Posted on 10/10/2014 6:54:29 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Hooks didn't barrel into your consciousness with catchphrases.....
...she was a team player who helped make SNL bigger than the sum of its cast list, by being week in and week out one of its best comic actresses ever.
....Hooks could turn herself into celebrities from Sinead O’Connor to Tammy Faye Bakker to Diane Sawyer. Born in Atlanta (where she had an early role on TBS’s Bill Tush Show), she had a special knack for channeling brassy Southern women.....
Hooks could turn herself into celebrities from Sinead O’Connor to Tammy Faye Bakker to Diane Sawyer. Born in Atlanta (where she had an early role on TBS’s Bill Tush Show), she had a special knack for channeling brassy Southern women.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
RIP, Jan. You were way to young to go.
Rest in peace, funny lady.
"There's no basement in the Alamo!"
Hooks was considered for SNL in 1985, but was passed over by the show's producers in favor of Joan Cusack. After the show's 1985–1986 season was deemed a ratings disaster and put on the chopping block for cancellation, returning producer Lorne Michaels offered Hooks a contract in 1986, along with new recruits Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman, among others. They helped put the show back in the national spotlight. Her characters included Candy Sweeney of "The Sweeney Sisters". She performed notable impressions of Bette Davis, Ann-Margret, Betty Ford, Nancy Reagan, Sinéad O'Connor, Jodie Foster, Tammy Faye Bakker, Kathie Lee Gifford, Kitty Dukakis, Diane Sawyer and Hillary Rodham Clinton.Besides the early years with Belushi and Chevy Chase, these years with Hartman, Hooks, Eddie Murphy and others were the BEST of the SNL years.
Actually, there are two “I’s” in Saturday Night Live. What a pathetic attempt at a headline.
That's what I've been trying to remember for years. I knew I watched her before SNL and the PeeWee movie. Never could recall. I liked Bill Tush's show. Thanks for the reminder.
Actually, there are two “I’s” in Saturday Night Live. What a pathetic attempt at a headline.
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Where’s the i?
It’s an acronym, friend.
I thought it tasteless for the author to have, apparently out of nowhere, tossed this paragraph into his phoned-in column. Thinking to give Time the earned credit owed its brand, I gave it a try, and while Poniewozik's point about Hooks having been a stellar team player is well-taken, this paragraph is ambiguous filler. Is he for it or 'agin'' it?
Did he even look at here Wikipedia or IMDB entry to touch on her private life and family? James Joyce he's not.
And, did everyone else see the provocative Sarah Silverman icon?
What an insulting persona, and why is it a revelation that she once bought 'weed.'
To paraphrase the key to Jan Hooks' parodies, as to the their writers and usual subjects, Get over yourself! she said.
Jan hooks, although not the most famous member of that cast was always my favorite. I think she reminded me of a college girlfriend,nor at least that type. When I would see reruns of her shows (1986 to 1991) I am also reminded of the first five years my wife and I were married. We would go out to dinner or a movie and then come home and watch SNL snuggled up on the couch. It was a time before kids, a time of exciting career changes, new houses, and eventualy babies and parenthood.
Jan Hooks brought the world laughter and cleverness in a time when laughing was easy, the U.S. was on top of the world, and live was carefree and simply good.
[ Lorne Michaels offered Hooks a contract in 1986, along with new recruits Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman, among others. ]
The ones from this class ended up as conservatives...
I always thought Jan Hooks was very funny, she will be missed.
When she said to the Mexican tourists, “The Alamo is made out of adobe. Can you say, ‘adobe’?” And the Mexicans said, “Adobe”, I laughed so hard, I almost hit the floor.
She was pure genius. Will be very missed.
Loved her on SNL, and also remember her role on Designing Women. RIP, funny lady.
No joke.
There definitely is an "I" in Time magazine, and also a "me", but of course virtually no readers anywhere near it.
There's also a "womanize", "winesop", "meanie", "enema" and "newsie" in James Poniewozik.
What a jiz-wonk.
For “Undisclosed illness”, I suspect cancer.
In her age group, uterine, colorectal, and breast cancer are more common.
And easy on the eyes.
She and Phil Hartman were both comic geniuses and teammates who left us far too soon.
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