Apparently she wound up with terrible stage fright and quit the theatre (but kept teaching acting).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
She was great in everything I ever saw her in. Funny. And Sexy. *loosens collar*
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
I used to have (might still have) a Second City coffee table book which had this great story about Harris calling in sick right before showtime one night. The audience was already being seated as the staff was called for an emergency meeting back stage to debate whether or not to go on with that night's performance (it was a semi-scripted show in which Harris did a lot of singing and acting). One of the waitresses spoke up and said she could cover for her, because even though she hadn't done much prior performing, she'd been studying Harris from the audience every night and knew the whole show. A chance was taken and the waitress brought the house down, soon becoming an official member of the troupe.
That waitress was Melinda Dillon (Close Encounters..., Slap Shot, A Christmas Story etc.).
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLfeRy080kE
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:34 (five years ago) link
^A candidate for her greatest scene on film.
and not many years after that break, Melinda Dillon played Honey in the original staging of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
that Melinda Dillon story is amazing
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
Brian Murray, lauded stage actor/director (I saw him in the first Broadway production of Noises Off, you may have seen him in "30 Rock")
http://www.playbill.com/article/three-time-tony-award-nominee-brian-murray-dies-at-80
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
(oh, and i saw him do Claudius opposite Kevin Kline's Hamlet)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
Lazy Lester, Louisiana blues artist ("I'm a Lover Not a Fighter", "Sugar Coated Love", "I Hear You Knocking") and inspiration for the Ponderosa Stomp festival in NOLA.
― Ρεμπετολογια, Thursday, 23 August 2018 04:20 (five years ago) link
Stefan Karl Stefansson of Lazytown. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45264994
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 23 August 2018 08:11 (five years ago) link
Spencer P Jones of Beasts of Bourbon
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 23 August 2018 12:43 (five years ago) link
oh shit :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
I'm glum about Stefan Karl Stefansson. Used to watch Lazytown with my daughter all the time when she was a toddler.
― incarcerated moonfaces (how's life), Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
my son loved it as well, he still watches sinister - chopped and screwed - horror versions of Lazytown on youtube. So I sort of feel like I have a long association with the departed gent, in my house.
― calzino, Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
There was a big online campaign to help him with his medical costs a few years ago, which my son followed closely as he was also a fan of the YouTube madness. It seemed like he was on the mend for a while, so very sad and surprised that he passed.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
Ed King of Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Strawberry Alarm Clock
― Brad C., Thursday, 23 August 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
https://t.co/hVi50DGOAK
I'm so sad to share the passing of my friend, musical partner and hero Mako Sakamoto. Mako succumbed to illness on Tuesday. I don't know what I'm going to do without him. Please play his spirit loud with this piece .... He was the greatest. 😢 https://t.co/hVi50DGOAK— Bernard Butler (@Bernard_Butler) August 23, 2018
― nate woolls, Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
I messed that up, sorry about that
― nate woolls, Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
RIP dude but what the hell is Bernard Butler doing at the start of that clip?
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
Stefan Karl Stefansson of Lazytown. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45264994― Three Word Username, Thursday, 23 August 2018 09:11 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 23 August 2018 09:11 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I told my son Robbie Rotten died and he said "Is that the Sex Pistols guy?"
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 24 August 2018 11:36 (five years ago) link
#BREAKING: Robin Leach, host of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," dies at 76 https://t.co/rPtg1voWDz— KTLA (@KTLA) August 24, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 August 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
Russ Heath, Silver Age comic book artist who probably never got enough credit in the day - especially from those he commonly filled in for or did largely uncredited collaborative work with like Bob Kanigher, Will Elder and Harvey Kurtzman. Probably best known to the general public as being the source of Roy Lichtenstein's wealth.
https://www.newsarama.com/41535-russ-heath-passes-away.html
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Friday, 24 August 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
I really like Heath. You could make a great compilation of his work for Marvel or Warren but probably wont happen.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 24 August 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
Lindsay Kemp
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Saturday, 25 August 2018 09:56 (five years ago) link
RIP Lindsay.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 August 2018 12:06 (five years ago) link
John McCain
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 26 August 2018 00:22 (five years ago) link
Finally some good news for Trump!
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 26 August 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
Indeed - the Sunday shows this week will be 60 straight minutes of "respected" Washington "journalists" fellating a corpse.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 26 August 2018 00:39 (five years ago) link
Neil Simon.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 August 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
Aw, damn.
― canary christ (stevie), Sunday, 26 August 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
"If this room was on fire, you wouldn't be hot!"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 August 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
Shame, RIP Neil.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 August 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
a great
― flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 August 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
Guess he just really wanted to outlive John McCain. Good for him.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 26 August 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
next spring Eric H and i will be starring in The Sunshine Boys at the Mankato Dinner Theater. Don't miss it!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 August 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
Neil Simon - gone! A loss 4 the entire entertainment industry. He could write a joke that would make you laugh, define the character, the situation, and even the world's problems. First time I met him he looked at me and said, "Where the hell did they find you?" What a gent.— Harvey Fierstein (@HarveyFierstein) August 26, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 26 August 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
I don't know if he ever did anything that interested me beyond The Heartbreak Kid and The Odd Couple, but that's enough right there.
― clemenza, Sunday, 26 August 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
Neil Simon's jokes and characters connected with Neil Simon's generation, which is a limited accomplishment, but making strangers laugh is always a difficult task and he succeeded at it.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 26 August 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
loved Barefoot In The Park, and California Suite when I was a kid (I find most of it unwatchable now, tho).
― canary christ (stevie), Sunday, 26 August 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
I acted in Plaza Suite Act One just two weeks ago. The longer I worked on it, the more I understood the brilliance of the script.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 27 August 2018 00:58 (five years ago) link
i don't think they used much of his dialogue in Heartbreak Kid
nice condescending bullshit there Aimless, yer on a roll today
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2018 02:56 (five years ago) link
earlier generations -- so STUPID, amirite
idk it's sort of a tricky thing with comedy, i think it's one of the hardest areas to put yourself in the shoes of another time. like for whatever reason i can watch, say, a universal horror picture and go "i know factually that this scared people in 1933, and while it doesn't scare me, i'm still digging it, and can count its former scariness towards my sense that i'm enjoying a good movie." with comedy, if it's not making me laugh (or worse, if it's making me cringe) it's really hard to make the same move. i watched california suite a few months back and was absolutely bored to tears when i wasn't cringing. it just didn't land; i believe simon's comedy landed for somebody else, at some point in time, but i left just thinking "wow that was a shitty movie."
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Monday, 27 August 2018 04:29 (five years ago) link
no one likes that one. Simon began to repeat himself around 1971-72, which seemed to last until he wrote that autobiographical trilogy of plays in the '80s (the first two of which launched Matthew Broderick's career).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
(repeating himself made him rich, however)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 August 2018 04:34 (five years ago) link
and you accused me of condescending?
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 27 August 2018 05:30 (five years ago) link
mirka mora
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 27 August 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
Lucie Brock-Broido, back in March of this year but I just found out.
― mick signals, Wednesday, 29 August 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
2 comics veterans' deaths reported today -- Marie Severin and Gary Friedrich.
― WmC, Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
RIP Marie, such a great lifetime of work
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link