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Bonnie Franklin, star of 'One Day at a Time,' dead at 69
Yahoo ^ | March 1, 2013 | Dave Nemetz

Posted on 03/01/2013 11:02:42 AM PST by bgill

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To: bravo whiskey

Deborah Walley died in Sedona, AZ in 2001 at age 59. RIP.


21 posted on 03/01/2013 11:25:02 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (What word begins with "O" and ends in economic collapse?)
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To: laweeks
Dukes of Hazzard and WKRP in Cincinnati were, at the time, "the" shows to watch for me. :-)
22 posted on 03/01/2013 11:27:35 AM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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To: bgill

I remember her well, often wonder what happened to her after the show ended.

I thought the show was disgusting, though....it was one of those “women don’t need men” shows that seemed to applaud a fatherless home.


23 posted on 03/01/2013 11:31:36 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Lancey Howard

Most FReeepers would abhor her politics.
But today is not the day for that.

RIP and Shalom.


24 posted on 03/01/2013 11:31:52 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: supremedoctrine
Don’t wanna put further rain on the funeral, but when I see her name, it reminds me that she played Margaret Sanger in a TV movie, who I’m sure was presented uncritically as a feminist icon, with no mention of her eugenics darkside.

At the risk of sounding very mean and judgmental I assume,unless I see compelling proof to the contrary,that a person in showbiz is a worthless,filthy piece of excrement.As a result when I hear of the demise of a showbiz type I don't shed a single tear.Sometimes I think back fondly to one or more pieces of their work but I find it easy to separate a good piece of film/music from the reprobate who created/performed it.

25 posted on 03/01/2013 11:36:24 AM PST by Gay State Conservative ("Progressives" toss the word "racist" around like chimps toss their feces)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Now there’s a healthy respect for the Arts!


26 posted on 03/01/2013 11:37:16 AM PST by Borges
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To: Gay State Conservative

I have the same attitude


27 posted on 03/01/2013 11:38:41 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Borges
Now there’s a healthy respect for the Arts!

Name me some recent (40-50 years) "artists" who've led anything resembling a decent respectable private life.Booze...drugs...affairs...divorces...Marxist politics/causes....etc,etc.

28 posted on 03/01/2013 11:43:04 AM PST by Gay State Conservative ("Progressives" toss the word "racist" around like chimps toss their feces)
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To: ConservativeStatement
The ONLY reason I watched WKRP....


29 posted on 03/01/2013 11:43:31 AM PST by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Most artists from the past wouldn’t pass that test either.


30 posted on 03/01/2013 11:44:22 AM PST by Borges
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To: SoFloFreeper

I thought the show was disgusting, though....it was one of those “women don’t need men” shows that seemed to applaud a fatherless home.

Every plot was about the same...men bad...women good...men/society needs to pay more attention to the superior women. I mean I was 15 and picked up on the anti-manness of the show...and that VB was hot!


31 posted on 03/01/2013 11:44:22 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: newfreep

Baily Quarters! Always liked the Mary Ann over the Ginger.


32 posted on 03/01/2013 11:46:11 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: ExTxMarine
I watched that show for VALERIE BERTINELLI!

Same here.

FMCDH(BITS)

33 posted on 03/01/2013 11:46:47 AM PST by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: ifinnegan
These Norman Lear shows really kicked off the downward slide we are in by changing what people thought of as normal.

+1...throw in the Harry/Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's.

34 posted on 03/01/2013 11:48:03 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: bgill
RIP.

She was in a US Army training film from the early 70s.

35 posted on 03/01/2013 11:49:43 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: bgill

I saw that show as one of the more ugly tools of the left, knowing how it was front and center in millions of homes, with millions of youth mesmerized by it’s messages.


36 posted on 03/01/2013 11:49:52 AM PST by ansel12 (Romney is a longtime supporter of homosexualizing the Boy Scouts (and the military).)
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To: bgill
RIP.

She was in a US Army training film from the early 70s.

37 posted on 03/01/2013 11:52:32 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Borges
Most artists from the past wouldn’t pass that test either.

I think that at any given point in time those in showbiz were less likely to be what I call "respectable" (that word being used very broadly) than the typical American.So back in 1950 while 2% of "typical" Americans were doing cocaine 8% of those in showbiz were.If 10% of "typical" Americans had been fooling around 40% of showbiz types were.Today,I'd wager that 20% of "typical" Americans are smoking dope and that 80% (or more) of showbiz types are.

38 posted on 03/01/2013 11:53:14 AM PST by Gay State Conservative ("Progressives" toss the word "racist" around like chimps toss their feces)
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To: fungoking
"Mary Ann and Ginger"

What???!!! What did they have that Mrs. Howell/Lovey didn't have?

39 posted on 03/01/2013 11:53:52 AM PST by driftless2
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To: bgill

This Wiki summary reminds me why I hated the show and refused to watch it, even as a kid:

“The show stars Broadway character and former child actress Bonnie Franklin as Ann Romano, a woman who, echoing sentiments common to the 1970s, felt that she had always been either someone’s daughter, wife, or mother and wanted to “find herself.” She divorces her husband (played occasionally by veteran actor Joseph Campanella) and moves from Logansport to Indianapolis with her two daughters, seventeen-year-old Julie (Mackenzie Phillips), the older, more rebellious one, and the more mature fifteen-year-old Barbara (Valerie Bertinelli). The theme of the series rests on Ann’s desire to prove that she can live and raise her children independently.”


40 posted on 03/01/2013 11:54:04 AM PST by Mr Rogers (America is becoming California, and California is becoming Detroit. Detroit is already hell.)
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