"No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up."
Happy 70th birthday today to that lovely lady lesbian actress, comic, wit and cult figure Miss Lily Tomlin!
Over 40 years - from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In to guest appearances in Desperate Housewives today - Miss Tomlin has always had the ability to make me laugh. She is another of those actors whose very appearance in a movie will make me more interested in seeing it. Indeed, films such as All Of Me (with Steve Martin when he was actually funny) and Big Business (with Bette Midler) were saved from mediocrity by her presence, and I loved her part in Tea With Mussolini - where she more than held her own in a cast that included three Dames (Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright) and the ever-OTT Cher.
On the way, Lily has provided numerous voice-overs for commercials and cartoons alike, and notably for the classic gay documentary The Celluloid Closet. In her own subtle way Miss Tomlin has always spoken out for the rights of the lesbian and gay community, lending her support to a number of gay marriage campaigns in the US.
However it must be for her sassy, scheming role in one of the best feelgood movies of the 80s Nine to Five that we love her the most...
And here she is playing that cult favourite character "Ernestine, your telephone operator" from Laugh-In:
Lily Tomlin official website
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