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  • Piper Laurie, Actress in ‘The Hustler,’ ‘Carrie’ and ‘Twin Peaks,’ Dies at 91

    10/14/2023 5:38:36 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 22 replies
    The Hollywood Reporter ^ | OCTOBER 14, 2023 | Mike Barnes
    The three-time Oscar nominee and Emmy winner also starred in the original 'Days of Wine and Roses' and in 'Children of a Lesser God.'Piper Laurie, the three-time Oscar-nominated actress known for her performances in The Hustler and Carrie and for her outlandish two-character, two-gender turn on the original Twin Peaks, died Saturday morning in Los Angeles. She was 91. Laurie had not been well for some time, her rep, Marion Rosenberg, told The Hollywood Reporter. An Emmy winner who was nominated nine times during her career, Laurie spent three years as a child in a sanatorium, broke free from her...
  • Gipper was no Ron Juan (Actress Piper Laurie claims she lost her virginity with Ronald Reagan)

    11/14/2011 11:40:25 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 77 replies
    New York Post ^ | 11/12/2011 | SUSANNAH CAHALAN
    He wasn’t the “great communicator” in the sack. Actress Piper Laurie describes Ronald Reagan -- who played her dad in a movie and then bedded the 18-year-old virgin off the set -- as an insensitive “show-off” in bed in her new memoir, “Learning to Live Out Loud.” Laurie played the teenage daughter of the future president, then 39, in the 1950 film “Louisa.” At the time, Reagan was no longer married to actress Jane Wyman and had not yet started dating Wife No. 2, the former Nancy Davis, when he started flirting with the ingenue, insisting she call him “Ronnie.”...