Mary Tyler Moore, Who Incarnated the Modern Woman on TV, Dies at 80

ny times ^ | January 25, 2017 | VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN

[Morgana]

Mary Tyler Moore, whose witty and graceful performances on two top-rated television shows in the 1960s and ’70s helped define a new vision of American womanhood, died on Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn. She was 80.

Her family said her death, at Greenwich Hospital, was caused by cardiopulmonary arrest after she had contracted pneumonia.

Ms. Moore faced more than her share of private sorrow, and she went on to more serious fare, including an Oscar-nominated role in the 1980 film “Ordinary People” as a frosty, resentful mother whose son has died. But she was most indelibly known as the incomparably spunky Mary Richards on the CBS hit sitcom “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Broadcast from 1970 to 1977, it was produced by both Ms. Moore and her second husband, the CBS executive Grant Tinker, who died on Nov. 28.

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At least a decade before the twin figures of the harried working woman and the neurotic, unwed 30-something became media preoccupations, Ms. Moore’s portrayal — for which she won four of her seven Emmy Awards — expressed both the exuberance and the melancholy of the single career woman who could plot her own course without reference to cultural archetypes.

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M Kelly was also a beautiful woman ... so was Jane Fonda. She advocated for Obama, like we don’t forgive Fonda, we won’t forgive Harf. Pretty, but it is skin deep. All three women have shown what is under the pretty.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Sorry .. wrong thread.

[BykrBayb]

This is a rotten time to have to shop for electronics. I don’t think anyone has a good sale price on anything. The iPad I got my husband for Christmas now costs more than double what I paid on Black Friday. I hope you can find an affordable solution that works out for you. If I stumble on anything I’ll let you know.

[MamaB]

Thanks. My daughter said things made today are not meant to be repaired or work too long. They are meant to be tossed. I kept going through my supply and found one that will charge my old one and I plugged the new one by my desk and it is up to 81%. Is very aggravating. I am just glad I do not have any trouble with my iPhone. I need it more than my iPads. I have a desk top but it does not have a keyboard. Well, I have one but it is not connected. I have not worried about it since I use the iPads.

[TBP]

I remember how wonderful she was in Thoroughly Modern Millie, as well. Mary, Julie Andrews, Carol Channing. A really FUN movie!

[IrishBrigade]

She was as archetypal a housewife as June Cleaver, if not quite as smarmy.

smarmy...?you must be confusing June Cleaver with Eldridge...