RIP.
Posted on 10/15/2023 12:55:36 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Suzanne Somers, best known for her roles on Three's Company and Step by Step, has died.
Somers died on Sunday morning, PEOPLE confirms. She was 76.
“Suzanne Somers passed away peacefully at home in the early morning hours of October 15th. She survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years,” Somers’ longtime publicist R. Couri Hay wrote in a statement shared on behalf of the actress’ family.
“Suzanne was surrounded by her loving husband Alan, her son Bruce, and her immediate family,” the statement continued. “Her family was gathered to celebrate her 77th birthday on October 16th. Instead, they will celebrate her extraordinary life, and want to thank her millions of fans and followers who loved her dearly.”
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That now leaves Richard Kline (Larry), Joyce De Witt (Janet), Jenilee Harrison (Cindy), and Priscilla Barnes (Terri) as the surviving cast members of that show.
She recovered nicely as the spokesperson for Thigh Master. She was a good actress as well. Folks my age seem to be “departing the pattern” at an alarming rate.
RIP Suzanne. She took heat for supporting Trump, but at that point, she had F U money. Apparently she made a ton of money from her ThighMaster. funny, a smart businesswoman, hot, rich and not crazy. A true unicorn.
So saddened by this news! Lovely, brave and sweet lady, much classier than most of Hollywood. Rest in peace, Ms. Suzanne.
RIP Suzanne.
Condolences sir.
RIP. Hard to believe she was that old. Yikes! I’m getting up there too!
RIP.
It is what many men remember her from.
It has happened to many men at some time in their life.
You see a girl, and she sees you...your eyes meet, and then the moment passes.
But that instant persists in your brain for some time, sometimes your whole life. It is almost never acted on, but...occasionally, it is. In my case, I think it was.
My lovely wife worked at the same hospital I did as a young man, and she was a nurse, when they still wore the white dress with the white hose. I can vividly remember the first time our eyes met, even though I doubt is lasted more than a quarter second.
I was walking down a corridor, and as I came around the corner, she was walking with another woman, engaged in conversation.
I looked at her, and suddenly, her eyes rose, she looked at me (as if she had somehow felt me looking at her) then then her eyes resumed their former aspect.
In that quarter second our eyes met, a lot of things registered in my mind.
She had beautiful dark eyes, very unusual in shape (people she hadn’t seen since grade school would still recognize her by her unusual eyes) and when she smiled, each eye resembled an upside-down smile. She had a long, graceful neck, and short, dark, curly hair. All of it packaged in that nurse’s uniform, dark curly hair at top, and sensible nurses shoes at the bottom.
All of that in a single quarter second.
To this day, I remember it exactly.
We ended up being introduced to each other by a little old lady of 88 years, who wasn’t all with it, but...my wife was taking care of her in the unit, and my wife told me that little wisp of a woman, with white curly hair and dark eyes, was trying to fix her up with every male who came into the room!
As that little bitty woman laid on my exam table, she crooked her finger at me, and as I leaned close to hear what she had to say, she said conspiratorially: “You two would make such a wonderful couple!”
I looked over at the woman who is now my wife after all these years (who was busy checking the output from the plastic urine bag she was draining into) and thought “Wow.”
I did not ask her out first, she asked me, to go out on “Liver Rounds” with her and some of the other nurses. I couldn’t go, but...the groundwork was laid.
So...that was a brief look that lasted my whole life. When Richard Dreyfuss’s character looked over at her in that white Thunderbird with the red leather interior, and Suzanne Somer’s character looked back with that coy smile, it was the same thing.
So, RIP Suzanne Somers. That smile you meted out to the young man in the beat up car beside you was powerful, something most young men can fully appreciate the power of!
Memory Eternal!!
Yes, smart enough to play stupid on the show, takes talent to pull that off as funny which she did. RIP
Dang!
Eerie...’Kane’ opened the Saturday Champagne Room last night at Citizens’ Free Press with a photo of Suzanne.
There’s no future in getting old.
Somers demanded a substantial increase in salary, from $30,000 to $150,000 per episode (equivalent to $107,000–$533,000 in 2022), plus 10% of the show’s profits. Executives believed that a complete loss of Somers could damage the program’s popularity, so a compromise was reached. Somers, who was still under contract, continued to appear in the series, but only in the one-minute closing tag scene of a handful of episodes.
Somers’s scenes were taped on separate days from the show’s regular taping; she did not appear on set with any of the show’s other cast members......she was only seen when she telephoned her former roommates, and they recounted that week’s adventures to her. This arrangement continued for one season. Somers’s contract was not renewed.
Another piece of my childhood has gone home.
RIP SS...
Suzanne was a natural beauty, you know what I mean?
Seriously though, Godspeed to her.
The years pass quickly.
Oh no! Geez, many of my favorite actors have been passing away as of late. I hope she found peace in the end.
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