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Linda Lavin dead at 87
#25Linda Lavin passes away,
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"?
#26Linda Lavin passes away,
Posted: 12/30/24 at 5:05pm
Death is harsh and absolute. I don't think the subject title is disrespectful, just factual.
#27Linda Lavin passes away,
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
#28Linda Lavin passes away
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:
Matt Rogers
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/04
#29Linda Lavin passes away
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#30Linda Lavin passes away
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.
#31Linda Lavin passes away
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
Stand-by Joined: 6/17/22
#32Linda Lavin passes away
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,
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
BoringBoredBoard40
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/27/21
#34Linda Lavin passes away
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
Stand-by Joined: 10/8/18
#35Linda Lavin passes away
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.
#36Linda Lavin passes away
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.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#37Linda Lavin passes away
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/22
#38Linda Lavin passes away
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.
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