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Late Night with David LettermanOctober 7, 1998Holy Man Appearance[Dave had gotten a lot of complaints from animal rights groups for throwing a weasel (which was actually a ferret) in a bucket of water the night before. This will sort of show up in Jeff’s interview.] Dave Our first guest has starred in three, listen to this it’s a very impressive record, three of the most successful films of all time, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, and Independence Day, his latest motion picture, entitled Holy Man, opens Friday. Here’s the always entertaining Jeff Goldblum. Jeff.... [Jeff walks out to cheers and shakes Dave’s hand, waves to the crowd, etc.] Dave I’m so happy you’re here, I’m always happy your here. I wish every night could be Jeff Goldblum night here because I find you fascinating, I find you interesting, I find you provocative, I find you inengmatic, you’re a human conundrum, I, I love having you on the show because there’s always something good going on.
Dave Lets here what it is
Jeff Really? Dave No I would never do this. Jeff Well, I, I don’t know that I would have done it. But recently friends have said, you don’t....I travel for work and this and that, but they said you know you should take major trips. Dave really Jeff Yeah.......I mean, have you gone to the major places in the world. Down the Nile, To see the pyramids, the...
Dave Oh, I’da gone on that one. Jeff Oh see Dave Yeah, I’da gone on that one. Jeff Yeah, yeah have you ever been there Dave yeah oh yeah, I like Venice. I’da gone there Jeff I was working at the time and couldn’t go Dave I’d get off the boat and ditch those losers. [both laugh] Jeff I’ll tell you all about it Dave But tell people who this guy is Jeff Pau..... Dave He’s Bill Gate’s little buddy, right? Jeff Yeah, well, little buddy...it’s not like their Gilligan, and uh, and uh, the skipper but I think they did something together, they invented you know, stuff Dave he’s worth billions this guy Jeff I think he’s very, very rich Dave and every year he invites a group of people Jeff can you imagine that, like 400 people, invites them... Dave from different walks of life Jeff different walks of life, there’s like plane, a chartered plane to Los Angeles for the movie and showbiz..uh, types, and one to New York, and London, and Seattle where he’s from and all sorts of people go up and this year, it was, they flew us up to Juno Alaska, then they got....and it was all secret, Dave Ohh, I wouldn’t like that Jeff Like you know, whose gonna be there? They wouldn’t tell you who was going to be there..... Dave I wanna hear about this, hold on, we’ll get you some oatcakes, we’ll be right back [commercial] Dave Jeff Goldblum Ladies and Gentlemen [Dave holds up Emperor New Clothes book] Dave Now, did you write this Jeff? Jeff No, they gotta lot.. Dave What have you done here, it’s the Emperors New Clothes Jeff You know that story, they gotta a bunch of Dave Yeah, yeah, yeah. You wrote one in there? Jeff Yeah Dave Let me see what yours is, Jeff Goldblum, I’ll find it (flips in book) maybe it’s an index...do they have like a table of contents? Jeff Well sort of Dave Nathan Lane, oh he’s very good Nathan Lane, he’s very entertaining Jeff Isn’t he funny? He is funny... [Jeff starts to grab book to help Dave find page, but Dave won’t let him] Dave Angela Landsbury Jeff Yeah [laughs] Dave Harrison Ford and Melissa Matheson Jeff Yeah
Dave Well this is a nice thing [holds book up] and the profits from the book go to a very good cause... Jeff Yeah, the Starbright foundation Dave Good for you....Lets get back to your big exotic cruise up to Alaska Jeff Amazing, Falliniesque Dave Really? Jeff Yeah, I think so.. Dave 400 people, you and 400 people Jeff 400 people the invitation first of all, you know, I mean you’ve gotten invitation from fancy friends and everyone tries to outdo the other, this was like, I’ve never had anything like this in my life. What arrived in the mail was kinda of a suitcase, a small suitcase, a leather thing, and you open it up and kinda take more things out of it, paper and stuff and it was all that, please come to the thing with brochures and stuff.... Dave freaky Jeff yeah, very intriguing. Plus you got in this thing, a little totem pole. An unpainted totem pole and they said paint this, decorate it, because on our last nigh we’re gonna have..um. a native American potlatch [Dave makes face] Jeff You wouldn’t have liked to do that? You don’t like the idea? Dave I ain’t going on vacation with 400 strangers to be in Arts and crafts class, it ain’t gonna happen Jeff I know, I know, it was Dave Now, did you have any reluctance about this at all because I imagine, once you’re in the boat, I’m guessing you can’t bail, you can’t get off. Jeff They had in the, in the invitation they had a copy of the law, yeah, because we’re going from Canada kinda and we’re going wide...I don’t understand it but you could not get off the boat, it’s like that Vincent Price movie, House on Haunted Hill Dave That’s a great film, very entertaining... now did you make fast friends on the boat or did you get off thinking ohhh, what was that all about Jeff no, not at all, it’s true, up until the last minute I was thinking, why am I doing this, do I really want to go...but it was unexpected thing after another..but yeah, I made a lot of friends, I had a lot of friends who were there... Dave Babes? Lot of babes Jeff There were very interesting types there, and of course very fantastic women and men, yes, yes Dave how was the food? Jeff The food was fantastic, it was a cruise, and I had never been a cruise before. One night it was a 7, 8, 9, 10 course Russian dinner... Dave that sounds pretty good Jeff Does it, you like that stuff? Dave Well, it sounds good, I’ve never had a 7 course Russian dinner. Jeff It was fantastic, yeah, the original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.. Dave Well, yeah, I think we bought it through the Russian, Sewards folly, isn’t that what happened? We bought it from the Russians Jeff I was not all that familiar with the whole thing I had to be reminded of the whole thing, I’m still shaky on it...There were dancers, there were big Russian dancers that night who would come by your table... Dave Do you want that though? Jeff I never, not ordinarly, this was an out of the ordinary thing...I don’t go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that and there are people playing, but once in a while, it was kind of..something
Dave Listen, this movie Holy Man, you and Eddie Murphy and Kelly Preston and you play the guy, the TV executive who hires the Holy Man. Jeff Kinda, I work on a home shopping network and I’m kind of in trouble but I’m a good hearted fellow, and I fall in love with Kelly Preston and the holy man comes into my life, Eddie Murphy and at first I don’t care for him to much but I put him on because my job is in great jeopardy and hilarity ensues Dave great cast Jeff thanks, I think it is Dave listen Jeff, its been good to see you again Jeff thanks [Jeff and Dave stare at each other] Jeff (quietly) what can I do for you? Dave oh, nothing, I’m fine...I’d like to see you in about six months for a cleaning, that’s all Jeff Goldblum, we’ll be right back with John Melloncamp Back to TV Archive |
