RIP Margaret Whitton

[KYSportsWriter]

Margaret Whitton, 'Major League' Movie Actress, Dies at 67

Played Indians owner Rachel Phelps in Major League.

 

[Riptide]

RIP to a solid 6!

 

[MisterCreosote]

Cross her off, then.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Shouldn't have messed with Jobu.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Cross her off, then.

I'm not happy about how much I laughed at this.

 

[mpcincal]

Obviously, she'll always be remembered for 'Major League,' but I also liked her work in 'Secret of My Success' with Michael J. Fox and 'The Man Without a Face' with Mel Gibson.

I'm not sure how many on this board know, but the original plot of 'Major League' had Phelps confessing near the end of the movie that the moving-to-Miami scheme was a ruse to motivate the players, and that they were picked for their talent because she was supposed to be some secret scouting savant. My version of the movie's DVD has a daily of the scene where she lets Lou Brown in on it when he submits his resignation, and a couple of quick clips where she's shown actually cheering on the Indians during the climactic game against the Yankees.

However, the producers decided she played the villain so well they couldn't bear to turn her in the final edit.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

As a teen, I had a tape of "Secret of My Success." She had a swimming pool scene with Michael J Fox where she took her bathing suit top off and dove underwater.

I discovered that if you paused the VCR at just the right moment of her dive underwater, you could see her breast nipples.

Yes, I hit pause a few times. Give me a break, I was a teenage boy.

RIP to a great baseball villain and a raunchy memory from my adolescence.

 

[LongTimeListener]

the original plot of 'Major League' had Phelps confessing near the end of the movie that the moving-to-Miami scheme was a ruse to motivate the players, and that they were picked for their talent because she was supposed to be some secret scouting savant.

She was the original Billy Beane?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Cross her off, then.

This will sound nutty, but I had a bit of a premonition of her death a few days ago.

It was when someone in here posted the "cross him off," line when Castro died. I thought of that and wondered who it would be that would get to post that about her. But I figured it would be a lot of years yet.

 

[Buck]

Obviously, she'll always be remembered for 'Major League,' but I also liked her work in 'Secret of My Success' with Michael J. Fox and 'The Man Without a Face' with Mel Gibson.

I'm not sure how many on this board know, but the original plot of 'Major League' had Phelps confessing near the end of the movie that the moving-to-Miami scheme was a ruse to motivate the players, and that they were picked for their talent because she was supposed to be some secret scouting savant. My version of the movie's DVD has a daily of the scene where she lets Lou Brown in on it when he submits his resignation, and a couple of quick clips where she's shown actually cheering on the Indians during the climactic game against the Yankees.

However, the producers decided she played the villain so well they couldn't bear to turn her in the final edit.

That version of the movie sounds terrible.

 

[UPChip]

****, not only did I not get to start the thread, I didn't even get to be the first one to do "Cross her off the list, then."

But I hope they don't play Wild Thing at her funeral because...

 

[UPChip]

As a teen, I had a tape of "Secret of My Success." She had a swimming pool scene with Michael J Fox where she took her bathing suit top off and dove underwater.

I discovered that if you paused the VCR at just the right moment of her dive underwater, you could see her breast nipples.

Yes, I hit pause a few times. Give me a break, I was a teenage boy.

RIP to a great baseball villain and a raunchy memory from my adolescence.

What alternative nipples were available?

 

[Batman]

As a teen, I had a tape of "Secret of My Success." She had a swimming pool scene with Michael J Fox where she took her bathing suit top off and dove underwater.

I discovered that if you paused the VCR at just the right moment of her dive underwater, you could see her breast nipples.

Yes, I hit pause a few times. Give me a break, I was a teenage boy.

RIP to a great baseball villain and a raunchy memory from my adolescence.

Google "Margaret Whitton Ironweed" and let your inner teenager run wild.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Aw, somebody usually had a Playboy that they had liberated somewhere.

And there was always National Geographic, but a lot of those boobs were 36 longs.

 

[Riptide]

Google "Margaret Whitton Ironweed" and let your inner teenager run wild.

She had the breast nipples in that one.