2021 Archive | Gr8er Days

Dolly Gets Poked, Paul Simon Gets Jabbed, Fran Drescher on Getting the ‘Fever’ & More

Links to the past, with relevance today: Stuck on Dolly! (Image via Dolly Parton) TWITTER: Living legend Dolly Parton, whose money helped fund a COVID-19 vaccine in the first place, proudly poses for photos receiving her second dose. https://youtu.be/GU0ihSA4jgM SHOWBIZ CHEAT SHEET: Above, Fran Drescher recalls her small role in Saturday Night Fever, which was…

A host of luminaries from the entertainment world got together for the latest annual installment of Broadway Backwards, in which men sing songs traditionally meant for women — and vice versa. I attended one of these years ago (review here) and loved it, getting a chance to see and hear a 99-year-old Patricia Morison perform…

Peter Marshall, COVID-19 Survivor, Celebrated on His 95th by Host of Stars

Peter Marshall, the legendary host of The Hollywood Squares for decades, almost did not live to celebrate his 95th birthday this week — he spent a couple of months battling COVID-19. The Emmy-winning Boy Singer (Image via NBC) In fact, he was sent home to die in comfort, but defied the odds and seems to…

Robert Rodan of ‘Dark Shadows’ Dies @ 83

Robert Rodan, whose brooding performance as the monster Adam on Dark Shadows (1968) teased and pleased fans of the trippy alterna-soap, reportedly died March 25, 2021, of heart failure. Anything but a monster! (Image via ABC) He was 83. Born Robert Trimas in Newark, New Jersey, on January 30, 1938, the 6'4" actor actually had…

Fonda Swears Off Sex, Shatner’s Embarrassed to Be 90, RIP Larry McMurtry & More

Links the past, with relevance today: Raising the Barbarella (Image via Harper's Bazaar) HARPER'S BAZAAR: Jane Fonda, at 83, is as slinky and fit as ever — and more importantly, she is mentally astute and more outspoken than most public figures allow themselves to be, putting her money where her mouth is. As her new cover…

Jessica Walter, ‘Play Misty for Me,’ ‘Arrested Development’ Star, Dies @ 80

Such a sad and unexpected death — Jessica Walter, the comic and dramatic actress whose career stretched back to Broadway in the early '60s and was capped off by an iconic portrayal on TV's Arrested Development, died March 24 in her Manhattan home. You picked a fine time to leave us, Lucille! (Image via FOX)…

Richard Gilliland, ‘Designing Women’ Actor & Husband of Jean Smart Dies @ 71

Richard Gilliland, an actor best known for his stint as the love interest of Mary Jo Shively on Designing Women, died after "a brief illness" on March 18. Gilliland had been married to fellow Designing Women actor Jean Smart, 69, for nearly 34 years. Born January 23, 1950, in Fort Worth, Texas, Gilliland's first big…

George Segal of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ & ‘The Goldbergs,’ Dies @ 87

George Segal, an actor with a more than 60-year career that spanned Broadway, TV and the movies, died Tuesday following complications from heart-bypass surgery. As Nick in Woolf (Image via Warner Bros.) He was 87. ExtraTV reports Segal's final episode of the sitcom The Goldbergs — on which he has appeared as genial patriarch Pops…

Forties child star Margaret O'Brien, now 84, was one of the little queens of MGM, a big draw who appeared in such hits as Journey for Margaret (1942), Thousands Cheer (1943) and Jane Eyre (1943). Bob Hope (1903-2003) handed her the coveted award. (Images via Margaret O'Brien) Her most famous role wound up being as…

Kim Tyler of ‘Please Don’t Eat the Daisies’ Dies

Kim Tyler, the former child actor best remembered for his performance on the TV version of Please Don't Eat the Daisies, died February 10 of cancer. Tyler on The Addams Family (Image via NBC) He was 66. Tyler's death went virtually unnoticed until a paid announcement by his family placed in the print edition of…

Yearly Archives: 2021

Dolly Gets Poked, Paul Simon Gets Jabbed, Fran Drescher on Getting the ‘Fever’ & More

He Sang/She Sang: ‘Broadway Backwards’

Peter Marshall, COVID-19 Survivor, Celebrated on His 95th by Host of Stars

Robert Rodan of ‘Dark Shadows’ Dies @ 83

Fonda Swears Off Sex, Shatner’s Embarrassed to Be 90, RIP Larry McMurtry & More

Jessica Walter, ‘Play Misty for Me,’ ‘Arrested Development’ Star, Dies @ 80

Richard Gilliland, ‘Designing Women’ Actor & Husband of Jean Smart Dies @ 71

George Segal of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ & ‘The Goldbergs,’ Dies @ 87

How Margaret O’Brien Got Her Oscar Back

Kim Tyler of ‘Please Don’t Eat the Daisies’ Dies

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