“I asked him a question that nobody had asked him up to that time. I said, ‘How do you take care of your lips?’” recalls Brooks, who conducted the interview at Armstrong’s house in Queens. “And the answer was a 45-minute show where he’s taking out more creams and things, because he really had an elaborate routine for taking care of his lips.”
And what was his reward for this precocious celebrity get?
“I was loathed,” says Brooks. “The fact that I was an unpopular kid whose picture was on the front page of the school paper [with a celebrity] … Actually, it made me be bullied.”
Today, Brooks is showbiz royalty in his own right.
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