The Susan Richardson pic and the story

That show was cursed.

My time as a big time player was cut short because of petty, jealous people like Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, and Eddie Murphy. People like them like to see me used and degraded only a daily basis and the pressure can be a lot, but I keep right on truckin'. I get a fan letter every five to ten years telling me how much my talent, beauty, and determination is missed in Hollywood, Broadway, and the West End. I wish it weren't like this, but it is. I also think Fred MacMurray had it in for me, too.

I never get tired of seeing that pic.

I imagine Susan stopped at a red light on Sunset and a pap running over to her. She smiles and says, "Okay...but just one quick shot. I have a schedule to keep."

She smiles big, he snaps the shot and she zooms off to do big Hollywood type stuff.

More proof that fame has no lifetime guarantee, and once you achieve it, you have to work like a dog to maintain it. In that respect, she is no different than the popular girl in junior high who was all washed up by high school.

She showed up on my lawn once asking for a handout. I gave her some chump change and begged her to go back to Bumfuck, Pennsylvania.

AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973) was just on and she was listed in the credits which was news to me.

Crazy that none of the kids were able to sustain their careers. You figure out of 8...

The only person still out there in the biz out of the entire cast is Betty, and you know what she thought of that show. Maybe she cursed it.

No Teeth! Diabetes! Squalor!

Her dog's name, oh LORD. I'm naming my next pet Grapenuts.

[quote]The only person still out there in the biz out of the entire cast is Betty, and you know what she thought of that show. Maybe she cursed it.

Maybe it was cursed before Betty Buckley. Diana Hyland who was cast as the wife & mother Joan died of cancer after only a handful of episodes.

Was it drugs or child sexual abuse that was her downfall and those of the other cast members? Still remember Dick Van Patten from all of his Dexatrim commercials.

Oh, R6, I've been in numerous classic award winning films. I would have been in more, but I kept getting fired because other actresses would get jealous of me and start vicious false rumors. I was supposed to be Kay in THE GODFATHER and subsequent films, but the filming schedule clashed my filming for EIGHT IS ENOUGH. EIGHT took priority, so I had to bow out of that one.

Why-oh-why would a parent wish that a son "not grow up to be gay?"

So Susan R12, you were the Joe Manganiello of your day?

I'm so old that I remember when guys would actually contemplate fucking Willie Aames.

"I never get tired of seeing that pic."

You don't speak for the rest of us.

Willie shirtless was heavenly.

He was a cute young thing ...................

Most of you will lose your teeth. Most of you will have reduced circumstances. Aging happens to us all, people. Manufactured housing is bad owing to its poor standards, not its concept. Anyway, given there were 8 of them on that show, easily exceeding the attention space of a public whose social consumption of television product makes it impossible to juggle more than a few stars at a time...it's not at all a surprise that none of them became Alisters.

The problem seems to be that many of you are stuck in a perpetual adolescent fog of unrealism where you can't or won't understand how the world really works because it is not in your best interest to admit the depressing truths of our society. Upward mobility is now the exception and downward mobility is the rule. Indeed, that has always been the rule in Hollywood.

It's all fun and games..... until she dies.

So sad.

I had forgotten all about her, and last night I watched Battle of the Network Stars on ESPN Classic and there she was.

Y'all would have enjoyed it. Selleck, Richard Dean Anderson, Greg Evigan, Gregory Harrison. Scott Baio, Robert Conrad and many other 80's TV icons were running around in Speedos for 2 hours.

And I was shocked to see that Joan Van Ark was actually attractive before she mutilated her face. It's interesting that there are a few of the men still acting, but the women are all long gone to the TV graveyard.

Two incredible Oscar nominated actresses of the 1970s.

[quote]Manufactured housing is bad owing to its poor standards, not its concept.

The NE describes it as "rotting"-- but it also appears to be a vintage Avion or Airstream, probably close to 50 years old. Not bad, considering. Yes, she'd like a new one, but it beats the hell out of a tent.

With proper maintenance, a well-made travel trailer can outlast its owner.

Grant Goodeve was one hot piece of ass.

R7 Willie Aames had a big career post EIE.

Doing what pray tell?

Just that. Praying. He's a fundie freak now. Actually, he's currently working on a cruise ship as a cruise director

Susan, is it true you were the original choice to play Mary Hartman?

Norman Lear created the character for me, but I'd already signed with EIGHT. I couldn't do both. Norman loves my work and I think being on Norman Lear I could work on my craft.

Is that a young John Slattery in an ad the OP's video?

Susan, weren't you originally cast as the lead in "The Exorcist" AND "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"?

r25, there's a plate of homemade wishes waiting on the window sill for you!

I've ALWAYS been an A-Lister.

She's nasty.

I had a friend who looked like SR and she got cock left and right. It was something about that wholesome All American look which has fallen to the big bootied,ethnic looking hotties. The female Richie Cummingham look is not in vogue anymore.

Did Susan ever fuck anyone famous? How much did Dick Van Patten give her to help her out financially.

The National Enquirer's links all filter out to Radar Online for me, probably because of my location. And then I just get a very cluttered and clumsy moving list of articles to scroll on. Is there any way to access these elsewhere?

Can someone cut n paste or is that too burdensome?

No, I was not, R32. As for THE EXORCIST, mama don't play with no Satanic stuff. Shirley Hemphill tried to put a Satanic curse on me once, but it backfired on her. She felt I was stealing all of her rolls. And in the case of ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE, those uniforms would do nothing for my figure. If I'm going to be seen on the silver screen, I have to look beat down. Beat. Down. Designers love me and they'd be disappointed if I was seen onscreen in that uniform. Plus I think Martin Scorcese has a gambling addiction and I can't get involved with those kind of people.

R36, I am a lady and I never fuck and tell. Steven Spielberg has sullied my good name and reputation around town because I wouldn't let him take liberties. Alan Alda tried to finger me in a port-o-potty at the premiere of BREAKING AWAY. Plus, David Doyle tried to get me to go to a bondage party one night after Studio 54. David had a horrible drug problem. Sad. I think Barbra Streisand had it in for him, too. He let me listen to her rantings on his answering machine. The woman is a menace.

Sorry about Alana Alda. Did he talk to you about women's lib while his hands roamed?

No, R40. He kept quoting THE SECOND SEX and told me I was responsible for my own orgasm. I blew Paul Michael Glaser at a party later that night. He should have trimmed more and he liked to talk dirty, but in a baby's voice. It was kinda creepy. And Lola Falana was pissed at me because she wanted Paul Michael Glaser, but ended up with David Soul. He made her eat his ass out and Lol ain't too keen on that. She did it because she wanted a walk on role on S&H.

Listen, you ginger bitch. It was one thing to let Dick Van Patten see you topless but it was QUITE another when you gave Fred Dryer an "accidental" handjob backstage at the 1984 Circus of the Stars. They hired you to clean up after the elephants and instead I walk away for one FUCKING minute for a make-up touch-up and the you are, stroking like there's no tomorrow. You said you thought it was his arm? BULLshit. I also did not appreciate your comment about "We Got it Made". In one year I made more money than you could ever piss away on macrame vacuum cleaner covers and blow. And if that was you that shit in my mascara, you'll find out what "works for me". Suck my tits.

[quote]Shirley Hemphill tried to put a Satanic curse on me once, but it backfired on her. She felt I was stealing all of her rolls.

Honey, you couldn't do that with a Shop-Vac, a forklift and a Brink's truck.

Stepfanie Kramer/R42! Or should I say Fran Bainbridge! You're not fooling anybody with that abysmal spelling of your fake first name or your even more abysmal acting. Fred Dryer got more than a handjob from me plenty of times and Freddie loved every damn second of it. I also used to fuck Matt McCoy in your dressing room on the set of MADE. I used to drag my cum-riddled pussy across the upholstery on your love seat. Hope you like the smell!!!! And Bonnie Urseth was the true star of that show. She is ten times the actress you are and fifty times the humanitarian. You should have seen her Maggie in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF at Pasadena Playhouse opposite John Lawlor as Brick with Chet Akin as Big Daddy and Joanne Worley as Big Mama. Pure theatre Magic. I had a seat, but Barbra Streisand arrived two minutes to curtain and I was forced to give up my seat. She took my seat just to spite me. The performance was still good from the Windows outside of the theater.

PS. Tom Villard's last words were "Stepfanie Kramer wipes back to front and in the summer, you can really tell."

PS: Glad you liked the mascara. Hope you liked your rouge even more. I could only do that to your rouge "once a month", but that still worked for me. Tramp.

Oh my god R44, that was killer funny, "In the summer you can really tell". Oh jeez I am out of control here. Whew

Yes R31, that's definitely him... looking so damn cute!

Louise Lasser photographed erratically on 'Mary Hartman'. In one scene she'd look old and haggard, and then in the next day's episode she'd look pretty and sexy. Even drugs couldn't account for that extreme deviation.

Shirley Hemphill was actually talented and funny, sure she looked like a gorilla, racism aside and she DID look like one, she was one funny lady.

Why does John Slattery look like Bob Saget?

She tried to boink Grant Goodeve and he said, "I'd rather not." And then fucked his step mom

I always think she was in a brown AMC Pacer in the pic.

I thought she was into Don Grady

[quote]PS. Tom Villard's last words were "Stepfanie Kramer wipes back to front and in the summer, you can really tell."

Can't stop laughing at this.

Oh, Susan, you silly twat, I always wiped in a circle. At least I wipe and don't have to use old corn cobs and fiberglass insulation like you do now.

And PS: It all fit inside. You know what I'm talking about. Sorry, bitch.

^ The new season of Feud is born.

This story has echoes of Erin Moran, R.I.P.

Is she better? I hope so. Poor sweetheart.

What the fuck did I just read???

Always thought she was the ugly one

[quote]I always think she was in a brown AMC Pacer in the pic.

Hey, Sooz -- why not take a page out of the Suzanne Somers playbook and write your own one-woman show. I can see the marquee now: "Susan Richardson IS 'The Redhead in the Pacer!'"