Also fantastic in The Last of Us. She was remarkable and masterful in everything I ever saw her in. I always feel a little weird mourning sometime I've never met, but I'm sad to know that she's...
Also fantastic in The Last of Us.
She was remarkable and masterful in everything I ever saw her in. I always feel a little weird mourning sometime I've never met, but I'm sad to know that she's gone. She always made me laugh.
‘a brief illness’ —- talk about an understatement. she was one of those actors who didn’t really do a lot compared to a lot of the other SCTV folks, but everything she did was excellent, even of...
‘a brief illness’ —- talk about an understatement. she was one of those actors who didn’t really do a lot compared to a lot of the other SCTV folks, but everything she did was excellent, even of it wasn’t a strictly comedic role.
I LOVE YOU SAMMY MAUDLIN! I WANT TO BEAR YOUR CHILDREN! I’m thinking there are few people under 50 who understand that Lola Heatherton is vaguely referencing Lola Falana and Joey Heatherton, or...
I LOVE YOU SAMMY MAUDLIN! I WANT TO BEAR YOUR CHILDREN!
I’m thinking there are few people under 50 who understand that Lola Heatherton is vaguely referencing Lola Falana and Joey Heatherton, or who these people were.
I'm experiencing a bit of a Mandella effect moment here. There's an old Canadian TV show I loved named Maniac Mansion that aired reruns late at night when I was a kid, and I would have sworn up...
I'm experiencing a bit of a Mandella effect moment here.
There's an old Canadian TV show I loved named Maniac Mansion that aired reruns late at night when I was a kid, and I would have sworn up and down that Catherine O'Hara played the mom on that show. Like I can recall the TV show's intro and specific scenes from episodes, and she's right there in my memory. This goes way back--my whole life, any time I saw Catherine O'Hara in another show or movie I'd think of her as the mom from Maniac Mansion. But looking the show up now it turns out that wasn't her--it was Deborah Theaker, who I don't recognize or remember at all from looking at pictures.
My best guess is that because Joe Flaherty plays the dad in Maniac Mansion I must have somehow gotten my wires crossed between that show and SCTV, but I never really watched much SCTV growing up (it was a bit before my time, I just caught a few episodes here and there), so it's wild to me that my memory got completely rewritten like this. The kicker for me is, even though Catherine O'Hara never appeared on Maniac Mansion at all (though there was some cross-over with other SCTV alums guest starring), the theme song for Maniac Mansion was written by Mary Margaret O'Hara--Catherine's sister! edit--And!! Theaker's Wikipedia page says she was a member of The Second City, although it doesn't seem as though she ever appeared on SCTV.
Can't help but wonder if that other timeline I came from where Catherine O'Hara was the mom in Maniac Mansion is on as dark a path as this one I somehow got stuck in...
What a wild show. The show Are You Being Served came on right after (if YTV memory serves), and that was absolutely a reason to go right to bed after Maniac Mansion.
What a wild show. The show Are You Being Served came on right after (if YTV memory serves), and that was absolutely a reason to go right to bed after Maniac Mansion.
Lol I loved Are You Being Served as a tween -teen it was British and felt so scandalous in comparison to what was allowed on American TV. The beginning of my BritCom fixation
Lol I loved Are You Being Served as a tween -teen it was British and felt so scandalous in comparison to what was allowed on American TV. The beginning of my BritCom fixation
Haha - and on that day, two unique paths were trodden. I saw it like I saw other Red Dwarf and other British tv shows on public access networks. Boring, overly talky and in the case of Are You...
Haha - and on that day, two unique paths were trodden.
I saw it like I saw other Red Dwarf and other British tv shows on public access networks. Boring, overly talky and in the case of Are You Being Served, they were always sitting around that damned table.
To be fair, I was absolutely looking for more transformers and Dragon Ball than I was Frog and Toad at the time. Maybe that's why it was on past my bedtime.
Weirdly I don't really think of them sitting around the table, mostly on the Dept store floor. I was laughing at at the jokes about Mrs Slocombe's ...cat... and the coded queer rep in Mr Humphries...
Weirdly I don't really think of them sitting around the table, mostly on the Dept store floor. I was laughing at at the jokes about Mrs Slocombe's ...cat... and the coded queer rep in Mr Humphries and all that.
But I was slowly getting into Monty Python and the like and was never into Dragonball.
Donald Trump provoked me to watch Home Alone 2 last week and in addition to the reminder that it's a perfect film in most every way (minus the dummy at the hotel), I was so blown away by how well...
Donald Trump provoked me to watch Home Alone 2 last week and in addition to the reminder that it's a perfect film in most every way (minus the dummy at the hotel), I was so blown away by how well she nails the role. She's got this Cruella De Ville meets Sally Field in Stepmom thing going on and I'm here for it. What a tightrope to walk -- the kind of slapstick comedy meets heartfelt moments that the whole show does so so well.
Also, that soundtrack has been living rent free in my head as a traditional Christmas song for ages. I had no idea it was created just for Home Alone. So magical.
OMG, so unexpected.
She had such a great late career with Schitt’s Creek, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and The Studio.
Also fantastic in The Last of Us.
She was remarkable and masterful in everything I ever saw her in. I always feel a little weird mourning sometime I've never met, but I'm sad to know that she's gone. She always made me laugh.
She elevated everything she was in, even when the thing she was in was already fantastic.
I haven't watched The Studio yet, her last role I've seen was Schitts Creek and so good as Moira. 71 is far too young, :'(
Oh that's right, I forgot she was in the studio! What a great actress. This is pretty sad
Wow she was really young! Loved her work. Always elevated the stuff she was in without the bravado of like a Meryl Streep for example. RIP.
‘a brief illness’ —- talk about an understatement. she was one of those actors who didn’t really do a lot compared to a lot of the other SCTV folks, but everything she did was excellent, even of it wasn’t a strictly comedic role.
RIP Lola Heatherton
They don't make them like they used to
I LOVE YOU SAMMY MAUDLIN! I WANT TO BEAR YOUR CHILDREN!
I’m thinking there are few people under 50 who understand that Lola Heatherton is vaguely referencing Lola Falana and Joey Heatherton, or who these people were.
I wish I didn't get this in my head so often.
I'm experiencing a bit of a Mandella effect moment here.
There's an old Canadian TV show I loved named Maniac Mansion that aired reruns late at night when I was a kid, and I would have sworn up and down that Catherine O'Hara played the mom on that show. Like I can recall the TV show's intro and specific scenes from episodes, and she's right there in my memory. This goes way back--my whole life, any time I saw Catherine O'Hara in another show or movie I'd think of her as the mom from Maniac Mansion. But looking the show up now it turns out that wasn't her--it was Deborah Theaker, who I don't recognize or remember at all from looking at pictures.
My best guess is that because Joe Flaherty plays the dad in Maniac Mansion I must have somehow gotten my wires crossed between that show and SCTV, but I never really watched much SCTV growing up (it was a bit before my time, I just caught a few episodes here and there), so it's wild to me that my memory got completely rewritten like this. The kicker for me is, even though Catherine O'Hara never appeared on Maniac Mansion at all (though there was some cross-over with other SCTV alums guest starring), the theme song for Maniac Mansion was written by Mary Margaret O'Hara--Catherine's sister! edit--And!! Theaker's Wikipedia page says she was a member of The Second City, although it doesn't seem as though she ever appeared on SCTV.
Can't help but wonder if that other timeline I came from where Catherine O'Hara was the mom in Maniac Mansion is on as dark a path as this one I somehow got stuck in...
What a wild show. The show Are You Being Served came on right after (if YTV memory serves), and that was absolutely a reason to go right to bed after Maniac Mansion.
Lol I loved Are You Being Served as a tween -teen it was British and felt so scandalous in comparison to what was allowed on American TV. The beginning of my BritCom fixation
Haha - and on that day, two unique paths were trodden.
I saw it like I saw other Red Dwarf and other British tv shows on public access networks. Boring, overly talky and in the case of Are You Being Served, they were always sitting around that damned table.
To be fair, I was absolutely looking for more transformers and Dragon Ball than I was Frog and Toad at the time. Maybe that's why it was on past my bedtime.
Weirdly I don't really think of them sitting around the table, mostly on the Dept store floor. I was laughing at at the jokes about Mrs Slocombe's ...cat... and the coded queer rep in Mr Humphries and all that.
But I was slowly getting into Monty Python and the like and was never into Dragonball.
Two paths!
Donald Trump provoked me to watch Home Alone 2 last week and in addition to the reminder that it's a perfect film in most every way (minus the dummy at the hotel), I was so blown away by how well she nails the role. She's got this Cruella De Ville meets Sally Field in Stepmom thing going on and I'm here for it. What a tightrope to walk -- the kind of slapstick comedy meets heartfelt moments that the whole show does so so well.
Also, that soundtrack has been living rent free in my head as a traditional Christmas song for ages. I had no idea it was created just for Home Alone. So magical.
They should release Home Alone 2: Special Edition, with someone else CGI'd over the orange menace.
Dang, we just started watching Schitt's Creek last week. She's so wonderfully weird in it. RIP
It manages to go uphill till the end (IMO).