Katherine Helmond, star on 'Who’s the Boss?' and 'Soap,' dies at 89
Katherine Helmond, the seven-time Emmy-nominated Texas actress who played the feisty, man-crazy mother Mona Robinson on the long-running ABC sitcom Who’s the Boss?, has died. She was 89. Helmond, who earlier starred as the wide-eyed socialite sister Jessica Tate on another popular ABC comedy, Susan Harris’ daytime-serial spoof Soap, died Feb. 23 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at her home in Los Angeles, her talent agency, APA, announced. The shapely, blue-eyed Helmond also portrayed Doris Sherman, the widowed owner of the fictional NFL team the Orlando Breakers, on ABC’s Coach, and she was Lois Whelan, the upper-class mother of Patricia Heaton’s character, on CBS’ Everybody Loves Raymond. On the big screen, Helmond appeared in three Terry Gilliam movies — as the seafaring cannibal Mrs. Ogre in Time Bandits (1981), as Jonathan Pryce’s rich, cosmetic surgery-addicted mother in Brazil (1985), and as a hotel clerk in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). And she provided the voice of Lizzie, a 1923 Ford Model T, in the two Cars movies. More recently, she appeared on True Blood.
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Still a superb watch after all those years. Timing is all.
Can you find anything with the full Andre Previn sketch?
This has bits, but is mainly the original Grieg sketch that it spawned from.
I think this one works.
Katherine Helmond, the seven-time Emmy-nominated Texas actress who played the feisty, man-crazy mother Mona Robinson on the long-running ABC sitcom Who’s the Boss?, has died. She was 89.
Helmond, who earlier starred as the wide-eyed socialite sister Jessica Tate on another popular ABC comedy, Susan Harris’ daytime-serial spoof Soap, died Feb. 23 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at her home in Los Angeles, her talent agency, APA, announced.
The shapely, blue-eyed Helmond also portrayed Doris Sherman, the widowed owner of the fictional NFL team the Orlando Breakers, on ABC’s Coach, and she was Lois Whelan, the upper-class mother of Patricia Heaton’s character, on CBS’ Everybody Loves Raymond.
On the big screen, Helmond appeared in three Terry Gilliam movies — as the seafaring cannibal Mrs. Ogre in Time Bandits (1981), as Jonathan Pryce’s rich, cosmetic surgery-addicted mother in Brazil (1985), and as a hotel clerk in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). And she provided the voice of Lizzie, a 1923 Ford Model T, in the two Cars movies.
More recently, she appeared on True Blood.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/katherine-helmond-star-on-whos-the-boss-and-soap-dies-at-89/ar-BBUhha1?ocid=spartandhp
Sad news, the fire has gone out, as Keith Flint of The Progidy dies, age 49;
I believe they were both Braintree Estate Agents at one time.
Original sound. He will be missed.
I still am but tragically he was taken away from us on Sunday.
https://www.lep.co.uk/news/transport/aid-worker-from-penwortham-was-on-ethiopian-flight-which-crashed-killing-all-157-on-board-1-9643682/amp
I'm a little lost for words. That was your son?
So sorry for your loss. Remain proud.
I honestly don't know what to say.
I'm so sorry.