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... bring the a saucer baby over a real baby. And he has a filthy mustache, the baby wrangler, and tobacco-stained fingers. I said bring the parents in. They come in and clean the wrangler's hands.
REGIS:
Not good at all. What else is going on in your life? I understand you recently gave up smoking.
MARGARET:
I did.
KATHIE LEE:
Having a little trouble with that?
MARGARET:
No. I like this double chin.
REGIS:
Did you gain a few pounds?
MARGARET:
Yes, yeah. I think it's a metabolism thing, because it's an appetite suppressant, nicotine, and a stimulant. Without that not only are you slightly irritable, but you eat and you don't burn it off.
KATHIE LEE:
That is where I met you this morning. You were scarfing a bagel. I've got to say.
REGIS:
Really?
MARGARET:
I was.
REGIS:
That's one thing I never got into, smoking.
KATHIE LEE:
No, because of singing. I've always been allergic to it.
MARGARET:
I did it for something wild. I was playing a bad girl in the movie "Something Wild." Ray Liotta's girlfriend.
KATHIE LEE:
And that hooked you.
MARGARET:
I let it hook me. it was fun. Quit.
[ applause ]
REGIS:
I love her background. She was born in Brooklyn. Her dad is a retired New York City Police officer.
MARGARET:
Yes, he is.
REGIS:
And her mother at one time was a crop duster in Oklahoma.
KATHIE LEE:
Dangerous work.
REGIS:
Flew the planes over the crops and let the spray go?
MARGARET:
That's right. It was one of her many careers. But she did that. And she went to school in Oklahoma. They're both from Brooklyn. She school in Oklahoma just to study flying. That only -- few places teach women how to
KATHIE LEE:
I did a piece for "Good Morning America," one of the first I did was on crop dusting. It's so dangerous. It's periless work.
MARGARET:
She's wonderful to fly with. She'll tell you what the plane's doing, when they should defrost the wings. It's going to be bumpy. She helps them fly the planes. She didn't do it since they got married a million years ago.
REGIS:
Did you see the way somebody knifed my music bag?
MARGARET:
I'm so sorry. I'll call my brother with the State Department to look into it. We'll dust it for you.
REGIS:
Let's talk about this "Now and Again" plot. It's really, really unique.
MARGARET:
It is. You had Eric on.
KATHIE LEE:
What a dear.
REGIS:
I wasn't here, but he was on. Explain to everybody how this plot works.
MARGARET:
I'm married to John Goodman in the pilot and he gets hit by a train and dies. And we have a daughter, Heather, from "Back to the Doll's House," this brilliant young actress. In the show John's brain is removed from his body and put in Eric's body.
[ laughter ]
That's a problem?
KATHIE LEE:
That's not such a bad deal.
REGIS:
Eric has been kept alive --
MARGARET:
Eric is a bioengineered body with John Goodman's brain.
KATHIE LEE:
$3 billion or something?
MARGARET:
Something like that.
REGIS:
Now, his brain wants to return to you and the kids, right?
MARGARET:
Me and the kid in the suburbs. And we have no idea about that. I'm a stay-at-home mom.
KATHIE LEE:
You're in mourning for your husband.
MARGARET:
Very much so. It's one of those loves that just won't go away. It's really strong. Not perfect and human and, you know, borders on the divine, so haunts you.
REGIS:
Let me ask you something, and this is for you, too, miss. The brain -- if the guy comes back and you know it's -- your husband's original brain --
MARGARET:
Right.
REGIS:
-- but no longer looks like your husband or has all the mannerisms of your husband, all the things your husband was, would you still be attracted to him simply because his brain is in this body?
KATHIE LEE:
Have you seen Eric Close?
[ laughter ]
MARGARET:
He already knows how to love you. He already knows the things that you love. He knows your heart, and you know him. So he knows the things to do to please you. He knows the way you are around your house. And that's the spooky things Glen, our writer, keeps putting in there.
KATHIE LEE:
You keep getting flowers, but only he would know this particular kind of flowers. But she doesn't know he exists.
MARGARET:
Eric is bothersome to me. he keeps showing up for no rhyme or reason, injects himself into his life and says he's completely undependable. He won't come back.
REGIS:
You have no idea he's carrying the brain.
MARGARET:
The audience does.
KATHIE LEE:
He doesn't carry it around.
[ laughter ]
REGIS:
Who's the production team who started this series?
KATHIE LEE:
The "Moonlighting" guy.
MARGARET:
And a couple of movies, too.
REGIS:
Let's take a look at a clip. In this particular scene, you're receiving some flowers, right, from a secret admirer. But they're really from your husband, you see?
MARGARET:
There you go.
KATHIE LEE:
Work with us.
REGIS:
His brain anyway. Do you understand what's happening here or not?
KATHIE LEE:
Yes!
REGIS:
Do you get it or not? You won't answer me, will you? Anyway, the brain is in Eric's body. Now he's sending her flowers. It's really something. Take a look.
MARGARET:
He loves it. It's his favorite.
REGIS:
I do.
[ doorbell rings ]
>> DELIVERY MAN: Lisa Wiseman?
>> LISA: Yes.
>> DELIVERY MAN: Happy Valentine's Day.
>> LISA: Wait a second. Who are these from?
>> DELIVERY MAN: Secret admirer.
>> LISA: Ah.
[ doorbell rings twice ]
>> DELIVERY MAN: Lady, I'm not allowed to take these back.
>> LISA: Give them to me.
REGIS:
Whoa!
[ applause ]
MARGARET:
It's redeemable.
KATHIE LEE:
That's something I'd never do.
MARGARET:
I know.
KATHIE LEE:
I'd never do that. I don't care who they're from. I love them.
REGIS:
But the longevity of this situation, how long can it go on with him trying to tell you he's the brain of your husband?
MARGARET:
I don't know.
[ laughter ]
REGIS:
Can it go on and on and on year after year, this sending you flowers, his brain wants to take you to dinner.
KATHIE LEE:
Reege, it's a subplot.
MARGARET:
It's a subplot.
REGIS:
But it's the basis of a relationship, too. And that's what television's all about. Relationships.
KATHIE LEE:
Some people like brains, all right?
REGIS:
Good luck with this.
MARGARET:
Yeah, I'm going to need it, apparently.
REGIS:
Friday nights, 9:00 on CBS.
MARGARET:
Pleasure to meet you.
REGIS: Margaret Colin. Right back with Mr. Rogers.
[ applause ]
February 3, 2000


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