The Onion AV. Club has a terrific interview with one of our favorite actresses ever, Teri Garr. Although best-known for movies such as Tootsie, Young Frankenstein and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, she also has a long history on TV: as the only other female star on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, as a miniskirted genius on the hippest-ever episode of Star Trek (from which the above still was taken), as Phoebe's mom on Friends, and, of course, as one of David Letterman's most frequent early guests (see the video below).
We strongly recommend that you read the whole interview. But in the meantime, here's Garr discussing why she isn't actually a ditz, although she sometimes played one on TV:
AVC: Do you think you helped pave the way for actresses like Lisa Kudrow?
TG: No! And I never could figure it out, and neither could she. When I played her mother on [Friends], they cast me because they thought we were so much alike. And she said, "Do you think we're alike?" And I said, "Not at all." "I don't either." I don't like that when they say, "You and her are both ditzes."
AVC: You hate that word?
TG: Yeah!
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