RIP Debbie Reynolds 1932-2016
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Last year my aunt and grandma died within about 24 hours of each other. Everyone was wondering if there would be a joint funeral, but we had to let my uncle and cousins be the ones to make the call (they decided on one funeral).
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Singin' in the Rain is phenomenal... and then you remember Debbie Reynolds had to hold her own with both Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor and she was in her second movie at age nineteen!
If you want to see a superb performance from Debbie in her later years, Albert Brooks' Mother is one of my favorites.
If you want to see a superb performance from Debbie in her later years, Albert Brooks' Mother is one of my favorites.
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Debbie Reynolds seemingly willed her own death Wednesday, telling her son hours before the stroke that claimed her life, "I miss her so much, I want to be with Carrie."
Todd Fisher tells us Debbie cracked early Wednesday morning from grief. She was at Todd's home during the morning hours, talking about Carrie's funeral, when she made the comment. Fifteen minutes later she had the stroke.
Family sources tell us Debbie actually had several strokes this year and was in failing health, and they believe Carrie's death was too much to bear.
Todd Fisher tells us Debbie cracked early Wednesday morning from grief. She was at Todd's home during the morning hours, talking about Carrie's funeral, when she made the comment. Fifteen minutes later she had the stroke.
Family sources tell us Debbie actually had several strokes this year and was in failing health, and they believe Carrie's death was too much to bear.
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As for Debbie Reynolds, Singin in the Rain is always in top 10 all-time movie lists. She was nominated for an academy award and was married to Eddie Fisher, who left her for Liz Taylor.
The difference between Fisher and Reynolds is we grew up with Princess Leia and Debbie Reynolds was before our time so we don't understand the context of actors careers sometimes.
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She was great with Albert Brooks in Mother
The chemistry between those two was great
Very underrated comedy
I don't think I've seen any of her other work.
The chemistry between those two was great
Very underrated comedy
I don't think I've seen any of her other work.
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Lighten up, it was a joke.... internet or in person. It's obviously not something I'd say to anyone who knew them personally. It's a pretty safe bet no one here knew them.
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I saw her in Tammy probably in the years between the release of Star Wars and Empire (likely '78 or '79), and developed as much of a schoolboy crush on her as I had for Carrie.
That's also one of the handful of Universal titles left I still want the most on Blu-ray.
After Tammy, it was hard to catch her in other stuff. These were the years well in advance of us owning a VCR, so tracking down and viewing a star's filmography was almost impossible. You needed to scan every single line of the TV listings and even then it was up to the whims of the stations running the stuff.
Since home video, and TCM, I've had a chance to see her in many films.
I HIGHLY recommend The Gazebo with Glen Ford, The Catered Affair w/ Bette Davis, and Frank Tashlin's Susan Slept Here w/ Dick Powell.
She also had a prominent role in How The West Was Won, which I'll probably finally end up watching sometime in the next few days.
Haven't seen Unsinkable Molly Brown for which she got an Oscar nom, but I'll have to address that soon too.
On screen, she was a complete charmer.
That's also one of the handful of Universal titles left I still want the most on Blu-ray.
After Tammy, it was hard to catch her in other stuff. These were the years well in advance of us owning a VCR, so tracking down and viewing a star's filmography was almost impossible. You needed to scan every single line of the TV listings and even then it was up to the whims of the stations running the stuff.
Since home video, and TCM, I've had a chance to see her in many films.
I HIGHLY recommend The Gazebo with Glen Ford, The Catered Affair w/ Bette Davis, and Frank Tashlin's Susan Slept Here w/ Dick Powell.
She also had a prominent role in How The West Was Won, which I'll probably finally end up watching sometime in the next few days.
Haven't seen Unsinkable Molly Brown for which she got an Oscar nom, but I'll have to address that soon too.
On screen, she was a complete charmer.
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What a crappy year.
Yeah, it sounds like she just couldn't live without Carrie. Carrie was both her daughter and best friend from what I'm reading. She was everything to Debbie. What a heartbreaking story from last Friday on.
It's so depressing. I hope that Billie will be OK. No doubt she's a basket case right now (and understandably and justifiably so), but I hope she's got a good support system. Losing your mother and your grandmother in consecutive days? That's got to be utterly devastating.
Yeah, it sounds like she just couldn't live without Carrie. Carrie was both her daughter and best friend from what I'm reading. She was everything to Debbie. What a heartbreaking story from last Friday on.
It's so depressing. I hope that Billie will be OK. No doubt she's a basket case right now (and understandably and justifiably so), but I hope she's got a good support system. Losing your mother and your grandmother in consecutive days? That's got to be utterly devastating.
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This old justification chestnut never seems to go away. Not the first thread where it's been trotted out after a tasteless joke with poor timing and an even poorer lack of empathy. A lot easier to say it isn't a big deal than to take ownership.
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She also played Grace's mom on Will & Grace, which is probably the only thing I've really seen her in.
I believe my dad actually met her and got her autograph when she was signing copies of her exercise video.
I believe my dad actually met her and got her autograph when she was signing copies of her exercise video.
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Also, unless your knowledge of film only goes back to the start of the millenium, Debbie Reynolds dying is a huge deal in the film world.
You fail all around.
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Inside Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher’s Upcoming HBO Documentary: ‘It’s a Love Story’
The deaths of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher over the past 48 hours have left the team behind the upcoming HBO documentary on the mother and daughter reeling from shock.
“Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher” is a chronicle of the extraordinary bond that mother and daughter forged over six decades in the unrelenting glare of showbiz’s spotlight. Documentary vets Fisher Stevens and Alexis Bloom directed and produced the film, which screened in October at the New York Film Festival and before that in Cannes.
“It’s a love story,” said HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins told Variety Wednesday night after the news broke of Reynolds’ death at the age of 84.
The deaths of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher over the past 48 hours have left the team behind the upcoming HBO documentary on the mother and daughter reeling from shock.
“Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher” is a chronicle of the extraordinary bond that mother and daughter forged over six decades in the unrelenting glare of showbiz’s spotlight. Documentary vets Fisher Stevens and Alexis Bloom directed and produced the film, which screened in October at the New York Film Festival and before that in Cannes.
“It’s a love story,” said HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins told Variety Wednesday night after the news broke of Reynolds’ death at the age of 84.
Variety
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If you saw the Liberace movie with Michael Douglas you saw her as his mother.
And she was great as Albert Brooks' mother in Mother. So funny. I love Brooks, but I hadn't seen that film until this year.
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Also enjoyed her in "The Tender Trap" with Frank Sinatra and David Wayne.
Debbie is now SINGING IN THE HEAVENLY CLOUDS.
Debbie is now SINGING IN THE HEAVENLY CLOUDS.
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I once did make a joke about a celebrity death in front of people who knew the deceased. I was unaware of that until after I made the joke. I realized in that moment that regardless of whether I knew the person or not, their passing deserves respect and empathy.