Massive icons like Aretha Franklin or Donna Summer will certainly continue to get their own threads when they pass, but I figured it might be worth having a place to honor lesser-known celebrities who have left us, especially because we can’t see status updates (which is where a lot of those announcements were made on here previously).
 

But the great actor Ian Holm has died at 88:

 

 

Edited July 6, 20205 yr by Faulkner

 

https://tvline.com/2022/04/02/barrie-youngfellow-its-a-living-dead-dies-obituary/

 

Barrie Youngfellow, From '80s Sitcom It's a Living, Dead at 75

By Nick Caruso / April 2 2022, 3:42 PM PDT

Oh, no.  Not Jan. 

"It's a Living" was, IMO, a mediocre sitcom nevertheless blessed with an extraordinary cast (minus Crystal Bernard, lol).

1 minute ago, Khan said:

Oh, no.  Not Jan. 

"It's a Living" was, IMO, a mediocre sitcom nevertheless blessed with an extraordinary cast (minus Crystal Bernard, lol).

IAL got points for their cast alone. It was a cute little sitcom. The humor was lukewarm but cozy simply because the cast was made up of actors who could deliver (well, most of them, as you stated).

1 hour ago, Khan said:

Oh, no.  Not Jan. 

"It's a Living" was, IMO, a mediocre sitcom nevertheless blessed with an extraordinary cast (minus Crystal Bernard, lol).

 

58 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

IAL got points for their cast alone. It was a cute little sitcom. The humor was lukewarm but cozy simply because the cast was made up of actors who could deliver (well, most of them, as you stated).

The cast is just crazy. How many shows could boast Susan Sullivan, Louise  Lasser, Marian Mercer, and Sheryl Lee Ralph? So many passed through the show. 

I always laugh at how they steadily got more and more covered up. The '80s in a nutshell.

That "making a living" version of the song does not work...

 

Edited April 3, 20223 yr by DRW50

19 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I always laugh at how they steadily got more and more covered up. The '80s in a nutshell.

The uniforms in the first season make absolutely no sense whatsoever.  Backless halter tops with clashing skirts?  Are these women servers, or are they hookers?  Well, "It's a Living"!

And you're right about the "Making a Living" version of the theme song not working.  Which is fitting, since I don't think Louise Lasser (God bless her) or Gail Edwards' Mary Tyler Moore hairdo worked on that show either, lol.

Edited April 3, 20223 yr by Khan

10 minutes ago, Khan said:

The uniforms in the first season make absolutely no sense whatsoever.  Backless halter tops with clashing skirts?  Are these women servers, or are they hookers?  Well, "It's a Living"!

And you're right about the "Making a Living" version of the theme song not working.  Which is fitting, since I don't think Louise Lasser (God bless her) or Gail Edwards' Mary Tyler Moore hairdo worked on that show either, lol.

I suppose it it the last gasp of the jiggle network, which was also a big selling point for Ann Jillian at the time. It's so unbelievably trashy though. I always do a double take at Susan Sullivan, who has always been the epitome of class any time I have seen her, in that getup.

I’ve never seen It’s a Living, and I really want to. It definitely should have showed up on TV Land for a run or two in the early 2000s. Barrie Youngfellow is more recognizable to me for her appearance in one of my favorite Three’s Company episodes, “Triangle Troubles,” where she plays a classmate of Jack’s trying to hide the fact that she lives with two (hot af) guys.

 

2 hours ago, DRW50 said:

 

 

 

 

As I wrote in the EE thread:

I know she had long moved on from the show, but it's almost impossible to separate her from my viewing experience and history with the show. She was a very complicated woman IRL and not easy to deal with for some (both on-screen and behind the scenes), but she was always committed to making Dot a standout, and we should be lucky we had such a long time with her. RIP

just sat this: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bobby-rydell-teen-idol-dead-at-79_n_624cbae2e4b068157f7d6482

the music i grew up with — you can do the math. 

2 hours ago, wonderwoman1951 said:

just sat this: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bobby-rydell-teen-idol-dead-at-79_n_624cbae2e4b068157f7d6482

the music i grew up with — you can do the math. 

Sad to hear he's gone. I like him the most of that group of guys of the late '50s/early '60s, pre Beatles. Forget Him is a song I listen to a lot. Such good production and a vocal emotional just in the right ways.