OT: Linda Lavin dead
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RIP
The one thing I remember from that show was.
The one thing I remember from that show was.
another sad day, recently diagnosed with lung cancer...Alice was such an underrated show and had some classic characters. I believe of the original cast only Polly Holliday is still with us as Vera, Mel, and Tommy have all already passed.
What a great theme song that they altered somewhat each year and Linda gave a virtuso performance going all out
What a great theme song that they altered somewhat each year and Linda gave a virtuso performance going all out
RIP Linda Lavin , you were were part of why everyone wanted to stop at Mel's Diner
Don't see it on IMDB, but saw this:
"Holliday's success as the brassy, cynical, gregarious Flo on Alice (1976) (for which role she wore a red wig) reportedly did not endear her to the titular star of the show, Linda Lavin. The friction between the two actresses was such that Holliday left for her own short-lived spin-off series, Flo (1980). Alice (1976) remained on the air for several more seasons but Holliday never returned, even to make a guest appearance. Holliday's successor, actress Diane Ladd (who had played "Flo" in the film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), on which the television series was based but adopted the role of "Belle Dupree" for the series), also did not get along with Lavin, and left. Ladd was succeeded by Celia Weston, who remained until the series ended. Both Holliday and Ladd were both unsuccessfully nominated for the highest awards in their respective media for playing "Flo": Ladd for the Oscar and Holliday for an Emmy."
"Holliday was friends with Academy Award-winning actor Dustin Hoffman in whose iconic film, All the President's Men (1976), she had a small role. He tried to get her cast (in the role that ultimately went to Doris Belack, as Rita, the hard-nosed producer of the fictional soap opera ("Southwest General") within the movie in Tootsie (1982), and reportedly based his characterization of "Dorothy Michaels" in the same film at least partially on Holliday's impression of "Flo"."