The Familes Go West on The Great American Road Trip

Andy Williams and Yakov Smirnoff Guest Star

Six remaining families head out in their RVs from the arch of St. Louis and into the majestic Missouri countryside. The families experience the Meramec Caverns, a classic route 66 attraction, where the outlaw Jesse James once hid. Then on to Branson, Missouri where they perform skits in front of legendary stars Andy Williams and Yakov Smirnoff. Family fun ensues in the final challenge as the kids take control of their parents.

Cloris Leachman tells how she was three pounds away from boinking Ed Asner

In her tell all book, Cloris Leachman tells of her making the beast with two backs with Gene Hackman after an intimate dinner. And although she tells it in a way that gives no messy details, I still feel like Grandma has given me just enough information to ruin Thanksgiving dinner:

“As we moved into the main course, it was as if a cosmic wind enveloped us. Some giant space magnet was pulling us together,” Leachman writes. “We didn’t finish the meal. We went upstairs, flew into bed and made love. It was epic. And the next morning, Gene went back to his film and I went back to mine. I haven’t seen Gene since that night, but I remember well the feisty lad he was.”

“Some giant space magnet”? There’s a phrase I don’t think will be catching on. Anyway, Cloris also writes of several stars that she came close to doing the deed with as well, like Andy Williams and and Ernest Borgnine’s slightly more attractive twin in a parallel universe, Ed Asner. She writes that she made a deal with him that they would have sex if he lost 32 pounds. Unfortunately, Ed could only lose 29 pounds, so they never hooked up.

Yeah Cloris, I’m sure three pounds was the deal breaker, and not the idea of seeing Ed Asner butt nekkid.

Cloris will be signing her book, Cloris: My Memoirs in April at the following locations:

4/1/09 7:00 PM at Bookends – East Ridgewood Ave. Ridgewood, NJ.
4/2/09 7:30 PM at Barnes & Noble – Lincoln Triangle. New York, NY.
4/7/09 7:30 PM at Barnes & Noble – Grove Drive. Los Angeles, CA.
4/11/09 7:00 PM at Book Soup – Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood, CA.
4/14/09 7:00 PM at Borders Books – Tampa Avenue. Northridge, CA.

Cloris Leachman was recently on Dancing With the Stars.