Posted
5/26/2008 01:51:00 PM
by Douglas
"We designed it so that we are two relatively normal guys wandering through a sea of madness." Dick Martin, is no longer
with us.After Martin had rejoined Rowan on the nightclub circuit, in late 1967 NBC cautiously allowed the pair to film a "total comedy" pilot for Laugh-In, contracting them for a weekly series the following January. By the eighth show it was top of the ratings.
At the height of his fame Martin (who was by then divorced from his first wife, Peggy Connelly) pursued a sybaritic lifestyle, throwing wild parties at his apartment in the hills above Sunset Strip. This existence was quite unlike that of Rowan, a quiet family man who died in 1987.
After his failed first marriage, Dick Martin married, in 1971, Dolly Read, a former bunny girl at the Playboy Club in London.
Funny, well-liked party animal that married a Playmate and lived to be 86. Dare I say he lived the American dream?