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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 01:48 PM
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Name a celebrity who seems to have faded into the mists of time...
Examples...

Nanette Fabray
Demond Wilson
Karen Valentine
Mason Reese
Carmelita Pope
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 01:53 PM
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1. Darn, I cant seem to remember his name....
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:04 PM
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35. You mean that one guy?
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:14 PM
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40. Funny you should mention him... I was just thinking about him yesterday.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 01:54 PM
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2. Shelley Long
Mario Van Peebles
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Ravenseye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 01:54 PM
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3. Crystal Bernard
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formerrepuke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 01:56 PM
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4. Everyone from MASH (tv show) except Alan Alda.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:12 PM
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9. I saw Beeg on some obscure TV show, playing a vet
I think Gary Burghoff and Father Mulcahy have done plays at the new theatre restaurant in KC.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:06 PM
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36. Do mean Providence? I wouldn't call that obscure.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:38 PM
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50. I've watched them both there.
Yep, they both do the dinner theatre circuit.
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Monkey see Monkey Do Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:00 PM
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10. Gives me an excuse to post this video - amazing Alan Alda impression
O! News - Spoof entertainment magazine segment about the Oscars.
Peter and James Serafinowicz

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3083497399622230548
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:06 PM
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12. That was pretty impressive
Sorry I just got that pun myself......(calm ....center) Okay I am better now.

The PAcino was pretty good too... impressive.

:rofl:
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:00 PM
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5. Gavin MacLeod
After "The Love Boat"...gone.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:06 PM
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6. All those celebrities on the Match Game reruns on Gameshow Network...
Dude, who ARE those people?!
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:08 PM
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7. Fannie Flagg has become an author
She wrote "Fried Green Tomatoes". And good for her.

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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:00 PM
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28. I am so old that there are VERY FEW people on The Match Game
with whom I am unfamiliar.
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 07:03 PM
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60. Charles Nelson Reilly--Did he ever do anything besides match game?
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 08:40 PM
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67. Yes. He is a Tony award winning Broadway actor.
He's also a Broadway director. He and Gene Rayburn met on Broadway.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:08 PM
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8. I think Karen Valentine was in
Stuart Smalley saves his family but that was over a decade ago, but when I saw her in that it seemed like the first time I had seen her in about 20 years.
I have never heard of the rest of the people on your list.
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:04 PM
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11. Elke Sommer
The only thing I remember seeing her in is the movie A Shot in the Dark.
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Strong Atheist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:10 PM
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13. Gary Coleman. nt.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:03 PM
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33. He ran for governor, and now he does ads for loan sharks.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 08:50 PM
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69. He was on an episode on the second season of the Surreal Life"
A bit of an ego and anger problem, imo...
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Strong Atheist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:12 PM
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14. Maureen McCormick.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 05:48 PM
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20. She's a country singer now, and looks just like Marcia Brady, but grown up
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Strong Atheist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:13 PM
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15. Karen Allen.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:14 PM
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16. Rodney Allen Rippy
Quinn Cummings
Tony DeFranco
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 05:55 PM
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22. Rodney Allen Rippy has an occasional talk radio show in L.A. His web site
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:14 PM
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17. Adrianne Barbeau, Connie Franklin, Hal Linden...which reminds me:
This guy is STILL NOT DEAD:
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 05:48 PM
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21. Did you mean Bonnie Franklin? My friend ran into her in a library in L.A.
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:30 PM
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47. D'oh! Yes I sure did!
I think Connie Franklin may have been a 1960s
country singer, and certainly obscure today,
but that's not who I meant!
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 07:30 PM
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61. There is a Connie Francis, so maybe Connie Franklin is their love child.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 05:58 PM
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24. Hal Linden is doing ads for one of those medicare supplements.
Edited on Fri Mar-17-06 05:58 PM by Left Is Write
Edited to add that he also appeared in an episode in the last season of The Nanny, but admittedly, that was seven years ago.
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Strong Atheist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:14 PM
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18. Macaulay Culkin...
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 08:51 PM
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70. He was in "Saved!" last year
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:16 PM
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19. David Hasselhoff.
:shrug:
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Monkey see Monkey Do Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 08:07 PM
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65. Obviously appearing in 'The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie' isn't enough for
some people :)
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 05:56 PM
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23. Traci Lords.
Oh, and Elvira.




























What?
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:30 PM
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46. Elvira is like the Cramps.
The punk band, the Cramps, that is. They only come out at Halloween now. If I ever get rich, I want to work out a deal with both of them too. I want to have a nice party in the Cramps' house if I can talk them into it. They live in an exact replica of the house from Psycho, the movie. It would be great if I could get the Dead Kennedys back together with Jello Biafra too. I don't see it happening though. *sigh* I can soitainly dream though!
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:35 PM
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48. If you ever pull that off...
PM me, and set a couple tickets aside so I can come.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 07:42 PM
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64. Tickets?
If I get rich enough that I can pull that off, you will be on the guest list, screw tickets. It'll be a private party and I'll only invite DU'ers and my few real life friends. :thumbsup: You are invited. Now, if we can just figure out how to win the lottery. :P
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 05:59 PM
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25. Lorna Patterson, Mary Kay Place
Edited on Fri Mar-17-06 06:01 PM by blondeatlast

Mary Kay Place

Place IS not only an actress (Private Benjamin) but also a screenwriter.

Edit: IS--she's still very much alive.

Edit: Sorry if the pic doesn't load. Here's the IMdB entry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005316/
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:12 PM
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38. MKP was hilarious in 'Being John Malkovich'
was in John Sayles' last film....she's underused and underrated, imho.

Loved her in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:14 PM
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41. Yikes--I have to admit I still haven't seen it...
Must queue it up in Netflix.

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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:21 PM
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44. also great in "Citizen Ruth"
she's also been on West Wing...
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 05:59 PM
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26. Michael Pare and Tom Wopat
Michael Pare - he starred in Eddie and the Cruiser part one and two, Greatest American Hero, and Streets of Fire. Than Nothing.

Tom Wopat? What has he done since the Dukes of Hazzard?
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:01 PM
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30. Tom Wopat...
Has been in a ton of stuff since The Dukes Of Hazzard...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941374/
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:02 PM
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31. Michael Pare has a pretty extensive resume also...
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:09 PM
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37. actually, Tom Wopat was in the news today...
arrested for DUI and reckless driving in Passaic, NJ.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11877869/
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 05:59 PM
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27. Apparently there was a One Day At A Time Reunion Show made
in 2005, and Nanette Fabray appeared in it.

How I missed THAT, I have no idea.
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Crazy Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:01 PM
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29. Martin Mull
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:02 PM
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32. To me, it seems like Martin Mull is everywhere.
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Crazy Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:13 PM
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39. He should be "everywhere"
But I do confess, I never knew he was on the "Sabrina" sitcom.

Barth Gimble, Fernwood 2Nite
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:14 PM
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42. he's doing voice-overs on commercials now.
Funny but since I had a few of his albums I can recognize his voice. :-)
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:03 PM
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34. Jan Michael Vincent
Edited on Fri Mar-17-06 06:03 PM by Whoa_Nelly
He's from the area where am living right now.

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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:15 PM
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43. I think seeing him in his Disney movies made me gay.
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:30 PM
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45. Anne Francis
anybody remember "Honey West"?

also just about everyone from "Laugh-In" except for Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin...
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:37 PM
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49. Anne Francis is in one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes...
Edited on Fri Mar-17-06 06:39 PM by Left Is Write
"The After Hours."

It seems Ruth Buzzi has been pretty busy:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001595/


Edited to add that Mitzi McCall is still doing a lot of cartoon voices and TV.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:39 PM
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51. Not enough of them
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:41 PM
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52. David Soul
David Gates
Tito Jackson
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:48 PM
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53. Rebecca Demornay. I was STUNNED to see her in Lords of Dogtown
and not looking well I might add.

She was orange. Granted, she was playing a strung out hippy mom of a surfer dude (epic story, shoulda been left undramatized and bronzed in its original documentary form). She was wrinkledy in the face, but her abs were totally ripped and she made sure to show them, it was REALLY strange.

She was so incredibly HOT in Risky Business. I suppose she doesn't look bad, especially by Hollywood standards... but it's so strange for me to see my contemporaries change while I kind of.... don't, other than to improve with age.

I'd like to see her in something else. She is a talent. I have a feeling there are more films in her future.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:55 PM
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55. She was on 'The Practice' alongside Spader/Shatner prior to 'Boston
Legal'. I wish they would have kept her character as opposed to the lightweights who came and went this season.
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:55 PM
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56. It's funny. Even in Risky Business I could tell she would age badly.
She's one of those blondes whose skin seems thin and apt to wrinkle seriously, and that happened.
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jeffrey_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:53 PM
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54. Elliot Gould
...
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:56 PM
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57. Joey Heatherton. n/t
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 06:56 PM
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58. Ooooh! And Sandy Duncan.
The very ANNOYING Sandy Duncan, I might add.
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 07:00 PM
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59. That...guy, in that...movie
nt
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 07:31 PM
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62. Susan Tolsky
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 07:41 PM
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63. JAY-BUS, does that one make me feel old!
She's still around and employed:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0866214/

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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 08:09 PM
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66. I thought she had a very funny sounding voice (meaning comedic). She was
a regular on "The New Bill Cosby Show," a variety show he had for a while, and at the beginning they always said, "Bill Cosby...Foster Brooks... and possibly Miss Susan Tolsky." At the end of the show, Cosby always said, "I'd like to thank Foster Brooks and possibly Miss Susan Tolsky" whether she had appeared on that episode or not.
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Ivan Sputnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 08:45 PM
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68. All those "Laugh In" people
other than Goldie Hawn, Lily Tomlin and (very occasionally) Ruth Buzzi, you never hear or see them. Arte Johnson? Alan Seuss? Joanne Worley? Judy Carne? Henry Gibson? They can't all be dead.
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