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This is Later with Lee Matthews,
The Lee Matthews Podcast more what you Hear

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weekday afternoons on the Drive. She's
been in so many things it's difficult to

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list, from Little House on the
Prairie to Golden Girls, home improvement,

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twins Er Parks and recreation Better Call
Saul. Bonnie Bartlett Daniels is that person,

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that character actress that can mold right
into her role to the point where

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she's believable and it's very easy for
you to see her and then move on.

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She's written all about her experiences in
Hollywood and her new memoir Middle of

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the Rainbow, the audio version of
which is out now. Greetings, Bonnie

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Bartlett Daniels, Hello, how are
you good? To have you along?

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You've been through and seen a lot
of Hollywood, from the Golden Age of

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television to I imagine intimacy coordinators.
What was the last intimacy coordination? Yes,

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the people, I don't know what
that means. Oh okay, those

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are the people that coordinate the love
scenes. I don't understand that. Okay,

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well, good, because that's usually
involving nudity. But in your mom

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in your in your memoir, you
get into a lot of the of the

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old school Hollywood, yes, and
the old school and New York, Old

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New York in the sixties. I
don't know New York in the sixties wild.

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I don't know that. A lot
of people remember that You've been doing

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this for quite a while now,
Oh yeah, ninety five years. I

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mean, I'm on this planet ninety
five years. Yes, so so give

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us give us an idea. It's
stretched lung. And the Hollywood actually has

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been since we got here in seventy
three. I don't call that old school.

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I called that that's before me,
before I got here. But seventh

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Hollywood has been great for me in
terms of work. This is where I've

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found most of my work. Bonnie
Bartlet Daniels is with us. Middle of

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the Rainbow is the name of the
memoir. Can you explain the significance of

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the title. I just like it. I think it's it's it's it's it's

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a bit of a It's like,
it's okay, you're not going to get

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the whole thing, but it's okay. You can get the middle of the

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rainbow. You can get you can
be okay, You're going to be fine.

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You can have bad things happen that
you can rise above them and you

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can go on and be great.
You can just move along. And the

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middle of the rainbow appealed to me
because it says it's still it's a rainbow,

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and you're in the middle of it, You're not going to get to

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the end. I know. You
all so talk a lot about some of

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the grits of this notorious business in
Hollywood in your memoir some of the what

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grit grit, Well, there was
more grit in my life up till that

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time. Out here. It has
been good. The only thing I think

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in the book that I take I
do mention some of the men, and

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I mentioned one show where the behavior
of the star was not good and it

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hurt me, and it continued and
I had to I didn't have the strength

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at the time to say, you're
not to say that. You don't you're

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not allowed to do that. Now
on the set, I don't think they

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will allow it. No, at
that time, Yeah, now now,

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I don't think they allow that kind
of I guess they call it harassments.

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Yeah, just hurts. It's it's
like sending daggers into women. I don't

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know why. I don't know why
the men are that way. I guess

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they're afraid of us in some way. They men, I guess like power.

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They like to be on top.
And uh uh, it's changing,

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but it needs to change more Daniels
now and and and it's so hard to

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prove it that it's so hard for
women to be believed. And that's right

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out there now with the trials,
the trials of of mister mister Trump and

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then the Weinstein back, that has
been a setback for the me too people.

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But good for them, Good for
them. They're gonna they're gonna fight

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it, So that's good. That's
good. I don't like all the fighting.

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I just think it would be so
much better if everybody was brought up,

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you know, better, and didn't
take up bad habits. Bonnie Bartlett

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Daniels. The Rainbow is the name
of her act of her memoir How did

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everything start? Field? How did
you get into acting in the first place?

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Well, I was a little girl. I was always acting. My

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father was an actor, and so
we we did a lot of stuff together,

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listening to wonderful people on the radio, and the wonderful actors, the

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Lunths and Helen Hayes, people like
that. So I was always acting from

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the town of the old Girl,
and I did anything I could around town.

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I did. I did a radio
show when I was in junior high

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school. It was about sports where
I knew nothing about it, but anytime

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anybody wanted somebody to speak, I
was there. And so that's how I

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started. And then all kinds of
school plays. I was always in every

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school play. And then when Northwestern
and that's where I met Bill and we

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did we did make Vepp together at
Northwestern, and we went on to New

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York and you know, struggled there
for a while, but I was acting

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from a times a little girl Bonnie
bartleta Daniels Middle of the Rainbow, she

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tells all in her memoir and behind
the scenes from some of the Hollywood greats.

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Can you give us a sample of
some of the people you worked with?

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For instance, is there someone that
you worked with as a co star

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that impressed you the most as a
co star? Yes, well, Ed

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Flanders. He was amazing to work
with. And of course Bill, Bill

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and Ed and me, oh god, we had wonderful scenes, wonderful scenes

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to work with. I loved working
with them. I've forgotten his name now,

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but Anyway, It's all in the
book, and most of them are

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wonderful. Some of them, I
mention, I mentioned some bad things,

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but certainly better called Saul. He
was just lovely. He wasn't. I

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was just a small part on that. But I love actors and most of

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them are wonderful, really, Bonnie
bart La Daniels. Middle of the Rainbow

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is her memoir in audio right now
and everywhere you get your books and on

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Amazon. We thank you for joining
us today and thanks for the story.

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