Loni Anderson is DEAD TO ME!!!!

From yahoo.

Now she won't spill the beans about me

She went to my high school in Minnesota decades before I did, and was elected homecoming queen.

She had quite big tits.

[quote]She went to my high school in Minnesota decades before I did, and was elected homecoming queen.

Something you have in common, of course.

Wow. Didn't see that one coming.

Was she ill?

Lady of the 80s who almost made it to 80. RIP

I bet Burt is waiting on the other side for her, and they both will be transformed to their most healthy and attractive times in their lives.

I realize they had an acrimonious end, but I do think they were kind of meant to be.

OMG Linda Gray looks like a ghoul.

[quote]I bet Burt is waiting on the other side for her, and they both will be transformed to their most healthy and attractive times in their lives.

If those two crossed paths again in the afterlife, they'd immediately start fighting over money again and suing each other.

And goddammit, Donald Trump is still alive.

No fucking mercy in this world.

They were a disaster for one another. They were both shopaholics.

r10 I hardly think people are concerned over such banal things as money in the afterlife.

Susan Dey may call in to WKRP in Cincinnati to offer her condolences. No guarantee.

Stay tuned.

WRIP….in Cincinnati…

R8. realize they had an acrimonious end, but I do think they were kind of meant to be.

Fuck you.

This is unexpected

Fuck you, r16.

OMG, who's next...Lydia Cornell?!

R18. No. FUCK YOU.

R19 Don’t you dare

Did she get caught in a….Venus flytrap?

[quote] This is unexpected

An 80 year old dying is unexpected?

Did she have a Johnny Fever?

Too much Bailey in her coffee?

She never got over Lou Reed’s death.

Did he beat her up, too?

[Quote] Was she ill?

No Rose, she died fighting an oil rig fire.

Sock it to r28

Rest In Peace, Loni Anderson.

WWTF? Right when that new Mariska Hargitay Jayne Mansfield doc fueled an outburst of new interest in Loni's oeuvre.

Somewhere Gary Sandy, and his densely packed jeans, are shedding a tear.

R9 You picked Linda Gray out of that crowd?

Just read another article that said she died in a hospital after a "prolonged illness." Wondering if she died of cancer or some other terminal disease.

Yes, 80 year olds die, but she seemed pretty healthy, there were no reports or pics of her looking frail or sickly any time in the recent past. She even appeared on a show just 2 years ago and looked pretty damn good. THAT'S WHY IT WAS UNEXPECTED.

Jesus.

Fly high, Angel.

An entire generation is dropping like flies.

R8 is that what happens in heaven? We all turn into our youngest best looking self? Dang! My parish priest never told me this.

Were her tits real? Was her hair real?

RIP Jennifer Marlowe. WKRP was the best.

And Paula Deen still walks among us.

[quote] Was she ill?

When you reach a certain age (which she had, and I have) it really doesn't matter how good your health seems. You never know what health abomination you're going to wake up to every day. You can be perfectly fine one minute and dead the next. Ii realize I'm living on borrowed time and try to enjoy every day I'm given.

"Prolonged illness" usually means cancer.

Her internal body might have been 80, but her external body was only 35. She'd had tons of plastic surgery. Most women are happy living in their own skin. Loni was happy living in someone else's.

I remember reading once that the main reason she and Burt divorced was because she had attempted to spend him into bankruptcy. Once he put the brakes on her wild spending she was out of there.

Better grab this little piece of memorabilia while it’s still available.

LONGTIME love rivals Loni Anderson and Sally Field are finding emotional Deliverance by bonding over their shared dislike of mutual ex-lover, the late Burt Reynolds, GLOBE can reveal!

"It bugs them both that their names are synonymous with this man," tattles a tipster.

The Semi-Tough actor died at 82 from a heart attack in 2018, but insiders say Loni, 77, is still "bitter" over their rocky divorce and has found a confidante in Burt's Smokey and the Bandit leading lady, Sally, 76.

Loni and Burt, who shared adopted son Quinton, now 34, were married six years, but The Man Who Loved Women hunk only finished paying out her settlement in 2015 - 22 years after they split!

"Loni's doing great now and so is Sally, but when it comes to Burt, there's still bitterness," snitches an insider.

…

Loni and Burt - captured in time......mismatched pair and certainly not believable.

[quote]Did he beat her up, too?

Loni referenced domestic abuse in her memoir and said her bruises didn't go unnoticed on sets.

[quote]I remember reading once that the main reason she and Burt divorced was because she had attempted to spend him into bankruptcy. Once he put the brakes on her wild spending she was out of there.

That's his story. According to her, he cheated throughout their marriage. He even invited his mistress to their wedding.

She stood by him when he couldn't work because he broke his jaw, and rumors flew that he had AIDS.

Hm, I had no idea he beat her.

Consider my comment at r8 null and void.

He was hooked on painkillers and totally nuts.

She certainly had an...interesting face along with the perfectly spherical but too small head.

This one made me gasp out loud.

So sorry, Loni -- may she RIP.

Always loved the WKRP theme song:

Burt and Loni were tabloid fixtures of the 80's.

The story goes that when they announced their divorce, Princess Diana sent Burt a joking telegram thanking them for keeping her off the front page for once.

My BF and I were in an antique store in Louisville a couple of years ago and the owner had a (hideous) “Venetian” glass mirror he swore came from Burt and Loni’s house. Maybe one of you can grab it to admire your reflection in your caftan and earrings while imagining Burt Reynolds in his prime coming up behind you to tell you how pretty you look.

DAMN

[quote]Were her tits real?

She even had a breast reduction, r39.

Anyone wanna guess what exactly killed her? Stroke? Colon cancer?

I hope these guys were together when it was announced.....

On the TV sitcom of Private Benjamin (it wasn't bad) had a character with a pair of pet turtles, or lizards, or hamsters or something, named Burt and Loni.

I send my condolences.

[quote] OMG Linda Gray looks like a ghoul.

Why? Where?

R54 I always loved the ending theme, too.

This surprised me. How I loved WKRP. I always thought Bailey Quarters was more attractive, but preferred Jennifer Marlowe's personality and attitude. I hope they had a good

At r7, next to Loni, r63.

My hetero brothers and father and friends all preferred Bailey.

Didn't Jennifer's apartment have a distinctive doorbell chime? A Sinatra tune maybe? It wasn't Swing on A Star.

Has former co-star Arnold commented?

I heard she never fully recovered from having her pussy prolapse after being fucked by Gary Sandy's magnificent cock.

R66 - I think it was "Welcome to my World, won't you come one in?" whatever that song was.

I forgot to complete my sentence at r65. "I hope the had a good working *relationship*.

R41- You mean the

CONFEDERATE CLOWN 🤡

I’m sad.

Lifetime supporter of gay rights and civil rights. A good person.

[Quote] Gary Sandy's Massive Bulge

Bulge, you and Jan Smithers are the last two left.

I remember now r69! It was "Fly Me to the Moon and Let Me Play Among the Stars"

Me too, R64; I also had a crush on the song's writer/-performer, Buzz Sapien (who was a producer or something on the show).

I'm sure Gary's bulge is all old and wrinkled now, but it was truly majestic in its day.

Supposedly neither she nor Burt could leave the house without being in full make-up.

Burt seriously looked HIV positive. Did we land on a definitive answer?

Always kept up her looks. She was real prime pussy up until the very end.

[quote]Bulge, you and Jan Smithers are the last two left.

Excuse me?

Loni got to have some of Gary's bulge in its prime, according to her book.

Gary Sandy (Andy), Richard Sanders (Les), Tim Reid (Venus) and Jan Smithers (Bailey) are all alive.

So young...RIP

My dearest friend. How much my heart breaks.

[quote]r77 = Supposedly neither she nor Burt could leave the house without being in full make-up.

I don't blame them. They were major tabloid fodder.

Jan Smithers had James Brolin in his prime. Her first husband has gigantic dick face.

My Facebook friend Mario De Casa stated it was a battle with cancer which Loni wanted to not publicize.

She always had terrible wigs. Even in her heyday in the 80s.

Oh well, RIP honey.

My sister thought less of Loni back in the 1980s when TV Guide published Loni's recipe for Beef Stroganoff. Loni used ketchup!

I never liked her. I didn’t think she was that beautiful, not at all. And she was a terrible dramatic actress. I know that Burt was an asshole but she was greedy.

She was trashy looking. Those eyebrows. But i really wanted that series she did with Lynda Carter to work. Sadly no.

[quote] My hetero brothers and father and friends all preferred Bailey.

While I'm certainly not hetero, I preferred Bailey to Jennifer too. They were the 80s version of Mary Ann vs Ginger.

Also this madcap suspense series that was a weekly masterclass in comedy

And she should have never done that awful tv remake of Leave Her to Heaven. Bad agent / manager

My beautiful dear friend, Loni! RIP.

Where was her Phaedra...her Lady Macbeth?

I miss you, Loni! RIP!

She was a sweet person.

Isn't the lady at r97 dead, too?

Who remembers her sitcom ‘Easy Street?’ It only lasted one season.

[quote]Isn't the lady at [R97] dead, too?

Who can tell?

[QUOTE]Loni used ketchup!

Isn't she from Minnesota. Would explain.

I loved Easy Street as a kid.

[quote]Gary Sandy (Andy), Richard Sanders (Les), Tim Reid (Venus) and Jan Smithers (Bailey) are all alive.

I’m surprised Richard Sanders is still alive. He seemed old on the show although he wasn’t even 40 when it started. No screen credits since 2006 and he didn’t appear at the WKRP Paleyfest reunion in 2014. He was the only living cast member not there

I didn't even realize she was still alive.

See you in HELL, Loni!!

R66, Jennifer’s doorbell played Fly Me To The Moon, A Christmas episode.

I've seen better wigs on a department store mannequin!

Pardon me for asking, but is Burt Reynolds a....

Does Loni know?

She doesn't look like she wore a wig because that hair is so fried. Wouldn't a wig be more conditioned?

My little brother had that Loni Anderson poster magnetized to our refrigerator. It clashed with my Mom’s beaconing hands of Christ print on the wall.

I doubt Burt was gay. There are no rumors of him hooking up with men.

The love of his life was Dinah Shore. Sally Field, Lorna Luft and Adrienne Barbeau were among his other affairs. He asked Olivia Newton John out but was turned down.

I love it when the Datalounge wig obsessives emerge on any major story. I don't understand it, but it's very entertaining.

I always liked her. Godspeed!

Burt "discovered" Robert Urich

The marriage between them was perfect in principle: two people who were famous for being insanely attractive but were actually not physically attractive in the slightest

Barbara Eden will be 94 in a few weeks.

I hate to speak badly about her so quickly after she died - BUT - this is Datalounge after all.

I always thought she looked cheap and facially she wasn't all THAT. She was a dyed-blonde with big boobs - a dime a dozen.

Here's what she looked like when she was young. Brown hair and brown eyes.

She always just looked like a mob's wife - tight tacky clothes, big boobs, over-bleached hair. She had terrible style. It was 100% bimbo.

But I'm sure she was lovely.

Barbara Eden looks good

r118 She was quite pretty there

[quote]It was 100% bimbo.

Not 100%, r118, she had a breast reduction.

Some of her funniest awful wigs were in her '80s and '90s TV movies. Those roles often came to her at the last minute, after other actresses dropped out due to illness or scheduling conflicts.

R120 - I think she would have looked a lot more sophisticated with brown hair with streaks and highlights - not the full crispy over-processed blonde hair with feathered wings.

In later years she may have worn wigs - but she bleached the fuck out of that hair for a long time.

She never really found her “Burning Bed” vehicle.

[quote] I doubt Burt was gay. There are no rumors of him hooking up with men

I think he could have been bisexual. He admitted as much in a Barbara Walters interview in the 1970s. Said guys in cigarette ads were attractive, might turn bisexual for them. He might have been referring to Tom Selleck's Marlboro advertisements (see that other thread with fatso MAGAT gun nut)

It was the 1970s and many celebs were admitting to bisexuality to cover being gay. Elton John for one.

Even Blake Edwards talked about his "bisexual period" in a PLAYBOY interview (I sneaked my father's Playboy and Penthouse magazines out of his filing cabinet when he wasn't home)

It’s not like I was ever a huge Loni fan, but this does make me sad. She was good on WKRP (even though like most gays I preferred Bailey) and I even watched her shitty show with Lynda Carter (I will be *devastated* when she dies). I think she was okay as Jayne Mansfield? I haven’t seen that movie since it first aired on tv, and I was a kid, so who knows. Did really love her as sort of Candy Spelling on SO NOTORIOUS.

It’s hard being in my 50s now and seeing the people I grew up watching die off.

Well, not Hulk Hogan. Fuck him.

She was Mae West hot.

You're having to face your own mortality, r126. Wait and see what it's like in 10 years.

The Coroner has determined that she was indeed a Muppet.

[quote]She was Mae West hot.

No, r127, she was Jayne Mansfield hot. Ann Jillian was Mae West hot.

Actually, based on the photo at R118, I should have said she was Florence Harding hot.

Her passing surprised me because I hadn't thought about her in decades.

WIG!!!!!

She was so great on WKRP. Rest in Peace Loni Anderson.

[quote]I always thought she looked cheap and facially she wasn't all THAT. She was a dyed-blonde with big boobs - a dime a dozen. She always just looked like a mob's wife - tight tacky clothes, big boobs, over-bleached hair. She had terrible style. It was 100% bimbo.

You just described Dolly Parton, too.

Facially, Dolly *is* all that, r135. She's very pretty...underneath it all.

Before she got WKRP, didn't she audition for both 'Charlie's Angels' and 'Three's Company' but was rejected ? I remember her saying that in an interview back in the 1980s.

R136. And had a husband who was actually extremely attractive, unlike Anderson.

I remember that Jayne Mansfield telebio as being macabre. She looked nothing like her and was too old, wearing about an inch of makeup. But it did launch Ahnuld's movie career.

R136 LOL! Her face is all the work of plastic surgeons and cosmetics.

I read this as Louie Anderson.

Jan Smithers as Bailey was much more beautiful on WKRP but I always liked how Loni didn’t play Jennifer as some dumb bimbo. She was classy in comparison to her sex bomb looks.

I tried watching her remake of Sorry, Wrong Number in the 80s and couldn't get very far

I don't think any of we DLers had her on our 2025 Celebrity Death Watch list, did we?

Was it her idea to play Jennifer as smart instead of the dumb blonde stereotype? Or was it the director and producer? Based on what I'm reading they make it sound like it was her decision.

R145 It was her decision. She insisted on not playing a dumb blonde.

Loni is a natural brunette and very pretty. She was 1st runner up to Miss Minnesota in 1964 and ended up marrying the winner of the pageants older brother who is the father of her daughter.

She looks better as a brunette

She was a beautiful lady. RIP I wish it had been a much fatter orange turd instead

Barbara Eden’s team is pretty ridiculous with all the watermarks they always put all over her photos.

[Quote] Gary Sandy (Andy), Richard Sanders (Les), Tim Reid (Venus) and Jan Smithers (Bailey) are all alive.

Damn it, I can’t bear the shame. Now I’m going to have to hunt down and eradicate Sanders and Reid.

You’ll get over it, Datalounge. And if you don’t… WHO CARES! I’m on my way to meet Burt Reynolds!

Damn.

I remember those knockers of hers from back before I could talk.

[quote]I don't think any of we DLers had her on our 2025 Celebrity Death Watch list, did we?

Oh dear, r144!

[quote]I always thought Bailey Quarters was more attractive, but preferred Jennifer Marlowe's personality and attitude. I hope they had a good

A good what? Shit?

R154, learn how to read.

[quote]Barbara Eden’s team is pretty ridiculous with all the watermarks they always put all over her photos.

Her team consists of one person, Patterson Lundquist, who is an Elvira impersonator.

She swears she was not in the film “Nevada Smith” and that she was in college at the time. Even her family told her it was her. She said she didn’t come to Hollywood until a decade later but she would love to know who the woman is because she looks and sounds like her with brunette hair.

I don't like women with stiff hair.

Loni was a blonde and a brunette in the suspense thriller NECESSITY and she rocked em both!

I could have sworn that years ago I read on the DL a thread about Loni started by an OP who was convinced that Loni was Black but passed once she got the cosmetic surgery and collection of blonde wigs.

Mind you I once met an unhinged dyke at a party who was convinced that Lisa Kudrow was originally Asian American before the cosmetic surgery, bleached hair and changing her name, which was originally Lee-sa Koo-dro, so I could be getting confused.

[quote] Always loved the WKRP theme song:

“But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity”.

[quote] I always loved the ending theme, too.

The guy who composed it recorded a demo with some gibberish lyrics and sent it to producer Hugh Wilson. He was going to write some later, but Wilson decided to use it as it was. I don’t know how many times I tried to decipher those lyrics.

This will have #153 cryin':

"Described her early development and subsequent decision to have breast reduction surgery as follows,: "When I was 14 my measurements were 37D-20-32. Now I feel more in proportion at 36-24-36 instead of outrageous"

I never understood why anyone found her attractive. She had a weird face - kind of corn-fed looking.

Does r165 really typify gay men?

r166 Who said it did?

R156. Unfortunately for you, R154 does know how to read.

R154 Oh, dear!

[quote] "We" and "us" are both first-person plural pronouns, but they function differently in a sentence. "We" is used as the subject of a verb (the doer of the action), while "us" is used as the object of a verb or preposition (the receiver of the action).

Loni's makeup always seemed 'off.' It made her look reddish - very unflattering. That harsh hair really would have been better matched with softer, smokey makeup.

One does wonder what Mariska thought of her TV portrayal of her mother.

No official cause of death has been announced (TMZ is slacking) but her publicist had said she battled a 'long term illness'. Some people on Facebook are posting on her obit pages that she was battling MS for years, but never went public with it, and this was the cause of death.

Not sure how true this is, but this is what some people 'who know her' are putting out there (and there seems to be some agreement on this).

Might have been peroxide poisoning.

I truly admire these celebrities like Anderson who are battling a terminal illness and keep it out of their public lives (Donna Summer , and most recently Julian McMahon comes to mind). There is something to be said for how they - and those around them - can keep control of their private lives, and manage it separately from their public / celebrity life in this age of digital info.

Paul Rubens too r174.

My Death In High Heels

37D? Probably the wrong place to ask but were odd numbered band sizes a thing back in the day?

When did she have the surgery? Her boobs don’t look that big in the pageant picture upthread.

Implants need to be replaced (or removed) as they have a shelf life. She seems to have gotten hers fairly young...I wonder how many "refreshes" she had.

Loni had a similar face to Our Lady of Fried Egg Titties Bonnie Franklin.

I always hated her bleached, lacquered hair. She was much more attractive as a brunette. I know her blonde look got her noticed, but it also made her look cheap and unserious.

I think her best role was as a not-so-thinly-veiled version of Candy Spelling in Tori Spelling's brief, but hilarious "So Notorious" TV show.

I liked the way Loni's character referred to Zach Quinto, Tori's gay friend, as "that Persian boy."

She had a reduction, r179, not an augmentation.

Her figure was weird. When she wore shorts her legs looked like two pencils stuck in a big apple.

My favorite WKRP moment was when Herb bragged he was going to be making "muy dinero".

Jennifer turned to him and said "Herb, in Spanish, you just said very money"..

some guys like her type...

go figure!

Someone mentioned upthread how she raped and murdered two classic women’s noir movies: LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN AND SORRY, WRONG NUMBER. Those two movies made me dislike her. Almost as much as I dislike Susan Richardson, and that’s saying something 😡

She also did the TV remake of A Letter to Three Wives with Michele Lee and Stephanie Zimbalist.

We should do a DL film festival called "Loni Rapes the Classics"

I guess she was better than Jaclyn Smith, who is a dreadful actress.

She brutally butt-fucked those movies.

Sadly, not even she could improve the quality of that "hit" show, "Nurses." I had such high hopes she could take it back to its glory days!

She was hilarious as KiKi Spelling on Tori's tv show...

CORRECTION: She did not have MS, and that's not what she died from. Apparently, her daughter Diedra, 60, was diagnosed with MS years ago and her mother has been by her side for every doctor's appointment, etc. - Loni was not the one diagnosed. The previous posts from this morning seem to have been taken down now.

r194 Links please?

[quote] I read this as Louie Anderson.

Well, they are both from Minnesota. And they both had big chests.

R187, R188, R189, And don't forget when our dear Loni graced us with "Coins in the Fountain," a 1990 tv movie remake of "Three Coins in the Fountain." Co-starring Stepfanie Kramer and Shanna Reed.

And as if portraying screen goddess Jayne Mansfield wasn't enough, Loni also gave us another biopic on a dead blonde-- "White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd."

Has anyone seen Sizzle, the one she did with DL fave Leslie Uggams?

No praise for her stellar work in Munchie?

Man did she make some shitty projects. Terrible actress. RIP though…

R198. Yes! I cheered when they found her frozen corpse in that garage.

I haven't seen an episode of WKRP since it was originally on.

It's a shame Loni never got to play Grace Kelly. That would've completed a trifecta of dead Hollywood blondes in cars.

R181 Her hair always looked so stiff that if you fell on top of her head you might get impaled.

The Jayne Mansfield movie is pretty ghastly. Most of it looks like it was filmed in somebody’s living room. But I’ll give it props as a bit of a camp classic.

R116 Huh? The young Burt was drop-dead gorgeous and oozed sex appeal. Speak for yourself.

Someone posted "79 is young." COME ON! It's sad that she died, but when a 79 year old goes, it's sort of the natural order of things.

I never really got the appeal of her as a sex symbol-that face, body, and especially helmet hair, made her seem like a weird caricature of every blonde that had come before her-but I liked her as a persona. She always seemed funny and down to earth in interviews. And I liked that Jennifer Marlowe ruled the roost. RIP.

[quote]Before she got WKRP, didn't she audition for both 'Charlie's Angels' and 'Three's Company' but was rejected?

She did eventually get to do none episode of "Three's Company." Her hair doesn't look as lacquered as it did later.

[quote]R201 Man did she make some shitty projects.

Well, I doubt she was ever offered anything better.

She was decent in one thing - an unacknowledged remake of ALL ABOUT EVE set in the country music world.

Wasn't she in some sort of detective show with Wonder Woman?

She had an affair with Gary Sandy?

I thought he was you know.

Gary was my first inclination that I was attracted to men. He was so fucking sexy on WKRP.

R212 yes Lynda Carter and Loni Anderson did Partners in Crime circa 1983.

Are people here not understanding that Gary Sandy is GAY?

He was in "Some of My Best Friends Are", for crying out loud.

Carol Chase did the singing for Loni in "Country Gold." The young Linda Hamilton was the Eve character.

Gary Sandy's tight jeans gave me the vapors!

R169, it’s slang. Fuck off.

All the episodes of WKRP are available to stream on the Internet Archive. Quality is good.

r220 Your meds are off lately. I don't mean that in a shitty way - I really do just mean maybe talk to your doctor. You seem unhinged and angry lately.

R220 Feelin' pretty dumb right now, huh?

We intelligent people feel for you. :-)

R168 Unfortunately, they don't. See R169.

I wonder whether her kids will auction off her estate next year ? Will it be 'Raquel Welch' tacky or 'Barbara Walters' tasteful ? Will an auction house even take it or will it be sold on eBay ?

I'm guessing tackier than Raquel Welch's possessions she left behind.

FTR, R154 is right to oh-dear R144's "I don't think any of we DLers had her on our 2025 Celebrity Death Watch list."

The object of the preposition "of" should be "us," not "we." That anyone would not get this is an embarrassment. I'm not sure which position R169 is supporting, but their quotation obviously supports "us."

Wasn’t there blind items that hinted at Sandy being gay/bi? I recall reading that in one of Billy Masters’ old columns.

R227 No, dear. The subject is DLers. Thus, "we DLer's."

I know this is difficult for you, but it's best you quit while you're behind.

R227 He's been married, but it was brief and it ended in the 1990s, so I wouldn't be surprised if his marriage was a bearding situation.

No, R228, the subject of the verb there ("had") is "any." "We DLers" is the object of the preposition "of" and should be "us DLers." How embarrassing when the ignorant are so self-assured!

R230 Oh, my gosh, I just don't even know what to say at this point.

Where did you go to school, Trump University?

R228, condescending much? Eat a bowl of dicks.

R232 So...you *did* attend Trump University.

Got it.

Bless your heart.

Hey, R232, what's the subject of your sentence?

Oh shit, I’d forgotten about “Country Gold”. I remember watching that with my mom.

She's prettier as a brunette. I never found her particularly attractive. She reminded me of Elsie the Cow on the milk cartons. She was bovine looking.

The makeup was garish and does white helmet hair really look good on anyone past the 1960’s? I never knew how pretty she was with brunette hair and glasses until this thread.

She was great as Jennifer - her deadpan comic timing was amazing.

Not so much in any of her other projects. And she was in a lot of terrible ones.

Her character in WKRP was the perfect match of an actress to a role.

After that, she was never able to find another role that would match her personality, so she just ended up doing mostly shlock TV movie projects (oh, and that dreadful series with Lynda Carter).

She found her comic footing again as Tori Spelling's mom in So Notorious. Too bad that series didn't last.

Loni Anderson was a bit before my time and I've never seen her in anything, but those tv movie descriptions sound torturous.

[quote]No, [R228], the subject of the verb there ("had") is "any." "We DLers" is the object of the preposition "of" and should be "us DLers." How embarrassing when the ignorant are so self-assured!

Sweetheart, we know that being a substitute English teacher in 1982 was the highlight of your sad and miserable life but you don't need to hang your shit on all of us here. Work it out with a therapist with the time you have left.

Oh, my. R230, dear, let's start with the fact that "any" cannot be the subject of a verb, as "any" is a modifier.

Yikes.

Loni wasn't bad on Nurses. The trouble was the show didn't know what it wanted to be. And they had so many characters on there over three seasons.

It originally was supposed to be an ensemble show about a group of female nurses who worked at the same hospital as Harry Weston from Empty Nest, but by the end it became about Loni's head of staff as well as David Rasche's sleazy con-artist character (who was brought on later) and their attempts to form a relationship.

I doubt many even know that this show was a part of the Golden Girls universe.

Damn, you folks have fantastic memories. I completely forgot about her being on “Nurses.”

She needed a better agent when WKRP went off the air. By the early-mid 80s, I think she was competing with Suzanne Sommers who was also looking for work at the time, trying not to be forgotten.

r228 Why did you add an apostrophe to DLers? We are embarrassed for you.

R246 Good call.

It's a typo, which is not to be confused with illiteracy.

r247 You tried.

R248 Yet you give enough of a shit that you keep on commenting.

Girls, Girls, GIRLS! You're both cunts.

Burt Reynolds was a cranky cheapskate. I’m glad Loni brought him some misery later in life.

Holy shit. Tim Reid is 80 too. The passage of time is a mutherfucka.

Cold the two of you take your bickering elsewhere?

r253 You're a few hours late, ding dong.

Is NURSES streaming anywhere? Loni Anderson was only in the last season but she definitely improved the show.

WTF ever, R254.

Happy birthday, Loni!!