Here is Pam quoted here: DAILY DISH..... No doubt about it: Late comic and Taxi star Andy Kaufman was one weird guy. The wide-eyed funnyman, who will be played by Jim Carrey in the upcoming biopic Man on the Moon, made a name for himself with bizarre comedy routines that left audiences both amused and confused. So it should come as little surprise to viewers of this Sunday's E! True Hollywood Story (8 pm/ET) that Kaufman's behavior offstage was kind of, well, unusual. How unusual? For starters, ex-girlfriend Pamela Paradowski says that Kaufman once made love to her in the character of one of his favorite onstage personas: Elvis Presley. At other times, she says, he wanted her to pretend that she was a prostitute during their lovemaking sessions. Indeed, the star would often boast about the women at the legendary Mustang Ranch brothel, says Allan Arkush, director of Kaufman's 1981 movie Heartbeeps. The comic also showed obsessive-compulsive tendencies, according to pals. Dennis Raimundo remembers that Kaufman insisted upon eating precisely seven almonds a day. And Mel Sherer says that the star couldn't leave his car unless he went around it precisely three times to make sure that the lights were off and the door was locked. Kaufman's Taxi character, Latka Gravas, was an instant hit with audiences, but the star drove everyone on the show crazy with his behind-the-scenes antics. Sometimes he'd lose himself in meditation and wouldn't show up on the set. Other times, he'd show up in character as obnoxious lounge singer Tony Clifton. "You weren't talking to a grown-up," says Taxi costar Judd Hirsch. "There was a child still bumping around in this guy. That was the sweet part about him."
Rich Brown ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote: Ann, in the case of Andy K at that time, if a woman was hopeful then she was by definition clueless! May he RIP if applicable! Anyway, Andy's girlfriend that I know about was maybe the only MIU student to get her picture published in the National Enquirer. She got into mud wrestling and later body building. We took the core courses together with about 100 other students during the 75-76 school year. On Thursday, November 14, 2013 8:36 AM, "awoelflebater@..." <awoelflebater@...> wrote: Were you the "clueless one"? I don't think whoever that was was all that clueless, just maybe hopeful? I don't think Andy had a wife then, he started to date quite seriously a friend of mine at the time (1981 or so when he was spending so much time out there on some course or other.) I had already graduated and was working at Peggy O'Neills restaurant on the square. I remember we had one of our usual after closing wild dance parties and dancing to an entire B52's album while Andy just sat staring at us dancers from a darkened booth. He was a pretty quiet dude (when he wasn't having faux melt downs about unsnipped clothing tags.) ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote: Some people like Andy K are human zazen sticks, ever ready to whack the unconscious ones into consciousness! One such clueless victim was on MIU staff and working in a VIP dining room during a special event weekend. Andy came very late to dinner and all the food, etc. had been cleared away. Clueless One asked Andy if he wanted some food. He said just a bowl of vanilla ice cream would be great. Clueless One fetched it and then asked if Andy wanted company while he ate. Ah, the folly of youth! Anyway, Andy said yes and they proceeded to chat while he ate his ice cream dinner. Then he announced that he had to go meet his wife! Whack! On Thursday, November 14, 2013 3:44 AM, TurquoiseB <turquoiseb@...> wrote: Andy Kaufman, that is. http://defamer.gawker.com/is-andy-kaufman-still-alive-1463790778 http://defamer.gawker.com/is-andy-kaufman-still-alive-1463790778 This sounds like *exactly* the kind of stunt Andy would have dreamed up, and arranged to have played out by accomplices before his death. If he ever died. He was, after all, one weird dude, into fucking with people's minds as "performance art." I remember one day at the TM center at 1015 Gayley. Andy had been hanging around much of the day, helping around the center. At one point, an unsuspecting meditator (the victim) came up to him and said, "Andy, do you know that the price tag for your pants is still attached to them, and hanging out in back?" Andy pretended to be surprised, feeling around behind his back, discovering the offending tag, and ripping it off. Then he proceeded to melt down. First he got visibly upset, saying things like "Oh my god! Have I really been walking around like this all day? How embarrassing." Then he got more and more embarrassed, and more and more upset, and finally started weeping and crying, laying on the ground and beating his hands and fists in a perfect impression of a child having a tantrum. All this time, the poor victim was feeling worse and worse and worse, and starting to wish he'd never been born, let alone mentioned the tag. He ran off, close to tears himself. At which point Andy stood up and admitted it had all been a gag, and that he'd been waiting for someone to mention the tag all day. Suffice it to say his idea of "funny" was not the same as everyone else's.
