November
16 This is Angie Dickinson's Life

“This is your life, Angie Dickinson!” Ralph Edwards’ announcer Pat Sajak told Angie as she waited backstage at NBC. “No! It’s NOT!” a surprised Angie exploded — and refused to go on as the subject of the longrunning hit show. It was exactly 12 year ago when the always-reticent Angie thought she was there for an interview with Brian de Palma, her director on “Dressed to Kill.” Among those set to go on as part of Angie’s “Life” was Bob Hope, who was flagged down as he said he was leaving a dinner with President Ford, Colin Powell and others to honor her. Also left in the lurch were Burt Reynolds,  family members and boy friends who’d been flown in from N.Y. Wednesday, When I told Angie of Ralph Edwards' death, she recalled having made her refusal announcement to him. “I was shocked. I would never do that show.” Angie said, “Twenty years earlier Burt (then-husband Burt Bacharach) said they wanted me for the show. If you help them, I’ll kill you,” Angie laughingly recalled.  After she made her intentions loud and clear, “He (Edwards) came backstage and couldn’t have been kinder and more understanding. It never occurred to him that anyone would not want to have his life story told. He wondered, maybe there were others, he wondered, who felt the same way?” It was the last time she saw Edwards and, Angie also told me she was never invited back on NBC’s “Tonight Show,” where she says she’d been a Johnny Carson guest “40 times.”