Featured on the Merv Griffin Show, you finally had the chance to clear the air about Ecstasy and the infamous swimming scene:
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Griffin [on arriving in America amid the Ecstasy buzz]:
“You really came over here with a bang.”
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Well, I didn’t know they were going to zoom in with a special lens.
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No, they said they would be way away, you know.
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Not close up!
Griffin: “Wasn’t that scene supposed to be in the movie?”
Hedy: “I don’t think so. It wasn’t in the script.”
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I was a kid.
“Hedy, or the Tale of the Fourteen-Year-Old”
Howard Tavel
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