Wally George DEAD!

LA SLIMES ^ | October 7, 2003 | Jean O. Pasco

[stephydan]

From the Los Angeles Times: October 7, 2003 Wally George, 71; Firebrand Host Made Insult TV a Hit With Orange County Show By Jean O. Pasco, Times Staff Writer Wally George, who pioneered insult television on his long-running Orange County talk show "Hot Seat" in the 1980s, died Sunday in Fountain Valley.

[stephydan]

I hate to quote the Slimes but.....

[ambrose]

damn

[Maynerd]

Neidemeyer dead!

[oc-flyfish]

I was in the audience twice in the 80's...

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[kingu]

Aww, damn. Wally was who first made me aware that there was such a thing as politics. Well, he'd best be kickin' rump where he's moved on to...

[isom35]

father of actress Rebecca Demornay?

[Bogey78O]

Mark Metcalf is alive I believe.

[stephydan]

Rumor is they haven't talked in decades. I wonder if they ever reconciled?

[DoughtyOne]

I know this will seem like a crazy statement, but Wally George was at one time a breath of fresh air before talk radio took off.  Evidently some of his guests on the show were paid actors.  Wally's shtick was to have liberal people on the program, then build the animosity with them until by the end of the program he'd kick them off the show.  It was a hoot to watch.  It did marginalize over time, but I enjoyed Wally.  It was a great source of humor and some decent values.

Wally's daughter is Rebecca De Mornay.

I used to watch his program in the 80s.  It was filmed on a university campus, or at least it seemed like it.  The audience was made up of student age men, mostly.  They'd chant wildly at Wally's inspiration.

When I think if Wally I smile.  I guess worse things could be said of a guy when he goes.

[DoughtyOne]

Yes.

[DoughtyOne]

Rebecca De Mornay

[PRND21]

I sat in his audience intoxicated one time.
RIP

Wally! Wally! Wally! Wally! Wally!...

[Robert_Paulson2]

"Wally's daughter is Rebecca De Mornay."

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you are kidding!
you know d1, she actually borders on being what they call "hot" as an actress...

risky business and all... you know the train ride scene...

[stephydan]

She was the hooker on Risky Business. I wonder if she knows Rhonda Miller? :)

[stephydan]

Biography for
Rebecca De Mornay

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Birth name
Rebecca George

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Mini biography
Rebecca was born in northern California, and was raised by her mother Julie and step-father Richard De Mornay until his death when she was 5 years old. Rebecca's mother then moved her and her half-brother Peter to Europe, where she was raised primarily in England and Austria. Rebecca graduated "summa cum laude" from a German-speaking high school in the Austrian alps, and still speaks fluent German and French.

She began her acting training in Los Angeles at Lee Strasberg's Institute, became an apprentice at Francis Coppola's Zoetrope Film Studio, and soon thereafter made her film debut opposite Tom Cruise in the box office hit Risky Business (1983), in which she gave a seductive and critically-acclaimed performance as a street-wise call-girl. She went on to international stardom with her portrayal of a chillingly twisted nanny in the hugely popular Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The (1992). Other acclaimed film work includes _Runaway Train (1985)_ (with Jon Voight), Trip to Bountiful, The (1985) (with Geraldine Page), Backdraft (1991) (with Kurt Russell).

Network television work includes the tour-de-force role of Arlie in the stellar Getting Out (1994) (TV) (based on Marsha Norman's play), the tragic title character in Dominick Dunne's Inconvenient Woman, An (1991) (TV) (with Jason Robards), the remake of "Shining, The" (1997) (mini) (produced by Stephen King), a multi-episode story-arc about a cancer survivor on E.R. (1999) and Hallmark Hall of Fame's Night Ride Home (1999) (TV) (with Ellen Burstyn).

On stage, she starred as Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday (1988) at the Pasadena Playhouse, as Charlotte Corday in Marat/Sade (1990) at the Williamstown Festival, and as Anna in Closer (2000) at the Mark Taper Forum.

Rebecca's directing debut was with a segment of Showtime's The Outer Limits starring John Savage and Frank Whaley. Rebecca currently resides in Los Angeles with sportscaster Patrick O'Neal, and their daughters, Sophia and Veronica.

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IMDb mini-biography by

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Spouse
Bruce Wagner (1989 - 1990) (divorced)
'Patrick ONeil (? - present); 2 children

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Trivia
Gave birth to a daughter, Sophia, by Patrick O'Neal (Ryan's son). [1997]

Speaks German fluently.

Daughter Of TV talk show host Wally George.

Was engaged to Leonard Cohen.

Second daughter, Veronica, born in Los Angeles. [31 March 2001]

Has a half sister who was born in 1989. Rebacca has never made contact with her.

Rebecca's last name was changed as a child, when her step-father Richard De Mornay adopted her.

Rebecca attended the radically alternative English boarding school "Summerhill".

Rebecca has several half-brothers and half-sisters who she has never met.

Took her stepfather's name (De Mornay) legally at the age of 5 when he adopted her.

Granddaughter of Eugenia Clinchard

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Where are they now
(11/16/1997) Daughter Sophia born. Sophia's paternal grandmother is Leigh Taylor-Young.

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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
Attractive blond leading lady who has eschewed typical ingenue roles in favor of more colorful-and sometimes provocativecharacters. Unfortunately, the finished films don't always justify her choice of parts, though her second-billed role in the 1992 hit The Hand That Rocks the Cradle in which she played a psychotic nanny, gave her stock a definite boost. Californiaborn but educated in Europe, De Mornay studied acting at Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio before making her film debut with a bit part in Francis Ford Coppola's One From the Heart (1982). She first raised eyebrows as the feisty hooker in Risky Business (1983), then won good reviews for a completely different characterization in The Trip to Bountiful (1985). Her sexually charged performance in Roger Vadim's 1987 Americanized remake of his own And God Created Woman went for naught; the highly touted film bombed. Nonetheless, she deserves credit for sticking to her avowed policy of playing "interesting" modern women.

Pleased with her success in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Touchstone Pictures top-lined her opposite Don Johnson in a 1993 thriller, Guilty as Sin She was also chosen to play Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers (1993).

OTHER FILMS INCLUDE: 1983: Testament 1985: The Slugger's Wife, Runaway Train 1986: The Murders in the Rue Morgue (a telefilm); 1987: Crack, Beauty and the Beast (the latter a made-for-video production); 1988: Feds 1989: Dealers 1990: By Dawn's Early Light, Grand Tour (both telefilms); 1991: Backdraft

Copyright © 1994 Leonard Maltin, used by arrangement with Signet, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc.

[The KG9 Kid]

AAUGH NO!

[DoughtyOne]

I was intoxicate at one time. Does that count? I might have even had a beer while watching his show at one time or another. That may make us suds brothers er something. LOL

[CounterCounterCulture]

I hate to click on their link. Was it cancer that did him in?

Previous thread...
TV talk show host says he has cancer (Wally George) (27 January 2002)

[DoughtyOne]

Why am I blanking on the train ride scene? I remember the movie pretty well. Yes she was a hottie at one time.