A NEW WAY TO AGE
A NEW WAY TO AGE An interview with Suzanne Somers by Phil Micans
PM: You’ve had an amazing career and life Suzanne, please tell us a little about yourself.
SS: I was born in a little town in northern California, a place where you would never expect someone like me could end up having this incredible career in life. I was discovered in the commissary at NBC Burbank, I was sitting there by myself waiting to hear if I got a part and in walked Johnny Carson. He came over to me and said ‘hey little lady what are you doing here ‘and I said I have a call back for the Dom DeLuise show and he said ‘that’s great , he’s a friend of mine, I hope you get it’ . At that point, I had written my first book of poetry called ‘TOUCH ME’ so I handed it to him. That was Wednesday, Friday of that week I was booked on the TONIGHT SHOW the biggest and most popular national talk show in American television at that time- since everybody watched it. I was so broke at that time and had a little baby I was raising by myself. I was 21 years old I didn’t even have a dress to wear on the night of the show. I remember standing behind that famous curtain , so nervous, thinking ‘oh my god they must love my poetry’, and then I heard Johnny introducing me, saying “we’ve all been wondering who the mysterious blonde in the Thunderbird is in AMERICAN GRAFFITI ! Well we found her!” Then I walked out to this tremendous applause. I was taken aback because my part in American graffiti, (which granted was the 8
