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- This is army sergeant Bob Martin
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on the scene of Beat
Club in Bremen Germany,
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and I have with my today,
god bless, Tiny Tim.
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- Going through the city
for almost 10 years,
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13 years, at least, being as a freak.
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It was really the challenge
I tried to overcome,
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because in all fairness, by 1962,
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every friend of mine and every relative
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had given up on me.
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They would come into my mother's house
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and just shake their head when they saw me
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and walk the other way.
- That's amazing.
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- That's why I believe you're talking
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to the biggest miracle perhaps ever
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in the history of show business,
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because while there were
people who did suffer
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hard and starve and went through all this,
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they never had to go through the art
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of being a freak,
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and make it at the same time.
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I don't know anyone who has done it.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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Mr. Tiny Tim!
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Ladies and gentlemen--
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- The one and only--
- New York City's own--
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- Tiny Tim!
- Tiny Tim!
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Tiny Tim!
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Dear Lord,
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today I had an awful day.
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I am the biggest star in the country.
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What I have is desired by almost everyone,
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and yet, oh blessed Lord,
my soul is dwelling in Hell,
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and I cry out for help, oh Jesus.
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Tiny Tim's on next!
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- Who is this?
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Where did he come from?
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Who dropped him here?
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- His sexual ambiguity,
political ambiguity,
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ethnic ambiguity, it's all
ambiguous with Tiny Tim.
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- I feel like someone
from Mars come to Earth.
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- He took all the male female adult child
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and just kind of put it into a blender
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and hit the button.
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And then I immediately thought
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that's the man I want to marry.
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- Tiny's widow is here.
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My name is Johnny Pineapple.
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I was Tiny's closest friend,
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and we're actually in the middle
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of shooting a documentary.
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Oh my gosh.
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- So this is very exciting
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that in the time of your loss,
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you know, are here for a funeral,
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but God bless you, decided to come down
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and just see where Tiny is resting.
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Let me show you.
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Come on in.
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He was born Herbert Butros Khaury.
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And of course everybody
knows him as Tiny Tim.
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Is he from here?
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- Good question.
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Actually he was a New York City guy,
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born and raised in New York City in 1932.
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- When you look at where
Herbert Khaury begins
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and Tiny Tim ends, nothing was ever normal
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from top to bottom, from start to finish.
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So why should his birth be normal?
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- If they had waited to do that cesarean
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another minute or two, he
would have lived out his life
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in the rehabilitation
hospital, in a wheelchair
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or in bed.
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- His mother Tillie is from
a Russian Jewish family,
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and his father, Butros,
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is from a Lebanese Christian family.
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That was unheard of, especially
a Jew marrying an Arab
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in those days was pretty unusual.
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He had a violent
relationship with mom and dad.
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They had him, they took care of him.
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I don't think they ever loved him.
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- Tiny described to me many times
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my parents' room had no door.
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There was no door on their room.
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No door.
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And he was agitated.
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And he couldn't leave his room
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without walking into their private space.
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- He had Russ Columbo, Bing
Crosby, Arthur Godfrey,
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and his ukulele.
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He would play them 30 times a night,
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and it would turn him on so.
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Herbert!
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- His parents were elderly,
and they really tolerated him,
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but they didn't understand him,
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so he locked himself in his room,
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and in his imagination, with another life,
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invented his reality,
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invented people in his loneliness
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to take him away from that spot.
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Had a
violent clash with my mother.
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She broke my records and my mandolin.
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I was thrown out of the house
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and stood in the cold
rain for three hours.
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- Was a particularly
rough time in his life.
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His parents are getting ready
to throw him out of the house.
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He wasn't making any money.
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He decided he had to do something,
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so he took the subway down
to the financial district,
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sat on the sidewalk with a sign
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help save classical music.
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You prick!
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- The first time I saw Herbert
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was when he was standing on the street
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with his ukulele.
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He really enjoyed it.
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Fuck you!
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They got mad
because he was so damn weird,
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and all they wanted to do was kill him,
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throw eggs at him, garbage cans, anything.
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Get fucking wrecked, you faggot!
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Another wasted day
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of my life has passed.
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All in all, today was just
another day of thinking.
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Will I be a success in singing?
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What is my future?
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However, my main objective is to be
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self-confident with girls.
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My father insisted today
that I see a psychiatrist,
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but I said Jesus Christ is my doctor.
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What Jimmy didn't know
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was that Ralph was sick,
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a sickness of the mind.
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You see, Ralph was a homosexual.
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- Tiny was what I call half-gay,
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which means that his problem
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had more to do with identity
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than with sexual preference,
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and he had when he was young
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a relationship for about
five years with a guy,
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and it was just a romanticized friendship.
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Bobby Gonsalves came in.
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Praise the Lord.
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And of course, I was
admiring his body, muscles,
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using myself as a punching
bag, which is wonderful.
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This is good and bad points
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about Bobby Gonsalves
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from the diaries.
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Bobby
Gonsalves, good points,
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his kind heart, his sincerity,
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his honesty, his tender
gentle love for the poor,
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his always telling the truth,
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his warm smile of love.
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- Well what is the bad points?
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Bad points.
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Zero.
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You didn't know
that he saw so much in you?
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- No.
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No, I really didn't.
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Hmm.
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What do you think about it?
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- I'm a little shocked.
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Bobby Gonsalves came.
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He said he was sleeping over.
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He took his pants and
shirt and glasses off.
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I closed the light and
also went to bed with him.
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I massaged his back.
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He fell asleep.
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Dad came into my room,
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put the lights on, and almost blew a fuse
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when he saw Bob, who was still asleep.
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I tried to assure him,
but finally Ma came in,
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saw Bob, and boom!
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That was it.
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Out he went, and I got
hit, yelling, et cetera.
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I went to the pastor to tell him my views
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on my belief in Christ.
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He told me to see a psychiatrist.
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Then I was kicked out
of the Catholic church
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for being a smart Alec.
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Everyone is against me.
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His biggest conviction
was you gotta do something
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to get noticed.
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- There's a great photo of Tiny Tim
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by Diane Arbus that really
has the genesis of the look.
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It's beautiful and shocking.
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It has so many elements of what
really makes something last.
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It's a unique beauty, his character.
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It's not typical beauty, by any means.
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But it's beautiful in that
he created it, you know.
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It's a miracle, really.
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The fellows kidded me
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about my sissy-ish appearance,
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but the girls looked at me.
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- And then one day he
says he prayed to Jesus
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and he woke up with the high voice.
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Today I tried my new style
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at the old Alliance Club.
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It worked.
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Praise the blessed Lord
Jesus, they screamed.
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I must sing the sissy way.
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God told me to sing the sissy way.
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Thanks ever so much for
the magnetism onstage
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that you've given me.
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Today I had to be taken to safety
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by two cops and a fireman.
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I believe, however, this is the start
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of a great success.
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- So Tiny basically went through the 50s
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playing at all these
amateur singing contests,
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and all these little dive bars,
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maybe making a few dollars here and there,
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but actually didn't land his
first steady gig until 1959
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and that was at Hubert's
Museum and Flea Circus,
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which was essentially a freak show
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located in Times Square.
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I don't like
to use the word freaks,
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so I'll just use the oddities of nature,
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and the main act was fleas dance to music.
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- How do you train them?
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- Well, we have to form habits in them.
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Larry is Napolean
bonafide with his cannons
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and Caesar with their Roman chariots.
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All right, boys.
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- And he found himself billed alongside
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the armless wonder, the
handless sharp shooter,
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elephant man, and whatever
else they had in there.
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And he was billed as Larry
Love, the human canary.
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It was no doubt humiliating in some way.
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I mean, people came through
not to enjoy these people,
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but to gawk at them.
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- A lot of the prescribed routes for us
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to live and interact with one another
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were considered artificial,
were considered mannered,
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as if people were
walking around with masks
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and playing roles.
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And this is the way women
are supposed to behave,
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and this is what being a man is about.
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- There had to be a break,
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like a new generation was coming in
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with completely different ideas.
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- People who were reaching to be
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something individual were valued
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and appreciated for being just that.
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And in that sense, Tiny Tim
was one of those people,
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and therefore he was a trailblazer.
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Praise the Lord.
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I was mentioned in the Village Voice
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under the name Tiny Tim.
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We have a
different kind of music
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for you right now.
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A different kind of personality.
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This gentleman is very, very quickly
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picking up a following.
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And let's have a great big hand
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for Mr. Tiny Tim.
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- I was wandering by this
club in the West Village,
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and in there I saw Tiny Tim.
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Who cooked my brain.
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And there was
some women and some men,
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and lights went out.
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I hope
you'll approve this song,
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my dear friends, because if you don't
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I'm very sorry, because these
are one of these numbers
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that catch me at this time of night.
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- And in that silence and darkness
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suddenly you could hear ukulele.
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Who is this?
270
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Where did he come from?
271
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Who dropped him here?
272
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He's not from here.
273
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That voice is also not from here.
274
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Speaking with the world's
275
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greatest entertainer today, Mr. Dylan,
276
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and his wanting me for
a movie, Lord willing.
277
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Thank you for the wonderful
talent he sees in me.
278
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To be a close friend of
him, to stay and sleep
279
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in his house, well this was too much.
280
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And to top it all, he is paying me for it.
281
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Thanks as I also sang for
his beautiful wife and kids.
282
00:18:28,839 --> 00:18:31,839
- Dylan was sort of
interested in doing a film,
283
00:18:31,839 --> 00:18:35,200
I kind of was involved in it,
284
00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,559
in which we were gonna do a circus,
285
00:18:37,559 --> 00:18:40,279
and Tiny Tim was gonna be the guy
286
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with the top hat and the whip.
287
00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:45,400
People were talking about it a lot
288
00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:47,720
but it never got off the ground.
289
00:18:50,599 --> 00:18:53,359
He was a complete outlaw.
290
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A complete outlaw.
291
00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:59,440
So it made him very vulnerable,
but very interesting.
292
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You really liked him a lot.
293
00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:28,599
Thanks for a great night
294
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at The Scene where the in crowd goes.
295
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I will be a star.
296
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The biggest star of our times.
297
00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:43,799
- The Scene was one of those places
298
00:19:43,799 --> 00:19:46,359
where all musicians would get together
299
00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:48,519
and see another musician.
300
00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:53,880
- Oh!
301
00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:58,279
They're playing our campaign!
302
00:19:58,279 --> 00:20:00,720
- Everybody thought that
he was just a homeless guy
303
00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,039
who wandered into the club.
304
00:20:04,039 --> 00:20:05,559
We're watching him, and the audience
305
00:20:05,559 --> 00:20:07,799
is kind of aghast.
306
00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,559
- I know you're impatient waiting for it,
307
00:20:13,559 --> 00:20:15,799
but I have to find the words for you.
308
00:20:15,799 --> 00:20:18,480
Suddenly the
audience, all of us,
309
00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,079
sort of at the same time, realized
310
00:20:21,079 --> 00:20:22,799
this guy's not kidding.
311
00:20:22,799 --> 00:20:25,000
This guy's for real.
312
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,359
Then they started laughing
in a different way.
313
00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,599
- I may make the world think I'm merry,
314
00:20:47,599 --> 00:20:50,599
but I can't hide the truth from myself,
315
00:20:50,599 --> 00:20:54,279
so no matter what happens,
I must go on acting,
316
00:20:54,279 --> 00:20:56,799
acting, acting!
317
00:21:06,599 --> 00:21:07,720
Today I signed a contract
318
00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,839
with Reprise Records, Mr.
Frank Sinatra's company.
319
00:21:10,839 --> 00:21:13,799
They want me in LA on
Monday for recordings.
320
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,200
You're going now to
the west coast, to Hollywood?
321
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,119
Yes Bob, thanks again.
322
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:21,720
Can I just sing one last thing?
323
00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:23,759
Nighty-night to all in radio land!
324
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,519
Well Tiny Tim,
I hope that Hollywood
325
00:21:38,519 --> 00:21:40,039
doesn't make you affected.
326
00:21:40,039 --> 00:21:42,039
You won't go Hollywood on us, will you?
327
00:21:42,039 --> 00:21:43,359
Bye-bye Tiny.
328
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,799
Hello my dear friends!
329
00:22:02,799 --> 00:22:06,160
Well, here I am on record at last,
330
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:10,200
and it feels so wonderful
to be here with you
331
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,640
on my first album.
332
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,880
- We put out the God Bless Tiny Tim album,
333
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,599
and the timing was right for it.
334
00:22:21,599 --> 00:22:24,039
People were ready to accept him.
335
00:22:24,039 --> 00:22:26,519
- We didn't treat him cartoony.
336
00:22:26,519 --> 00:22:29,680
We treated him like a real pop
singer, like Frank Sinatra.
337
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:31,880
A real singer, like a real artist.
338
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,400
- Tiny showed up at our office one day
339
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,440
with a shopping bag and with his ukulele
340
00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,880
underneath his arm, and I did
not know what to make of him.
341
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,079
The only thing he kept doing was this
342
00:22:43,079 --> 00:22:45,200
oh, Mr. Deblasio, Mr. Deblasio,
343
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:46,960
thank you, thank you.
344
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:48,680
And I couldn't figure it out.
345
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:50,480
And I was told by Roy,
346
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,039
he said to me, now listen,
347
00:22:52,039 --> 00:22:54,240
this one is crazy.
348
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,079
And I said well, you know,
they're all sort of crazy.
349
00:22:57,079 --> 00:22:57,920
Every one of them.
350
00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:59,440
He said no, you don't understand.
351
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,799
This one is truly wacko.
352
00:23:02,799 --> 00:23:04,119
I said wacko?
353
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:05,640
And he said wacko.
354
00:23:13,839 --> 00:23:16,599
- I was in the middle
of a writer's meeting
355
00:23:16,599 --> 00:23:17,960
and Richard Perry walked
in with Digby Wolfe
356
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,400
and said we wanna
introduce you to somebody.
357
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,799
And I said not now, I've got
the room full of writers.
358
00:23:22,799 --> 00:23:24,000
I don't have time for that right now.
359
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,799
They said we must insist.
360
00:23:25,799 --> 00:23:28,079
And they walked in with Tiny Tim
361
00:23:28,079 --> 00:23:31,920
and the shopping bag,
and I said what the hell?
362
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:33,519
- I got a surprise for you.
363
00:23:33,519 --> 00:23:34,480
- Oh, you're kidding.
364
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:35,640
You got a goodie for me
365
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:36,920
so early in the evening?
366
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:38,079
- Wait'll you see this.
367
00:23:38,079 --> 00:23:39,559
- So we brought him out onstage
368
00:23:39,559 --> 00:23:43,000
and we introduced him, Dan
introduced him to Dick,
369
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,799
and Dick had never seen
anything like Tiny Tim.
370
00:23:45,799 --> 00:23:47,240
- The toast of Greenwich Village
371
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,759
in his first appearance
anywhere, Tiny Tim.
372
00:24:00,079 --> 00:24:02,039
- NBC said you can't put this guy on,
373
00:24:02,039 --> 00:24:02,880
he's like a freak.
374
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,240
I said he's a big star.
375
00:24:13,079 --> 00:24:14,039
He's a star.
376
00:24:14,039 --> 00:24:15,279
Listen to this, you know.
377
00:24:15,279 --> 00:24:16,720
The man's a star.
378
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,480
This is my favorite,
watch this right here.
379
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:34,240
- Ooh!
380
00:24:36,839 --> 00:24:37,640
That was it.
381
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:38,960
And they fell in love with him.
382
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,519
- Once he hit laughing,
he was playing everyone.
383
00:24:42,519 --> 00:24:45,400
- This album right here, I
understand people like Bob Dylan,
384
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,240
Peter Paul and Mary, predict
that this next gentleman
385
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:51,240
is gonna be the biggest record seller
386
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,200
I guess of this coming year.
387
00:25:01,599 --> 00:25:05,039
- Thousands of letters poured into CBS
388
00:25:05,039 --> 00:25:08,160
asking who is this guy, but very quickly,
389
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,519
he was on the cover of
every major magazine,
390
00:25:10,519 --> 00:25:12,400
merchandising was popping up,
391
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,079
and God Bless Tiny Tim, miraculously,
392
00:25:15,079 --> 00:25:18,079
pierced the top 10 of
the US Billboard charts.
393
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,440
- It was unlike anything else.
394
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,359
- We just thought he was it.
395
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:35,359
- The audience loved him
when he walked out there.
396
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:37,680
- Your appearance here,
your last appearance here,
397
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,839
we received more mail about you
398
00:25:40,839 --> 00:25:44,000
than almost anyone else
we've ever had on the show.
399
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,680
- Oh thank you, out
there in television land!
400
00:25:53,799 --> 00:25:54,839
- A lot of our fans wanna know
401
00:25:54,839 --> 00:25:56,559
how old are you, Tiny Tim?
402
00:25:56,559 --> 00:25:58,319
- Oh, mystery!
403
00:26:01,559 --> 00:26:02,640
I feel so young!
404
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,720
- I also know that you
admire the astronauts,
405
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,519
or was it that you would like to be one?
406
00:26:06,519 --> 00:26:08,319
- Well, not really an
astronaut, Mr. Cavett.
407
00:26:08,319 --> 00:26:09,559
I've always been--
408
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:13,759
It's not an astronaut I wanna be.
409
00:26:13,759 --> 00:26:16,599
I'd love to go to the
planets and stay there.
410
00:26:16,599 --> 00:26:20,720
- The man who made tulips the
national flower, Tiny Tim!
411
00:26:38,559 --> 00:26:40,880
Years ago, I told my parents
412
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,640
that one day they would
be in the front row
413
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,119
when I did the Ed Sullivan show.
414
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,079
No one believed it then.
415
00:26:48,079 --> 00:26:49,519
Today, it happened.
416
00:26:49,519 --> 00:26:50,319
- Take a bow.
417
00:26:50,319 --> 00:26:52,000
Where are your parents?
418
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,359
I'd like them to stand up, please.
419
00:27:16,519 --> 00:27:19,160
- Now, if my mother, for
example, were to write you
420
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,799
and say that her son wears long hair
421
00:27:21,799 --> 00:27:23,680
and sings in a falsetto voice,
422
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,519
and it bothers her, now
what would you write back?
423
00:27:26,519 --> 00:27:29,240
Assuming that I haven't
made the grade yet.
424
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,720
- What is your mother's feeling?
425
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,640
Well--
426
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,599
Well before I made it, she
asked who in her family
427
00:27:39,599 --> 00:27:41,039
was like it.
428
00:27:41,039 --> 00:27:42,920
And then my father asked the same thing,
429
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:44,799
because there was no answer to that.
430
00:27:44,799 --> 00:27:47,880
So her feelings were quite bad.
431
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,599
- And as we move into the summer of 1968,
432
00:28:15,599 --> 00:28:17,680
Tinymania reaches its climax.
433
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,279
He tours across the continental US,
434
00:28:20,279 --> 00:28:23,000
including Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas,
435
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,119
then he moves across the
Atlantic to the UK and Europe.
436
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,279
Everyone wants to meet him.
437
00:28:28,279 --> 00:28:31,039
- Mr. Lennon called up and he said gee
438
00:28:31,039 --> 00:28:34,240
he'd love to have me at Albert Hall.
439
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:46,559
One eye is brown.
440
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:49,680
The other eye,
441
00:28:50,559 --> 00:28:51,400
is brown.
442
00:28:53,559 --> 00:28:56,200
- Sounds strange to say
well Tiny Tim arrived
443
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,519
at a time when the
country needed a Tiny Tim.
444
00:28:58,519 --> 00:29:00,359
We did, because the world was screwed up
445
00:29:00,359 --> 00:29:02,359
nothing like it is today.
446
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,440
And the seagull flies
447
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:40,839
in search of land.
448
00:29:43,119 --> 00:29:45,799
The children hide beneath the sand
449
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:49,440
while floating toys--
450
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,839
- We needed somebody that was that sweet,
451
00:29:51,839 --> 00:29:54,920
that vulnerable, and that kind,
452
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,640
and Tim walked in there, and
he became a national hero.
453
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:23,799
Thanks for the most
454
00:30:23,799 --> 00:30:25,640
fantastic happenings.
455
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:29,559
People stop me wherever I
go, and I sign autographs.
456
00:30:29,559 --> 00:30:30,880
I am invited to parties
457
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,359
with all the great stars of Hollywood
458
00:30:33,359 --> 00:30:35,200
and with beautiful girls.
459
00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:02,119
- Yes, he was a cartoon character,
460
00:31:02,119 --> 00:31:04,160
but that's when you looked
at him with the shopping bag,
461
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,359
but it wasn't the shopping bag singing,
462
00:31:06,359 --> 00:31:08,319
and it wasn't the funny jacket singing.
463
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,359
It was Tiny Tim, and
what he was, and what he,
464
00:31:12,359 --> 00:31:16,279
he added a magic to it
465
00:31:16,279 --> 00:31:19,160
that I had never heard before.
466
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,119
Well, you
broke it up again, Tiny.
467
00:31:42,119 --> 00:31:43,480
- Thank you, Mr. Carson.
468
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,039
- That's a hell of a Russ
Columbo style, right?
469
00:31:47,039 --> 00:31:48,319
- Mixed with Mr. Crosby.
470
00:31:48,319 --> 00:31:49,559
- Yeah.
471
00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:51,039
Very good.
472
00:31:51,039 --> 00:31:52,279
I think you took everybody
a little bit by surprise
473
00:31:52,279 --> 00:31:53,640
on that one.
474
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:57,599
Right?
475
00:32:08,839 --> 00:32:10,640
- He was a great performer,
476
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,759
and he was passionate about his music,
477
00:32:14,519 --> 00:32:17,839
but he was more passionate about girls.
478
00:32:17,839 --> 00:32:19,519
- On the first of January
479
00:32:19,519 --> 00:32:21,519
to the last day of December
480
00:32:21,519 --> 00:32:23,240
I give a trophy out
481
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:24,799
to the most beautiful girl of the year
482
00:32:24,799 --> 00:32:26,079
who I've met.
483
00:32:26,079 --> 00:32:27,759
And I like to give a lot of trophies out,
484
00:32:27,759 --> 00:32:29,839
but of course I can only give one.
485
00:32:29,839 --> 00:32:31,839
Usually the girl never knows it.
486
00:32:31,839 --> 00:32:33,079
- Have you ever thought
of replacing the trophy
487
00:32:33,079 --> 00:32:34,599
with a ring, or marriage--
488
00:32:36,759 --> 00:32:37,599
- Never!
489
00:32:37,599 --> 00:32:38,720
Never.
490
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,480
Because I could never get married.
491
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,440
- He'd tell us stories about
girls he had crushes on.
492
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,400
- Yes, which was a lot.
493
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:46,680
A lot of girls.
494
00:32:47,519 --> 00:32:50,039
- And one time he was getting so excited,
495
00:32:50,039 --> 00:32:52,119
I don't know if you remember, Ms. Cleo,
496
00:32:52,119 --> 00:32:53,880
he was telling us all about Ms. Cleo
497
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,160
who was a showgirl somewhere,
498
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,640
and all of a sudden he's
going oh, Ms. Cleo, Ms. Cleo!
499
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,400
And he jumps on the bed on his back,
500
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,680
and he's kicking his feet and his arms,
501
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:04,799
and it's Ms. Cleo!
502
00:33:04,799 --> 00:33:07,000
He was going like out of his mind.
503
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,119
- If you could imagine
being like 15 years old
504
00:33:10,119 --> 00:33:12,240
and seeing it, you know.
505
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:13,640
- I think I was on the second floor,
506
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,920
he was on the third, and
obviously we were close.
507
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,920
He climbed down the balcony
508
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,400
and he snuck in through
the sliding glass doors
509
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:22,680
and came into my room.
510
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,920
And his road manager,
he just kept calling,
511
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,160
and he said I know Tiny
is in the room with you.
512
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:29,559
He said this is not wise.
513
00:33:29,559 --> 00:33:31,799
In the meantime, Tiny is
saying don't tell him I'm here.
514
00:33:31,799 --> 00:33:32,960
Don't tell him I'm here.
515
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,119
I was like, what do I do?
516
00:33:35,119 --> 00:33:36,599
But I listened to Tiny.
517
00:33:36,599 --> 00:33:38,039
And then he snuck out the same way.
518
00:33:38,039 --> 00:33:42,839
- People always thought that
he was some kind of lech,
519
00:33:42,839 --> 00:33:47,400
but with us, I mean,
he was just this great,
520
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:48,759
he was great.
521
00:33:48,759 --> 00:33:50,759
He never did anything.
- He was so sweet.
522
00:33:50,759 --> 00:33:52,319
- I thought it was cool.
523
00:33:53,839 --> 00:33:56,200
And it could've been
something else, but it wasn't.
524
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:57,039
It wasn't.
525
00:33:57,039 --> 00:33:58,000
And he was such the gentleman.
526
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,680
Always, anytime I was with
him, always the gentleman.
527
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,320
- How many times realistically
528
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:08,599
did he get that close to serious,
529
00:34:08,599 --> 00:34:11,360
serious legal ramifications.
530
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,760
- In certain places he
could've gotten into a lot
531
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:14,599
of trouble just for--
532
00:34:14,599 --> 00:34:16,320
- Hey, no kidding.
533
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,440
- Just for having her
there with no clothes on.
534
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,519
Not that she had much
choice, since she walked in
535
00:34:20,519 --> 00:34:24,119
and took the clothes
off without asking him.
536
00:34:24,119 --> 00:34:25,960
- Remember in Iowa.
537
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:27,760
Tiny is approached by some, you know--
538
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:28,920
- He told me, that was--
539
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:30,960
- 13, 14 year old girl in Iowa.
540
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:31,880
- Yeah.
541
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,000
- And unbeknownst to Tiny--
542
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,880
- She's recording the
telephone conversations.
543
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:36,719
- Yes.
544
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:37,599
- And then her dad--
545
00:34:37,599 --> 00:34:38,559
- And it's getting.
546
00:34:38,559 --> 00:34:39,400
Bingo.
- Ugh.
547
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,079
- Dad gets a hold of it.
548
00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:42,719
Dad goes crazy.
549
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,360
But there again was another situation
550
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:49,880
where there could have
been serious ramifications.
551
00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:52,760
- I don't know whether it's illegal
552
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:54,840
to talk to a 14 year
old girl on the phone.
553
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:57,519
You couldn't get in trouble for that.
554
00:34:57,519 --> 00:35:00,480
And the same, like talking
on the phone to a girl,
555
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,679
depends on what they talked about, but--
556
00:35:02,679 --> 00:35:04,440
- It was very sexual.
557
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:05,280
- Oh.
558
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:07,559
Oh, Tiny.
559
00:35:08,639 --> 00:35:12,639
- I think that Tiny got more
titillated by the temptation
560
00:35:13,679 --> 00:35:16,159
and the fact that this was sinful,
561
00:35:16,159 --> 00:35:18,480
or it was potentially sinful.
562
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,320
I hate to think this, but he was probably
563
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,440
a little bit of a
tortured soul in that way.
564
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,000
Dear
Lord, please forgive me
565
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,880
for the sin I committed with Ms. Candy
566
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,320
here at Caesar's Palace, as I spread honey
567
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:30,440
and peanut butter on her body.
568
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:31,280
Kissed Ms. Trisha,
569
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:32,599
fooled around with Ms. Carol.
570
00:35:32,599 --> 00:35:34,199
Put cold cream on Ms. Iris.
571
00:35:34,199 --> 00:35:35,039
Got wet.
572
00:35:35,039 --> 00:35:35,880
Ms. Karen, might marry her.
573
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,000
Temptations were active,
and save me from sin.
574
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,199
In Jesus' name I pray.
575
00:35:39,199 --> 00:35:42,960
I must stop this sin, and
I will with Thy strength.
576
00:36:07,559 --> 00:36:10,480
- We all felt that he
definitely did need an anchor,
577
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,480
and hopefully he would find a nice girl,
578
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,639
maybe develop a relationship.
579
00:36:15,639 --> 00:36:18,039
So when we went on a book tour,
580
00:36:18,039 --> 00:36:21,039
she happened to be there at
Wanamaker's department store.
581
00:36:21,039 --> 00:36:23,559
- I noticed her right
away in her gray dress.
582
00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:25,880
And as soon as I came up there, my eyes
583
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:27,639
started to swoon.
584
00:36:27,639 --> 00:36:29,280
And then I looked at the
crowd, I looked back,
585
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:30,639
and there she was again, I looked back,
586
00:36:30,639 --> 00:36:32,800
there she was again, and
she was still smiling.
587
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,320
- It was pretty incredible.
588
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,920
It was like love at first sight.
589
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:38,079
- Yeah.
- I was there, yeah.
590
00:36:38,079 --> 00:36:39,559
- And the next time I
came back to Philadelphia
591
00:36:39,559 --> 00:36:41,239
two days later, she came down,
592
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:42,679
she asked me for the address.
593
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:45,599
- She's here now.
594
00:36:45,599 --> 00:36:46,679
Miss Vicki.
595
00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:59,880
Dear Tiny Tim.
596
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:01,480
I'm lost without you.
597
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,000
I miss you.
598
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,320
There's no one but you.
599
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:06,199
Dear Miss Vicki,
600
00:37:06,199 --> 00:37:07,920
thank you so much for sending me
601
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,679
the most exciting telegram
I have ever received,
602
00:37:11,679 --> 00:37:13,719
but I am more lost without you
603
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,519
than you will ever be without me.
604
00:37:16,639 --> 00:37:17,480
Tiny Tim.
605
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:18,320
There's nothing,
606
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:19,159
just nothing without you.
607
00:37:19,159 --> 00:37:20,440
There can never, ever be anyone but you.
608
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:21,400
Dear Miss Vicki,
609
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,760
I am thinking of you more than
you will ever think of me.
610
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,719
All the silent objects are my witnesses.
611
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:29,920
This must be the last time
612
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:31,880
I will be ever be separated from you.
613
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,079
Thanks again, Tiny Tim.
614
00:37:35,079 --> 00:37:37,199
Vicki, was
it love at first sight?
615
00:37:38,079 --> 00:37:38,920
- Um--
616
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:40,559
- It was really love at first fright.
617
00:37:40,559 --> 00:37:42,559
- No, don't say that!
618
00:37:42,559 --> 00:37:44,039
Although I think so.
619
00:37:44,039 --> 00:37:45,840
Don't mind what he said about fright.
620
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:47,559
- Tiny Tim, would you sing us a song
621
00:37:47,559 --> 00:37:49,679
that would express how you feel right now?
622
00:37:49,679 --> 00:37:51,360
- Oh, I'd love to.
623
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:52,519
Yes, I sure would.
624
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:11,599
Points I must remember
625
00:38:11,599 --> 00:38:14,119
concerning the marriage
situation with Miss Vicki.
626
00:38:14,119 --> 00:38:15,639
Give her gifts everyday.
627
00:38:15,639 --> 00:38:17,039
Glorify her womanhood and praise.
628
00:38:17,039 --> 00:38:18,440
Share every secret.
629
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:19,800
Welcome her mother and father.
630
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,199
Watch her menstrual cycles.
631
00:38:21,199 --> 00:38:22,880
Build her up, especially in public,
632
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:23,719
in front of others.
633
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:25,800
Keep lotions near bed at romantic hours.
634
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,000
Not to forget peanut butter, honey,
635
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,840
mustard, whipped cream.
636
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,199
Dress as a teenager.
637
00:38:31,199 --> 00:38:32,039
Eat her constantly.
638
00:38:32,039 --> 00:38:33,519
Don't try to change her.
639
00:38:33,519 --> 00:38:35,119
Give her freedom.
640
00:38:41,679 --> 00:38:43,840
- Tiny was talking to Johnny Carson,
641
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,480
and Tiny said something
about yes he had a girlfriend
642
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:48,320
and said we're gonna get married.
643
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,199
And Carson said, so where
are you gonna get married?
644
00:38:50,199 --> 00:38:52,960
He said, oh I don't know.
645
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:57,199
And Carson said, why don't you do it here?
646
00:38:57,199 --> 00:39:00,519
And Tiny went, oh, Mrs. Carson.
647
00:39:00,519 --> 00:39:01,400
Oh.
648
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,440
And looked around at me, and I thought,
649
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,480
oh this is interesting.
650
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:10,119
- His wedding was such a big event
651
00:39:10,119 --> 00:39:11,880
that it produced a brownout.
652
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,679
The night that Tiny
was married on the show
653
00:39:14,679 --> 00:39:18,079
highest ratings in the
Tonight Show history.
654
00:39:18,079 --> 00:39:19,760
- I thought that it was gonna be a circus,
655
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,440
I thought they were gonna make fun of him,
656
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,639
and I didn't want to see him get married.
657
00:39:23,639 --> 00:39:25,840
I couldn't dream of him anymore then.
658
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:27,960
- Before the word reality television,
659
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:29,800
this was reality.
660
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,280
- Wait a minute, am I having my hair cut?
661
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:33,119
No!
662
00:39:33,119 --> 00:39:33,960
- Very little.
663
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,199
- No, no!
664
00:39:35,199 --> 00:39:36,039
I don't want my hair cut.
665
00:39:36,039 --> 00:39:37,679
- Didn't you promise Miss Vicki--
666
00:39:37,679 --> 00:39:38,639
- No, no, no.
667
00:39:38,639 --> 00:39:39,480
So we can see your face.
668
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:40,320
- Oh, no, no, no.
669
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:41,920
Oh, for my fans, I have
to keep the curl for them.
670
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:43,599
Oh no, I don't know what to say.
671
00:39:43,599 --> 00:39:45,039
You aren't
even gonna get it trimmed
672
00:39:45,039 --> 00:39:46,400
for your wedding?
673
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,000
Oh, we hardly took any off.
674
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:48,840
- Oh, thank god.
675
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:49,760
- They won't even notice the difference.
676
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:51,360
Aren't you
gonna let him even it up
677
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:52,199
for you though, Tim?
678
00:39:52,199 --> 00:39:53,039
- Oh no, no.
679
00:39:55,599 --> 00:39:56,960
From New York,
680
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,280
the Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.
681
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:01,039
- People probably have been kidding
682
00:40:01,039 --> 00:40:03,920
about Tiny Tim being married
on the show, but we are not.
683
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:05,440
It happens tonight.
684
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,360
- And the Lord bless thee and keep thee,
685
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:23,480
this day, and unto the end.
686
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:24,320
Amen.
687
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,400
You may kiss the bride.
688
00:40:57,559 --> 00:41:00,719
When I watch
that video of our wedding
689
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,159
and I saw my young self,
690
00:41:03,159 --> 00:41:06,280
and I went oh my gosh, and it
all came floating back to me.
691
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,559
I had a vision in my head of a home,
692
00:41:09,559 --> 00:41:12,719
with hardwood floors and matching dishes
693
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,840
and children, and cooking
dinner every night,
694
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,519
and that never came to be.
695
00:41:19,519 --> 00:41:23,280
I never cooked one dinner, ever,
696
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:24,639
ever for him.
697
00:41:24,639 --> 00:41:27,280
Our life was on the road and in hotels
698
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:28,960
and that's what he wanted,
699
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,039
and that's what he liked.
700
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,280
- Here's the rest of the wedding party
701
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:38,159
to come out and say goodnight.
702
00:41:38,159 --> 00:41:39,960
I thank you for being
with us and letting us
703
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:41,920
televise this tonight, and wish you both
704
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,360
much, much happiness.
705
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:44,679
We'll see you tomorrow night.
706
00:41:44,679 --> 00:41:45,519
Goodnight.
707
00:41:46,519 --> 00:41:48,760
Thank
you for the greatest day ever.
708
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,119
For this evening, I got
married for the first time,
709
00:41:52,119 --> 00:41:53,880
and the last, I pray,
710
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,280
to the most beautiful girl I know,
711
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,480
Miss Victoria May Buttinger.
712
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,360
I pray I can be worthy of her
713
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:02,559
and make her happy.
714
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:06,440
You've played
at the Royal Albert Hall,
715
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:07,840
you've played at Caesar's Palace,
716
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,440
you've toured the world,
and Tiny Tim gets married
717
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,079
on the Tonight Show,
watched by an estimated
718
00:42:13,079 --> 00:42:15,440
40 to 50 million people.
719
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:16,320
What do you do?
720
00:42:17,559 --> 00:42:19,679
Where can you possibly go after that?
721
00:42:22,079 --> 00:42:22,880
At this moment,
722
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:26,159
I am the hottest talent
in the whole country.
723
00:42:26,159 --> 00:42:27,760
I am the toast of the city
724
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,360
from Hollywood to New York.
725
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,360
I am praised by everyone.
726
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:35,280
And yet, with all the
shouting and sinning,
727
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:39,760
my soul is in Hell, and I
cry out for help, oh Jesus.
728
00:42:49,679 --> 00:42:51,320
And after
so many years of making
729
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,960
his own decisions, Tiny began to resent
730
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:55,199
people telling him what to do,
731
00:42:55,199 --> 00:42:56,840
so he alienated Richard Perry,
732
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,800
Richard Perry quit,
followed by Ron DeBlasio,
733
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,599
and Tiny was taken over by
less experienced managers
734
00:43:02,599 --> 00:43:06,440
who decided to go down the
route of branding Tiny Tim
735
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,480
and Miss Vicki together as a package.
736
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:25,599
Thank you, as Miss Vicki
737
00:43:25,599 --> 00:43:29,000
gave birth to a baby
girl early this morning.
738
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:33,440
- Also thanks as Miss
Vicki and the blessed event
739
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:34,559
are doing fine.
740
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,519
I can see, looking at
them together like that,
741
00:43:40,519 --> 00:43:43,639
I can see how I look like both of them.
742
00:43:43,639 --> 00:43:45,039
I don't think that I'm proud.
743
00:43:45,039 --> 00:43:48,159
And I think the reason why is because
744
00:43:48,159 --> 00:43:52,000
from a very young age, I
always had negative stories
745
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,760
about him from my mother,
so because of that
746
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:56,760
it stuck in my mind.
747
00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:59,559
Maybe at times I even felt embarrassed.
748
00:43:59,559 --> 00:44:02,079
But now that I'm older, I realize
749
00:44:03,639 --> 00:44:06,719
everyone's different, he
was different for his era.
750
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,119
He was really
good at performing,
751
00:44:22,119 --> 00:44:23,920
and that's where he was most comfortable.
752
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:45,039
But when he was alone with people,
753
00:44:45,039 --> 00:44:46,760
with friends, relatives,
754
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,159
he was so uncomfortable.
755
00:44:49,159 --> 00:44:52,639
He couldn't really relate to other people.
756
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:58,679
His experiences as a
child with his parents,
757
00:44:58,679 --> 00:45:00,039
it wasn't good.
758
00:45:00,039 --> 00:45:01,880
And I don't think he learned
759
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,599
the capacity to love.
760
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:27,719
- You know, he signed a
contract with the mob,
761
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,360
and they were controlling him.
762
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:35,679
- Tiny definitely more
than alluded to that.
763
00:45:35,679 --> 00:45:38,400
He would say I've got the big boys.
764
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:40,039
He called them the big boys.
765
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:43,519
- One of these mafia people
766
00:45:43,519 --> 00:45:46,079
said okay that's it, I'm taking it over.
767
00:45:47,119 --> 00:45:48,480
I'm your new manager.
768
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,639
That was mainly it.
769
00:45:50,639 --> 00:45:53,599
- Show business was very
mobbed-up back then.
770
00:45:53,599 --> 00:45:56,639
Of course, they controlled Las Vegas,
771
00:45:56,639 --> 00:46:00,320
vending machines and
jukeboxes and nightclubs.
772
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:01,880
They had booking agencies.
773
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,239
Everybody was
saying who is this guy?
774
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,159
Including the FBI.
775
00:46:10,159 --> 00:46:11,480
So they launched an investigation,
776
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:12,760
and they were particularly interested
777
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,679
if Tiny was connected
to hoodlum associates
778
00:46:15,679 --> 00:46:18,320
connected to Frank Sinatra, basically.
779
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,639
Night
out at the Whisky A Go Go.
780
00:46:24,639 --> 00:46:26,639
Mr. Kaufman made gesture of threat
781
00:46:26,639 --> 00:46:29,719
when he said even if
your father does not want
782
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:31,840
you to sign, you're gonna.
783
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:33,400
He is very on edge
784
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:35,599
after being in prison
for more than a year.
785
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,679
I don't know how far my
career will go with them,
786
00:46:39,679 --> 00:46:43,239
but they do take personal
interest in friendship with me
787
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:46,159
and will be the crutch I
need to fight temptation.
788
00:46:48,039 --> 00:46:48,960
And I got to know them,
789
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:50,920
and they didn't like me.
790
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:52,239
They looked like mobsters,
791
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:54,239
but I could hear, he'd be on the phone,
792
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,480
and he'd be like, you
gotta get rid of her.
793
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,840
She's out for this,
794
00:46:58,840 --> 00:46:59,880
like he was so mean.
795
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:01,079
He hated me.
796
00:47:01,079 --> 00:47:03,320
Then Tiny would come to me
and tell me these things,
797
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,039
like, he said oh you're no good,
798
00:47:06,039 --> 00:47:07,679
and you just want what you can get,
799
00:47:07,679 --> 00:47:09,599
and you just want money,
800
00:47:09,599 --> 00:47:12,519
and I'm like, well did
you stick up for me?
801
00:47:12,519 --> 00:47:14,719
Did you tell him that's untrue?
802
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:16,840
Well, no.
803
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:18,639
You know?
804
00:47:18,639 --> 00:47:20,159
That was really hurtful.
805
00:47:40,119 --> 00:47:43,239
- If she gets a divorce, I
will never give it to her.
806
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:44,519
The courts may.
807
00:47:44,519 --> 00:47:46,199
This ring stays on the finger.
808
00:47:46,199 --> 00:47:47,800
I love her now more than I did yesterday.
809
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:51,880
If she wants to be free,
then I will never be free
810
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:53,599
until death do us part.
811
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:55,760
Sad day.
812
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,199
She leaves.
813
00:47:57,199 --> 00:48:00,079
Dear Lord, Miss Vicki has left me again.
814
00:48:01,199 --> 00:48:03,840
This time she came and told me to my face.
815
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:05,679
She is tired of this marriage.
816
00:48:06,519 --> 00:48:09,199
She cried a bit and was
amazed that I still could say
817
00:48:09,199 --> 00:48:11,320
I love her and I'm happy with her.
818
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:12,239
I still mean it.
819
00:48:13,119 --> 00:48:15,920
I feel sorry for her, and the baby.
820
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,639
I must now await further developments.
821
00:48:18,639 --> 00:48:20,199
- You're in the Guinness Book of records.
822
00:48:20,199 --> 00:48:21,920
Are you aware of that?
823
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:23,519
- Mr. Carson, I tell you.
824
00:48:23,519 --> 00:48:24,360
They told me that,
825
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:25,679
but I never looked it up.
826
00:48:25,679 --> 00:48:27,880
- The second highest rated television show
827
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:32,079
of all times next to the
man's first walk on the moon,
828
00:48:32,079 --> 00:48:34,880
is the night you were
married on The Tonight Show.
829
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:35,800
It had the second highest rating,
830
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:37,840
but the marriage hasn't gone that well?
831
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:41,320
- Well, unfortunately
Mr. Carson, that's life.
832
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:44,280
But I can say--
833
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:48,000
I mean, unfortunately,
Miss Vicki left again
834
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,039
this January, and this time
she said goodbye in person.
835
00:48:51,039 --> 00:48:51,880
The first time, she didn't.
836
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:53,440
She just ran off with somebody else.
837
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,119
But at that time, I'll be waiting,
838
00:48:56,119 --> 00:48:57,119
I don't believe in divorce.
839
00:48:57,119 --> 00:48:59,480
And of course if she comes back
840
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,000
20 years from now, fine.
841
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:02,559
Under my terms, of course.
842
00:49:02,559 --> 00:49:04,320
And basically--
843
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:06,000
- Can I ask what the terms are?
844
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,760
- Yes, frankly, some of the terms will be
845
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,920
she has to take a blood test.
846
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:16,920
During this
time, Tiny's management,
847
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:18,840
they were trying all kinds of new things
848
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:20,679
to jumpstart his career.
849
00:49:20,679 --> 00:49:23,079
- Well we do all benefits for the police
850
00:49:23,079 --> 00:49:24,880
and the firemen all over,
851
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,679
New York area, Massachusets, Connecticut.
852
00:49:27,679 --> 00:49:30,000
And we also bring monkeys, chimpanzees,
853
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,519
and magical acts with us,
854
00:49:32,519 --> 00:49:33,519
and jugglers.
855
00:49:33,519 --> 00:49:37,400
And on the road I've also
seen some wonderful talent
856
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:41,599
like Mr. John McCormick,
the toothless opera singer.
857
00:49:41,599 --> 00:49:43,199
Ah!
858
00:49:43,199 --> 00:49:45,159
Ah, now that, now you're talking.
859
00:49:45,159 --> 00:49:48,159
- I consider it a very sad story,
860
00:49:48,159 --> 00:49:53,159
because the way he was
introduced and put immediately
861
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:55,880
like a freak.
862
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,840
- They didn't understand his genius,
863
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:02,119
and I think they were into something else
864
00:50:02,119 --> 00:50:04,559
that had nothing to do with that,
865
00:50:04,559 --> 00:50:07,280
and it was actually heartbreaking for me
866
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,480
because I knew what he was.
867
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:19,000
Hello, this is Tiny Tim saying
868
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:20,440
these are not imitations
869
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,639
but spirits as I feel
they are living in me.
870
00:50:32,559 --> 00:50:34,280
Depressing thoughts of failure
871
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:35,960
and of being and living in fear
872
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,119
and poverty and shame continue.
873
00:50:39,119 --> 00:50:42,920
I try to think of what
to do, but no results.
874
00:50:46,679 --> 00:50:49,239
- Finally, Tiny's management
stops wanting to pay
875
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:52,960
for his hotel room, and
Tiny ends up back at 601
876
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:56,440
West 163rd Street with his mother.
877
00:51:02,159 --> 00:51:04,360
Dear Lord, as I predicted,
878
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,639
I came back to live with my mother
879
00:51:06,639 --> 00:51:09,440
where I left to go to
Hollywood in November '67.
880
00:51:10,519 --> 00:51:13,400
As I look out of my window,
all my father's words
881
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,679
came back to me, and I really felt
882
00:51:15,679 --> 00:51:17,880
what I wasted in the past,
883
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,159
and my shame, and my mother's shame
884
00:51:20,159 --> 00:51:24,239
in me being back, I believe
I have learned my lesson.
885
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:28,119
Lord willing, I will soon
be back on top again.
886
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,360
This is when
he graduated junior high.
887
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:34,880
- Notice she said junior high.
888
00:51:36,079 --> 00:51:38,159
This is his
friend, dear little friend.
889
00:51:38,159 --> 00:51:39,079
My cousin.
890
00:51:39,079 --> 00:51:39,880
Oh, his cousin.
891
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:41,360
My dear cousin Hal Stein
892
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,679
who is now the promotion
manager of WKTU FM.
893
00:51:47,679 --> 00:51:49,840
- He took a better position there.
894
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:51,119
Had
a really angry argument
895
00:51:51,119 --> 00:51:54,599
with my mother as she again
had a lack of faith in me.
896
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:00,480
- So long, Mother.
897
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:21,280
- Thus begins I would say
a very tumultuous decade.
898
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:24,920
- Mister gasoline man, give me some gas.
899
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:28,599
My tank is almost empty,
so fill her up fast.
900
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:49,119
- To me it's amazing
that he could get there
901
00:52:49,119 --> 00:52:51,440
to begin with, it's
amazing he could stay there
902
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:52,800
for a year or two.
903
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,159
He would have to do things
that we can't even imagine
904
00:52:55,159 --> 00:52:57,400
to stay there, to keep that being fresh,
905
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,119
to keep being on top,
he would have had to,
906
00:52:59,119 --> 00:53:00,639
I can't imagine what he would have done
907
00:53:00,639 --> 00:53:02,559
in the late 70's when disco was a thing.
908
00:53:02,559 --> 00:53:05,280
I can't imagine Tiny in the punk rock era.
909
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:24,719
Miss?
910
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:25,800
Miss Jan.
911
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:28,679
Miss Jan is Mr. Tim's wife.
912
00:53:28,679 --> 00:53:29,519
- That's right.
913
00:53:29,519 --> 00:53:30,599
Well nice to meet you.
914
00:53:31,519 --> 00:53:33,440
Your life can't possibly be normal.
915
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:37,599
- Well, it really is exciting
and very interesting.
916
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:58,320
I
pray for my dear wife, Jan.
917
00:53:58,320 --> 00:53:59,840
She is depressed again.
918
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,559
I have not done well in recent years.
919
00:54:02,559 --> 00:54:06,639
I am helpless to her
because of my own problems.
920
00:54:06,639 --> 00:54:11,079
Today, Miss Jan met and
chatted with Mr. Donald Trump.
921
00:54:11,079 --> 00:54:13,079
He spoke nicely about me when he learned
922
00:54:13,079 --> 00:54:14,239
she was married to me.
923
00:54:15,079 --> 00:54:17,000
I think my wife loves Mr. Trump.
924
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:20,840
- At this point in time,
Tiny was willing to pursue
925
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:23,320
pretty much any angle to make a comeback.
926
00:54:27,159 --> 00:54:29,400
The closest he ever came
was through his work
927
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:32,400
with Australian pop artist Martin Sharp
928
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:35,400
who invested considerable time and money
929
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:37,639
in Tiny Tim projects.
930
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:45,000
- Well, it's really gonna
be a portrait of Tiny.
931
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:47,760
The basis of it is the World
Non-Stop Singing Record,
932
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:48,920
we did it at Luna Park.
933
00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:03,159
- The new world heavyweight
singing champion,
934
00:55:03,159 --> 00:55:06,079
the one and only Mr. Tiny Tim!
935
00:55:06,079 --> 00:55:08,760
- And though Tiny did
set the world record,
936
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:10,440
the Guinness Book of World Records
937
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:12,360
never recognized the achievement.
938
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,719
Martin Sharp's film was never released,
939
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:16,760
and Tiny went back to the States
940
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:18,800
and took a job touring with the circus.
941
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:23,239
- Who in the hell are you?
942
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:25,079
And what are you doing in this house?
943
00:55:25,079 --> 00:55:27,800
- I just came to welcome you home, Jill.
944
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:30,519
- Merv?
945
00:55:30,519 --> 00:55:33,039
- Marvelous Mervo, at your service.
946
00:55:33,039 --> 00:55:34,920
Our very special guest star
947
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,000
here under the big tarp,
948
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:39,800
truly one of the entertainment
world's most colorful
949
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:44,800
and unique personalities,
the one and only Tiny Tim!
950
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:52,199
There
must be changes in my career.
951
00:55:52,199 --> 00:55:55,639
I must make it either in
records, movies, or television,
952
00:55:55,639 --> 00:55:57,400
or not at all.
953
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:00,280
The way I am handled right
now by people who just want
954
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:02,880
to grab any engagement they can from me
955
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:04,920
so they can put a dollar in their pocket,
956
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,960
even at the loss of the talent
you've given me, oh Lord.
957
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:09,599
- Thank you beautiful Mr. Wall
958
00:56:09,599 --> 00:56:10,599
for bringing me out here.
959
00:56:10,599 --> 00:56:12,960
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
960
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:15,239
so thrilling to be here today
961
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:16,119
in beautiful--
962
00:56:16,119 --> 00:56:18,239
I'm the first has-been star singer
963
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:21,360
who has ever sung with the circus.
964
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:23,119
Elvis Presley sung with the circus
965
00:56:23,119 --> 00:56:24,880
but that was before he became a star.
966
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:26,719
- You say has-been star.
967
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,119
What was it like for
you to go up to the top
968
00:56:30,119 --> 00:56:33,480
and be married on Johnny Carson broadcast,
969
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:36,079
and then to do whatever's happened to you,
970
00:56:36,079 --> 00:56:37,920
of which I'm not totally familiar.
971
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:39,360
- Great question.
972
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:41,960
It's really down, up, and down.
973
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:43,199
It was fantastic.
974
00:56:43,199 --> 00:56:45,400
It was a great trip,
975
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:47,199
and of course for 17
years I've been trying
976
00:56:47,199 --> 00:56:48,400
to make it back again.
977
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:49,360
- Yeah.
978
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:51,320
Tim hasn't been doing
much television lately,
979
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:54,159
but he has been performing
mainly in circus.
980
00:58:31,719 --> 00:58:33,400
Des Moine River rising.
981
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:35,159
Flood getting nearer.
982
00:58:35,159 --> 00:58:36,920
Electricity out.
983
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:38,639
Water contaminated.
984
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:44,519
How many lives were made more beautiful
985
00:58:44,519 --> 00:58:45,920
because they were broken?
986
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:49,599
God loves you.
987
00:58:49,599 --> 00:58:50,440
He's got a plan.
988
00:58:52,559 --> 00:58:54,599
I can't do it alone anymore.
989
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:57,239
Get help.
990
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,519
- I was 12.
991
00:59:08,519 --> 00:59:13,519
And I had 55 pictures of him on my wall.
992
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:18,920
I had always felt like
I didn't really belong
993
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:22,119
in this world, and when I was a little kid
994
00:59:22,119 --> 00:59:25,760
I had a fantasy that I
was from another planet,
995
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:29,639
and when I saw him I thought
he's the first person
996
00:59:29,639 --> 00:59:32,039
I've ever seen who's from my planet.
997
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,159
Well, I hadn't much thought
about Tiny for a long time.
998
00:59:48,159 --> 00:59:50,159
I'd heard he was getting a divorce.
999
00:59:51,719 --> 00:59:54,360
And all of a sudden I
realized Tiny travels around
1000
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:57,320
and plays small places,
and I could meet him
1001
00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,199
if I wanted to.
1002
00:59:59,199 --> 01:00:03,079
I just called the hotel that
was mentioned in the article
1003
01:00:04,159 --> 01:00:07,639
and invited myself to meet him.
1004
01:00:09,599 --> 01:00:12,920
He says are you attractive?
1005
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:17,920
And I thought, it's a really
inappropriate thing to say.
1006
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:23,880
And I thought I should
be angry, but I'm not.
1007
01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:28,559
It was just awkward and
just wrong to say that,
1008
01:00:28,559 --> 01:00:30,119
but I just wanted to laugh.
1009
01:00:31,199 --> 01:00:32,599
And I said I suppose.
1010
01:00:32,599 --> 01:00:36,199
And he said, are you slim?
1011
01:00:36,199 --> 01:00:38,079
That's even worse.
1012
01:00:40,599 --> 01:00:44,440
And I was very thin at
the time, and I said yes.
1013
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:46,679
And he goes, well okay.
1014
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:49,960
And we set a time and a place,
1015
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:52,199
and I said we'll be there.
1016
01:00:52,199 --> 01:00:54,480
And he goes who's we?
1017
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:55,880
And I said me and my boyfriend.
1018
01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:57,039
He goes, oh honey.
1019
01:00:58,039 --> 01:01:03,039
And I said I've waited
26 years to meet you
1020
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:04,960
and I'm going to be there.
1021
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:08,039
And he says, all right.
1022
01:01:08,039 --> 01:01:09,280
And he hangs up on me.
1023
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:13,079
And that was our first conversation.
1024
01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:27,880
And my boyfriend said to me
you're still in love with him.
1025
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:29,360
And I said oh, no.
1026
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:32,480
I said you know, he's
old, and raggedy-looking
1027
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:33,320
in the picture.
1028
01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:35,000
And I said it's not gonna be the same.
1029
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:36,920
And he goes uh-huh, uh-huh.
1030
01:01:42,719 --> 01:01:46,519
And when I met him
1031
01:01:46,519 --> 01:01:48,679
he was to come down from his room
1032
01:01:48,679 --> 01:01:50,880
at the Hotel Fort Des Moine,
1033
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:51,960
and we were gonna have dinner.
1034
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:54,639
I didn't realize at the time
how little money he had,
1035
01:01:54,639 --> 01:01:58,320
and what a huge sacrifice
it was for him to buy dinner
1036
01:01:58,320 --> 01:01:59,559
for two guests.
1037
01:01:59,559 --> 01:02:02,159
And he says are you Miss Sue?
1038
01:02:02,159 --> 01:02:03,239
And I said yes.
1039
01:02:03,239 --> 01:02:05,400
And he says hi, I'm Tiny Tim.
1040
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:07,880
And I thought, yes.
1041
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:10,719
I knew that.
1042
01:02:10,719 --> 01:02:13,039
He's looking me up and
down, and he's giving me
1043
01:02:13,039 --> 01:02:17,239
this look like, you really
aren't that attractive.
1044
01:02:17,239 --> 01:02:22,239
And I'm looking at him like you are so old
1045
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:25,840
and you look a stuffed
animal that some little kid
1046
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:29,360
has been playing with a
lot for about 10 years.
1047
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:31,840
And then I noticed that
he was looking at me like
1048
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:33,719
well maybe you're not that bad.
1049
01:02:33,719 --> 01:02:35,639
Maybe you're kind of cute.
1050
01:02:35,639 --> 01:02:38,639
And then within two or three minutes
1051
01:02:38,639 --> 01:02:40,199
the whole deal was done.
1052
01:02:41,119 --> 01:02:43,559
Without a word ever being said about it
1053
01:02:43,559 --> 01:02:46,400
it was just like this is obvious.
1054
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:47,599
This is going to happen.
1055
01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:50,400
And Dennis said to me, he says
1056
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:52,519
so that's your dream boy?
1057
01:02:52,519 --> 01:02:55,159
And I just looked at him like, yeah.
1058
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:15,920
That's it.
1059
01:03:17,639 --> 01:03:18,480
Take this ring.
1060
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:21,159
As a sign of
my love and fidelity.
1061
01:03:21,159 --> 01:03:22,840
- As a sign of my love and fidelity.
1062
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:25,519
In the name of
the Father and of the Son
1063
01:03:25,519 --> 01:03:27,360
and of the Holy Spirit.
1064
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:29,079
I'd like to present to you
1065
01:03:29,079 --> 01:03:30,760
Mr. and Mrs. Khaury.
1066
01:03:48,880 --> 01:03:50,760
By the time
he married his third wife,
1067
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:53,559
Sue Gardner, the national
spotlight had long faded.
1068
01:03:57,480 --> 01:04:00,039
In recent years, Tim
had found new popularity
1069
01:04:00,039 --> 01:04:02,440
among the retro music crowd.
1070
01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:03,599
I don't know how many people
1071
01:04:03,599 --> 01:04:06,400
have ever had an opportunity
1072
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:09,119
to see a living legend.
1073
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:12,239
Ladies and gentlemen!
1074
01:04:12,239 --> 01:04:13,360
The one and only!
1075
01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:16,119
Let's have a big round of
applause for Tiny Timbo!
1076
01:04:26,039 --> 01:04:28,960
- The first time he
got looked at medically
1077
01:04:28,960 --> 01:04:31,679
after we met, they said
that they thought he had
1078
01:04:31,679 --> 01:04:33,239
five to seven years.
1079
01:04:33,239 --> 01:04:34,719
And then he started to get worse,
1080
01:04:34,719 --> 01:04:36,880
and they started to talk
about three to five years.
1081
01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:39,760
And then they started talking
about one to three years.
1082
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:42,719
And in the end, the doctor
said I cannot guarantee
1083
01:04:42,719 --> 01:04:44,519
that he will walk out of the office.
1084
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:50,280
- Please welcome with me, Mr. Tiny Tim.
1085
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,679
- If you hear any
coughing during the show,
1086
01:05:04,679 --> 01:05:06,920
well it's because, you know--
1087
01:05:15,679 --> 01:05:19,039
Is there a doctor in the house?
1088
01:05:24,559 --> 01:05:26,800
- When I heard that he had a heart attack
1089
01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:30,079
I tracked him down in the
hospital in Massachusets,
1090
01:05:30,079 --> 01:05:33,320
and we communicated fairly often
1091
01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:34,960
the last few months.
1092
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:38,800
It became a very warm conclusion.
1093
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:42,519
- I had wanted him to
stay home for a long time.
1094
01:05:42,519 --> 01:05:44,480
He had promised me.
1095
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:48,960
But I didn't realize how addicted he was
1096
01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:51,440
to performing and to applause
1097
01:05:51,440 --> 01:05:53,320
and the audience and all that stuff.
1098
01:05:58,159 --> 01:05:59,000
Tiny!
1099
01:05:59,000 --> 01:05:59,840
Tiny!
1100
01:06:09,039 --> 01:06:10,440
Control your destiny,
1101
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:11,920
or someone else will.
1102
01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:17,159
It's not over until I win.
1103
01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:25,039
I don't know where
to start with that day.
1104
01:06:25,039 --> 01:06:26,480
He colored his hair that day
1105
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:28,320
and he was in a horrible mood.
1106
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:34,599
- Tiny came up these stairs
1107
01:06:34,599 --> 01:06:37,360
proceeded straight ahead
1108
01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:40,840
because he was not feeling well that night
1109
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:43,400
and he sat down and rested
1110
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:45,719
to just take it easy.
1111
01:06:45,719 --> 01:06:48,400
- Tiny Tim Khaury.
1112
01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:55,840
- A small bandstand was
set up against this wall,
1113
01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:59,760
and Tiny was pretty much front and center
1114
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:03,119
which would have put him in
approximately this position.
1115
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:05,639
- The set was very short.
1116
01:07:05,639 --> 01:07:10,639
He did sing another song
that I had never heard of.
1117
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:15,880
I'll have you to remember
when I grow too old to dream,
1118
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:19,039
this song will live in my heart,
1119
01:07:19,039 --> 01:07:21,559
so kiss me my sweet, and so let us part.
1120
01:07:23,480 --> 01:07:26,400
In which I think he was
consciously saying goodbye to me.
1121
01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:28,360
I think he knew that he was not gonna walk
1122
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:30,639
out of that room alive.
1123
01:07:30,639 --> 01:07:34,599
- Miss Sue was sitting way
in the rear of the room.
1124
01:07:34,599 --> 01:07:37,480
And then he
sang a very short version
1125
01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:38,320
of "Tiptoe".
1126
01:07:45,639 --> 01:07:49,719
- So when Tiny all of a
sudden, mm, grabbed his heart,
1127
01:07:49,719 --> 01:07:53,199
and Sue, as I get it,
from the back of the room
1128
01:07:53,199 --> 01:07:58,119
kind of mouthed to him, are you okay?
1129
01:07:58,119 --> 01:08:00,480
He kind of went, no.
1130
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:04,599
At that point, she got
up, charged forward,
1131
01:08:04,599 --> 01:08:08,679
and that's when he pretty
much knew he was collapsing
1132
01:08:08,679 --> 01:08:10,960
and fell into her arms.
1133
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:14,359
- And he very gracefully knelt down,
1134
01:08:14,359 --> 01:08:16,399
and I think that he was gone right then.
1135
01:08:38,199 --> 01:08:41,000
An icon of
the 60s died this weekend.
1136
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:42,520
He tiptoed
into America's heart
1137
01:08:42,520 --> 01:08:43,680
nearly 30 years ago.
1138
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:45,199
One of a kind entertainer,
1139
01:08:45,199 --> 01:08:48,319
and the last sounds he
heard were applause.
1140
01:09:09,359 --> 01:09:13,600
- Eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, quirkiness,
1141
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:19,640
Tiny was a genuine joyful
pear-shaped celebration
1142
01:09:21,039 --> 01:09:22,399
of all three.
1143
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:26,560
He was perhaps the kindest man
1144
01:09:28,119 --> 01:09:29,000
I ever met.
1145
01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:34,359
Tiny, may your good works never die.
1146
01:09:43,359 --> 01:09:46,800
- Some celebrities walk
around like they're the sun
1147
01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:50,800
and the moon, and he just wasn't that way.
1148
01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:53,560
He was wonderful.
1149
01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:55,319
- I feel like I'm Tiny when I say this,
1150
01:09:55,319 --> 01:09:57,239
but I feel like his spirit enters me.
1151
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:11,159
He was like
a turtle with no shell.
1152
01:10:11,159 --> 01:10:15,000
He was so honest, he was
so open and out there,
1153
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:16,399
and he was like a child.
1154
01:10:17,439 --> 01:10:20,199
- I hope that they understand
why I am the way I am
1155
01:10:20,199 --> 01:10:21,880
because I use it as an excuse sometimes.
1156
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:24,800
I'll say I can't help
it, my dad was Tiny Tim.
1157
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:26,239
It's not my fault.
1158
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:29,840
- He really should get some credit
1159
01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:34,319
as being the first androgynous
rock and roll era star.
1160
01:10:34,319 --> 01:10:36,039
Particularly in the next generation,
1161
01:10:36,039 --> 01:10:39,439
people like David Bowie,
and Prince, and Boy George,
1162
01:10:39,439 --> 01:10:42,520
they must have ingested some of Tiny Tim.
1163
01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:44,399
- People either got it or they didn't.
1164
01:10:45,680 --> 01:10:46,720
There it was.
1165
01:10:48,319 --> 01:10:49,239
He was beautiful.
1166
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:53,359
Oh, a story I have to tell you.
1167
01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:58,720
Neil Cassidy and I kidnapped
him from the mafia.
1168
01:12:58,720 --> 01:13:01,720
Mr. Rocko fell asleep,
and we snatched him.
1169
01:13:04,319 --> 01:13:07,960
We were driving up the west
side highway in New York
1170
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:12,880
to the Cloisters with Neil
Cassidy driving the car,
1171
01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:17,880
and Neil and Tiny
singing Bing Crosby duets
1172
01:13:18,039 --> 01:13:19,399
as we drove along.
1173
01:13:19,399 --> 01:13:21,880
Every now and then he'd
go, oh Mr. Cassidy,
1174
01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:23,479
not so fast!
1175
01:13:23,479 --> 01:13:26,439
Oh relax, Tiny, everything's cool!
1176
01:13:26,439 --> 01:13:30,359
I'm just gonna roll this
joint and drive with my knee.
1177
01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:34,520
Oh god, what a hoot.
1178
01:13:34,520 --> 01:13:38,039
I can't believe I, you
almost didn't get that one.
1179
01:15:05,399 --> 01:15:07,560
- Until we meet again,
this is Tiny Tim saying
1180
01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:09,760
to all of my dear
friends, wherever you are
1181
01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:12,079
in TV land, goodnight!81206
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