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Lily Tomlin starred in the Miramax film "Flirting With Disaster" (1996); and joined Jack Lemmon, Dan Akroyd and Bonnie Hunt in “Getting Away with Murder” (1996). Most recently Tomlin starred opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Jenna Elfman in Buena Vista’s “Krippendorf’s Tribe” (1998).
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Lily Tomlin is now joking about her now infamous four-letter-word-filled exchange with director David O. Russell on the set of "I Heart Huckabees." Video of the supercharged meltdown has been making the viral rounds on YouTube. At least it isn't a sex tape!
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With her formidable dramatic weight, Tomlin had found another long-running TV home on NBC’s presidential drama, “The West Wing†(1999-2006), recurring on the series from 2002 until its final season. Showing no signs of fatigue, Tomlin was very much in demand. Small parts in studio films like the Bruce Willis vehicle, “The Kid†(2000), the college satire “Orange County†(2002), and a re-teaming with David O. Russell for the existential art house comedy “I Heart Huckabees†(2004), provided a versatile string of roles within an industry that often relegated its older performers to thankless roles. A few years after the release of the modest hit film, Tomlin’s verbal sparrings with mercurial director Russell would hit the internet, creating a major buzz within the industry.
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DIRECTOR David O. Russell ("Spanking the Monkey," "Flirting With Disaster," "Three Kings") was honored the other night at a Museum of Modern Art fete that drew the likes of Lily Tomlin, Sandra Bernhard and Mark Wahlberg. But Russell didn't always enjoy such prestige at the museum. About 15 years ago, when he was just a fledgling filmmaker, Russell, now 43, paid the bills by waitering at MOMA parties. "They'd be honoring Martin Scorsese and I'd be serving him a drink," he said.
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Many years ago, comedienne Lily Tomlin used to perform a skit in which she played an operator for the telephone company. She'd repeatedly treated customers rudely and when they complained, she'd utter her now famous line: "We don't have to care, we're the phone company." This caricature was so popular because it rang true for so many phone-company users. Many years later, as telephone service became competitive-telephone customer-service improved.
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Tomlin tours the continent on a relatively easy schedule that has her flying home to California quite often. But that's being squeezed these days so she can leave time late this summer to co-star, ironically, as one of the powerful people, in a new HBO series.
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