So maybe Glick is based on me? No, said Skip E., "It's Skip E. Lowe's character! And he's making me look like a clumsy interviewer! Martin Short thinks nobody remembers that on SCTV, he had a character named Skip E. High with a blond wig and a black turtleneck. Now he's made it fat and put it in Jiminy disguise and he's saying it's based on people like James Lipton and Larry King. Give me a break! He says it's Merv Griffin. It's not Merv Griffin, it's me! He only admitted it once on the Letterman show. He said, 'It's a little Skip E. Lowe.' "







The show sort of ticks because Lowe averts publicists and books it himself, wooing the luminaries with his own peculiarly elfin charm. "Esther Williams won't do it because she doesn't want tight close-ups," he explained. But every other camp icon craves the camera's glare and the host's gooey gushing. Has this scenario ever spelled l-o-v-e? "I think I fell in love with this beautiful man, Tony Curtis," Lowe admitted, though he added that nothing happened. ("I'm pretty decent when it comes to that.") Are there dead divas that he especially misses? "Susan Strasberg," he said, wistfully. "She was a great friend and a Gemini like me." And aside from Esther Williams, what star from the zodiac has eluded his grasp?
Yvonne DeCarlo? Don Adams? No, kids, brace yourselves: "I'd like to have Martin Short on and show him who the real Jiminy Glick is! When he makes me look like a real idiot, that's got to be noticed!" I've noticed, I've noticed. Now would someone with a series please start mocking me on a regular basis?



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Speaking of Condit, I'm not sure I like the way his supposedly kinky sex habits have been used to imply that he's an evil person. Wasn't the sex consensual? Still, I think he's evil anyway.