Flying with the Rich and Famous: True Stories from the Flight Attendant who flew with them by Patricia Reid

Author:Patricia Reid [Reid, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2015-08-17T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4: What Goes Up Must Come Down

Celebrity Gossip Tidbits

BARBARA WALTERS

Barbara Walters, the first female co-anchor on network news and currently executive producer of the television morning talk show The View, was another frequent passenger of mine. Ms. Walters spent the majority of her flights with me frantically writing. Wads of crumpled paper would surround her. When we could, we would keep the papers to unfold later, hoping for juicy gossip or something noteworthy. The only problem was that we couldn’t read her handwriting. It’s atrocious! Or maybe she knew we were reading it?

DUSTIN HOFFMAN

Dustin Hoffman was traveling in a stateroom with his wife and three children. They were a pleasant, happy, and good-looking family. The youngest of the three children had a sippy cup and it was filled with grape juice. As we got ready for takeoff, the child started to feel queasy and threw up grape juice all over the pink carpet. Dustin Hoffman was extremely apologetic and helped us clean it up. He was very gracious and kind while doing so. At the end of the flight he gave one of the flight attendants a note that read: “Give yourself a raise, because you are the best flight attendants I have ever had.” Thank you, kind sir.

BETTE DAVIS

Bette Davis was a revered lifelong movie star. She was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won twice. She was perhaps best known for playing the disturbed Jane in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Bette Davis was in a stateroom and was traveling with an assistant. They were rehearsing lines for her last film, The Whales of August.

It was an uneventful flight that became slightly turbulent. The pilots turned on the “fasten seat belt” sign. One of our flight attendants went into Ms. Davis’ stateroom to make sure she had belted herself in. He discovered she hadn’t and said to her it was time to fasten up. Ms. Davis interrupted him and said, “Allow me.” Then very loudly, “Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night,”—her famous line from the movie All About Eve! Never has a flight attendant been more moved, he talked about that for weeks!

JOHNNY CARSON

Johnny Carson did not say “boo” to me, he never said anything at all to me. Even when spoken to, he did not respond. He spent the entire flight in “la-la” land, staring off into space. I would look at him but his wife would answer (I don’t know which wife this was). His wife answered every single question on a five hour flight. Johnny never even looked at me. It was very, very odd and I have no explanation for it whatsoever.

JAMES GARNER and JASON PRIESTLY

When I was flying on a Gulfstream for a private corporation, we would often hit the Indy circuit—Indianapolis Racing League. We would usually leave Southern California on Thursday morning and return home the Sunday after the race. On the Sunday flights, I would typically order extra catering because my boss had a tendency to bring more people with him to the airplane that had not been on the outbound flight.

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