Wednesday, January 25, 2017

You've Got Spunk. I Love Spunk.

If you've spent any time here in my tiny little corner of the internet, you know that Mary Tyler Moore is one of my heroes.

If only for that flip.
She was a brilliant comedienne, a fine dramatic actor, an enchanting dancer, a tireless advocate, and a trailblazer for strong, independent women.

And, my gosh, I never noticed how much
she looked like Precocious Daughter.
Mary Tyler Moore has died, Drunkards. I literally gasped when I heard the news this afternoon. Somehow, even after a 2016 in which so many iconic figures left us, many before their time, it never occurred to me that we could ever lose Mary. She was part of my life from my earliest memories. She made me laugh. She starred in a movie with Elvis, ffs.

I would give my left tit (and possibly any of the other ones)
to have starred in a movie with Elvis.
And of course, I always wanted to be Mary Richards, although in reality I was always Rhoda. Bestest Friend was always Mary.

Bestest Friend actually looks
just like this. I'm not worthy.
MTM was a huge advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, because she herself lived with type 1 diabetes. The JDRF today is paying tribute to her on its website.

Here's the JDRF website today. If you so wish, you can honor
MTM's memory here.

I'm so sad Mary is gone, but I'm so happy that she was here, and that she left us with such a tremendous legacy of laughter, style, and strength.

And making everyone wish they looked
this damn good in capri pants.
In case you scrolled past the link above, you can honor MTM with a donation to the JDRF here.

I've made mine.

I end with this. Of course.


3 comments:

  1. Great minds. I also just wrote my tribute to MTM... well done.

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  2. You were the first person I thought of when I heard the news. It still seems unreal. A story I listened to her mentioned that TV executives wanted it clear that Mary Richards was single so no one would think Laura and Rob were divorced.
    There was never any question in my mind that they were different people. I even thought Mary Richards was younger than Laura Petrie, or at least the same age, because Mary Tyler Moore had a timeless quality about her.
    Maybe that's why even now it feels like she'll always be with us.

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    1. I've never heard that (that the execs were worried that people would think that Rob and Laura were divorced). I'd say that they were underestimating the public's intelligence, but Terry Gross rebroadcast an interview with MTM recently, and she recalled that people thought Ted Knight was Ted Baxter and treated him as though he were stupid :-(

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