Rebecca Schaeffer Special Tonight On ABC

writer/director Brad Silberling based his movie "Moonlight Mile" on the death of Rebecca Schaeffer, as he was her boyfriend at the time of her death.

It’s been thirty years.

Has Susan Dey commented yet?

^^^ Were they friends?

You must be new here R3

Pam Dawbet?

Thanks for the heads up, OP.

Seriously.

I was at a concert the day I heard the awful news.

I think I saw Erika Slezak on the previews. I don't understand what she has to do with Rebecca Schaeffer, I don't understand atall.

I’m watching Live PD like the rest of the country will be. It’s the #1 rated show on Friday & Saturday nights.

Rebecca Schaeffer played Annie Barnes on OLTL R8

Best way to get rid of stalkers is to fuck them. Trust me, it works like a charm.

R9 ever hear of a device called a DVR?

R9=Dan Abrams

Why now?

Thanks R10.

I was a huge fan of My Sister Sam. I was disappointed when CBS cancelled it.

I bet she’s dead

Stalkers of famous people. Karen Carpenter had a stalker who found out where she lived and knew where her upstairs bedroom was. He would come to her home and scream out her name looking up at her window. The police had to deal with him.

Did Susan Day kill her?

Or maybe even Susan Dey?

Canadian singer Anne Murray also had a stalker. The man believed that she was sending messages to him through her songs. In her memoir she stated that he would show up on her doorstep and even came to her father's funeral. He followed her around for years and she spent close to half a million dollars taking him to court, body guards, and protecting herself from him in general. Finally he simply lost interest in her and moved on to something else. Stalkers can be a big problem for celebrities and sometimes even dangerous.

Anne Murray’s stalker was another lesbian.

She looks like Kristen Stewart in that photo

I'm watching it. Having a hard time with all the elderly women in bad wigs.

R1 I remember a reviewer from slate magazine slamming the film. Supposedly it was quite distasteful.

Stupid cunt neighbour couldn't have alerted the police??

R8 Schaeffer was on OLTL for a little while in the mid 80s.

Who did you see, R7?

R21 My (non-famous) sister had a stalker like that. He stalked her for 3 years and then stopped. She found out that he became fixated on someone else.

R9 I think most people go out on those nights.

Moonlight mile was a piece of shit.

I was at a Sheena Easton concert the day she died.

Maybe my sister Sam is the reincarnation of her.

Did she set it all up herself?

I’m sorry, but how did she become a model? She was not attractive. She was quite homely.

Like you are homely shit4brains!

R36 = moron

R27 couldn’t be bothered reading the 26 posts before his

Kim Carnes performed the title song to "My Sister Sam". Schaeffer was in an overlooked quite funny film called "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills".

I watched the 20/20 episode on Hulu last night. I remember the E! True Hollywood story that aired on her in late 90s.

R35 she was a magazine model, not a runway model. And I think she was cute.

[QUOTE]Schaeffer was in an overlooked quite funny film called "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills".

Not overlooked by her stalker. Her sex scene in that film is, according to the 20/20 special, what drove him over the edge to go kill her.

Isn’t he the same nut that flew to London trying to kill Sheena Easton? Gavin Debecker was hired for security detail.

The clip with Viki Sleestak - part one of four.

All of them are on YouTube

Prior to Schaeffer, Robert Bardo stalked Samantha Smith, the little girl who created a sensation when she wrote a letter to Reagan and the Soviet leader requesting peace. Sadly, she died in a plane crash and he moved on.

Still so sad. She was great.

There’s a great documentary about two stalkers who are obsessed with the singer Tiffany, called “I Think We’re Alone Now”.

It’s scarier than any horror movie.

One of her obsessive “fans” is a batshit MtT.

Someone stalked Tiffany?

Two people, apparently.

I'm surprised there hasn't been another murder considering social media allows these nuts to know what their obsessions are doing 24/7.

Frankly, I don't get this desire some people have to worship other human beings. I lost a friend a few years back because he couldn't understand why I didn't worship any Broadway diva nor cared to stage-door. the stars. This guy lived for that and would get so excited after getting something signed or just getting to have a word with a s stage star. 'm not trying to be snobby 'cause I do appreciate an actor's or singer's talent. But I have no desire to see them beyond the film/concert/show.

When a celebrity has a stalker like this that’s when you need a Ray Donovan. Just have the stalker murdered and the body disposed of. The end because these nuts will never stop.

A bit off topic, but related: Bjork had a stalker years ago, who tried to send her a letter bomb. The authorities found out soon after the man had killed himself, and it was intercepted.

That’s a shame, r3. That the 💣 was intercepted.

Oh, R54, you fail on so many levels.

I hate Bjork! She’s do unnecessary to the race!

R53 I remember that! It happened around the fall of 1996. The guy even kept a vlog. He would talk to his camcorder and keep a daily log. He even discussed his love for Bjork and his disgust for her dating some black guy at the time. The guy was Latino of some sort and had issues with black men, apparently. I wonder if the videos are on YouTube?

R52, that was a plot on Ray Donovan, early on, right? He beat the hell out of the actress’s stalker?

My Sister Sam was a shit show but for some reason was a BIG hit for it's first season. Then it was put up against a huge hit (was it the Cosby Show? Too lazy to look it up) and was cancelled. It did not last THAT long. It was actually long after the show was over that Schaeffer was murdered, not during the show's run.

Rebecca did have talent. And who knows what might have happened to her career. She was a bit more than a flash in the pan or a one-hit-wonder. She was getting ready to audition for Francis Ford Coppolla for the third Godfather movie. She was home waiting on a copy of the script to be delivered to her that fateful day. The thing is, almost ALL of the 80's sitcoms were total shit with actors who mostly disappeared after their shows got canned. So My Sister Sam really didn't give Rebecca much chance to show what she was capable of.

She was much more popular in death than in life.

R58

He did one even better he dyed in blue so he couldn’t hide in the shadows anymore. But it was kinda of a fucked up storyline because the same actress ended up hooking up with a guy who beat the shit out of her and eventually kills her (not the stalker though he sees it all unfold).

Pam Dawber seems like a nice person, and lucky her having that hot husband

[quote]Stalkers can be a big problem for celebrities and sometimes even dangerous.

Gee -- no kidding?

My Sister Sam was sandwiched in between Kate and Allie and Newhart the first season. That's why it was a hit. Then they moved it to Saturday opposite The Facts. of Life and that was it for the show. I thought Rebecca was great as the kid sister, who knows how far she would have gone.

I live in LA - my birthday is on July 18 - the day she died. My good friend was working at George Schlatter productions then. The office was a converted house a few doors down from Rebecca Schaeffer's apartment. While I was on the phone with my friend making b- day plans you could hear sirens BLARING in the background - my friend said something was going on down the street - the guys in her office ran down the street to see what was going on. - It was eerie that we didn't know what we were hearing! .......Didn't Pam Dawber's mouth look odd?

[quote] I hate Bjork! She’s do unnecessary to the race!

You also apparently hate the English language.

For the longest time, I thought that Bjork was Asian.

Paul Bartel of Eating Raoul fame directed Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills - Jackie Bisset, Ray Sharkey and Mary Waranov also star.

FRAU THREAD

R35 She was a cute Jewish girl. Sorry that she wasn't an Aryan cunt who was vapid......

[italic]I Think We're Alone Now[/italic] (documentary about Tiffany's deranged fans)

I distinctly recall driving from Carmel to LA late at night on PCH when I heard. What a waste.

What is really shocking is that anyone watches a network. That anyone believes it is truth is so beyond me.

Just finished watching. Made me truly sad. She was a darling girl.

Why does anyone want to be famous? I find the idea horrifying. Rich, yes. Famous, no.

[quote]I'm surprised there hasn't been another murder considering social media allows these nuts to know what their obsessions are doing 24/7.

Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if something like that eventually happens in today's social media world.

R21 My (non-famous) sister was stalked for years. The stalker suddenly stopped and we later learned he had moved on to someone else.

[quote] My Sister Sam was sandwiched in between Kate and Allie and Newhart the first season. That's why it was a hit. Then they moved it to Saturday opposite The Facts. of Life and that was it for the show. I thought Rebecca was great as the kid sister, who knows how far she would have gone.

The coincidence of that time slot move is that Jenny O'Hara, the first of many who would end up getting fired from [italic]Facts[/italic] all the way back in 1979, now had a role on [italic]My Sister Sam[/italic]. They both ended in 1988. Making it even more coincidental is that Scott Bryce was now on the older show as Jo's boyfriend and eventual husband, and O'Hara joined Bryce in the cast of [italic]As The World Turns[/italic] in the 1990s right around the time they changed their theme song.

The documentary interviewed her but not David Naughton, the male lead from [italic]Sam[/italic].