we will listen to her talking about that in a 1988 interview with journalist hedrick smith and she willabout her parody and why she approached the issue of her popularity this way. >> [ inaudible ] -- they are all the rage. at the spring fashion shows, even my new trench coat with fur collar ♪ ronnie bought for ten cents on the dollar ♪ ♪ secondhand gowns, old hand me downs ♪ ♪ the china is the only thing that's new ♪ ♪ even though they tell me i'm no longer queen ♪ ♪ did ronnie have to buy me that new sewing machine ♪ ♪ secondhand clothes, secondhand clothes ♪ ♪ i sure hope [ inaudible ] sews ♪ >> i guess i came around to thinking, well, all right, we'll try. i mean, it can't be worse than it was, you know? so she said originally they had thought that i would make fun of the press and i said, no. no. no. i'm not going to do that. the only -- the only way we could do this is if i make fun of myself. if i make fun of myself then maybe i have a 50/50 chance here. as you well know that first year was not -- nobody was really crazy about me and i don't think i would have been crazy about me