Olympia Dukakis is DEAD TO ME!

Nothing about her death comes up after Googling her name in news.

Olympia has fallen!

Op’s thread is false.

Again.

This has happened before???

R4 - yes

No, she's really dead. We have a mutual friend.

Hasn't been made public yet.

Oh God I wanna know why!! Why Lord, I wish I could understand! No! No! No! It's not supposed to happen this way! I'm supposed to go first. I've always been ready to go first! I-I don't think I can take this! I-I don't think I can take this! I-I just wanna hit somebody 'til they feel as bad as I do! I just wanna hit something! I wanna hit it hard!

It’s being confirmed on Twitter.

Old man, you give those dogs another piece of my food and I’m gonna kick ya ’til you’re dead!

Some actress named Daphne Alexander tweeted about it. Someone else did a half an hour ago, but that's it, no other news as of yet. Who knows if it's true.

Olympia is one of the few actresses NEVER invited back to the Oscar after she won

She has never stepped foot on the Oscar stage since she won in 1988

Gee I wonder why?

I've only seen one tweet.

"Okay Michael, let's go!".

It must be true. Abe Vigoda just called me to tell me the news.

Who are these two? Reputable?

I honestly don't know why she wasn't invited back to the Academy. Is she a notorious cunt?

Wiki REFUSES to accept it

Waiting for confirmation from Cher.

I loved her more than my luggage.

Did she die of natural causes?

Was her stolen Oscar ever found?

Wikipedia seems to be saying she's dead.

[quote] Was her stolen Oscar ever found?

No, but she did get a replacement

R11, She has/had a reputation for being "difficult".

Is her death worthy of a Diana scream?

She stunk.

She use her time to plug Michael Dukakis when she won the Oscar, R11.

R27 Susan Sarandon did worse and was actually Banned from the Academy Awards - a few years later they lifted the ban off of Sarandon

In happier times . . .

Ohhh...dl-ed Steel Magnolias after the thread on here a couple weeks ago. Now is the time.

Awww...

Cute heinies! Mmmm...

R30, It's free this weekend on STARZ if you have COMCAST.

So is it true or not?

It's all free for me, suckas!

Can I have her stuff?

If ol' 'Lympy is dead, let me raise a glass of rubbing alcohol to her!

I thought maybe OP had heard a rumor somewhere but now that we also have a fake QEII death thread, I'm thinking there's a bored troll this afternoon.

My big fat Greek Oscar

Those two actors on Twitter who, by tweeting RIP to Olympia Dukakis, accidentally revealed they read Datalounge.

Cher just tweeted that she just got the best news she has heard in years.

ummm...ok

Peri Gilpin is retweeting it so it must be true.

Still no verification and it's entirely possible that Daphne lady just read it here.

Apparently her brother posted on Facebook that she’s died.

Was just coming to say that, R44.

I won't believe it until TMZ says so.

Apollo has indeed posted Olympia died this morning.

He posted it hours ago, not sure why OP said it wasn't confirmed when it apparently was.

I liked her in the Look Who’s Talking movies.

So if Lympy had passed away last Saturday, would she have made the cut for the Oscars In Memorium?

A statement from the Toronto Trans Collective

[quote]In stealing the role of Anna Magical in Tales From The City from a trans woman and putting on transface, Olympica De Karkis committed an act of extreme violence against the trans community. She never apologised or sought to make reparations, such as donating her Oscar or her kidneys to a trans woman in need. We do not mourn her death. Trans women are women. Olympica De Karkis was not a trans woman and never will be trans woman.

I didn't even know she was alive.

I'll believe when it's confirmed by Tanya Roberts.

Her best role was as Louise Wokansky in Brian De Palma’s SISTERS.

“You!? I’d like to see you try.”

WOLANSKY

NO!

One actress I loved lock, stock and barrel.

Another who thought she had died years ago. A friend who was an aspiring actress happened to find herself sitting next to her on a bus in New York and found her friendly and kind.

Who’s dead?

It's spreading throughout Twitterland.

R59 If it’s on JJ, then it’s official.

Olympia's brother writes

"My beloved sister, Olympia Dukakis, passed away this morning in New York City. After many months of failing health she is finally at peace and with her Louis."

Olympia on "Search For Tomorrow"

Do you thing the Toronto Trans Collective had her killed?

I guess she's not going to be able to play Anna Madrigal anymore.

Will Michael ( Olympia's cousin) Dukakis be next he is 87?

I had to watch this scene again...

George Takei acknowledges it.

Told ya!

God, Takei is pathetic.

A dead man AND a dead girl!

R70 You are evil. But also hilarious.

My God, that tribute by Takei is so cringey.

But wow, OP, you were faster than TMZ!

Wow, Takei's tweet is certainly something.

Hollywood Reporter officially confirms it

So very sad to hear this. Olympia Dukakis, such a wonderful actress & beautiful person. #RIP

- Betty Buckley

89 years old, lived a good life, can't ask for more.

Wow, she was actually only in her 50s during Moonstruck. She must have had a hard life.

The Times reporting

Olympia Dukakis, the self-assured, raspy-voiced actress who often played world-weary and worldly wise characters, and who won an Academy Award for her role as just such a woman, the Italian-American mother in “Moonstruck,” died on Saturday in New York City. She was 89.

Her brother, the actor Apollo Dukakis, announced the death on Facebook.

Ms. Dukakis was 56 and an East Coast stage veteran of three decades when she starred in “Moonstruck” (1987), a romantic comedy about a young widow, Loretta (played by Cher), whose life is turned upside down when she falls in love with her fiancé’s brother (Nicolas Cage). Ms. Dukakis stole scene after scene as Rose Castorini, the Cher character’s sardonic mother, who saw the world clearly and advised accordingly.

“Do you love him, Loretta?” she asks her daughter, referring to the dull fiancé. When Loretta says no, Rose replies: “Good. When you love them, they drive you crazy, because they know they can.”

The role won Ms. Dukakis the Oscar for best supporting actress (Cher also won) and a host of other prizes in 1988 — the same year her cousin Michael Dukakis won the Democratic presidential nomination. The award led to more film roles.

She played a catty Southern widow in the mostly female ensemble cast of “Steel Magnolias” (1989); the mother of Kirstie Alley’s character in the three “Look Who’s Talking” movies (1989-93); the pot-growing transgender San Francisco landlord Anna Madrigal, from 1993 to 2019, in the four television mini-series made from Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City” stories; and Frank Sinatra’s mother, Dolly, in the 1992 television movie “Sinatra.”

Those were far from her first mature roles. At 40 she had played 36-year-old Joseph Bologna’s mother in “Made for Each Other” (1971), and at 38 she was 32-year-old Dustin Hoffman’s mother in “John and Mary” (1969).

“I always played older,” she told The New York Times in 2004. “I think it was the voice.”

She played various ages onstage, where her career began. And in a way, she owed it all to Nora Ephron.

Ms. Ephron saw Ms. Dukakis in Christopher Durang’s Off Broadway play “The Marriage of Bette and Boo” and decided she wanted Ms. Dukakis in Mike Nichols’s 1986 film “Heartburn,” based on Ms. Ephron’s roman à clef. Mr. Nichols then cast Ms. Dukakis in his next Broadway project, “Social Security.” Norman Jewison saw “Social Security” and cast Ms. Dukakis in a film he was about to direct: “Moonstruck.”

Despite the awards and her other screen successes, Ms. Dukakis never gave up theater work. In 2011 she starred in an Off Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’s “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore.” Charles Isherwood, reviewing her performance in The Times, called her “macabre, hilarious and weirdly touching,” with a “bullying bravado that commands attention.” The next year she played Prospero (Prospera, actually) in “The Tempest” for Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts.

Olympia Dukakis was born on June 20, 1931, in Lowell, Mass., the older of two children of Constantine and Alexandra (Christos) Dukakis, both Greek immigrants. Her father worked in various settings, including a munitions factory, a printing business and the quality control department of Lever Brothers. He also founded an amateur theater company.

Olympia graduated from Boston University with a degree in physical therapy and practiced that occupation, traveling to West Virginia, Minnesota and Texas during the worst days of the midcentury polio epidemic. Eventually she earned enough money to return to B.U. to study theater.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

Even before she received her M.F.A., she threw herself into her new career, making her stage debut in a 1956 summer stock production of “Outward Bound” in Maine. She moved to New York in 1959 and made her New York stage debut the next year in “The Breaking Wall” at St. Mark’s Playhouse.

Her first screen appearance came in 1962, on the television series “Dr. Kildare.” Her first movie role was an uncredited one as a psychiatric patient in “Lilith” (1964). She received an Obie Award in 1963 for her role as Widow Begbick, the canteen owner, in Bertolt Brecht’s drama “A Man’s a Man” and another, 22 years later, for playing the grandmother of Mr. Durang’s character in “The Marriage of Bette and Boo.”

Along the way she married Louis Zorich, a fellow actor who had appeared with her in a production of “Medea” in Williamstown, Mass. Together they helped found the Whole Theater Company in 1973 in Montclair, N.J., where they lived while bringing up their children. The company produced the likes of Chekhov, Coward and Williams for almost two decades. Ms. Dukakis also taught acting at New York University.

Mr. Zorich died in 2018. Complete information on survivors was not immediately available. (Really, NYT??)

In recent years she played recurring characters on several television series, including “Bored to Death,” in which her character had a torrid affair with Zach Galifianakis’s. In her last film, “Not to Forget,” scheduled to open this year, she plays a judge who sentences a millennial to care for his grandmother.

When The Toronto Sun asked her in 2003 whether she was planning to retire, she answered: “From what? I love this chaotic, contradictory, loving mess that has been my life.”

She reflected on her success in a 2001 interview with the London newspaper The Guardian. “Maybe good fortune comes to you for the same reason as bad,” she said. “It’s all about understanding more: You learn a lot of things when you’re struggling, and other things when you’re what the world calls successful. Or perhaps it’s just something that happens. Some days it’s cold, and some days it’s hot.”

Of all the obits, only Hollywood Reporter is mentioning her work on Search For Tomorrow

Variety and NY Times IGNORED the fact Olympia was on a Soap Opera.

Takei's statement is the "Princess Diana Scream" of Twitter.

yes indeed

A statement from the Toronto Trans Collective

[quote]In honoring Olympica De Karkis, George Tacky has shown himself to be a fraudulent member of the LGBT community who casts away trans women like the wrapper around a cheeseburger from McDonalds. Olympica De Karkis committed extreme violence against the trans community with her fraudulent portrayal of a trans woman in trans face. Trans women are women.

DRUGS!

Gary David Goldberg offered the role of the grandmother in the series "Brooklyn Bridge" to Olympia and her husband Louis Zorich.

While Louis said yes, Olympia didn't want to be tied to a series. The role went to Marion Ross

Slap her, M'lynn!

R58 I think of that line whenever I get a late-night/early-morning call from a family member.

Have to say, Datalounge does it again. Wasn’t even on any of the news websites and yet, it was DL early this morning

Such sad news RIP

So young!

R93 I know many hate Twitter here, but it does have some small instances where it is useful, and early reporting of news events is an example.

Aside from her age and health issues.....I believed the early Tweets that reported it because it was credible people in the theater community sharing it.

R11 yeah they invited every winner from the previous year back but her. This was the year of the Allan Carr fiasco. She should’ve gave supporting actor to Kevin Kline.

Here's what she looked like at 87. Damn, girl had some awesome work done on her face. Hope she left someone the name of her surgeon before she departed for the great unknown.

What's with all the hatred of George Takei?

It's like the alt-right trolls here don't even pretend anymore.

So young.

She went inside my mother in Myrtle Beach.

[quote]What's with all the hatred of George Takei?

Did you even bother to read what he wrote before you commented?

And when her face pops up in the In Memoriam (“I’ll Be Seeing You” rap by Snoop Dogg) next year we’ll all be thinking she died years ago.

I saw her in the Encores production of Kander & Ebb's "70 Girls, 70" and she was very, very bad in it.

Anita Gillette played one of the supporting roles in it and was excellent. Everyone was saying how Gillette should have been cast in the lead.

[quote] What's with all the hatred of George Takei?

It's not hatred of Takei. But his tribute was cheesy and embarrassing. Nothing to do with "alt-right trolls" and more to do with tacky Twitter posts.

r104 see r26

Aha, I missed that. I'm getting old. r106.

[Quote] Op’s thread is false. Again.

Did you make the same claim on the Marcus D'Amico thread?

[Quote] Takei's statement is the "Princess Diana Scream" of Twitter.

Not really. The Diana scream was spontaneous.

[quote]Did you even bother to read what he wrote before you commented?

Yes, R102. I'm the one who posted it, at R67. (I can't get that link to work anymore.) George wrote:

[quote]Olympia Dukakis has departed our company. We were Moonstruck by her, as she told us great Tales of the City. A true Steel Magnolia within a more common forest. Ah, what a life force, her later years her best. Rest now among the heavens, Olympia.

There's nothing wrong with that.

[quote]It's not hatred of Takei. But his tribute was cheesy and embarrassing. Nothing to do with "alt-right trolls" and more to do with tacky Twitter posts.

I don't buy that, R105. There was nothing wrong with his tribute. On the other hand, there was this:

[quote]R69: God, Takei is pathetic.

[quote]R72: My God, that tribute by Takei is so cringey.

[quote]R86: Takei's statement is the "Princess Diana Scream" of Twitter.

Hatred.

R110 sit down with your nonsense. It was cheesy and over the top, an attempt to get attention for his supposed cleverness instead of honoring someone else.

Takei well earned the scorn heaped upon his stupid statement.

From CNN

If you want to see old folks, r107, you're in the wrong place tonight.

In your opinion, r111.

Cher has just released a statement

Olympia Dukakis - Was an Amazing ,Academy Award Winning Actress.O lympia Played My Mom In Moonstruck, & Even Though Her Part was That Of a Suffering Wife, We cried ALL The Time. She Would Tell Me How MUCH She Loved Louis, Her”Handsome Talented,Husband”. I Talked To Her 3Wks Ago. Rip Dear One

Whyyyyyyyy....Whyyyy.... Why???!!!! Oh God I wish I could understand!

I adore Cher but her overcapitalization offends me.

I think her elder life story has Oscar written all over it!

[quote]Takei's statement is the "Princess Diana Scream" of Twitter.

OK that's funny.

Awww Cher

Hah r121, and when Loretta finds her true love, Rose says, “aww that’s a shame.”

[quote]Do you thing the Toronto Trans Collective had her killed?

I thing that. What do you thing, Thing?

I thing so too?

Here at 0:43 she plays a blinder in Jeffrey

She starred in a TV movie about dementia with the Bionic Woman. I liked it but never saw it after it aired.

Eastuh Bunnay

Has Susan Day tweeted because she was up for Bridesmaid #2 in Steel Magnolias, so this is going to hit her hard.

Oh, deer! ^

Just a few days ago I watched the episode of The Simpsons where she plays an elderly woman who dates Grampa because he has a car. It's actually pretty funny for a post-classic-era episode.

Paul Reiser tweets

So. so sad to hear of #OlympiaDukakis’s passing. I had the great joy of playing her son – twice. Such a radiant, powerful and supremely talented woman. I feel blessed to have known her. RIP “Ma.” I will always smile at the thought of you and sweet Louis together.

— Paul Reiser (@PaulReiser)

Cher is still upset and sent out ANOTHER tweet about Olympia

Wrote This Hrs Ago,But Didn’t hit Twt😔.Heard Olympia Was Sick So Called Her Daughter & Said Could I Talk 2 Her.She Said “She might Not HEAR or SPEAK”.I Called In2 The Receiver”Olympia It’s Cher,I ❤️You”.Remember Moonstruck,She Said “oh cher,I❣️you”She Was Weak But Happy. RIP O

— Cher (@cher) May 1, 2021

Is she really dead?

No comment.

She's not dead, she's just been in a very bad mood for 40 years.

[quote] A statement from the Toronto Trans Collective In honoring Olympica De Karkis, George Tacky has shown himself to be a fraudulent member of the LGBT community who casts away trans women like the wrapper around a cheeseburger from McDonalds. Olympica De Karkis committed extreme violence against the trans community with her fraudulent portrayal of a trans woman in trans face. Trans women are women.

Would someone please tell the Toronto Trans Whateverthefuck to STFU?

I loved Olympia. Great actress. Proud Greek from Massachusetts.

And it's Greek Easter tomorrow--Sun May 2. Maybe she resurrect if we only pray hard enough.

She was awful. And her accent in Steel Magnolias was hideous. And she was ugly. Bye!

Olympia Dukakis...one of the greats.

RIP

[quote]Takei's statement is the "Princess Diana Scream" of Twitter.

How dare you! The Diana Scream is a DL icon. Takei's tweet is just cringe-inducing.

What can I say but I loved her? Everyone loved her. She was a gift..unique and talented and one of a kind. Rest in peace my friend Olympia.

R141, When do you think they last spoke?

The "Steel Magnolias" cast on "Donahue".

Is she dead yet?

I think Cher needs a MRI or something.

We promise, Rose, to never shit where we eat.

This thread is spoken like a true smart ass.

All hail to the great Olympia.

Tell Larry Haines and Mary Stuart I say hello.

Never liked her. Overrated.

But I'm sad that she has passed, because I don't have ice water in my veins.

Oh that's sad to hear she has passed away.

So are those posters who called OP a liar going to apologize?

R152 I told them to suck on my crotch, crotch, crotch.

What were her health issues?

Has Miss Julia Roberts weighed in to make it about her?

[quote]What were her health issues?

R154. She was 89..

Dukakis died in New York, her brother Apollo wrote on Facebook. "After many months of failing health she is finally at peace and with her [husband] Louis."

She choked on a giant Baclava.

[quote]A statement from the Toronto Trans Collective

In telling the Toronto Trans Collective to "STFU" and misgendering our collective as a "whateverthef*ck", R136 has committed an act of extreme violence against the trans community. R136 therefore joins Olympica De Karkis and George Tacky in the Toronto Tans Collective's Burn Book, Spring 21 edition, to be published in June. Trans women are women and of R136 attempts to attack the Toronto Trans Collective again, either literally, physically, metaphorically, spiritually or reputationally, the Toronto Trans Collective will make sure R136 chokes to death on a big lesbian dick.

Was she a bitch to Mary Stuart when she was on Search For Tomorrow?

What can one say? A great lady, fine actress and wonderful human being.

May you rest in peace Ms. Dukakis, and thanks for all the good times.

Another one bites the dust. Well she was a very interesting character actress.

Her Oscar that was stolen from her NJ house is still out there somewhere and just went up in value.

She hasn't PASSED or PASSED AWAY

She died.

She is DEAD,

Only a few months after the death of Cloris Leachman.

A statement from the Toronto Trans Collective

[quote]The Toronto Trans Collective condemns use of the word "dead" to describe a person who has recently stopped being alive. The "dead naming" of trans people is an act of extreme violence against trans people and to use the word "dead" to describe people who are no longer living is deeply offensive and transphobic towards trans women, trans men and non binary people who have dead names.

Death happens in threes. Cloris, Olympia and ????

R166 you are aware Leachman died in January? So she’s not included in May.

Maybe it should be renamed the Toronto WOW Collective.

A statement from the Toronto Trans Collective

[quote] The continued attention focused on Olympica De Carcass in the narrative of her departure from earthly existence is yet another example of literal violence against trans women. The stories of cis women are continuously centered and prioritized over the lives of trans women, especially trans women of color. This focus on her depature from earthly existence continues to perpetuate acts of extreme violence against the trans community. Instead of an obsessive focus on De Carcass and her depature from earthly existence, cis people everywhere should educate themselves on the lives of trans women, and support them by donating money, clothing or their homes to support their goals. Trans women are women.

I'm not getting the Takei hate. Yes it was a bit cloying and sentimental but cheesy and cringeworthy? No.

Is this one of the famous DL hates out gay men examples? Yes.

We don't normally hate Takei, dear, but that was Branson-Gift-Shop level cheapness and cheesiness. No self respecting gay should have ever attempted it!

R166, Jimmy Carter's on deck.

What can I say but I loved her? Everyone loved her. She was a gift..unique and talented and one of a kind. Rest in peace my friend Olympia.

- Sally Field

Oh my.. Olympia Dukakis has passed away.. She will forever be young in my mind and be my loving movie mother. When will I learn that people do not live forever & the time to engage is NOW?.. RIP

- Kirstie Alley

RIP Olympia Dukakis...the consummate actor. You made all around you step up their game. A joy to work with. Rest well. "May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest"

- Viola Davis

A rare gem - a kind, fun, funny, smart wonderful human being with an eternally youthful spirit & an absolutely incredible actress - I will continue to hold her in my heart Heart suit peace love respect @OlympiaDukakis

- Darryl Hannah

Olympia Dukakis Was an Amazing,Academy Award Winning Actress.Olympia Played My Mom In Moonstruck,& Even Though Her Part was That Of a Suffering Wife, WeFace with tears of joyALL The Time.She Would Tell Me How MUCH She Loved Louis,Her”Handsome Talented,Husband”.I Talked To Her 3Wks Ago. Rip Dear One

- Cher

Olympia Dukakis has departed our company. We were Moonstruck by her, as she told us great Tales of the City. A true Steel Magnolia within a more common forest. Ah, what a life force, her later years her best. Rest now among the heavens, Olympia.

- George Takei

It was 33 years ago that we gave her and @cher the Golden Globe for “Moonstruck” but I’ll never forget how gracious she was. Olympia Dukakis was pure class and tons of talent. RIP.

- Marlee Matlin

Everyone on #TalesoftheCity set had a wild story about Olympia Dukakis. In prep to play Anna Madrigal, I watched everything she’d done on screen, and read her books. Sensitive, sassy, in love with her craft, full of wry humor and sharp intelligence. A broad for the ages

- Jen Richards

I must be on Mars as I am only finding out now about my beloved friend Olympia Dukakis. What an immense talent she was. What a sweet friend she was. Goodnight sweet lady.

- Ed Asner

so sad to hear - Theater veteran Olympia Dukakis, the Oscar-winning 'Moonstruck' actress, has died

- Rosie O Donnell

RIP Olympia Dukakis, a wonderful actress, a delightful person and a legend in the theater community. She won an Oscar for Moonstruck, and audiences cherished her take-no-prisoners turn in Steel Magnolias. I worked with her on the movie of my play Jeffrey and she was bliss

- Paul Rudnick

Olympia Dukakis!! gave us so many memorable, GREAT performances. She was the best of the best.

- Mia Farrow

So very sad to hear this. Olympia Dukakis, such a wonderful actress & beautiful person. #RIP

- Betty Buckley

So. so sad to hear of #OlympiaDukakis’s passing. I had the great joy of playing her son - twice. Such a radiant, powerful and supremely talented woman. I feel blessed to have known her. RIP “Ma.” I will always smile at the thought of you and sweet Louis together.

- Paul Reiser

1/Lessons learned from Olympia Dukakis: First day I worked with her when I was 24 - "Where are we going for margaritas tonight?" I said I wanted to get an early night. She said " We gotta have some laughs. Otherwise we'll blow our fucking brains out." We went for the margaritas. 2/When I directed her in my first film I spent a lot of time in rehearsal guiding actors to how I had imagined the lines. After about an hour she gestured to the space between her and the other actor and said "What you're not commenting on is what's happening right here." 3/ "Feelings aren't facts" was something I heard her say often. 4/I didn't have a day with her when I didn't end up in laughter so out of control that I was weeping. Or didn't have my thinking challenged so profoundly that I grew. There won't be another like her. 5/ Oh one more thing about Olympia. When I was 25 she said to me "You're twenty-five. You better be having great sex. If you're not you better do something about it." I love passing this onto people in their twenties now and seeing their faces go pale.

- Sarah Polley

About George Takei--

Pearlclutchers calm the fuck down. He has set the commentary bar very high for over a decade, and this was just a hack. It happens I'm sure, but we're not going to pretend it didn't happen.

Not every death evokes tributes from Paul Rudnik AND Paul Reiser.

She was only 6 years older than me, but my youthful looks made it possible for her to play my aged mother convincingly in my smash Broadway play "Social Security".

R173, Sarah Polley is so underrated. I've loved her ever since she starrediin'Go' and acted circles around poor Katie Holmes.

What did Michael Dukakis have to say about his cousin?

R178, "Thanks for nothing."

Has Kitty Dukakis commented yet?

Do you love him, Loretta?

Ma, I love him awful.

Oh, God, that's too bad.

George Takei’s tribute was Gene Shalit on steroids.

" A true Steel Magnolia within a more common forest" alone is worthy of the first Pulitzer Prize for tweeting!

So M'Lynn and Annelle commented but not Truvy, Ouiser or Shelby

I want my creme brulee!

Kalo Pascha, Olympia. You missed Easter by a day.

Where is Susan Dey? We've heard nothing from her yet. Inconsiderate bitch.

I’m sure Julia, Shirley and Dolly will comment soon. Especially Dolly. I think she posts a lot on social media.

Her forthcoming movie, mentioned by R84, has quite a cast: Tatum O'Neal, Karen Grassle, Cloris Leachman, George Chakiris, Lou Gossett Jr.

Dolly hasn't Twittered since mid-April.

[quote] "Feelings aren't facts" was something I heard her say often.

Uh-oh. Wait till the Toronto Trans Collective hears about this!

From Variety:

Dolly Parton, who was also in “Steel Magnolias” with Dukakis, remembered her in a statement to Today: “I was so sorry to hear that Olympia Dukakis had passed away. She has been one of my favorite people that I have ever known or worked with. I really got very close to her and felt like we were good friends. Even though I didn’t get to see her much, I thought of her often and knew that she was such a quality human being. She will be missed by her fans, her family, and those of us that were lucky enough to get to know her personally.”

OT, I never met Olympia Dukakis, but her role in "Social Security" was played in the national tour by a lesser known, yet completely legendary NY actress and all around character named Irma St. Paule. I knew Irma from a play we did together. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, she bore an uncanny resemblance to Olympia Dukakis, wore a man's overcoat, and hand-rolled her own cigarettes. Although she was not what I would call a great or even good actress, acting was her true passion, and frankly it was more than enough!

[quote]Wait till the Toronto Trans Collective hears about this!

A statement from the Toronto Trans Collective

[quote]The Toronto Trans Collective considers the statement "feelings aren't facts" to be an act of extreme violence against trans people. The Toronto Trans Collective notes that the De Karkis family have still not made attempts to make reparations on behalf of Olympica in relation to her crimes against trans people's wellbeing. This is a hostile act and will be treated as such.

The TTC tickles me.

Has Laura Linney or anyone else from "Tales of the City" commented?

Yes, R197

She was on Search for Tomorrow.

And did she find it?

Laura's tribute was very nice.

Nothing from Ted Danson, her son in "Dad"?

Such nice tributes! I don’t think I’ll get any.