The same performer appears in The Wizard of Oz, The Bride Came C.O.D., Arsenic and Old Lace, You Can’t Take It With You and It’s a Wonderful Life.
And that Hollywood legend is …
Category: Entertainment
Gary Sandy from WKRP sings at the 1982 Tony awards. Believe it or not, he was a Broadway star at the time. Unless you’re a huge trivia fan, you probably don’t know that he replaced Kevin Kline in The Pirates of Penzance.
You probably remember her as Stephanie, the spoiled rich girl who had to work as a maid at Bob Newhart’s inn in rural Vermont. The Newhart series made her face universally recognizable, and earned her seven consecutive Emmy nominations, granting her permanent respectability, but before that gig began she did a topless sex scene in a low-budget 1981 slasher film called Night Warning. (In home media releases it is called “Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker.”)
A Blu-Ray was issued some years ago:
To my knowledge, this was her only nudity in five decades of performing.
The diminutive actress is about 70 now, and has written an autobiographical account of her years in showbiz. Entitled Bad Auditions, her book was published in 2018. The AADA praised its honesty, calling it “an irreverent, light-hearted look into the real world of auditions – the good, the awkward, and the hilariously strange. In it, she regales readers with side-splitting stories of her own ‘bad’ auditions, in order to give fellow performers both insight and hopefully a sense they’re not alone.”
Even though she is still acting in TV and movies, you may not have thought of her in years. Here is what she looked like in a 2022 Christmas movie.
She leaves behind a solid legacy of nudity:
In Rising Sun (1993)
In Restraining Order (1999)
Film clip here
In various modeling assignments in the 1980s and 90s
Like all great award shows, it was held on a Tuesday night in a bowling alley.
“The Golden Globes were handed out Tuesday night, with The Fabelmans and The Banshees of Inisherin taking top honors on the film side and Abbott Elementary, House of the Dragon and The White Lotus among the big TV winners.”
Frankly, the Golden Globes show without Ricky Gervais is just a bunch of drunks kissing each other’s asses, but Jerrod Carmichael had a few good lines.
Here is his monologue, which is actually quite serious:
Click on the pic to get to a gallery:
Shellacked Stepdad points out:
Well, there’s another Baldwin, this time a skinny one with tits, she’s from the lesser known, or lesser successful Baldwin, who is actually pretty embarrassing on Twitter last I saw….BILLY BALDWIN….the star of what would be straight to DVD if DVDs were still a thing. He’s a real fucking loser of a Baldwin which is why I like him the best.
Anyway, he knocked up Chynna Phillips, daughter of the Mamas and the Papas main players. They have a 22-year-old daughter and she’s hot.
Scoop’s note:
Daniel Baldwin, who may be the least successful of the brothers, but is certainly the fattest, also has a couple of grown daughters. Alexandra is a model. Kahlea is a producer. Daniel’s family tree is complicated. He has five children by four different women, and they range in age from 13 to 38. You probably know that Alec has seven children with two women, and the kids range in age from 1 to 27.
Billy and Stephen are straight-laced compared to their brothers. Each has been married to only one woman, with three and two children, respectively. Stephen is a grandfather through Hailey’s sister Alaia.
Their older sister, Elizabeth, also has a large brood (a son and five daughters), and several grandchildren. The other Baldwin sister has two kids, so if I have the count right, the six sibs have produced 25 children. So each of them has 24 first cousins from just one side of the family. The oldest of those cousins was born in January of 1978, the youngest in February of 2021, more than 43 years later.
In an illustration of the thorough but incredibly useless info on the internet, Wikipedia has the entire family tree of the Baldwin sibs.
Taken from us so young. She suffered a tragic accident while playing a particularly tough game of rugby.
Seriously, she was really old, and I had no idea she was still alive. I think she was the last living woman to have dated any of the Founding Fathers.
Kidding aside, she had a most impressive career. In fact she had at least two impressive careers, having reached the top in legitimate broadcast journalism, then reaching the top again in that touchy-feely human interest chit-chat.
I (and pretty much everyone else) have been playing the game incorrectly all these years.
The rule we have been ignoring:
“Whenever a player lands on an unowned property he may buy that property from the Bank at its printed price. If he does not wish to buy the property it is sold at auction by the Banker to the highest bidder.”
Note that anyone may bid, including the player who declined to buy it at face value, and there is no minimum or maximum bid. Therefore, in any sensible game, a property should be sold every time somebody lands on it. If you don’t want it, I’ll be happy to start the bidding at a dollar, so either I or someone else must acquire it. That removes most of the luck from the game, since one’s fate is determined less by lucky dice rolls than by quickly accumulating the right properties at the right prices.
The movie may or may not be good, but the trailer is awesome!
“Glamorous poker star is slammed for distracting opponents with repeated X-rated wardrobe malfunctions that exposed her breast during a game – but all is NOT as it seems.”
(Prosthetic breasts.)
We’ll leave it to Variety to recap her impressive career. I remember her best for her crooked smile, her thick mane of hair, and her captivating presence on Cheers.
She was just on The Masked Singer a few months ago.
She did only one nude scene, long ago (pre-Cheers, pre-Trek), in a mediocre 1984 movie called Blind Date. When the film was first released, it was barely a nude scene at all, but director Nico Mastorakis released some additional footage as a special feature on the DVD, and that turned out to be a rare special feature that was truly special.
“Born Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr., the mononymous comedian became a household name in 1980 with ‘An Uncensored Evening,’ the first standup comedy special to ever air on Showtime. Gallagher would go on to create 12 more hourlong specials for the network, as well as several popular programs for HBO.”
13 hour-long specials? That’s a lot of watermelons.
I can’t remember a single thing about Gallagher except the sledge hammer routine. I do recall that he claimed to have performed more live gigs than anyone else in history. Some obituaries talk about his sharp wit and observational comedy, and that he was totally insulting to certain minorities. The linked obit says he was accused of racism and homophobia. I recall none of that. Just the watermelons.
And that’s not the end of it. In addition to the top ten, Swift also has numbers 13, 14 and 15!
Nobody ever went deeper than the top five before, a record that was held jointly by The Beatles in 1964, and Drake in 2021.
Drake came very close to a sweep of the top 12 in that same 2021 week. The #6 spot went to another artist, but Drake had the other 11!
Whole lotta dyin’ goin’ on . Jerry Lee Lewis is gone at 87. He is mourned by his ex-wife, who just turned 14.
Kidding aside, life has a way of evening things out. When they got married, he was 22, she 13. The significance of that vast age gap totally disappeared when they were 87 and 78.
This is just plain weird. Katy can’t open her right eye.
Warning: Drunken Stepfather link. Some people get hijacked by those. We have yet to solve the mystery of why some get hijacked and others do not. I use Chrome and have visited his site for many years with no problems, and that includes links to his site from many other sites including this one. On the other hand, many people report problems, so they are not imaginary.
Tragically gunned down in a drive-by shooting while participating in extreme inline skating in the ‘hood.
OK, maybe not.
Wait a sec.
Angela Lansbury was still alive?
Was anyone ever an old lady longer? Elvis would be 87 if he were still alive – and Angela Lansbury played his mom in Blue Hawaii. That was in 1961, and Elvis was certainly old enough then to be a dad (26), so she was playing granny age. The very next year she played Laurence Harvey’s mother in The Manchurian Candidate. Harvey was 33 or 34 at the time, and would be 94 if alive today! So Angela ended up playing women of granny age for about 60 years. That has to be some kind of a record.
Surely she must have looked young once, but there was no photography then, and not even paint. The only images were those early cave drawings. All we know about her youth is that she must have been quite cold in the area now called England because mankind had not yet learned to create fire. Of course it’s not easy to create her biography from those days before written languages, but from the whispers and legends that have come down through the ages, Variety has given it a try.
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Of course there really are photos of her in her late teens. Here she is at 18 or 19, doing some kind of event to promote Gaslight, in which she played Charles Boyer’s mom.
Oh, I’m kidding about the Boyer thing. She didn’t play his mom. He was already in his mid-40s and she was in her late teens, but she already looked mature in this actual scene with Boyer. From this angle, she resembled Bernadette Peters.
“The rumor is Brad Pitt is apparently fucking her, hence her divorce, because when Brad Pitt comes a knockin, that’s some A-List level you want deep inside your asshole”
Scoop’s note: The scuttlebutt is that E-Rat’s husband was cheating on her, not vice-versa, so if Emily chooses to cleanse the palate with some Pitt DNA, it seems fair to me. I just wish she had called me instead.
Did you realize Brad Pitt is nearly 60 years old? He will turn 59 this year.