Members reallyhateskateonlost Posted December 6, 2023 Members Share Posted December 6, 2023 Sorry to hear about Norman Lear. When we first saw Maude it was on All in the Family and that episode still makes me laugh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jam6242 Posted December 6, 2023 Members Share Posted December 6, 2023 Please register in order to view this content https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/andrea-fay-friedman-dead-life-goes-on-1235823473/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted December 6, 2023 Members Share Posted December 6, 2023 What a lasting legacy Norman Lear has been able to leave behind. Those television shows will endure. We should all be so fortunate. R.I.P. to Ms. Friedman. Life Goes On was a mostly sweet and optimistic series and what regular viewer didn’t feel joy for Corky when he found a special connection with that special someone? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SoapDope Posted December 6, 2023 Members Share Posted December 6, 2023 Here is an episode of Lear's short lived series " All That Glitters" from 1977. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD_6TTFVkQs 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wonderwoman1951 Posted December 6, 2023 Members Share Posted December 6, 2023 i remember her well from a touching episode of l&o svu. lois smith played her mother, who was beside herself when friedman’s character became pregnant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted December 6, 2023 Members Share Posted December 6, 2023 Oh dammit. Norman Lear. I'd begun to think he'd never die. I'll always be so grateful for not only his classic shows but his wonderful resurgence in recent years. If the OLTL death mentioned in its thread is accurate, it's already a hard week. A thread: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bright Eyes Posted December 6, 2023 Members Share Posted December 6, 2023 (edited) delete Edited December 6, 2023 by Bright Eyes delete please 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Contessa Donatella Posted December 7, 2023 Members Share Posted December 7, 2023 https://shp.lol/knOY RIP Ellen Holly at 93. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bright Eyes Posted December 7, 2023 Members Share Posted December 7, 2023 (edited) Oscar nominee Marisa Pavan, passes away aged 91! The last of the 1956 Oscar actor nominees to pass away, making 1957 the earliest consecutive year an actor nominee is still living per year. Edited December 7, 2023 by Bright Eyes 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members janea4old Posted December 7, 2023 Members Share Posted December 7, 2023 (edited) https://www.facebook.com/grant.shipp.1/posts/1404513827139976 from Robert Hooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hooks Someone forwarded him Grant Shipp's facebook post, and he responded thus: https://www.facebook.com/roberthooks/posts/10227339073200642 Edited December 7, 2023 by janea4old 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted December 7, 2023 Members Share Posted December 7, 2023 (edited) Ellen Holly was a legend in her own time. The fact that OLTL had a central Black heroine and storyline early on - and then lost her, only touching base with the same press photo of Carla in her hospital gown whenever an anniversary came around - both fascinated and ate at me for years. It's always been my most fervent wish that OLTL could have properly honored her or her character's family when both the show and the performer were still with us, though she allegedly turned down several opportunities to return in her later years (possibly also in the final months). I still haven't let go of that dream in some way, really; silly of me. I remember seeing one of her last film performances in 10,000 Black Men Named George. She still had grace, presence and authority - but it's her Television Academy interview on YT everyone should see. Sharp, funny, expansive, richly detailed and beautifully eloquent. The advent of YouTube has, at least, given us a window into some of her surviving work as an actor finally, letting us get to know Carla. And her stage work, too - I believe her King Lear with James Earl Jones, GH's Rosalind Cash, AMC's Lee Chamberlin, AW's Douglass Watson and more in Shakespeare in the Park is still on YT. I know more of her is out there somewhere waiting to be found. And her memoir is stunning. I'm glad we can never forget her. Edited December 7, 2023 by Vee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted December 7, 2023 Members Share Posted December 7, 2023 Oh man, Ms. Holly was a pioneer in daytime television history. May she rest in peace. She wasn’t afraid to shake the table and use her status as a pioneer to illuminate all of her experiences in daytime soaps, regardless of whether she ruffled feathers. It’s not silly at all. I had really become acquainted with her via her interviews with the We Love Soaps blog and Roger Newcomb (the daytime soaps industry owes him a debt of gratitude for his contribution and scholarship on the genre) . When TOLN/PP version of OLTL came out, I had this wish that somehow Corbin Bleus character would be tied to her. I guess I’m also silly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted December 7, 2023 Members Share Posted December 7, 2023 (edited) I think about her & things that were going on & Paul Rauch & another producer & the words legendary & iconic & I have one more word to offer and that is an important one, truth-teller. We owe such a debt to those who are brave enough & have enough insight to be the truth-tellers to our society. God bless, Ellen Holly. I plan to re-read her book soonest. https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/ellen-holly Edited December 7, 2023 by Donna L. Bridges combine 2 posts 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Liberty City Posted December 7, 2023 Members Share Posted December 7, 2023 OMG NO! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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