Penny Marshall Dead at 75
 

Complications from diabetes. RIP.

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Just before the end of the year. RIP Laverne.

This makes me very sad, but I won't give TMZ a click.

RIP
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That sucks. RIP



I’d put ‘League of our Own’ in my list of greatest sports films. No doubt.

This. One of my fav movies as a kid. So was "Big".

One of the celebrities that i have actually met in life.

RIP

"Big" is a classic. She did the voice of the crazy babysitter in the very first episode of the Simpsons.

I was a little too young for the connection between 'Meathead' and Rob Reiner the great director to register.

Penny was one of the first people I saw on a TV screen, then went to watch her movies.

Before Penny, I think my young mind thought that directing was something you needed a degree, or an apprenticeship, or some special license, to do.

Of course, nowadays every actor leaps behind the camera at their first opportunity.

LMAO this was sadly the first thing that came to mind, he made her look and sound awful

RIP, Penny... loved me some Laverne & Shirley, mostly for Lenny n Squiggy

I very much respect and support your stand.


As for Penny, well...

Nothin's gonna turn her back now
Straight ahead and on the track now
She's gonna make her death come true...
Doin' it her way

Bring her in at DC. Better than Gramps.

me too.
once I saw Fred do that impersonation of her the first time, I can never NOT think of it any time Marshall's name comes up.

RIP Laverne, Shirley was way hotter

Turns out, Shirley WAS hot. Though at the time I couldn't conceive of anyone with a short haircut like hers being hot.

That was a 'mom' hairdo when I was a kid. And it's not like all their slouchy, zany antics were optimized for attractiveness. They were goofy sitcom gals. It's like arguing whether Balky was hotter than Cousin Larry.

Cindy Williams' attractiveness didn't register until I finally saw American Graffiti in college.

But Laverne had a rockin bod. Look up the clip of her and Carrie Fisher as Playboy Bunnies from the show.

Sorry, but I'm not gonna rub one out to Penny Marshall.... just...nope.

save it for Kathy Bates like a real man.

Was American Graffiti a commercialized pop culture ripoff of The Last Picture Show? Discuss amongst yourselves.

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RIP Laverne. I always wanted to bang Shirley though.

During the era of their show, I could watch the original Charlie's Angels. I believe that's checkmate.

Absolutely. It's one of those movies, like Aliens or Hunt for Red October, that if I'm channel surfing and it's on, I'll stop and watch it. Even my contempt for Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell doesn't stop my from loving it.

Her greatest achievement, IMO. RIP

Not so fast my friend...



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/places hand on bishop

Check and mate.

Yeah, that show was the bomb. Loved it. RIP

I'd rather discuss how Kasdan's "The Big Chill" was a ripoff of Sayles' "Return of the Secaucus 7." He'll deny it, but Larry has been caught in other professional lies. Discuss...

Lynda was fine, no doubt about it. But she was outnumbered three to one, and even more if you include the mediocre angels.

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Fascinating. Either way American Graffiti gave us Happy Days, the first two seasons of which were all-time great television.

Which in turn brought Laverne and Shirley, and we're back full circle.

1 angel was enough. 1970s Jacquelyn Smith was one of the world's greatest beauties.

Happy Days was actually first an episode of Love American Style.

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Huh. Didn't know that. And didn't Mork and Mindy start in the Happy Days show? Or at least it seems that way in my old mind.

Yeah. That was a really weird one-off plot.

SO hot

:D

Garry Marshall's kid saw Star Wars and asked 'daddy, why can't we have aliens on Happy Days.' That created Mork.

Pam as Mindy was originally a nun in another sitcom in development that went nowhere. Garry knew Pam was talented, . . . and Robin was talented, . . . and Mork was popular, . . . and Star Wars was a thing. So he snorted a mountain of blow and pitched Mork and Mindy.

ROFL

Not sure how true that all is, but it does sound possible!

FWIW, I loved Mork and Mindy. Easily in my top 10 shows, possibly top 5. I would have to give that some thought? :hmmm:

Wow, what a maudlin still. . . . Will the circle, be unbroken. . .

cindy williams was in some play at the play theature on metcalf awhile back. I mean cool I guess? the food there is awesome tho

I remember that episode. That was basically when every Happy Days plot was ‘Ritchie gets into trouble, and the Fonz comes to his rescue’. Mork was the bad guy in that episode that dueled with the Fonz.

A League of Their Own.

Feminist without being a total **** about it.

So sad. Who would've known that chain-smoking for 60 years would lead to something like this?

I wasn’t aware that smoking causes diabetes. Good to know. :drool:

She's the kind of woman who would get you really drunk at dinner, drag you back to her place, throw you on the floor, straddle you, get in your face and hiss "DO ME you little PUSSY! Get those pants off... GET EM OFF!!!"

I was watching some coverage of her from younger years, and it hit me who reminds me of her. . . . Chelsea Peretti.

Put Penny's hair on Chelsea, or vice versa.

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