Tawny Kitaen is DEAD TO ME!!!

And so it begins - the deaths of the 1980s stars

Didn’t expect this one.

Awww, i always really liked her!

Given her substance abuse problems, I don't know why I'm surprised by this, but I am.

Drugs, I assume?

I scrolled through the gallery of pics and her face looks different in all of them. She kind of looks like Tom Cruise in drag at times.

R1 1980s stars have been dying since the 90s. Lol

Fucking fentanyl I'm sure.

She was Ron Perlman’s stand-in as the Beast.

Tea Leoni replaced her for two weeks when she was out sick on the soap Santa Barbara

There she goes again on her own.

She looks like Caitlyn wanted to.

I'll go to my grave claiming that Witchboard is one of the greatest 80s horror films. RIP Tawny, you gorgeous, fucked-up mess.

R5 She looks like Geena Davis in one and Christie Brinkley in another, and then the plastic surgery kicks in.

I literally was just coming to post that r12

I knew her in junior high and high school.

RIP Julie

[Quote] Kitaen, whose credits include 'The Perils of Gwendoline' and "After Midnight," was a precocious child who got the showbiz bug at 14, when she saw Peter Frampton at Balboa Stadium in San Diego. She got a backstage pass and saw the All-Access VIP treatment Peter's GF Penny received, and that was it. She was hooked.

14?!

Image from her Cameo, she should have left her face alone.

RIP

She looks like a different person

I'm not Tawny... my name is Julie:

"Kitaen was born Julie Kitaen in San Diego, California, in 1961, the daughter of Linda Kitaen (née Taylor), a housewife and former beauty pageant participant, and Terry Kitaen, an employee of a neon sign company. She was of Jewish heritage. Kitaen began using the nickname "Tawny" at the age of 12 on her own initiative."

She had a hot ass but she couldn’t live forever.

Didn’t she legally change it to Tawny years later?

Regardless, she was Tawny to the world. Not Julie.

She looks like the rich man's Melissa Gilbert in OP's pic.

Another Celebrity rehab alumni has kicked the bucket. Hopefully sober but I don't get my hopes up. I think the only one that died sober to this day was Nikki McKibbin.

Who’s kicking who in the face NOW, little miss Kitaen?

That is VILE utter SLANDER R23!!

I cannot believe this. As a longtime fan and follower of her on Instagram and Youtube, I am always delighted to see her frequent posts. I have been noticing her really slurred speech as of late in her videos, so I suspect it could be some sort of pill overdose. Her dad just died last month too.

She posted this video of her parents a few days ago. They were both hot.

She posted this photo of her and her brother yesterday morning.

I really wonder what killed her later that day. Sad.

The Bride of WildaKitaen

This is what killed her. She got a look at her former husband, White Snake lead singer David Coverdale, and she dropped dead.

She’s been heartbroken ever since her dad died. I’m not shocked.

[quote]And so it begins - the deaths of the 1980s stars

Oh hi!

R32 I don’t think they count because their fame went into the 90s and 00s (in some cases).

Tawny is very much an 80s fixture

Howard must be devastated

Maybe she didn’t want to turn 60. The wife of one of my bosses frequently stated she didn’t want to turn 70. A few weeks before her birthday she dropped dead unexpectedly at 69. Stupid, I know, but it was the first thing that came to my mid when I saw she was 59.

Did she ever get to ride Howard’s whitesnake?

Which lesbian is that exactly, r30?

"One of Tawny's famous characters was "Mango' during her days on Saturday Night Live."

Does anyone else remember her from that show "America's Funniest People"? She co-hosted it with Dave Coulier in the early '90s.

She looks like that Wildenstein creature in OP's pic. She was pretty sexy back in the 80's. Always had great hair.

Think of all the great roles she still had yet to play on the French classical stage: Phédre, Bérénice, Andromaque...

I always confused her with former Miss USA Tawny Godin.

She played in a crack movie with Robbie Benson that was fucking hilarious and I loved it. They had the biggest crack pipes you ever saw. She was fucking all kinds of guys in their huge loft apartment. Guys she picked up at their crack parties. She was beautiful.

Witchboard is on YouTube

She lived her life like a melted candle in the wind.

Her daughters just released a statement on her Instagram account to confirm her death. Sad.

She took full advantage of being young and beautiful, and went through a field of cock in her day! Rock stars, jocks, movie stars!

Let the Datalounge have a moment of silence in her honor, in which we can all sit and envy her.

Didn't she have an affair with OJ Simpson while he was married to Nicole?

DRUGS! She spent most of her later years speedballing on a letal mix of Botox and Juvederm. Sad.

Holy fucking shit! I thought that was Mickey Rourke in the wrestler at R17

Yet that fucking serial killer "Doctor" Drew lives on.

She looks great at the pics at r28 and r31. Not nearly as stretched.

I grew up in the 90s but discovered her through The Surreal Life and later watched Bachelor Party. I liked her a lot. I found her very interesting to watch. She had that natural “it” factor. It’s a shame she was seen as nothing more than a hot bombshell “vixen” and was mostly known for music videos.

Her Cameo videos are so sad. She looks like Mickey Rourke and is obviously under the influence. Nothing sadder than trying to hold on to youth/fame.

Her parents were hotties when young.

Dr.Drew is a fucking monster - truly. What is his death count now? Of course he’s a disgusting right winger too.

Didn’t she get millions for each divorce?

She had several embarrassing meltdowns on The Surreal Life. Slurring her words, incoherent arguments with people, undressing and jumping in the pool naked, and in the last episode was a writhing mess in the floor as everyone was leaving. It was really embarrassing. The rumor going around at the time was that she smuggled some cocaine in a shampoo bottle. During one of her meltdowns, she complained about her nose burning.

Sad that she died, though. I'd be surprised if it wasn't drug related though. She was really pretty in the 80s and 90s before she messed her face up with the bad plastic surgeries.

Never seen Witchboard but looking forward to seeing it and Tawny.

R58 yup. But she was interesting to watch. That season would have been a bore if not for her

I loved Witchboard as a kid

Another vote for Witchboard. Maybe we can do a viewing party/thread in honor of Tawny.

Shit, this is fucking sad.

It’s on YouTube to watch

[quote] She played in a crack movie with Robbie Benson that was fucking hilarious and I loved it.

White Hot aka Crack in the Mirror. It was pretty bad in that so bad it’s good 80s way, but she and Robby were great in it and it has a killer Nile Rogers soundtrack.

I'd be up for that idea r62 and since it's on YouTube we can all watch at our own pace and chime in as we feel like it on the designated thread.

If someone starts one, please post the link here!

She was the quintessential beauty in the 80s. Naturally sexy and quite beautiful. That hair!

Sad! RIP Tawney

it's on pb too.

What is "pb" r67?

I feared this. She’d been slurring her words in her videos for a while now and always seemed out of it.

[quote] And so it begins - the deaths of the 1980s stars

Excuse me, bitch?

Dead to me 🤡

LMAOOOO at the loser who duplicates threads duplicating this thread too

her parents indeed were hot.. her mother could have been a stand in for jayne mansfield or at least connie stevens.. her dad, a stand in for troy donahue....

Her dad died on April 21, I remember he was interviewed for an E! True Hollywood story about tawny and he was a handsome man.

Before her meltdowns and drug issues she seemed like the quintessential California beach girl. Pretty, easygoing and tan.

I had no idea she was Jewish

She became a groupie at 14 years old. Fucking rock stars while still in high school. Of course she had drug issues. She was beautiful in her day though. RIP Tawny.

MWC

She was stunningly beautiful until messing with her face. Damn.

Iconic

We should change the DL bit to "My friend Tawny..."

Her two daughters with Chuck Finley are surprisingly normal and very All-American looking, no heavy makeup or the kind of artifice you might expect of her kids (the daughters of an 80's LA-metal video star who made her career out of her body, hair and associations with famous men).

The younger daughter was an Orange County high school softball star a few years back. Very fresh-faced, Californian teen here.

Another recent pic of Raine Finley:

[Quote] I really wonder what killed her later that day.

Kuriosity Killed the Kitaen?

The daughters look Irish.

Oh I thought that was Caitlyn Jenner.

She was so hot back then. Today, she'd be told she needed to drop 30 pounds at least.

Not natural causes, I take it.

^^ all kidding aside, she was gorgeous back in the day.

She looks like Mickey Rourke at r17.

I love the recent pics of her.

No, she doesn't look like Jocelyn cat lady.

I love all the lines and wrinkles and disheveled hair. It's real.

I mourn people like her, the crazy ones, much more than when Streep or Hanks die, not that any death is trivial.

I'll be a mess when Faye dies. One of a kind glorious batshit crazy legend that she is.

I remember her like this...the smile, the dimples, the locks. The last two photos are sad. She didn't even look like the same woman. RIP.

That Whitesnake song and video were HUGE back in the day. Tawny made that one of the most famous videos of the 80s. Straight guys all over America were beating off to her.

She did have IT but didn't make good career choices.

Gotta love the 80s!

Tawny Kitaen and Angie Everhart.

The surgery is noticeable in these photos.

R76 she went backstage at a concert when she was 14, she didn’t become a groupie. Her first serious boyfriend was Robbin Crosby from Ratt. He was 2 years older than her and they started dating when she was in high school.

Serving the [italic]ne plus ultra[/italic] 80s sultry

Little known factoid...Paula Abdul choreographed Tawny's iconic moves in the Here I Go Again video...

Nile Rodgers doing the soundtrack for cocaine.

Because, of course!

Still of the Night is another awesome Whitesnake track. Tawny slinked around as the vixen in this one too...

Tawny played a rock star who falls in love with a guy with a disease so rare that he has to live in a bubble in the so-bad-it;s-good '80s flick Crystal Heart. There's even a music video segment in the movie...

Getting older and losing our youthful looks sucks for all of us. But imagine if for most of your life, your persona and identity was about being a knockout sex symbol, every man drooling over you. Losing that sense of self must be very hard for such women.

Is This Love is still a great song.

[quote]I'll be a mess when Faye dies.

MARY!

I hate my friend Julie.

She called herself a lesbian because her husbands used more hairspray than herself. What a cunt.

Did she go to the plastic surgeon and say “Give me the beast.”?

Here's Tawny doing the splits on the car. I think this was from "Here I Go Again on My Own."

I was around 11 or 12 when she was famous for the Whitesnake videos and marrying David Coverdale. I actually thought they were going to make it as a couple and was genuinely sad when they divorced.

Heather Locklear, so far, has not commented. I'm guessing their paths must have crossed at some point. Heather was higher on the pyramid, though.

R79 posted a gif of her doing the cartwheel that's worth seeing

Wow, I'd forgotten all about "The Perils of Gwendolyn"! I rented that on VHS when it came out. Don't remember it except that it was fun.

Nice hair! And cool that it wasn't blonde. Something different.

I always feel like people should be grateful to have been super hot at one point in their lives. (And accept that they're now older and a newer group of hot people has taken over.)

Alas ...

I'll do a cartwheel on the hood of a Jaguar in her honor.

Wasn't there some big scandal involving her and her baseball player husband?

I always thought it was a Camaro or a Firebird.

One of my former coworkers has big hair and grew up in the '80s. She admitted that Tawny was an idol. I was joking around with her (coworker) and said: what kind of car did you have - a T-top Camaro? She admitted that she had that car (and regretted buying it b/c she really couldn't afford it).

Tawny, we hardly knew ye.

I never forgave my friend Julie when she got a cute new car and I said 'do you want me to Tawny Kitaen this bitch?' and she had no idea what I was talking about

She was unintentionally hilarious on Surreal Life. Remember when she accused Florence Henderson of trying to sabotage/upstage her?

Wow! Being threatened by Florence Henderson says a lot about Tawny. Flo was a lot older and had a mom vibe more than anything.

She attended a Whitesnake/Motley Crue concert I was at in the 1980's. She came walking down the steps to near the soundboard and people were freaking out. They were almost as excited to see her as they were the bands. RIP Tawny

R1 Some of us didn't make it out of the 1980s.

Try & keep up...

She often reminisced about her relationship with Ratt guitarist Robin Crosby on her social media platforms. You can tell she missed him.

Wow CNN just did a blurb on her death. Not too shabby for a metal vixen from San Diego. Iconic status indeed.

With Tommy Lee in the 80s

are we sure that isn’t Pete Burns or Kim Novak?

Bachelor Party remains my favorite Tom Hanks movie. He and Tawny had great chemistry. The roles were originally cast with Paul Reiser and Kelly McGillis.

On the cover of Ratt's Out Of The Cellar album

Why is her nose so bulbous in R17?!

Paul Reiser would've sucked in Bachelor Party as he is completely unlikable, Tom Hanks was great in that role.

She's been trending on Twitter all day. This thread has been hopping along too. It's nice to see her getting so much recognition and prompting so many reminiscences. Sure she was messy, but drugs are a cunt--yet she wasn't. She had a good heart.

She was the hottest woman on the planet for brief moment in time. Sad she couldn’t come to terms with aging, channel her energy somewhere else and got help for her drug addiction.

Did she sleep with Jani Lane?

Has Susan Dey issued a statement yet?

She also seemed kind of violent, attacking husband Chuck Finley.

Lots of rave reviews from her fans on Cameo.

Surprised they haven't taken down her page though.

I never understand how people sum up addicts with "they had a good heart." They put themselves and those who love them through a lot of pain.

Agreed R138

Joan Collins bought this Sierra Towers condo from Tawny in 2008. I'm not sure how Tawny was able to afford such a glamorous condo in the 1990s? Was she a hooker?

[quote]I'm not sure how Tawny was able to afford such a glamorous condo in the 1990s? Was she a hooker?

No. She had a steady career in film and TV, and was married to a rich rock star and a rich baseball player.

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She received millions in each divorce also.

Sit ups

Last year, talking about her gray hairs

[quote]No. She had a steady career in film and TV

Doing guest appearances on Love Boat and Fantasy Island don't pay for luxury condos at Sierra Towers. Being a hooker for rich men does.

A little anecdote I remembered about her from junior high:

There was this small, weird, nerdy kid named Bobby Ray. He was in my P.E. class. It was either late in the year in 7th grade, or else we were in 8th grade already. I don't remember. Think Anthony Michael Hall in "Sixteen Candles", but not as smart or likeable. But that same sort of energy...always kind of weirdly hyper, like one of those kids they put on Ritalin.

Bobby Ray (I think that was his full name, like "Ray" was his last name. Or "Rae".) came to PE class one day and was telling everybody that he'd asked this girl "Tawny" to "go with" him, and she's said "yes". (That was the phrase we used back then for having a steady girlfriend/boyfriend. You were "going with" so-and-so.) I had no idea who this girl "Tawny" was, because her real name was Julie, and was still in the process of getting everybody to call her Tawny.

So anyway, the thought that ANY girl would give Bobby the time of day was hard to imagine. I asked one of the other guys in the class, "so what's up with Bobby supposedly getting a girlfriend?" And the guy kind of shook his head and said "no way. He's lying. No way would Tawny go with HIM".

Sure enough, the next day, Bobby shows up again, and is kind of crestfallen. He was like "yesterday she said she'd go with me. Now, she won't even talk to me, she's just been ignoring me!" And that was the end of the Bobby Ray/Tawny Kitaen "romance".

A while later, I figured out that "Tawny" was Julie Kitaen, and I realized why everybody was so skeptical. But even though it was obviously a total mismatch, and Bobby Ray was the most annoying kid ever, I felt bad for him, and thought it was a shitty thing for her to do.

Later on, after I got to know her a little bit, I asked her about it. "What was that thing with Bobby Ray?". And she was like, he sat next to me in one of my classes, and we kind of became "class friends" (she meant like how you sit next to somebody in class, and it's somebody you wouldn't necessarily be friends with or hang out with outside of that class, but you talk and joke with them because they're there.) He was nice, he made me laugh, but I didn't like him THAT way. When he asked me to go with him, I was shocked, but I didn't know what to say, and I didn't want to hurt his feelings, so I just said "OK". Then afterward, I didn't know what to do, so I just kind of ignored him, so he'd get the hint".

I told her about how he'd showed up for P.E. that day and was all excited and told everybody who would listen that she'd agreed to go with him, and then the next day he was all confused and heartbroken. I was kind of laughing about it, but she looked like she genuinely felt bad about it.

Poor girl was having to deal with unwanted attention from horny dudes from a very young age.

SHE RECEIVED MILLIONS FROM HER TWO DIVORCES FROM TWO MILLIONAIRES

Has David Copperfield made a statement?

R146 What is the obsession with seeing the complete financials of anyone someone like you disapproves of? Pretty sure you weren't footing the bill.

decaf r148?

Did she ever visit Dubai?

Oh no and on the same day as the Obama Dog, it's just like Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson all over again

Damn, I was looking forward to her Whitesnake-style casket dance at David Coverdale’s funeral.

[quote] Doing guest appearances on Love Boat and Fantasy Island don't pay for luxury condos at Sierra Towers. Being a hooker for rich men does.

As has been discussed, she was in a string of films and was a regular on several tv shows. Her two ex husbands were also rich. This is not rocket science.

R119, that made me LOL. You’re awesome and I would have been honored if you christened my new car that way.

Wasn't she known to falsify her age quite a bit?

She didn’t lie.

Ah, back in the days when big hair was achieved with a perm, Aqua net and genetics. She lost to her demons. I hope her family take care of her sweet rescue dog Henry (?). She loved him and her two daughters so much.

As the loathsome Isabel on Seinfeld.

I remember reading about Whitesnake in one of those MTV books that came out 10 years ago or so. I don’t think the band members (aside from Coverdale, obviously) liked her. They thought she was too involved in the decision making and videos. Maybe it was just fame and drug fueled jealousy, I don’t know, but she came across as Yoko Ono-ish.

The only reason those Whitesnake videos are still popular are because of Tawny.

David Coverdale said that Tawny “Came and got me...turned my blood into wine...”. He loved her.

Jennifer Tilly tweeted

Richard Marx...

[quote] I hope her family take care of her sweet rescue dog Henry (?).

Steve. She loved that dog. I got a kick out of her YouTube videos where she’s be walking him around her neighborhood.

Tawny in Santa Barbara

R135, see R118.

I didn’t know Claudia Schiffer was supposed to be the star of that Whitesnake video

Coverdale is still waiting for 100% confirmation it’s true.

How come no one mentioned her starring in the reboot of WKRP in Cincinnati during the early 90s?

That’s a rough 59.

Her 6'6" baseball pitcher ex, Chuck Finley, was gorgeous.

So was it OD?

That’s what drug and alcohol addiction does r172

Beautiful woman tormented by her demons. Hope she finally has found peace!

*RIP* Tawny Kitaen, thanks for being part of my decade!

What was her drug of choice?

Who didn’t want to be her back in the 80s...I did!

AquaNet, r177.

Chuck Finley was so very handsome.

I see a lot of tweets from women saying they wanted to be her when they were young in the 80s.

R177

Like nearly everyone else with drug problems in 1980's it began with cocaine. Who knows what TK got onto afterwards....

Poor woman was a hot mess, Chuck Finley finally had enough and divorced Tawny Kitaen claiming spousal abuse as grounds. IIRC story correctly from the time she beat him with high heeled shoes.

Abuse story..

Mug shot...

Richard Marx has sent his condolences.

R179

More like Aerolak and tons of mousse.

But then again it was the 1980's and both rocker guys and girls all had big hair.

She was lovely, but fuck whoever uploaded this when it has nothing to do with her last moments. Clickbait.

But she was lovely.

Well, get out your Witchboard!

Anyone think David Coverdale was hot in the 80s?

A sex video of those two would have been smoking hot

She was on Botched a few years ago to have her botched breast implants removed. She'd had six, yes six, different boob job surgeries prior to that.

As desired as she once was, she must've been very insecure about her looks, given all the face work and boob jobs she had.

White snake would have been just an average hair band if it weren’t for those videos.

My brothers and I had a good laugh the day my dad referred to the band as “The Whitesnakes.”

r189, my fatherwas so hot for Coverdale that he took me to see an Aerosmith and Whitesnake concert.

Robert Plant - hated- Whitesnake and viewed Coverdale as a ripoff. Called him "David Coverband" in interviews.

Tough shit, Robert Plant. As if Led Zep never ripped off anybody.

My favorite scene from Tawny in Witchboard where she’s possessed by the ax killer dressed up like him. The movie is silly overall, but this part I find funny AND unsettling. She will always be emblematic of the 80s to me. Rest In Peace Tawny.

Everyone rips everyone, r195 but really? You’re going to compare Led Zeppelin to White Snake?

Obv meant everyone rips everyone off...

[quote] Anyone think David Coverdale was hot in the 80s?

Yes indeed. He was hot period. Those thighs...

R185 see R165

I don’t get excited about women’s hair—well, ever—but hers was so glorious. Perfection.

^I’m the opposite. I love a good, long head of hair on a woman, and I have a list of actresses whose hair I’ve admired. Tawny is on the list.

Was Vicki Frederick on your list?

I have 5 women who I have severe hair envy of:

Tawny

Portia

Kirsten Johnson

Yancy Butler

Aly Walker

Hearing about some celebrity that you never really knew about, but had heard their name. But, it's just like there's this big pile of celebrities, so it's hard not to feel a little sad when you hear they've been plucked off the pile. I try to not be emotional about this happening.

But here I go again.

Some of the women on my list:

Apollonia in Purple Rain

Jami Gertz

Helen Slater in Supergirl

Julianne Moore (the ATWT Frannie days)

Heather Langenkamp

Tawny Kitaen

Tamlyn Tomita in Karate Kid II (past her waist and gorgeous)

Kerri Green in Goonies

What's so good about Portia De Rossi's hair? I don't see it.

Is Aerolak good stuff?

You bitches are slippin'...

Same thing as Alicia Silverstone with Aerosmith. Tawny was a 2 bit actress and coke whore.

r207, when she had long hair on Ally McBeal it was stunning

Oh that’s right, Portia de Rossi used to have beautiful hair... totally forgot once she got herself a butch cut.

Tawny will burn

R183, see R173.

Tawny's mane was FABULOUS in White Hot.

She was so 80's and would never be a star today. Not only would she be considered fat, but also too hard and athletic looking. Also that red mane, while impressive, is no longer considered desirable by the young. RIP. She definitely had more fun in life than all of us.

I hadn't thought of Tawny Kitaen in years and I've been taken by surprise at how sad I feel about this, maybe because this is another reminder of the passage of time.

i thought she was beautiful and her hair was always so thick and gorgeous. Also, she was a celebrity who was considered hot as hell and she had freckles too. I had freckles and growing up, was teased a lot because of them.

it was kind of shocking reading this headline. i wouldn't be surprised if it was a drug overdose, but not sure if accidental or intentional . Sad :(

Our candle in the wind.

Didn't she beat her baseball husband a few times?

I don't think she intentionally killed herself. She loved her daughters and her dog Steve too much. I do think she had an issue with prescription drugs though.

[...]

In retrospect, a eulogy of sorts 😪 ❤

The main reason I know about her (aside from having seen the camp classic "Witchboard" and her Whitesnake videos) is that my mother, who was in her 20s in the late '80s, used Tawny's namesake as a pseudonym when going out to clubs with her friends. She actually introduced herself to my father as Tawny. After I was born, my paternal grandparents adopted "Tawny" as her nickname and continued to refer to her as it until the respective days they died.

[Quote] She definitely had more fun in life than all of us.

Did she? I'm not even jealous of the men she fucked. David Corverdale? Keep it.

Too fat, too athletic? Aren’t those mutually exclusive? As well there was more pressure for women to be thin in the 70s and 80s than today.

I'm trying to figure out what the name Kitaen was changed from. It sounds like an Ellis Island screw-up. Kaplan, Kayton. Kamen. Kellerman. Her daughters don't look remotely Jewish.

For the love of God, how do you pronounce Kitaen?

Kitaen rhymes with Pain, no?

KI-TAIN.

R227 I believe her father was Russian-Jewish, so I'm presuming the name has an eastern European origin

Her name sounds like "taux de nicotine" for us French boys and girls.

It's not Ki or Ky. It's Kit. Kit-ain

The host says her name in the first twenty or so seconds. This must be one of her last interviews.

That’s still so young! Rip

Tawny mentions in that interview that she screentested for Bachelor Party opposite Jeff Conaway and then Paul Reiser.

She was so gorgeous when she was young. It really goes to show you how much a hard life will destroy your looks.

She looks like the stay at home mom who fucks the varsity football players

I think some of you are gassing up her looks somewhat.

She looks like if Elle McPherson was a small-town stripper turned soccer mom.

Witchboard is free on IMDb on Prime

No. As someone said above, she most resembled Melissa Gilbert, facially.

[quote]Tawny mentions in that interview that she screentested for Bachelor Party opposite Jeff Conaway and then Paul Reiser.

It's been mentioned upthread that Paul Reiser and Kelly McGillis were originally cast in Bachelor Party before being replaced by Tom and Tawny.

I know someone who once said that she looks like a young Racquel Welch.

[Quote] It's been mentioned upthread that Paul Reiser and Kelly McGillis were originally cast in Bachelor Party before being replaced by Tom and Tawny.

Yes, but it wasn't mentioned that Tawny and Paul were a possibility as the leads.

I don't see it. Eva Mendes resembles Welch a little.

Tawny first got veneers sometime in the mid '80s. She had her natural teeth in Witchboard and all the movies before. It wasn't until the Whitesnake videos and the 1986 movie Instant Justice with Michael Pare that she sported a new, super white set of chicklet teeth.

R242 this prissy queen

Aww, I kinda liked her and that video. You seemed okay Tawny. I hope you are in a better place.

[Quote] this prissy queen

Tawny didn't seem prissy.

[quote]I think some of you are gassing up her looks somewhat

I think you're wrong.

I watched a few minutes of the interview video above and I think her teeth affected her speech. It doesn't seem like an "out of it" vocal situation.

Sorry, r251, but this could be someone in a mall shoot.

^And who are you, some great beauty? I'm almost certain that chances lean largely toward fuck-to-the-NO.

No children with David Coverdale? Thought she had at least one child with him.

I said she had a very good body. I just don't rate the face. You'll get over that.

I said she had a very good body. I just don't rate the face. You'll get over that.

All those insanely beautiful video women of the 80s are fucked up. At least Bobbie Brown seems a little bit more stable.

What about Paulina?

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R180, He often needed to adjust his cup after throwing a pitch. Cameramen knew when to shoot him from above the waist, but sometimes they slipped up and viewers saw him touching himself.

Maybe she looked in the mirror, saw she looked like Mickey Roarke in a bleach blonde fright wig, and had a coronary?

[quote]It's been mentioned upthread that Paul Reiser and Kelly McGillis were originally cast in Bachelor Party before being replaced by Tom and Tawny.

It was also mentioned upthread that Bachelor Party was written for Tom Hanks.

So try figuring out what went on there, if you care.

I loved her on The Surreal Life. She was crazy in a funny, zany way. Her fellow roommate was raging tranny Alexis Arquette who was crazy in a psychotic, threatening way.

I'm amazed everyone has so much to say about her. To me, she was just a small blip in the '80s, who I had completely forgotten about for decades.

When can we expect to find out the cause of death?

r265 it's odd, but there's been a big reaction to this. I haven't thought of her in years but a lot of memories from that time are coming back after hearing about this. My (straight) brother and his friends (all in their 40s) are all talking about it. She was a big deal for awhile, kind of a cultural moment for Gen Xers.

I think it's been slow news days. We can give the passing of Tawny Kitaen the time, focus, and respect that it deserves.

Alexis Arquette called out the Pinkett-Smiths. Kudos, Alexis.

What are you talking about R269?

Alexis was fucking going through it. I usually have zero patience for that bullshit, but in his case, knowing what the fuck he was going through, I give him a total pass... and my god his cock was a thing of wonder. I cant link it just google image it. Smithsonian quality cock.

r271 = Jared Leto

Hardly, r272

Here r270

[quote] Alexis Arquette called out the Pinkett-Smiths. Kudos, Alexis.

He outed RDJ way back in the day too.

[Quote] Hardly, [R272]

It flew right over your head, didn't it?

I think r272 was just dryly addressing your lack of wit. If not, I am.

My remark was meant for r275 but point remains.

All this said, why are we dragging Alexis into this thread?

[Quote] My remark was meant for [R275] but point remains.

Isn't it dreadful when you try to be superior but you can't even quote properly?

I always confuse her with Sybil Danning.

It IS and thank you for needing to have the last word so YOU can feel superior r278

[Quote] It IS

Kudos for conceding.

It is REALLY worth the click kids...Damn

R260

Many women who had implants in their 20' or 30's get them removed when they get older. This is especially true of those who rocked "C" cups or larger FWIU.

Having the bust line of a 20 year old when 50 or older can either be a curse or blessing, but many find it the former. That and implants can slow early detection of breast cancer. Besides the things don't have an infinite lifespan; saline is shorter than silicone but either should be remove and replaced or whatever after about 10 to 20 years.

Tawny appeared on Howard Stern after the OJ murders and she strongly hinted that she and OJ had fucked.

[quote]Too fat, too athletic? Aren’t those mutually exclusive? As well there was more pressure for women to be thin in the 70s and 80s than today.

Agreed. Look at Beyonce, Gaga, Rihanna, Christina, Demi Lovato, Billie Eilish. Almost none of the women in music today are thin.

Kitaen was thin, though. I think that poster was typing drunk.

Billie Eilish is slim, she just has her knockers.

Oh I forgot Kelly Clarkson, Adele, Lizzo...

R285, That's not true.

Her Surreal Life season is streaming on Pluto tv. She is the fourth person to die from her year after Sherman Hemsley, Florence Henderson, Alexis Arquette, and now Tawny.

Sherman and Florence were old.

[quote] I'm amazed everyone has so much to say about her. To me, she was just a small blip in the '80s, who I had completely forgotten about for decades.

Poor you.

Tanya Roberts AND Tawny Kitaen within months of each other.

Cybille Shepherd is in the thread y'all.

What kind of a tree was she?

She’s rakin coals down under for the red beast now

She was pretty but also had the it factor. RIP Tawny

I was born in 82 so I didn’t even see Tawny really in her prime. I remember seeing old Whitesnake videos and thinking how gorgeous she was. The big 80s hair looked like shit on most people but I loved it on her. Then I saw her on Surreal Life and I loved her on that.

How she looked in the 80s she would’ve been popular today. The poster who said red hair is out and the young people wouldn’t like her is a moron. Must be a millennial.

She wouldn't have been allowed to have this butt today.

She definitely had “it”. RIP Tawny

I remember Howard commenting on the story of her arrest years ago. His big takeaway was "146 POUNDS?!"

According to the the producers and director of Witchboard, she actually dated O.J. Simpson in the 80s.

Has Susan Dey sent her condolences yet? We're waiting.

R303, Please see R284.

Cause of death? Suicide by OD?

OJ visited the set of Witchboard.

She looked beautiful in Witchboard

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Howard Stern did a great tribute to her this morning. He played clips from when she did the show years ago where she talked about the Chuck Finley ordeal and how her contract on America's Funniest People forbid her to do his show (!). Howard, of course, went on a tangent about how hot she was, but he was respectful. He mentioned how he and Tawny were both at Orange Julius's wedding to Marla Maples and how Tawny was there with OJ. He also played a clip of Tawny saying how she couldn't wrap her brain around OJ doing something like committing murder because he never showed violent tendencies when he was with her.

ya'll made me watch that horrible movie! ugh

BLASPHEMY R311!

Coverdale is quite active on Twitter, he posts a lot of saucy memes like a suburban frau. I wonder if he’ll take a respectful break.

I just checked and no he did not. Twitter life goes on!

A relationship from the 80s? Do the math.

I wonder if Tawny was ever considered for the real housewives of orange county. Maybe Jeana wouldn’t have wanted another baseball wife on there.

Oh wow, she would have been perfect for that show r316

Fuck, I'm sad all over again.

Kitaen is likely a bastardization of Katan, which means small in Hebrew.

Gaga quote posted on Instagram by Marty Callner, the director of the Whitesnake videos.

r304, see r168 and r118

Awww. I just learned of this last night.

I attended a party of hers MANY years ago.

Tawny was hot AF back in the day. All the boys in Hollywood were after her back then.

May she RIP. She was actually a very sweet lady.

I’m surprised TMZ hasn’t found out her cause of death.

She just died a few days ago R322. It takes several weeks before an official cause of death is determined.

Ok R321- more about the party.

From TMZ . . .

Tawny Kitaen, the late actress who starred in "Bachelor Party," died of a broken heart ... so says her brother, who thinks losing their father was too much for Tawny to handle.

Jordan Kitaen tells TMZ ... police have spoken to the family, telling them there was nothing found at the scene suggesting drugs, pills or alcohol were a factor in her death ... and no signs she took her own life, either.

However, Jordan says Tawny was devastated by the recent death of her father, who passed away April 12 after a long battle with skin cancer. He believes the death was too much for Tawny's system to handle, especially because their dad's funeral was just days away when she died.

We're told Tawny, the oldest child, was extremely tight with their father, and Jordan describes their relationship as an "uncanny connection."

R325, does this mean you think Tawny was molested or does this mean you think her father accepted Tawny for who Tawny believed Tawny was or who Tawny wanted to be?

R324, it was so long ago, all of those parties from back in the day blur into each other, ya know?

I remember conversations. Not parties.

Tawny talked in her Youtube videos about her rocky relationship with her mother and some of her other relatives. I think she was closer to her father than anyone else. She said she didn't think her mother liked her much.

[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.]

Her life was not in vein. At least she got to fuck Jerry Seinfeld for a while after she did his show.

Jerry was cheap with others? Shocking.

"Her life was not in vein."

Oh, holy dear!

She could've written a helluvan autobiography

[quote] Her life was not in vein.

Fucking really?

I would have totally read her autobiography

🙁

I heard she died from clogged vains.

[quote]Billie Eilish is slim, she just has her knockers.

THIS is slim? Lmao

I knew Billy would eventually get around to showing off her body...

Why does she always look lazy and drugged out?

I am curious about her cause of death. No drugs or alcohol found in her system, and not suicide.

She hit her head coming out of the cartwheel.

One article said residential injury.

R339, when did that information come out re: no drugs or alcohol in her system?

Police did not find anything at the scene and do not believe drugs, alcohol or pills were a factor in her death.

There were no signs that she took her own life, the outlet reported

She's still dead?

pleez get up we luv u tawny kitaen

Tawny's family must have lined out OP.

UPDATE.....And it's kind of odd---which DL loves................."The police reported that nothing at the scene indicated alcohol or drugs as a factor in Kitaen's death.The Orange County coroner's office made the certificate as "residential death", without any other description"..................................RESIDENTIAL DEATH?..On a Death Certificate?....Never heard of that before......WTF?

I found that weird too. Is it another way of saying died at home of natural causes?

She was too young to die of "natural causes." Was there an autopsy done?