Members applcin Posted March 25 Members Share Posted March 25 https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/style/laurent-de-brunhoff-babar-obituary/index.html Laurent de Brunhoff, ‘Babar the Elephant’ author, dies aged 98 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted March 27 Members Share Posted March 27 (edited) Obituary https://www.easthamptonstar.com/obituaries/2024328/jennifer-leak-dauria Someone reliable on the AW thread (Mona) has said he saw where the AW villain "Olive Randolph" has died but no date & I cannot find an obit. If anyone can find the missing info, please post. Of course, I know you will. This info is from IMDb. Jennifer Leak aka Jennifer Leek b. 9-28-1947 in Cardiff, Wales, UK AW Olive Randolph 1976-1979 GL Blanche Bovier 1981 RH Nurse Klupper 1975 Y&R Gwen Sherman 1974 A Flame in the Wind Patricia Austen 1964-1966 OLTL Matron Spitz 1986 Loving Dr. Hennessey 1992 Bright Promise Elaine Bancroft (1971) 1969-1972 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=966028288221418&set=pb.100044427678547.-2207520000 Please register in order to view this content Edited March 28 by Contessa Donatella more info 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted March 29 Members Share Posted March 29 R.I.P. to Emmy, Oscar and Golden Globe winning actor Louis Gossett Jr. https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/louis-gossett-jr-1st-black-man-to-win-supporting-actor-oscar-dies-at-87/ar-BB1kKuqZ?OCID=ansmsnnews11 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted March 29 Author Members Share Posted March 29 Aw. And his cousin is Robert Gossett, a.k.a. Marshall Ashford on GH. He’s such a bold, politically incorrect presence in An Officer and a Gentleman. He’s been in so much that it’s hard to know where to start. He beat some heavy hitters that year. He looked so nervous: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted March 30 Members Share Posted March 30 While reading his NYT obituary, it said that Louis Gossett Jr. had co-written a song with Richie Havens called Handsome Johnny. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted April 1 Members Share Posted April 1 The elegant, gracious, and beautiful actress Barbara Rush, who notably appeared the television adaptations of Peyton Place and Flamingo Road, has died at the age of 97. She was one of the old school classic Hollywood actresses who enjoyed their most notable exposure in the burgeoning medium of television. She enjoyed a varied career, appearing in game shows, many guest shots in memorable television series, won a Golden Globe, married and divorced the public relations tycoon Warren Cowan (the Cowan in Rogers & Cowan) and and remained active and well into her 90s. Please register in order to view this content Fun bit of trivia: she lived in a beautiful home on Tropical Avenue in Beverly Hills and ended up next door neighbours with Justin Bieber. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted April 1 Author Members Share Posted April 1 Long life but still it’s sad. I remember her as Nola Orsini on AMC. Saw this: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Xanthe Posted April 2 Members Share Posted April 2 Joe Flaherty of SCTV has died. https://www.tvinsider.com/1129950/joe-flaherty-dead-tributes-sctv-freaks-and-geeks/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 2 Members Share Posted April 2 This one hurts. A lot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Xanthe Posted April 2 Members Share Posted April 2 Definitely. I loved his Floyd Robertson for his irascibilty. Since we are on a soap site -- at about 23 minutes in here he is as Rocco pretending to be Violet Mckay's long lost son Billy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members applcin Posted April 2 Members Share Posted April 2 R.I.P. Barbara Baldavin, who appeared in Star Trek several times, guested on many shows and was also a regular on Medical Center. https://www.cbr.com/barbara-baldavin-star-trek-dead/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 2 Members Share Posted April 2 It's always incredible to me how eerily accurate that parody was. Everything about "The Days of the Week" - the acting, the writing (that doesn't include the jokes), the pacing, the music and production values - was just so dead-on. Anne Beatts ("SNL") once said that you can't satirize anything you're not a fan of, which makes me think the SCTV crew must've enjoyed watching the soaps. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 2 Members Share Posted April 2 Days of the Week was one of the very very very few soap parodies, along with Acorn Antiques, that rings true to me (Victoria Wood was also a soap fan). SNL tried soap parodies for many years, but there were only a handful that ever worked (two of which were guided by Susan Lucci). Anyway, I just loved watching Joe. He was a hilarious man. SCTV was a brutal show, especially in the earliest years (one sketch had John Candy beating his wife [Catherine O'Hara] with a can of dog food), but it was easy to overlook because of the warmth of the cast. Few were warmer than Joe. You could take those tough parodies and jabs because you could tell he was a good man. There were so many hilarious moments, but my favorite was probably whenever anchorman Floyd had to react to the stupidity and narcissism of his co-anchor, Earl (Eugene Levy). The slow burn and blow-up got me every time. Other than In Living Color's first few years, no sketch show made me laugh the way SCTV did, and Joe was a huge part of that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 2 Members Share Posted April 2 Balance of Terror is one of the more moving Star Trek episodes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted April 3 Author Members Share Posted April 3 For theater fans. I remember seeing Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike on Broadway (with David Hyde Pierce and Billy Magnussen of ATWT fame) years ago: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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