RIP Loni Anderson

[DanOregon]

I never watched Partners in Crime when it was on. But I looked it up. It had disaster written all over it from the pilot I saw. The pilot was so badly done, they didn't air it first, but aired it as the fourth episode, which is never a good sign.
It's really odd seeing TV shows from the 70s and 80s that were so poorly produced and awkwardly directed.

 

[brn623cl]

Cannot forget her work with BF and future husband Burt Reynolds in Stroker Ace.

 

[DanOregon]

Reynolds was a deeply loyal guy (passing on Terms of Endearment so he could shoot Stroker Ace for Hal Needham is proof of that) and I think he took perceived disloyalty extremely hard. He always seemed to be a happy go lucky guy, but I think it really change him when he had his jaw issue and Hollywood turned its back on him. Hell, he hated Boogie Nights until it almost won him an Oscar.

 

[qtlaw]

She was hot and I'm sure she was a great person. RIP.

But Bailey was hotter.

Bailey was the classic “sleeper”.

 

[swingline]

Tween and early teen boys pick Loni.

 

[BTExpress]

If a fashion model and Newsweek covergirl married to James Brolin can be called a sleeper.

Meanwhile, Jan Smithers and Suzanne Somers for STP.

 

[waterytart]

I refuse to believe Jennifer got old.

 

[poindexter]

Ginger-Mary Ann and Jennifer-Bailey are the two biggest fake rivalries that have been going on for decades. Although everybody knows they're gorgeous . . .

Nobody picks Ginger. Nobody picks Jennifer.
EVERYBODY thinks they're going against convention with their picks. Even though picking a former Miss Nevada (Dawn Wells) and a former fashion model (Jan Smithers) is hardly going against convention.

 

[BTExpress]

WKRP put glasses and boring clothing on Bailey in a failed attempt to hide her hotness two decades before "She's All That" did the same to Rachael Leigh Cook. With probably a thousand similar Hollywood attempts in between.

 

[dixiehack]

Gotta play her off the right way.



Didn’t know or remember that Rene Enrique from Hill Street Blues was in an episode.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

WKRP put glasses and boring clothing on Bailey in a failed attempt to hide her hotness two decades before "She's All That" did the same to Rachael Leigh Cook. With probably a thousand similar Hollywood attempts in between.

Lynda Carter as Diana Prince, Melissa Rauch in The Big Bang Theory. You can go all the way back to Donna Reed as a librarian in It’s A Wonderful Life. And all the Lois Lanes who never figured out Clark Kent was Superman

 

[playthrough]

Gotta play her off the right way.



Didn't know or remember that Rene Enrique from Hill Street Blues was in an episode.

There were a lot of "That Guy" actors on the show.

There's a WKRP podcast that put together a Johnny Fever "aircheck" -- a mashup of all the times Fever spoke as a DJ on the show. It's about an hour long, good for a listen in the car.

 

[Webster]

Reynolds was a deeply loyal guy (passing on Terms of Endearment so he could shoot Stroker Ace for Hal Needham is proof of that) and I think he took perceived disloyalty extremely hard. He always seemed to be a happy go lucky guy, but I think it really change him when he had his jaw issue and Hollywood turned its back on him. Hell, he hated Boogie Nights until it almost won him an Oscar.

Many, many of the stories about Burt are him being pretty much an insufferable ass.

 

[qtlaw]

Many, many of the stories about Burt are him being pretty much an insufferable ass.

Isn't that pretty much true throughout history, you put someone on a pedestal, they begin to believe the hype and think they can do no wrong?

 

[Slacker]

Isn't that pretty much true throughout history, you put someone on a pedestal, they begin to believe the hype and think they can do no wrong?

Paul Newman, for one, was a fine exception to that.
He quietly did a lot of good things away from his actor life.

 

[Slacker]

And probably Jan Smithers, too!

 

[DanOregon]

Many, many of the stories about Burt are him being pretty much an insufferable ass.

I just meant he seemed to have a pretty good rep in Hollywood through Best Little Whorehouse. People "wanted" to work with him.

 

[qtlaw]

I just meant he seemed to have a pretty good rep in Hollywood through Best Little Whorehouse. People "wanted" to work with him.

They wanted to work with him because he was the biggest movie star (which meant huge movie budgets, huge revenues).

 

[DanOregon]

I'm probably one of the few people who watched "The Last Movie Star," his last film Very much a movie "about him" he played a somewhat forgotten movie star whose only friend in Hollywood is Chevy Chase (if you can believe that). He's invited to a knockoff film festival as the honoree and when he gets there realizes he is the first start to say yes to the invitation since its just a low-rent festival. His "minder" is played by Ariel Winter who really was out of her depth, but there are some scenes where he "interacts" with some of Reynolds past roles in Deliverance and Smokey, and he reconnects with people from his past and his glory days as a college football player.
It's an odd film, in some ways seems like an apology by Reynolds and an apology to Reynolds.

 

[dixiehack]

Paul Newman, for one, was a fine exception to that.
He quietly did a lot of good things away from his actor life.

And made a better frozen pizza than you’d expect.