take prescriptions and pass them to the pharmacist when the phone rang. Answering it the exasperated pharmacist then announced to the assemblage that "if Mary Tyler Moore is here she has a phone call." I cringed. The tiny sea of people parted and all conversation seemed to stop as I made my way to the phone. It seemed to me that the houselights dimmed at that moment, and a tiny spotlight shone on my face as I answered. I heard Robert's voice expressing his concern as to whether I'd brought money with me. Of course I had! I felt like the kid whose parent asks her in front of everyone if she remembered to go to the bathroom before leaving the house. Bernadette joined me again as I took my place in line, to suggest several obnoxious fuchia-hued lipsticks for me. I was laughing-she was doing a good job of keeping my mind off the increasing urge to pee and the interminable waiting.After what seemed like a month the woman behind the counter, now looking like a prison matron motioned for me to give her the prescription, which I did. As I started to back away to wait for it, she said in a voice that I swear was amplified,"I have some questions for you. If you're Mary Tyler Moore why does this say Mary Levine? And who's the doctor, another Levine?" I did my best to explain the complications of a two name marriage sotto voce, so as not to include any more of the very interested group around me than was necessary.I was commanded to speak louder. She "don't hear so good." "Address?" I blurted out my correct address, certain afterward that in our midst was a serial killer making note of it. "Phone?" I was able to fake one digit."Age?" Now this was something to consider. I have never lied about my age except to make myself a year older for the Van Dyke show.Later as I approached the age when one might consider taking off a few I couldn't because Richie was born when I was nineteen. I was supposed to be well-bred, sophisticated, not a child bride from the hill country. "Age?" she repeated. "Fifty three," I said. "What?" "Fifty six!" I screamed back. As I looked away several people,including Bernadette, quickly turned their backs to me, revealing in the rapid rise and fall of their shoulders, their reactions. When at last the woman beckoned me to her she patted my hand and said "You were my least whacko one tonight. That'll be eighty-nine fifty." I borrowed twenty one dollars from Bernadette and we left.
ROFL I was getting hysterical typing that up. The thought of Mary and Bernadette in a late night pharmacy is too funny.
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moljul
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| posted: 7/30/2004 at 10:30:05 AM ET
Thanks for posting all of that. I totally forgot to get my book out last night. 
It is a great story.
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 Jean
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Yes, thanks for this, BleuTwinks.
There is just one other little sentence I'd like someone to include in the pharmacy story--and that is, where they were when Mary first took ill. I know where but I'd like Mary to tell it. (And for those of you who know, isn't this an AHA-now-we-put-2 and-2-together? It was for me.)
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moljul
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| posted: 7/30/2004 at 12:07:45 PM ET
Okay, I'm not quite getting the AHA part of it. I believe she realized she was getting a UTI or a bladder infection (can't remember which one) while she and her husband where out to dinner with Bernadette.
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Karen
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Don't have the book in hand, but it was while they were out dining at Bouley.
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moljul
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| posted: 7/30/2004 at 12:25:06 PM ET
Was there a year listed for when the story took place? It's been so long since I've read the book. I'm assuming though that it would be during the time that Bernadette was dating David Bouley? MTM's book came out in 1995 didn't it and she and Bernadette didn't really become friends until 1990 when they did the movie together.
Did anyone else see the hysterical story on Sondheim.com about Bernadette waiting for David Bouley outside a Broadway theater to see the show Passion. I'll try to find it and post the link.
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Anonymous
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24.154.80.x | posted: 7/30/2004 at 12:58:15 PM ET
The one someone told about sitting next to her during the show? Very amusing. It seems mentions of chance encounters -- a lot of very cute ones -- with Bernadette used to be a lot more frequent, especially on Melinda's message board.
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