Linda Lavin dead at 87- Page 2

[CurtainsUpat8]

Posted: 12/30/24 at 5:02pm

When people start a post about people who have died, can we be a little more demure? 

LINDA LAVIN DEAD AT 87    sounds awful and disrepectful to me. 
Can we just say "Linda Lavin passed away today"? 

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 12/30/24 at 5:05pm

Death is harsh and absolute. I don't think the subject title is disrespectful, just factual.

[WldKingdomHM]

Posted: 12/30/24 at 5:45pm

CurtainsUpat8 said: "When people start a post about people who have died, can we be a little more demure?

LINDA LAVIN DEAD AT 87 sounds awful and disrepectful to me.
Can we just say "Linda Lavin passed away today"?"

Interns 

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 12/30/24 at 6:25pm

Truly sad about her passing. She was immensely talented and likable. 

CurtainsUpat8 said: "When people start a post about people who have died, can we be a little more demure?

That being said, I vote to eradicate the use of the word "demure" - it's been overused and has lost its power. 

I leave you with two early and classic Lavin performances:

 

 

 

 

 

Updated On: 12/30/24 at 06:25 PM

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 12/30/24 at 6:49pm

CurtainsUpat8 said: "When people start a post about people who have died, can we be a little more demure?

LINDA LAVIN DEAD AT 87 sounds awful and disrepectful to me.
Can we just say "Linda Lavin passed away today"?"

Google Linda Lavin. Every site’s headline is either Linda Lavin Dead at 87 or Linda Lavin Dies at 87. Not one site has “passes away” in their headline. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 12/30/24 at 7:32pm

It's been a terrible year for Bernadette Peters losing friends & collaborators: Marvin Laird, Gavin Creel, Linda Lavin, Chita Rivera, among others.

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 12/30/24 at 8:55pm

I saw her in TALE OF THE ALLERGIST’S WIFE on Broadway. I also saw her in COLLECTED STORIES at the Geffen Playhouse here in Los Angeles and THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK at the Colonial in Boston. She was SO good. I loved ALICE, too.

Updated On: 12/31/24 at 08:55 PM

[ManOfLaMuncha]

Posted: 12/30/24 at 9:46pm

I saw Linda in " Last of the Red Hot Lovers" in 1970, that play was hilarious.  I also saw her many years later in "The Diary of Anne Frank", wonderfully done play.

And I never missed an episode of Alice!

Great actress, always seemed so natural.  May she rest in peace,

Updated On: 12/31/24 at 09:46 PM

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 12/30/24 at 10:17pm

 

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 12/31/24 at 2:38am

I could see a universe where they reshoot Linda's part in the Hulu show, it is meant as a quartet series ala Golden Girls, writing her off doesn't seem like it will let the formula make sense moving forward...

[Dreamboy3]

Posted: 12/31/24 at 7:46am

MichelleCraig said: "I saw her in TALE OF THE ALLERGIST’S WIFE on Broadway. I also saw her in COLLECTED STORIES at the Geffen Playhouse here in Los Angeles. She was SO good. I loved ALICE, too."

Lavin gave a brilliant performance Tale of the Allergist’s Wife. I was sad that she left Other Desert Cities in which she was brilliant to do — The Lyons, 21st Century? — in which she was excellent but in subpar plays. I saw her in Gypsy and The Sisters Rosensweig as a replacement. When I later saw Tyne Daly in the former I saw how she gave a distinctive performance so different from Daly. The scene with Small World was especially good. 

[AC126748]

Posted: 1/2/25 at 3:50pm

I'm still wrapping my head around Linda Lavin's passing. She was such an essential actor who elevated the quality of whatever she did. I remember her vivid performance in the otherwise bland revival of THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK -- no accident she was the only cast member to score a Tony nomination. I respected her choice to walk away from OTHER DESERT CITIES (and FOLLIES!) to do THE LYONS, with no guarantee of a move to Broadway. And she blew me away two years ago in YOU WILL GET SICK, a daring and uncomfortable play, to which she fully committed herself. What a talent, who pushed herself to the end.

[Melissa25]

Posted: 1/3/25 at 10:06am

Another take on Linda singing the ultra easy The Boy from Tacuarembo:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEVJs10RXIQ/?igsh=MXJrZ2dseHYzcDBveA==

 

[PipingHotPiccolo]

Posted: 1/3/25 at 12:48pm

Been touched by the vastness of the community of people mourning her as personal friends--from fellow actors to producers to stage managers to fans. Seems to have been a remarkable person beyond her talent/stamina. 

Also really digging the clips of her in Gypsy-- the NYT really tore her apart (with a nastiness we dont see these days from critics) but she had some pipes on her. 

[MezzA101]

Posted: 1/4/25 at 5:53pm

What Linda Lavin Whispered to Me About Love and Need

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/opinion/linda-lavin-appreciation-theater.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk4.Ey0Q.HL92K1Nfw8Up

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 1/4/25 at 11:15pm

Video from her husband.

https://youtu.be/zxgw4vVVZSM?feature=shared

 

[MezzA101]

Posted: 1/27/25 at 10:05am

How the Late Linda Lavin Will Be Written Out of the Upcoming Hulu Comedy Mid-Century Modern

 

https://tvline.com/news/linda-lavin-death-written-out-hulu-comedy-mid-century-modern-1235402440

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 1/27/25 at 10:36am

Love these misleading headlines. Nowhere in this do they mention “how” they’re writing her character off the series. 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 1/27/25 at 11:35am

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/3/25 at 3:27pm

Broadhurst Theatre to Dim Lights in Honor of Linda Lavin

Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre To Dim Lights For Tony-Winning Linda Lavin

[Highland Guy]

Posted: 3/3/25 at 4:24pm

CurtainsUpat8 said: "When people start a post about people who have died, can we be a little more demure?

LINDA LAVIN DEAD AT 87 sounds awful and disrepectful to me.
Can we just say "Linda Lavin passed away today"?"

I agree.

Linda Lavin was one of my favorites, forever remembered with fondness.