Grace Kelly was almost anorexic when I met her, so I went on her yogurt diet. We lost 40 pounds, but I read that women died from it, so we had to get off. You have to have two ounces of liquid protein three times a day. There was the "Last Chance" diet, which I went on with Lainie Kazan. I'd go to parties with Cristal in a paper bag and they'd say, "You can't walk around with that." I'd say, "I don't want to go off my diet." I joined AA after that. So I became a $200-a-bottle Cristal drunk. I was on all these crazy diets like the "Vogue Champagne Diet." They said you must have two glasses of champagne before each meal, and it must be an expensive one, because cheap champagne has more calories. I really thought if I ate what they ate, I'd look like them. I was in Lee Strasberg's class with Marilyn Monroe and in class at the Academy of Dramatic Arts with Grace Kelly.
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It's about what a fool I was to go on all those diets because I thought I'd look like movie stars. We wrote it in Barnard, Vermont, and started doing it. Even men would be interested in it." So we tried it. My husband said, "Why don't we do it as a one-woman show?", and I said, "No, I don't think people would be interested in all my diets." But he said, "Everybody we meet is on a diet. You wrote My Life on a Diet as a self-help book in 1986. Renée Taylor at Friedmans Restaurant in the Edison Hotel. Clement's, My Life on a Diet isn't actually about being on a diet.
Inspired by her self-help book from the 1980s, My Life on a Diet looks at all the fad diets Taylor - beloved for playing Sylvia Fine on The Nanny and known for works like Lovers and Other Strangers (for which she and her late husband, Joseph Bologna, received Oscar nominations for its 1970 film adaptation) - went on through the years in her quest to look like a traditional movie star.īut as she explains over lunch, and as she says on a nightly basis at the Theatre at St. While the 85-year-old showbiz legend is returning to the New York stage this summer for the first time in 17 years in a show called My Life on a Diet, that doesn't stop either of us from ordering the soul food-iest item on the Friedmans menu: delicious pastrami reubens. Today, Taylor looks around the seating area at Friedmans Restaurant in the Edison Hotel and is awash with memories. When she got there, not only was the meeting in the lobby - but they never even took their coats off. She thought it was going to be fancy, she explains. Renée Taylor remembers a meeting she once had at the Edison Hotel decades ago.
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