Gloomy.
Dr. Ruth, July 12th
Shannen Doherty, July 13th
Richard Simmons, July 13th
Bob Newhart, July 18th
I'll always remember Dr. Ruth's Quantum Leap episode.
Weirdest crossover ever.
In a good way.
I just did a thing back in March about Doherty getting her start in "Night Shift".
I did the Deal-A-Meal diet in the 90's. It was brutal.
Tiny meals; starvation in between. Not a fan. Didn't stay on it long.
Simmons was a running foil to David Letterman.
Those were the days.
I like everything Newhart did.
Everyone forgets his last sitcom "Bob" where he was a comic book artist.
He even joked at the time that where he had done "The Bob Newhart Show" "Newhart" and "Bob" he still had to do "The" and "Show".
That's it.
Their body of work speaks for itself.
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Geez the life expectancy for those 90210 people is running out huh? Matthew Perry was on it too! Jason Priestley had better watch his ass.
Bob Newhart had a really funny cameo at the end of "Horrible Bosses." That was my favorite bit of his.
I didn't find out until well after becoming a "Blade Runner" fan (2008) that William Sanderson was "I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl, this is my other brother Darryl" on Newhart. That was like his main gig, too (BR fandom apparently didn't really kick in until the laserdisc was released in the late 80s.)
Y'know who's the converse of the 90210 curse?
The "Nightmare On Elm Street" cast.
We've only lost Wes Craven so far.
The boiler room they filmed in was/is full of asbestos, and is condemned, and it's dangerous to even tear it down.
Wes jokes in the Nightmare 1 commentary that they'd all die at the same time.
Nope. Everyone else is still ticking.
William Sanderson is one of those guys like Michael Ironside who bounces back and forth between good movies, and straight-to-VHS crap, and then back again.
And they'll both magically be remembered for the good ones.
Unlike John Candy who was urinated on for 3 duds in a row.
Fuck you, rest of America, I liked "Only The Lonely".
I guess I shouldn't blubber about 90210 when there's shows like "Babylon 5" and "Twin Peaks" which really have lost loads of people.
Two more years and I outlive Candy.
I just rewatched the Stephen King episode of "The X-Files" and GOD WAS IT EVER SHIT. I hated it even more than the first time around!
Yep, Stephen King hit the wall with his cocaine addiction in 1993, coinciding with "The Dark Half".
He kind of wandered in the wilderness finding his talent without the coke for awhile, and "Chinga" was in that gap.
Pretty awful, yeah.
Oh yeah, he got hit by the van in 1999; just a year later.
His recovery from that kind of rebirthed him in a weird way.
Oh it was COCAINE that caused that? I thought he kicked drugs after "It" when his wife staged the intervention in 1987, where she threw a big bag of his dope out in a trash bag on the floor...? Guess I didn't know.
So he wrote "Green Mile" on coke too, then? Makes a lot of sense for stuff like "Cujo" and "It," but "Green Mile," not so much.
I'm old enough to remember when he "called it quits"--wasn't that in 2002? So much for that!!
I'm doing a second run through of the whole original 9 seasons of "The X-Files" and both the mytharc and monster of the week episodes have taken a hit...the mytharc is annoyingly uninteresting to keep track of and I don't give a shit about Mulder's sister (I had to look it up on Wikipedia to even remember what the answer was with her) and the monster of the week episodes I find myself often getting bored with the details of how they solve the case; the show's "suspension of disbelief" factor is like a big cancerous tumor, too.
Even "Jose Chung's" isn't that great anymore either--it seems like all the "greatness" I thought it had the first time around was crammed into the very end of the episode. The Peter Boyle episode is still really good but the Bryan Cranston episode (without which we wouldn't have "Breaking Bad," because Gilligan wrote it) wasn't even that special. Shit!!!!!!
Looks like the best episode is Vince Gilligan's "Paper Hearts," then?
The first movie's a little better than I remember it, but who do you know who ever thought it was a masterpiece? One of my favorite "you kids remember the 90s" anecdotes is to talk about how hyped that movie was back in 1998 and how it's totally faded away since then.
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