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From 1961-1966 in "The Dick Van Dyke Show" Laura Petrie was, to my 14 to 19 year old mind, a sexy symbol.

Those Capri pants that she wore... ⁽¹⁾ showed she had the cutest and all-round sexiest hind end around--

All the other ways she dressed... ⁽²⁾ just melted my heart and put my teenage hormones in hyper-drive.

And, boy, oh, boy-- Could she dance... ⁽³⁾ sexy!

And in later years as an older single woman in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" she still--

Had... ⁽⁴⁾ it!

In all my years on the Loony Left Coast at different times from the 1970s through the 90s, I never actually met Mary Tyler Moore, yet I recall seeing her several times at eateries here and there around La La Land.

Once when I was out driving the afternoon of the 1973 Emmy Awards as a limo pulled up beside me at a traffic light and suddenly I hear the voice of Mary Richards saying, "I don't know why he would think that.."

I turn my head to the left and I see the rear passenger side window rolling up beside me and through it I see Mary Tyler Moore sitting on the far side of the back seat, dressed to the nines, her hair done up very sexy and taking a drink from a Coca-Cola bottle. The window rolls up and it being heavily tinted, I could not see any more. (No pun intended) The limo then pulled away and I hear a horn behind me blaring at me for not moving with the traffic.

Later I was watching the Emmy Awards-- Yes, back then they were lots of fun to watch.

And she won... ⁽⁵⁾ wearing the exact dress I saw her wearing in the back of that limo--

That is the closest I every got to her yet I always enjoyed her acting, she was very much comic gold in "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and her own "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." And in somehow true 'Hollywood Fashion' that the only time she got nominated for the 'Best Actress' Academy Award for her role in the drama film Ordinary People, where she played against type the cold fish mother who puts maintaining her composure above the real needs of her family.

So, to quote Alan Swan from My Favorite Year: 'On his death bed, Kean was asked how he felt. He answered, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."'

No one really knows if the English actor Edmund Kean every really said that, he died in 1833-- But whoever said it, it surely fits.

So Goodbye Mary, we hardly knew ya, but what we knew, what we saw, we loved.

⁽¹⁾ https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3d/5b/7d/3d5b7dbc4d19a3c0a78fa65155cac4fb.jpg

⁽²⁾ http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J5PDhDLBu9Y/Ufxw_M420VI/AAAAAAAAX-M/G08ljiPyoSk/s1600/Laura_Petrie.jpg

⁽³⁾ https://alifeworthstyling.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/kedslaurapetrie.jpg?w=625

⁽⁴⁾ https://bohemiantreehousedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/1258944664_11.jpg?w=420

⁽⁵⁾ http://www.emmys.com/sites/default/files/styles/photo_gallery_large/public/2013/09/mtm_klugman.jpg?itok=X2p_n3V0

Thank you for sharing that limo story.

Sorry she is gone, but Bendy, this gal was a women’s libber, an alcoholic, and really bad news. Not sexy. Contentious. Problematic. Boy, that was a close one Bro. To think you might have been THAT close to getting hitched to her. Whew!

Good story, thanks

So I had to read your whole post to find out what was your Mary Tyler Moore limo story. It was very cool, but I was kind of hoping you were in the limo. Would have made the story all the more spicy. Lol.

When she passed, I started watching a couple episodes a night of MTM Show on Hulu. Episode 4 or 5 has her exercising in her apartment with Rhoda. Rhoda was supposed to be “fat,” so she was in a big grey bulky sweat suit. Laura was in a tight t shirt with a very pointy bra, and PANTYHOSE ONLY, working out, bouncing around. I was kind of schocked. For those days, that was like not wearing pants.