our first guest tonight a talented
and distinctive actor whose films include the big chill and the fly his latest effort is called
earth girls are easy ladies and gentlemen please welcome back to this program jeff goldblum jeff
hi jeff hi good to see you how are you nice to meet you oh i'm all right
how are you good good how are you as you said before okay now you know a couple of weeks ago
well maybe a couple of months ago your your wife the lovely gina davis was here lovely and then
like a couple of weeks later she won an academy award so that was a big night in your household
huh sure was yeah sure was we were hardly at home even but uh oh what a fun night yeah she won
and then she designed that dress should you design your own dress didn't you hear that yeah and i
think she was universally uh acclaimed as uh queen of the universe and most beautiful woman at the
awards so she won an award for designing her own dress is that what you're saying no no terribly
confused yeah i can see i can see well anyway really best supporting actress yeah and lovely
wife i'm very proud uh how did you guys meet where when in zagreb yugoslavia ed begley introduced us
you know and about four years ago you did you know ed begley i've met him sure he's been on the show
i know i'm a nice man i know i know and then we got married about a a a year and a half ago
on halloween wow isn't that something ed begley was there too went to las vegas the only night
that uh we've been there either of us gina and i before or since i think i've heard this have
i heard the story yeah yeah she told you so you did not necessarily go there with the idea of
getting married completely not it was my birthday it was their anniversary and we went another spur
of the moment after dinner at the baccanal room in caesar's palace right where the waiter in
order to show us the entrees truly held up a tray full of the entrees that's inexplicably stuck on
somehow and glazed took a ballpoint pen out of his pocket and kind of as he was
explaining you could have the rack of lamb touching it a little bit too or the salmon and
and then we got married i don't know how one thing led to another it didn't but we did uh and
how long at that point had you known one another for about three years oh so it all made pretty
good sense then very good did you have a nice uh and i know this is probably well did you have a
nice wedding i mean under the circumstances you know very nice oh i wouldn't have had it
any other way you know i don't like those family events i don't know about you oh i love family
events you do oh yeah i'm it's like the waltons with me oh really yeah you're kind of john boy
no i no it was sexy and romantic we said you want to do it we did and we went to one of those
the candlelight chapel three in the morning now november 1st not really halloween anymore they
said you know they had one of those boards like jello du jour you know the web the service du jour
do you want the veil or or not or the ring or not or live music or
tape music we said live music but she was on a break so we had i mean it was the middle of the
night do you want the videotape which uh we were torn about we went for it finally yeah
it's very it's hard to watch it's a videotape of your wedding not just strangers getting
married of course not yes our wedding uh and then later did you have another like a a more
traditional ceremony or this was it that was it yeah and how is it working out well wonderfully
wonderfully we still find ourselves being affectionate in public even yeah so some
people you know find that offensive you you know how they can and i've after a couple of
minor incidents gotten to to the point where i i get offended at their being offended we were at a
restaurant what is the level of the affection we're talking about because you know they're
discreet discriminate for kissing you know we were in a restaurant in london recently
i i placed night in conducive to that kind of thing aphrodisiac or something or aphrodite was
the name of the restaurant cupid's all over the place and grapes and everything we were kissing
one of those menus where the guy comes out and points to the veal and the salmon
no no we don't look for those places that must be the only one in vegas anyway but so we're kissing
and i noticed this woman get start to get kind of got her feet got her better i hear disgusting
disgusting a couple of so you're but you're just kissing sort of believe me yeah lightly
i don't want to describe it in more but are our shoes flying through the air and stuff certainly
not certainly not we're we're kissing anyway i i say to myself i'm gonna if she i'm gonna i'm
not gonna let this go unanswered if she leaves before we do because she has to pass our table
i'm going to say something you know mind your own business right something i teach my wife
we're married we're in love leave us alone exactly an affection is a you know why not
it's a a lovely thing it makes some nice defense of it we she leaves i noticed a little bit later
but unfortunately at the very moment that she's leaving and quickly how can i say that i'm i'm
doing that thing right i'm transferring red wine from my mouth to gina's mouth
nice and i've overestimated the amount and some's dribbling down my chin and i couldn't make an
attractive i see you know uh defensive you make it sound like a shriners picnic all of a sudden
did that actually happen yes it is okay that's an absolutely true all right hey
hey here's the deal we're gonna do a commercial and then we'll be right back jeff goldblum is
here kmart and uh patrick ewing uh is is it true that at one point uh you were robbed
and if so how recently and what did they get yes and not too long ago and where did it happen
yeah they got my wallet in my car and where did it happen on ed begley's uh front lawn just i
see ed begley again huh oh man he's a big figure in my life what happened is several years ago in
hollywood he invited me over to play monopoly he's a great game player yes he liked trivial pursuit
for a while exactly exactly well he was playing monopoly this night invited me over i go to his
house on a seemingly safe street i pull up i can see the lights on the living room i can hear them
having fun already another car which i haven't noticed pulls up this is absolutely true that i
haven't noticed now i've parked my car i'm going in and i kind of say is this somebody going into
the place and i don't recognize them and the guy in the passenger seat there were two of them uh
says hey do you have the time something happened in my stomach which i should have done something
about now i guess i would i think that i would have run or something i said uh uh by that time he
was out of the car and had a gun right here in my stomach so now you know he's not a monopoly player
exactly or if he is let him have yeah everything clark place instinctively instinctively i grabbed
the barrel of the gun oh well oh yeah i know i know a very touchy go i say uh don't don't do
this by this time his partner is here i'm not not prepared to fend him off and start going like that
you know i wish i could if i can't so in a very you know in a moment i say okay okay okay okay he
says because he doesn't want anybody ed to hear he doesn't know ed's in there of course are you sure
wait a second so so i i say okay okay okay okay he says where's your wallet i say here here
here please please please with my blessings i say don't shoot me don't shoot me because he's saying
i'm pleading for my life which is the conventional wisdom under the circumstances
he says where's your car right there here the keys run i do they take off in the car
weeks later a month or two later i go to court because they found the kids they're young and
there's a woman in court who recognizes me i'm on a series of that point 10 speed and brown shirt or
something she says hey i i know you you're you're an actor aren't you my son my son robbed you
i said congratulations yeah i'd love to work with him again the fine lands we are very near the end
of civilization isn't that that's the strangest thing i've ever heard but weren't you just
uh i mean that's really one of those at the core experiences where it could have been
adios exactly no truthfully this is absolutely true all of this and i was oh it's it's at the
core it's right yeah it's happened to you ever no no it's amazing don't even suggest that it might
no no no no you don't have ed begley call me either
you know when he gets killed or get married or he was he was on the show i think the last time
and told about the police coming to his house his apartment and finding uh a headless torso
in the dumpster behind his house i know that so this guy is there's something he's dangerous
yeah uh and the film uh earth girls are easy very
interesting title do you think so well i do i think it's interesting it suggests
aliens coming to visit exactly what happens i'm the alien i fall by mistake in to gina davis's
swimming pool she's a manicurist working at the curl up and die d-y-e uh-huh did i spit on you no
no you didn't no no just fixing your makeup but no if you'd like go ahead please do no no i i many of
yeah i fall into a swimming pool she she works up the curl up and died do you want your hair salon
and we fall in love i seduce her that's it so you are an alien and you get
you get married to an earth girl well we don't get married
but i i yes we fall in love we fall in love that's right and the easy part earth girls are easy
well you know no i don't know i have not i've not found that to be true
but then again i'm only 42 so i don't know it's out now isn't it
no no coming soon may 12th because i've seen the promos for it and such
exactly yeah exactly it's people are interested in that extraterrestrial oh yeah you know i
mean the question is is anything out there and if so do they have ray guns yeah right
good to see you again and by all means uh congratulate
your wife for us belatedly but nonetheless pass along our good wishes thank you jeff goldblum
and we'll be back here after station identification