[HN Gopher] Teri Garr, offbeat comic actor of 'Young Frankenstei...
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       Teri Garr, offbeat comic actor of 'Young Frankenstein' and
       'Tootsie,' has died
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2024-10-29 18:09 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | toomuchtodo wrote:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teri_Garr
        
       | nonameiguess wrote:
       | Damn. She's in the category of people who were all over the place
       | in my childhood, then disappeared and never aged in my memory,
       | and suddenly she's nearly 80 and now dead. The cast list of _Mom
       | and Dad Save the World_ , a stupid as fuck movie that is one of
       | the lowest rated on Rotten Tomatoes, but for whatever I reason I
       | loved as a 12 year-old, is practically a who's who of these
       | people. Jon Lovitz, Jeffrey Jones, Wallace Shawn. Jones got outed
       | as a pedophile and is hopefully gone forever from public life,
       | with Tim Burton pretty creatively writing his character's head
       | out of _Beetlejuice Beetlejuice_ so they could recast him. God
       | knows what happened to the rest.
       | 
       | Apparently Teri Garr got MS in the late 90s (which is ultimately
       | what killed her), significantly scaled back her work, then
       | retired. She was in _Ghost World_? I don 't even remember her in
       | that.
        
         | eadmund wrote:
         | > She's in the category of people who were all over the place
         | in my childhood, then disappeared and never aged in my memory,
         | and suddenly she's nearly 80 and now dead.
         | 
         | Yup. Seemed like she was in everything, and then ... she
         | wasn't. She was a talented and very funny actress!
         | 
         | Sad that multiple sclerosis was what eventually ended her
         | career, although I think it was already (also sadly ...)
         | slowing down.
        
         | HeyLaughingBoy wrote:
         | _Ghost World_ is one of my favorite movies and I don 't
         | remember her character either.
        
           | serf wrote:
           | she was Maxine, Enid's father's new-old girlfriend who was
           | re-introducing herself back into Enid's family-life (to
           | Enid's dismay).[0]
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           | apologies for the horrible picture URL, it's a picture of the
           | character Maxine.
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           | [0]: https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2K83FJR/bob-balaban-teri-garr-
           | film...
        
         | bena wrote:
         | Oddly enough, Mr. Mom is the first thing my mind brings up when
         | Teri Garr is mentioned. Just a solid, 80s comedy set against
         | the changing roles of men and women in the workplace and home.
        
         | pkroll wrote:
         | Well, MS isn't fatal, but it certainly doesn't HELP... people
         | with it have a generally shorter life expectancy (by like 7
         | years) from complications with something else, like heart
         | disease or cancer.
         | 
         | None of which takes away from it being terrible that we've lost
         | Terri Garr.
        
       | HeyLaughingBoy wrote:
       | > Bob Thomas, a longtime Associated Press journalist who died in
       | 2014, was the principal writer of this obituary
       | 
       | They really planned ahead!
        
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