In 1979, Gilda Radner threw a summer-Iong party at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre. Everybody came: Lisa Loopner, Judy Miller, EmiIy Litella, Rhonda and the Rhondettes, Candy Slice, Roseanne Roseannadanna. And many thousands of cheering theatergoers celebrating GiIda's hiIarious, knockout Broadway debut. Filmed by another award-winning stage/screen comedy Iegend, director Mike NichoIs, Gilda Live showcases the comedienne's Saturday Night Live aIter-egos in edgy, crazy materiaI not even the Not Ready for Prime Time PIayers were ready for. AIso on hand are Late Night with David Letterman's Paul Shaffer, playing straight man and pIaying up a musicaI storm, and Father Guido Sarducci, ever the irreverent reverend. Join them as the late, great Gilda does what she does best - be fIat-out funny. |