Attorney: Suzanne Pleshette, best known as ’Newhart’s’ wife, dies in Los Angeles at age 70
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Suzanne Pleshette, the beautiful, husky-voiced film and Broadway theater star best known for her role as Bob Newhart’s sardonic wife on television’s long-running “The Bob Newhart Show,” has died, said her attorney Robert Finkelstein. She was 70.
Pleshette, who underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2006, died of respiratory failure Saturday evening at her Los Angeles home, said attorney and family friend Robert Finkelstein. She was 70.
“The Bob Newhart Show, a hit throughout its six-year run, starred comedian Newhart as a Chicago psychiatrist surrounded by eccentric patients. Pleshette provided the voice of reason.

In my opinion, that was the best of the jillion or so series that had Newhart's name in the title. Suzanne was a big reason, at least from my point of view.

Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain, A Knight's Tale, soon to be the Joker) was found dead today.

I don`t get it...fame,fortune...i think i should kill myself...gimme a break!! You got your dream job...Hollywood,then you piss it away,what the h*ll is wrong with these people?!?!!

Peace

Spyro1

Well, the NYPD spokesman said "there was no obvious indication that it was a suicide", which tells me not to jump quite that far just yet....it could have been an accidental death, until ruled otherwise.

Still is very sad, to see a young and rising star leave so suddenly.

I think I liked him best in Mel Gibson's The Patriot.

Sad too for his daughter.

Later
TY

I heard on the radio this morning that it was accidental. Police found six prescription drugs on the premises, but nothing illegal.

On the lighter said, the animal kingdom was well represented on today's obituary page. Three of the deceased had nicknames of "Super Chicken," "Man," and "Bull."

There was a special Factor TV Icon segment dedicated to Suzanne Pleshette on tonight's "O'Reilly Factor." Bill interviewed Tim Conway for his thoughts on Suzanne. They worked together in the 1976 movie "The Shaggy D.A."
Feel free to tell me, the 26-year-old, what I left out.

The guru to the Beatles, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi died yesterday at age 91.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23018484

This one took me by surprise. I didn't know he was 75. Wow!

Actor Roy Scheider died on Sunday at the age of 75. No cause has been given at this time. Scheider was a two time Oscar nominated actor. He was nominated in 1971 for Best Supporting Actor for The French Connection, where he played Popeye Doyle's (Gene Hackman) partner. He was also nominated again in 1979 for Best Actor for his role in All That Jazz, the semi-autobiographical account of Bob Fosse's life. He played the Fosse character. Even though he had those two Oscar nods, he was best known for playing Chief Brody, the sheriff in the movie Jaws, who, upon witnessing the shark for the first time utters that classic line, "You're gonna need a bigger boat."

amazing for it's day, how much Jaws could take our breath away. I too had no idea he was that old.

Although, I do have to add, it was on tv one afternoon last week, saw fifteen minutes or so of it...and I have to say it looked cheesy by comparison to today's expectations of special effects. Make us realize how far that side of the movies has come. Of course, even back then, after watching it a few times, you could tell what was faked. I'm surprised they haven't done a remake with new special effects :rolleyes:

Even so, it still brings memories of a childlike outright fear of the shark, and admiration of him standing up to the foe of the century.
I know I'll always remember him for that role.

Of course in my later youth and early adulthood, I probably turned out more like Richard Dreyfus's character...clueless, sacred, and usually hung over

RIP

Tony

The hospital did not give a cause of death, but there have been reports that before he died, Roy was treated for myeloma.
He was a very good actor. I liked him in just about everything I saw him in.