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With Jessica Chastain winning the Oscar last night, 7 actresses in the film The Help have won academy awards, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Mary Steenburgen, Alison Janney, Sissy Spacek and now Jessica.
hI. uM, You have “On The Fiddle” listed as a grosser from 1961 (#130) but it wasn’t released in the US until 1965, as “Operation Snafu”. How did you calculate this one? I’m about to put it on my blog and I use you for reference (and refer to you) all the time. This one has me stumped. Cheers, Mark
Sally Kellerman, # 652 on the 2021 Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 has passed.
From the New York Post
Sally Kellerman, original Hot Lips from ‘M*A*S*H,’ dead at 84
Sally Kellerman died Thursday at 84.
Sally Kellerman, the Oscar nominated actress who played US Army Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in the film “M*A*S*H,” has died.
Kellerman passed away Thursday morning at 84 in California after a battle with dementia, her son, Jack Krane, told the Hollywood Reporter.
The whiskey-voiced beauty famously appeared in Robert Altman’s “M*A*S*H” as well as the 1986 comedy “Back to School,” opposite Rodney Dangerfield. She appeared in TV shows including “The Outer Limits,” “12 O’Clock High,” “Ben Casey,” “That Girl” and “Mannix.” More recently, she played comedian Marc Maron’s mom on the IFC show “Maron.”
Of her award-winning “M*A*S*H” role, she said she eventually welcomed always being remembered for it.
“There were times in my life when I felt I had to go out and prove that I’m not just Hot Lips,” she told The Post in the 2010 interview. “But at this point, just call me anything you want!”
Born in 1937 in Long Beach, California to an oil executive dad and piano teacher mom, Kellerman came of age in Hollywood’s shadow.
In 2013, she told the Los Angeles Times that she was a waitress in Hollywood in the late 1950s.
“I waited on more stars than I worked with in my entire career,” she said.
She tried her hand at jazz and stage productions before auditioning for her famous role.
Kellerman also appeared in the “Star Trek” episode, “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” as Dr. Elizabeth Dehner.
“It was like summer camp,” she said of working with Altman, who often advised her to “just giggle and give in.”
In a 2012 interview, Kellerman said when she first met with Altman, she attired herself appropriately for the “Hot Lips” part. “I just got a meeting and wore lipstick that day. I was usually always hiding my lips, because I didn’t want anyone to see my mouth, but before I left the meeting, Bob said, ‘I’ll give you the best part in the picture.’”
“I’ve had such a lucky, wonderful career as an actress and singer,” Kellerman told the audience at a celebration of her 81st birthday in 2018. “I have just had the most wonderful life.”
At the same event, Kellerman saluted Robert Altman. “He was a rebel. Always making trouble. It made you better and made it fun,” she said. “It’s so great to do what you love and have it be fun and people enjoy it.”
She and Altman went on to collaborate with 1970’s “Brewster McCloud,” 1992’s “The Player” and 1994’s “Pret-a-Porter” (1994), as well as an episode of 1997’s “Gun.”
Sally Kellerman.
Sally Kellerman was 84 years old and her career spanned TV, film and music.
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Kellerman is also rooted in “Star Trek” history. Fans of the original series will remember her role as a psychologist in the third episode, “Where No Man Has Gone Before” — which actually was originally filmed as one of two pilots for the sci-fi series.
Other roles included 1986’s “The Boston Strangler,” 1969’s “The April Fools,” 1973’s “Slither,” 1976’s “Welcome to L.A.” 1986’s “That’s Life!” and 2005’s “Boynton Beach Club.”
She also had a part in the soap “The Young and the Restless.”
Besides her extensive roster of film and television roles, Kellerman also delved into music, releasing an album in the 1970s and performing live, including at New York’s Metropolitan Room in 2010.
“I wanted to be the real deal,” Kellerman told The Post that year. “Who knew it would take me another 30 years to get to this place where I feel free?”
In fact, music never took a backseat for her. “My music has just been a passion that just wouldn’t die,” she said in 2015. “And I never wanted one without the other. But I wanted soul, and so I wanted to be the real deal –– a real singer, not just an actor who sings, you know?
There was a time when Kellerman felt she was not cut out for Hollywood.
“All I ever wanted to be was an actress,” she told film critic Roger Ebert in 1980. “But I was fat. I was always reading about those diets where you can have one ounce of protein every 17 days whether you need it or not.”
Sally Kellerman still got recognized as Hot Lips.
“It doesn’t matter how long the series was on or how long it’s been gone, I’ll go somewhere and hear a truck driver say, ‘Hey, Hot Lips!’” she said of her most famous role. “I’ve made about 50 movies –– a lot of good ones and some hummers, you know along the way [Laughs]. But it just doesn’t go away.”
Not a film star really but the 3rd entertainer to have passed today (from Variety)
Bob Saget, ‘Full House’ Star, Dies at 65
Bob Saget, a stand-up comedian and actor beloved for his role as Danny Tanner on the 1990’s sitcom “Full House,” died Sunday at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Orlando, Fla., police confirmed to Variety. He was 65.
Shortly after 4 p.m., police officers responded to a man down call at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes hotel and discovered Saget unresponsive in a hotel room, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office told Variety. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The sheriff’s office did not have any information on a cause of death, and detectives did not find any signs of foul play or drug use in the case. The Medical Examiner’s Office will determine a cause and manner of death at a later date.
Saget had recently kicked off a nationwide stand-up tour in September 2021 that was set to run through June of 2022. According to his most recent post on Twitter, Saget had performed Saturday evening at Ponte Vedra Concert Hall in Jacksonville, Fla.
In 1987, Saget was cast as patriarch Danny Turner on “Full House,” where he played the father of D.J. (Candace Cameron), Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin) and Michelle Tanner (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen). He raised his daughters as a single dad after his wife died on the show, but was joined by his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis (John Stamos) and his best friend Joey Gladstone (Dave Coulier). The show ran for eight seasons and 192 episodes from 1987 to 1994, reaching more than 17 million viewers during its peak in Season 5. From Season 3 onwards, “Full House” was in the Nielsen Top 30 TV shows.
16 time Oscar nominee Marilyn Bergman has passed.
When I first started at BMI, Marilyn was president of the competition, ASCAP,. Paul Williams has been president now for years.
From BBC News.
Marilyn Bergman: Oscar-winning lyricist dies at 93
Alan and Marilyn Bergman wrote songs for Hollywood legends for more than half a century
Marilyn Bergman, the Oscar winning lyricist who collaborated with her husband Alan on The Way We Were and hundreds more songs, has died aged 93.
The song-writing duo worked together on numerous shows for stage and screen and were known as ballad specialists.
They wrote hits for Hollywood stars including Barbra Streisand, Fred Astaire and Frank Sinatra.
She died on Saturday at her Los Angeles home with Alan and her daughter by her side, her agent said.
Bergman’s cause of death has been reported as respiratory failure, and is not Covid related. She is survived by her husband, 96.
The Bergmans were nominated for 16 Academy Award nominations, winning three times – for The Way We Were from the 1973 Barbra Streisand film of that name, Windmills of Your Mind from The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968 and for their score for Streisand’s Yentl in 1983.
They also won several Grammy and Emmy awards, and were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980.
Bergman was a trailblazer for women in the industry and in 1985 was the first woman to be elected president and chairman of the board of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
Among those paying tribute was US producer Quincy Jones, who called her death “crushing”.
Born in Brooklyn, New York City on 10 November 1928 in the same hospital as her husband, Bergman studied music from a young age.
While at New York’s High School of Music & Art, she often played piano for lyricist Bob Russell, who encouraged her to consider becoming a professional songwriter.
But her entry into writing lyrics was also a painful one – while in college, Bergman fell down a flight of stairs and broke both of her shoulders. Unable to write or play piano, she started speaking song lyrics into a tape recorder.
Even though she and Alan grew up living close to each other, they did not meet until they both moved to Los Angeles. For Bergman, that was in the mid-1950s, and she started writing lyrics for composer Lew Spence, with whom Alan was also working with.
Marilyn and Alan wed two years later in 1958. They had one daughter together, Julie Bergman Sender, who is a film producer.
Damn 2022 has not been kind to Hollywood people. Thanks for the information on Marilyn Bergman. I will admit that I was not too aware of her before reading your comment.