“Do you remember Ann Miller?” Burnett asked, referring to a star of mid-century musicals. “She was once at a benefit for Oscar Hammerstein, and he wasn’t there because he was dead, but Ann kept asking, ‘Where’s Oscar?’ Someone had to tell her he’d been dead for ten years. And she just said, ‘Well, I’ve been on the road with ‘Mame.’ So now I say that all the time.”journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter