https://metv.com/quiz/can-you-name-these-classic-carol-burnett-show-characters
Posted on 06/24/2019 7:00:08 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
EVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Maria Rosario Pilar Lorenza Emilia Eugenia Martinez Molina Baeza De La Osa Rasten — you know her as Charo — was walking through her home looking for her husband, singing, “Good morning, good morning,” when she found him. He had shot himself. Kjell Rasten was 78 when he died in February. Charo has said that he had been suffering from a rare disease called bullous pemphigoid, which is characterized by terrible blistering of the skin, and that he had become depressed. “My husband put a bullet in his head,” Charo said. “I have an invisible bullet in my heart.” In the month after his death, Charo retreated to her bedroom, where she cried, but did not pray. “I was empty,” she said. After 30 days of isolation she emerged. She came to understand, once she resurfaced, that while, as she put it, “my time as a woman has ended” — meaning her life as a woman who experiences romantic love — she has her son, and her sister, and her nephew, and God.
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A very dear friend in my university days attempted suicide. Technically, she failed. She was never the same afterward, though ... It does indeed leave a hole in the hearts of family and friends.
You’re in a tunnel when you attempt/succeed.
You don’t see any light and the physical or mental pain has just blocked everyone and everything out.
It IS cruel. It’s not intentionally cruel.
Ya kinda gotta be there to know.
I hope no one here ever is.
Koochie Koochie is still alive?
I remember when she was married to Xavier Cugat.
She really is wonderful. Talented guitar player, great comedienne... I love her persona too.
I mostly remember her breasticles.
And the way she said “Massachusetts” on the Tonight Show.
MATCH UH CHOO CHEE
Her official date of birth is listed as January 15, 1951 (though original documents from Spain report her birth date as March 13, 1941.)
her official date of birth is listed as January 15, 1951 (though original documents from Spain report her birth date as March 13, 1941)
I bumped into Chro once - literally. She was playing the Venetian and I was was setting up the club’s network. Got to see her rehearsal, she was damn good and hard working.
Charo began playing guitar at the age of 9 and trained under the famed Andrés Segovia.
not a great photo- but i beleive that was charo in the photo back to us?
[[I must be from a generation where we knew her as Charo]]
Me too-
Chiquita
I was wondering when someone would mention “Koochie Koochie”.
She was excellent on the guitar!
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