Donna Pescow

She is. She is Donna Pescow, former star of TV's "Angie".

She was the mom on Even Stevens and perfect as the busy politician mother who was constantly exasperated by her rebellious son played by Shia LeBeouf

Let the rain shower…

Let the rose flower…

Everyone is still holding a grudge over Out of This World.

She played the first lesbian on Daytime TV

Her surname is too bovine.

And was raped in Saturday Night Fever.

Whine. Why isn’t this a ‘It’s A Living’ adjacent thread? Ann Jillian! Ann Jillian! Ann Jillian!, then, naturally, the hefty friend from ‘Bosom Buddies’ is mentioned, so tragic; thus, the deceptively older than she looked actress who replaced the daughter from the original ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’. Then, the tragic ‘Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman’, Sweathog alumnus who may have inadvertently bared her nip on Password and lost her husband on 9-11. Plus, I think Donna and Blair Brown should have had a death match! “There can be only one!”

The cast of this podcast adores her.

WHET Debralee Scott?

Glad Debrelee Scott got work after "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."

My brother always said “it’s almost time for “Mangy” just to get me mad.

LOVE her in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. She just has one of those faces and that energy you just fall immediately in love with.

The show wasn't on for very long--just two seasons. It never made it big in syndication as a result.

[quote]WHET Debralee Scott?

She's dead, dear.

I for one LOVE Donna. I was about 8 when Angie debuted & it was my favorite show. I thought she was so pretty & has such beautiful eyes. I heard she had to gain a bunch of weight for her role in SNF in order to look dumpy, but I think she was prettier than the female lead. Years later she got extra brownie points for playing a daytime TV’s first lesbian.

I used to watch Out of this World even though I was too old by then! The cast was so attractive: Maureen Flannigan, Doug McClure, Steve Burton, not to mention Burt Reynolds (though you never saw him).

The last thing I saw her on was the penultimate or so episode of Sopranos, & she still looked good, though she’d been digging into the manicott a bit too much!

R14, I just rewatched “Saturday Night Fever” and despised her character. She was dumb and coarse and desperate. I also hated the love interest who was only slightly better. She was supposedly refined (in comparison to the rest of those hoodlums), but she was still a hick.

I didn’t realize the characters were supposed to be college-age kids. Donna’s character seemed 35.

R18, with Saturday Night Fever, the story is secondary. The movie was made to promote disco dancing.

I think she's tremendous!

OP is on to something. I remember the show, I remember the theme and credits, and I remember Robert Hays, Debralee Scott & Doris Roberts being in it. But I didn’t remember the name Donna Pescow at all.

Just watched to the end of the YouTube clip and see that the episode they plucked guest starred Adrian Zmed & Peter Scholari. Both of them and Robert Hays in the same place? No wonder my young gay self doesn’t remember Donna Pescow!

I gave up dick and went lez for her.

I don't think Saturday Night Fever was just a trend cash-in movie like Thank God It's Friday or Breakin'. Norman Wexler was a serious playwright and screenwriter whose other films included Serpico. (Tony has a picture of Pacino as Serpico on his wall.) The script is trying for something similar to early Scorsese movies like Who's That Knocking on My Door and Mean Streets, showing attitudes and a way of life for the young people, mostly the young men, of its place and time, including what's unappealing about them. But this was a more commercial movie with more hands in the batter, and it hasn't held up as well as those. Some plot strands seem truncated.

R24 even for the 70s the language was really…rough. To 2023 ears obviously much more so. I saw a BTS thing for Saturday Night Fever on Reels and the movie definitely was intended to be in the vein of Taxi driver and all those type of movies you mentioned. In some ways it is.

I thought Donna Pescow was so attractive in “Angie” that she distracted my gayling attraction to Robert Hays. Now, THAT’S a pretty woman!

Do you suppose Donna, Sally Struthers and Brenda Vaccarro are frequently up for the same roles and recognize each other's cars in the parking lots at various casting agencies throughout LA. I picture all three of them sitting in their parked car in the parking lot, stress eating fun size bags of chilli cheese Freetos and guzzling a lukewarm can of Diet Pepsi, after seeing each other;s cars before an audition.

She played Donna Parisi (wife of Patsy Parisi) on the Sopranos. Just for one episode, though. Another actress played Donna Parisi, earlier.

It's crazy that David Chase didn't use Donna Pescow more often, in the Sopranos.

The divine DL fave Sharon Spellman stole every scene she was in.

It’s funny how some actresses suddenly get fast so extreme and fast. Irl aging you get maybe a little bit thicker with each decade but it’s gradual (think someone like Betty White) - is it suddenly when they get off the drugs 100 pounds pour on? Or is it an Italian thing?

We have a Donna troll? Really?

Fat*

OP, you have to decide if you're gonna be a nice girl or a cunt. Which one are you?

I have a shrine to Donna Pescow in a spare bedroom of my house. I also own VHS copies of every episode of "Angie" that I won on eBay in 1999. I think she's the perfect woman and probably the most perfect human being who ever lived.

R34, you know that the full series of Angie was released on DVD a few years back.

R30 HUH?

R36 Rabin cute actresses who suddenly blow up and fast once they hit about 35. That’s not real life typical but you see it a lot more with actresses. Not hard to understand

I just adore that theme song from Angie sung by Maureen McGovern. Takes me right back to fourth grade in 1979-80.

It's a nice enough theme song, but it's no.....

God knows it’s very hard to keep off weight as one ages; I imagine it’s a lot harder for women as petite as Donna Pescow, Sally Struthers, etc.