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Aliens Land in the Sand- But It's No Day at the Beach When You Meet "Invaders from Mars"- Tonight!

Everybody has been talking about the sad news- that the hilarious Phyllis Diller has passed away at the age of 95. I would hope some of our younger viewers would be familiar with the garish gal who broke down a lot of barriers in the comedy world… she started out as a housewife and an advertising writer, and her husband, one Sherwood Diller- later to be christened “Fang” (though she admitted the character was actually fictionalized, and not truly based on her husband)in her act- encouraged her to be a comedienne. I am pretty sure my folks saw her do her act when she was first breaking in- and, if you see reruns of the old Groucho Marx show “You Bet Your Life”, she shows up on there as...