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.
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.
micah94 466 days ago [-]
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.
bigstrat2003 466 days ago [-]
If it had, it's doubtful she would've come back. I read she hated working with Roddenberry on that episode.
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.
acer4666 466 days ago [-]
You're not really admitting it by masking it in an obtuse acronym
CRConrad 465 days ago [-]
With that particular "acronym", it's not it that's obtuse, but the reader who doesn't get it.
js2 466 days ago [-]
> 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.
whoopdedo 466 days ago [-]
There was an asterisk next to the story.
simpaticoder 466 days ago [-]
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.
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.
mikeInAlaska 466 days ago [-]
My memory of her is Close Encounters of the Third Kind
themadturk 465 days ago [-]
I first fell in love with her watching Young Frankenstein. Then again in Close Encounters.
Zelphyr 466 days ago [-]
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."
beepbooptheory 466 days ago [-]
Thank you Teri for the sexual awakening I got watching 'Young Frankenstein' as a boy that first time.
Loughla 466 days ago [-]
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.
mikestew 466 days ago [-]
"Vant to go for a roll in zee hay?"
mcphage 466 days ago [-]
“What knockers!”
“Oh, sank you…”
phkahler 466 days ago [-]
Magnificent knockers.
erickhill 466 days ago [-]
I honestly forgot about Tootsie. For me she's always one of the bright stars from Young Frankenstein and Mr Mom.
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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.)
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")
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.
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.
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
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.
“Oh, sank you…”