He played the co-anchor on Murphy Brown.
-PJ
Posted on 05/25/2016 1:28:55 PM PDT by Morgana
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — Beth Howland, the actress best known for her role as a ditzy waitress on the 1970s and ‘80s CBS sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 74.
Her husband, actor Charles Kimbrough, told The Associated Press that Howland died Dec. 31 of lung cancer in Santa Monica, California. He said there had been no announcement, funeral or memorial service because that’s how she wanted it.
“That was her choice,” he said.
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Agree 100%.
My favorite Alice exchange, was when the group was talking about an upcoming wedding.
Mel: “Is the bride any good looking?”
Flo: “Mel, all brides are beautiful.”
Mel: “Then why are there so many ugly wives.”
Me too. That was back when you’d be able to watch shows like “Alice” and many others like that back then (including “Dukes of Hazzard”) with your parents and even grandparents in the living room as well.
Don’t look so frightened
This is just a passing phase, one of my bad days.
RIP
Aw, I liked her.
He played the co-anchor on Murphy Brown.
-PJ
Damn it! She was a hoot on Alice.
Ah, the dinghy.
RIP Vera.
She was on an episode of the Love Boat too.
Right on the money with Larry Linville. I was his driver for a few days in the mid-80s, and you couldn't have met a nicer, more professional, funnier man. He seemed to know everything and had a particular interest in science. His mannerisms, especially that silly smirk, were the only things that were identical to his character on M*A*S*H.
Very rare in Hollywood, indeed.
Depends on the show. The early seasons of Bones were really excellent.
On one episode, there was this liberal do-gooder, project innocence true believer, who was trying to get a man on death row released, because the death penalty is evil. The main character says “No, in some cases it’s totally appropriate”. One episode the lab team was discussing God, and each character had a different point of view on God, when the atheist went to the head of the Smithsonian Science department to back her up, he said “Don’t look at me, I’m a deacon in my local church.”
There was even an episode with a devout Muslim terrorist who pretends to be Christian to commit a terrorist attack, and they even say point blank “He’s committing Taquiyya” and then explain what it is.
Had a teenage crush on her back when Alice first aired.
Gee, another dumb, ditzy white person in “comedy” TV
At least it wasn’t a white guy
No wait, that was “Male”
Murphy Brown actor.
She was 1970s/1980s and he was 1980s/1990s and yet they were able to live together in peace.
An inspiration to us all.
As “Linda,” she tangled with Mary Richards over “Jack” (Bert Convy) on an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
RIP.
We had ladies and gentlemen back then on the TV shows.
Today many of them are druggies, sluts, wackos, and not very funny.
H.G. Wells -got another one of them Time Machines? I want to go “Back to the Future” of 1957.
RIP.
Her choice...but I find it kind of selfish.
Funerals and memorials aren't for the dead. They are for the living, that the dead have left behind.
For the living to grieve AND hopefully rejoice in the life they knew.
Is there anybody in there
Just nod if you can here me
Is there anyone at home
Oh, and bring the boys back home.
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