Carol Channing in "Hello, Robbers!" (Again)

16. lover her,
can't stand tmz

Posted at 2:07PM on Jan 27th 2008 by celebrity.web.net

17. TMZ, why do you keep removing my posts, I haven't said anything bad enough to require censorship?

Posted at 2:10PM on Jan 27th 2008 by FlBiker

18. The Hand that rocks the cradle.

Posted at 2:26PM on Jan 27th 2008 by Mik

19. Why can't they just leave her alone? I love her...

Posted at 2:32PM on Jan 27th 2008 by bustrorl

20. What a load of crap! The robber just passed a note to the teller. Carol wouldn't have been aware of the robbery unless she was the teller.

This story has been blown WAY out of proportion. Carol was never in danger nor was she personally a victim of the robbery, .

Posted at 2:33PM on Jan 27th 2008 by Connie Gables

21. Easy to get a little bit confused after all the excitement of a robbery when you're 87 years old.

Posted at 2:50PM on Jan 27th 2008 by D. Mentia

22. I also read that she said her father was African American. That makes her a black woman, regardless of her looks. I wonder if she knew what she was saying.

Posted at 3:01PM on Jan 27th 2008 by amazed at all this

23. I think she meant that she got robbed by the price of her new home!

Posted at 3:09PM on Jan 27th 2008 by BC

24. To the person who asked a poster here-how do you know Carol Channing is black.Well,she is black.According to Carol Channing's memoirs,when she left home to attend Bennington College in Vermont ,her rmother informed her that her father ,a journalist whom she believed was born in Rhode Island,was infact born in Augusta,Georgia to a German American father and an African American mother.According to Channing's account,her mother did'nt want her to be surprized "if she had a black baby".
Channing kept her heritage secret so she would not be typecast on Broadway or in Hollywood,ultimately revealing it only in her autobiography called "Just Lucky I Guess",published in 2002 when she was 81 years old.Channings autobiography has a picture of her mother,but not of her father.

Posted at 3:11PM on Jan 27th 2008 by Marc Stevensen

25. you are correct comment #25
folks have to remember during the time she was born- people like her often chose to "pass" rather than admit their black heritage. She would of easily been type cast in Hollywood and on Broadway. many people have forgotten the one drop of black blood laws in this country. famous people like Mariah Carey, Vin Diesel, Slash and The Rock Dwayne Johnson would have had to sit on the back of the bus- or chased around by the KKK if they were brought up years ago during Ms Channing's time

Posted at 3:10PM on Jan 27th 2008 by Sassy

26. BC
I THOUGHT SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT HER NEW house as well,trying to be funny since the housing thing is so much in the news,i thought she was just being the comedian she always has been

Posted at 3:13PM on Jan 27th 2008 by justmyopinion

27. THANKS FOR THE HISTORY LESSON,dinah shore did the same thing,she actually had a black baby and gave it up for adoption.she said it would have been too hard on the kid,but she also denied having the child for many.many years,what a shame

Posted at 3:19PM on Jan 27th 2008 by justmyopinion

28. So was her house robbed or just the bank? Sheez another old dementia suffering broad living in the desert..Oh there's a surprise..

Posted at 3:20PM on Jan 27th 2008 by Kari

29. The bank in Palm desert was robbed..Does Carol think that she lives in the bank?? not to worry a lot of old people have dementia in the desert...

Posted at 3:24PM on Jan 27th 2008 by Kari

30. Loved her memoirs, and her sense of humor. Black, white, yellow, or red......she will always be Dolly Levi to me! The best performance of any broadway play I ever saw. A great great Lady......................

oh, and just a note, I bet if the robber had stuck a gun in her ribs to rob her personally, she would have belted him with her handbag, knee kicked him to the ground and stood on his chest, singing "Diamonds are a girl's best friend"........you rock sister!

Posted at 3:44PM on Jan 27th 2008 by addicted to trash magazines