The Dean Martin Anti-Pitch Meeting

There is no shortage in the annals of Hollywood of stories about stars asking for the moon, in hopes of ideally being turned down so they don’t have to do the work. Thanks to today’s Susan King “Classic Hollywood” column in the LA Times, we now have a reminder of a great Dean Martin variation, via his daughter Deana.

In 1965, dad reluctantly agreed to take a meeting with NBC about the idea of doing a TV variety show.

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