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Originally posted by andViolins
Did anyone watch this Diane Sawyer thing last night? Why was the Fonz on it so much?
I thought that Suzanne Sommers HATED Ritter for not supporting her during the 3s Company blowout [hey, I watched the E! Behind the Scenes Special] Now suddenly she says they "made up" a few months ago????
I don't recall this much hooplah for Redd Foxx when he bought the ticket during his return tv show (something like the Royals? don't remember). And what about Freddie Prinz (Prince? Prinze?) I don't remember the cast members sitting around waxxing nostalgic about him after he blew his brains out.
Finally, what about the best dad who died in a series ever??? Dolph Sweet??????? Did Chief Kanisky die in the middle of that classic sit-com? No big whoop-de-doo for him.
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I missed the show, but a few comments. The Fonz was cool. Diane Sawyer is not cool. The Fonz was probably trying to help Diane with her coolness factor. Either that, or he wanted to show he
wasn't dead and was available to work.
I don't think the Suzanne Sommers thing was bullshit, except maybe the comment about doing a project together. I seem to recall an interview sometime last year with her about the time of the Three's Company behind the scenes movie that they were promoting where she said that after a number of years where they didn't speak, Ritter contacted her when she was fighting cancer and kind of patched things up.
As far as Redd Foxx and Freddie Prinze, I seem to recall quite a bit of reminiscing by co-stars, tributes, etc., after they died. The shelf life on this type of thing is fairly short. Hell, even Bob Hope's tributes lasted less than a week and he had a much longer career run than the people you mention. Though that might be explained more readily by the fact that most of Hope's contemporaries were already dead.
As far as that other guy goes, I have no idea who you're talking about, so apparently there was no big whoop-ti-do for him.
My vote for biggest loss to a show in terms of an actor's death was the death of the much beloved Nicholas Colesanto who played Coach on Cheers.
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