'Angst On A Shoestring' - David Letterman's Holiday Film Festival (1985)

[rickyseabra]

oh my god ... I can't believe I just found this!!!!!!

[SuperMegaUberGenius]

after many a summer dies the swan

[yaywhewclips242]

"Y BOTHER?!" I loved this from my original VHS i watched several times!!

[hankedful]

This is as funny today as it was when I saw it all those years ago, great post.

[tialeetull]

oooooooooooooooooooh - i soooooooooooooo remember this crazy thing. i couldn't believe letterman did anything interesting up to then.

now --------

why bother???????????????????? lol !!!!!!!!!!

gotta love that bette - great nostalgia here. smithsonian material - but

will THEY bother? he he he

[LatrinaTwalay]

Midler won an Emmy for this... a well-deserved Emmy!  As I recall, Letterman gave 3 or 4 celebrities something like $10,000 each (hence, the "shoestring") to produce their own shorts. This was Bette's contribution. All were then shown during a TV "special" produced by Letterman.

[darianglover]

@LatrinaTwalay For Michael J. Fox's film 'The Iceman Hummeth' - David Letterman's 2nd Annual Holiday Film Festival (1986) - he said on the program he had a budget of $40k and came in under at $32k.

[PattyDukeTheatre]

@LatrinaTwalay Although she deserved one, Midler did not win an Emmy for this. She won her three Emmys for the special 'Ol Red Hair is Back in 1977, for Carson's last show in 1992 and for the HBO concert Diva Las Vegas in 1997.

[santamara]

LOL,,,,,,,,,I love it!!

Thank you and to scorp8pus for sharing!!

XO xo

[fanniefarkle1]

wow, I had forgotten all about this one! thanks for posting!!!!

[divinemrsq]

Thank you so much for posting this! I had it on VHS and my dad taped over it, I was crushed.

[leo34ap]

Love the PMS video, too. This find is priceless.