January 22, 2008

"Good Night, Bob"

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Via our Maximum Leader I learn that the lovely and talented Suzanne Pleshette passed away over the weekend at age 70.

I'm old enough to have been a great fan of the old Bob Newhart Show back in the 70's. I'm also old enough that Pleshette's dark hair, cool and poised delivery and two-pack-a-day huskiness made quite the impression on my burgeoning...well, let's just say she was one of my early crushes.

Indeed, so taken with her was I in my yoot that I even forgave her for her role in The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin when I finally saw it. This despite the fact that the movie, very loosely based on By The Great Horn Spoon, a favorite novel of mine at the time, made a complete hash of the book, and was indeed my first experience of Hollywood screen adaptation butchery.

Posted by Robert at January 22, 2008 03:15 PM | TrackBack
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That bit at the end of the 2nd Newhart show, where he wakes up in bed next to Suzanne (who's reading a book) and says "I just had the weirdest dream..." still cracks my ass up.

Posted by: mojo at January 22, 2008 04:06 PM

In my own adolescent pantheon, she ranked pretty highly, though not as high as, say, Jacqueline Bisset.

Posted by: The Abbot at January 23, 2008 07:36 AM