I had enormous fun playing the Joker on Batman (1966). I ended up doing something like 20 episodes of Batman, as well as the full-length feature film version [Batman: The Movie (1966)]. There was certainly nothing hard about that assignment! Even the makeup sessions weren’t too bad. It took about an hour-and-a-half to put the full makeup on, including the green wig. I didn’t mind it at all.
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Happy Birthday: Donna Summer (1948–2012)
[on her popularity as a disco singer] I think, no question, when you’re a singer and you’re looking to become so successful, it’s the moments of success, singing the Oscar-winning song and having that moment, winning Grammies and all that, but after you get those things, you’re sorta sitting there in the room and you’re thinking, “OK, what next?”. When actors say they got the Oscar and then they didn’t get [a] job for five years . . . it feels like internally, and it’s like, “Oh, OK, is that all there is?” and so I think you just have to keep setting new goals for yourself. For me, after I had success on that level, my next goals were personal, they were my family, go on it’s time now, “You’ve done this, you’ve proven this, let’s get on with your real-life”.
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