From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Jackie Hoffman:   
   	- She's helped them out performing whenever they needed a loud, caustic   
   shrew, such as for Max's wife.   
   	   
   	- She's in Xanadu, which must be said as the emergency Australian would do.    
   She listened to Broadway records; by the time she was nine she was a gay man.    
   She was also in the original cast of Hairspray for two and a half years.  She   
   did the same show    
   every night for two and a half years.  Imagine if Conan interviewed Al Roker   
   every night for two and a half years.   
   	   
   	+ Oh, like Conan did from 1995 to 1997?   
   	   
   	- She's met big people backstage, and she gets starstruck.  She can be a   
   shrinking violet or overconfident out of terror and, ``LOOK at how FUN-ny I   
   AM!''  One night George HW Bush and Barbara Bush visited; she sulked that   
   Barbara was ignoring her.     
   George asked her to pay attention to her.  She looked at Barbara and said   
   ``Well, here's the real man of the family!''  Barbara Bush didn't think she   
   liked that.   
   	   
   	- Olivia Newton-John was in the movie; she was at opening night and took the   
   bow with the cast.  She went to the opening-night party; she said Hoffman was   
   so brilliant in the show.  Hoffman instead of saying thank you instead sang   
   some obscure radio hit    
   Newton-John had in the 70s.  The smile drained out and horror crept into her   
   face.  Why does she *do* that?  ``I don't know.''   
   	   
   	- She seems the quintessential New Yorker.  She lives in a co-op built for   
   Jewish garment workers so now most of them are 80 or 90 years old.  She's the   
   building babe.  It's nice; you hold the door open, they don't thank her.  One   
   day a delivery man    
   asked her to keep a delivery for a neighbor not home.  It was a walker with an   
   attached commode.  She needs a commode attached to a walker, and she's not   
   home?  So she kept it.   
   	   
   	+ What a voice!  I don't doubt that she commands the stage whenever she wants.   
      
      
   Bruce Parry:   
   	- As host of Going Tribal (Hoffman makes some jungle noises) he travels to   
   remote locations and moves in with a tribe for a month.   
   	   
   	- He tries tribal medicines, which is different to sampling foods.  Whether   
   frog poison or going through a ritual or hallucinogenic drugs ... How is frog   
   poison a medicine?  They use it a purgative.  They brand the arm, pick out the   
   scabs, and rub the    
   poison; this causes vomiting and defecation.  This is to become better   
   hunters.  Parry has the worst job in television.   
   	   
   	- Others get whipped to become a better hunter, which Conan thinks makes them   
   sound like good Catholics.  One Guinea tribe puts insects in your ear to clean   
   wax.   
   	   
   	- Most physically unpleasant?  Eating of a eboga (?) for the drug trip; the   
   penis inversion was a bit odd.  (Hoffman: that's a vagina.)  Rather than have   
   their penis slapping around their chest.  (Conan: Chest?  Chest?  I mean,   
   yeah, chest!)  So they    
   sometimes force it back in their body.  The only thing in his program he said   
   ``no'' partway through.   
   	   
   	- It's folded over the foreskin and they hold the shaft ... if you squeeze a   
   sausage roll the meat goes out ... the guy doing this to him, a wonderful   
   bloke, had come on to him and had a cheezy grin.  He wanted to say no, but it   
   has to go through two    
   translators, and he doesn't want to offend a friend.  Conan thinks etiquette   
   doesn't cover this.  (Miss Manners would disagree.)  Suddenly half of it   
   disappears in.  He can't hear the director, his ears are full of cotton, he's   
   feeling faint, he starts    
   to lie down.  He sticks his legs in the air, the camera sees his rear, [ ]   
   missing ...   
   	   
   	- Has it ever occurred to him these are not ancient rituals, that they see   
   him coming a mile off?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)