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Actress Beth Howland, who played Vera on 'Alice,' dies at 74
yahoo.com ^ | May 25, 2016 | ap

Posted on 05/25/2016 1:28:55 PM PDT by Morgana

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Beth Howland, the actress best known for her role as a ditzy waitress on the 1970s and ‘80s CBS sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 74.

Her husband, actor Charles Kimbrough, told The Associated Press that Howland died Dec. 31 of lung cancer in Santa Monica, California. He said there had been no announcement, funeral or memorial service because that’s how she wanted it.

“That was her choice,” he said.

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To: Dilbert San Diego

Agree 100%.


21 posted on 05/25/2016 1:49:12 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Morgana

My favorite Alice exchange, was when the group was talking about an upcoming wedding.

Mel: “Is the bride any good looking?”

Flo: “Mel, all brides are beautiful.”

Mel: “Then why are there so many ugly wives.”


22 posted on 05/25/2016 1:53:00 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: oh8eleven; Dilbert San Diego

Me too. That was back when you’d be able to watch shows like “Alice” and many others like that back then (including “Dukes of Hazzard”) with your parents and even grandparents in the living room as well.


23 posted on 05/25/2016 1:55:46 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("You'd see a different game if nobody wore a helmet". NY Rangers' Barry Beck 1983)
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To: Donglalinger

Don’t look so frightened
This is just a passing phase, one of my bad days.


24 posted on 05/25/2016 2:02:52 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Morgana

RIP

Aw, I liked her.


25 posted on 05/25/2016 2:12:15 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Morgana
Her husband, actor Charles Kimbrough

He played the co-anchor on Murphy Brown.

-PJ

26 posted on 05/25/2016 2:21:34 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Morgana

Damn it! She was a hoot on Alice.


27 posted on 05/25/2016 2:23:31 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Morgana

Ah, the dinghy.

RIP Vera.

She was on an episode of the Love Boat too.


28 posted on 05/25/2016 2:24:50 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: OttawaFreeper
Kind of like Larry Linville (Frank Burns on M*A*S*H)

Right on the money with Larry Linville. I was his driver for a few days in the mid-80s, and you couldn't have met a nicer, more professional, funnier man. He seemed to know everything and had a particular interest in science. His mannerisms, especially that silly smirk, were the only things that were identical to his character on M*A*S*H.

29 posted on 05/25/2016 2:30:12 PM PDT by thesharkboy (posting without reading the article since 1998)
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To: bigdaddy45

Very rare in Hollywood, indeed.


30 posted on 05/25/2016 2:40:48 PM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Depends on the show. The early seasons of Bones were really excellent.
On one episode, there was this liberal do-gooder, project innocence true believer, who was trying to get a man on death row released, because the death penalty is evil. The main character says “No, in some cases it’s totally appropriate”. One episode the lab team was discussing God, and each character had a different point of view on God, when the atheist went to the head of the Smithsonian Science department to back her up, he said “Don’t look at me, I’m a deacon in my local church.”
There was even an episode with a devout Muslim terrorist who pretends to be Christian to commit a terrorist attack, and they even say point blank “He’s committing Taquiyya” and then explain what it is.


31 posted on 05/25/2016 2:48:15 PM PDT by chae (The Lannisters send their regards--Game of Thrones)
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To: Morgana

Had a teenage crush on her back when Alice first aired.


32 posted on 05/25/2016 2:49:34 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Morgana

Gee, another dumb, ditzy white person in “comedy” TV

At least it wasn’t a white guy

No wait, that was “Male”


33 posted on 05/25/2016 2:54:43 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#BoycottTarget #BoycottRoss Women & children hurt the most)
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To: Morgana
Her husband, actor Charles Kimbrough ...

Murphy Brown actor.

She was 1970s/1980s and he was 1980s/1990s and yet they were able to live together in peace.

An inspiration to us all.

34 posted on 05/25/2016 3:17:03 PM PDT by x
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To: Morgana

As “Linda,” she tangled with Mary Richards over “Jack” (Bert Convy) on an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

RIP.


35 posted on 05/25/2016 3:30:07 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: thesharkboy

We had ladies and gentlemen back then on the TV shows.

Today many of them are druggies, sluts, wackos, and not very funny.

H.G. Wells -got another one of them Time Machines? I want to go “Back to the Future” of 1957.


36 posted on 05/25/2016 4:14:46 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Morgana

RIP.


37 posted on 05/25/2016 4:22:23 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I watch very little current TV. I prefer old shows from the past. The old shows seems to have better plots, more in depth writing, much less pushing liberal causes in the programming, no bad language or suggestive situations or comments. Just my opinion.

At dinners and such I get "the look" from others when they find out I dumped cable about five years ago and don't watch current network or even Netflix shows. I detest the excessive violence, liberal preaching and shaky camera filming.

I do watch DVDs now and then, of movies I like or TV shows that are favorites. Some British stuff, some domestic stuff from the 50s through the 90s. It is my escapism, and I'll set the parameters. Maybe I'll pick up an Alice DVD some day.
38 posted on 05/25/2016 4:35:34 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
wow. we find out months later, because she didn’t want a general public announcement made. Well, was her choice.

Her choice...but I find it kind of selfish.

Funerals and memorials aren't for the dead. They are for the living, that the dead have left behind.

For the living to grieve AND hopefully rejoice in the life they knew.

39 posted on 05/25/2016 6:53:31 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Donglalinger
Hello

Is there anybody in there

Just nod if you can here me

Is there anyone at home

Oh, and bring the boys back home.

40 posted on 05/25/2016 8:01:35 PM PDT by BBell
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