9 comments

  • js220 小时前
    Bummer. I recently watched One from the Heart for the first time. (I really enjoyed it. Not sure why it was so poorly received at the time.)

    One thing I noticed looking at the cast was that the three male stars had died but the three women stars were still alive. I can't say that anymore. :-(

    I ended up watching all of Garr's appearances on Letterman. Someone collected them all on YouTube[1]. She was a really funny lady and she had a great repartee with Letterman.

    The obit doesn't mention it but she's had multiple sclerosis at least since 1982 and disclosed it in 2002.

    [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXf9uQf6iuM (1/5. Links to all 5 parts in the video description.)

  • munchler21 小时前
    She’ll always be the charmingly clueless young secretary in the Gary Seven episode of Star Trek: TOS to me. I wish that had been made into a series.
    • micah9420 小时前
      that ep is so memorable... it was like a mix of bewitched, 6million dollar man, I dream of jeannie, mission impossible, and of course star trek all rolled into one.
    • bigstrat200320 小时前
      If it had, it's doubtful she would've come back. I read she hated working with Roddenberry on that episode.
    • andrewl19 小时前
      Roberta Lincoln! Great episode.
    • euroderf20 小时前
      Also impressive in that ep was Isis (human form).
  • toomuchtodo22 小时前
    Related:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987606 ("HN: Teri Garr, offbeat comic actor of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' has died")

    https://ktla.com/entertainment/ap-teri-garr-offbeat-comic-ac... ("KTLA: Teri Garr, the offbeat comic actor of ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ has died")

  • sivers20 小时前
    From an old David Letterman interview with her long, long ago, I learned a cool little life hack:

    She moved to the big city and was getting into the entertainment industry, going around with her CV/résumé, trying to get jobs.

    The most impressive things on her CV had an * next to them.

    At the bottom of the page, it said, “* = l.i.e.”

    Only once did someone interviewering her ask her what that means.

    She said, “Oh those are lies.”

    I like that. Shows it doesn't really matter, and if you're admitting up-front that it's a lie, then it's the interviewer's fault for ignoring it.

    • acer466620 小时前
      You're not really admitting it by masking it in an obtuse acronym
      • CRConrad9 小时前
        With that particular "acronym", it's not it that's obtuse, but the reader who doesn't get it.
    • js220 小时前
      > She moved to the big city and was getting into the entertainment industry

      She must have been joking. She grew up in LA. She originally trained as a dancer in NYC but went into acting because she saw dancing as a dead end.

      • whoopdedo19 小时前
        There was an asterisk next to the story.
  • simpaticoder19 小时前
    Aw man. Teri Garr will always be "mom" thanks to her role in "Mr. Mom". Only later did I see Young Frankenstein and her "let's go for a roll in the hay!" mode.

    And of course she is mentioned prominently in the epic Key & Peele sketch "Prepared for Terries": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiWIOKKuyGE&t=53

    • GeekyBear18 小时前
      She also played the mom in the campy children's movie, Mom and Dad Save the World, as well as a dancer in Viva Los Vegas.
  • Zelphyr19 小时前
    I just watched Oh, God! again. She played that role perfectly. Like, "I'm sure my husband is crazy but I love him and, well, I guess we'll see where this goes."
  • mikeInAlaska20 小时前
    My memory of her is Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    • themadturk18 小时前
      I first fell in love with her watching Young Frankenstein. Then again in Close Encounters.
  • erickhill20 小时前
    I honestly forgot about Tootsie. For me she's always one of the bright stars from Young Frankenstein and Mr Mom.
  • beepbooptheory20 小时前
    Thank you Teri for the sexual awakening I got watching 'Young Frankenstein' as a boy that first time.
    • Loughla19 小时前
      I was raised by elderly grandparents. That was a movie that my ultra conservative grandma loved. It was the only movie that was above a G rating that she let us watch, because she loved Mel Brooks so much. TV and movies were essentially banned when I was growing up. It was either Lawrence Welk, I Love Lucy, or whatever nature special was on PBS if we were allowed to watch TV, until I bought her a copy of Young Frankenstein on VHS. Then we could watch that when we had TV access.

      Thank God for Teri's boobs when I was an early teen. I shudder to think what my tastes might be today if all I had was The Lawrence Welk show during my formative years.

    • mikestew20 小时前
      "Vant to go for a roll in zee hay?"
      • mcphage20 小时前
        “What knockers!”

        “Oh, sank you…”

        • phkahler19 小时前
          Magnificent knockers.