“Does she is or doesn’t she?
Only her hairdresser knows for sure>”
You might remember that popular advertising pitch that Clairol used in its advertising campaigns in the 1960s.
Well, in today’s COVID0ravaged world, where everything is certified topsy-turvy, I am going to adapt that pitch to the times we live in, related to one story that we all heard about yesterday:
“Is she or isn’t she?
Only her mortician knows for sure.”
Yes, you know the story I am talking about.
Is actress Tanya Roberts dead or alive?
Who knows what to believe at this point.
On Sunday, we were told that actress Roberts—still a beauty at age 65 but with even less talent then even Elizabeth Hurley—had been out walking her dogs the day before Christmas, collapsed, and never recovered, dying in the hospital as her boyfriend and legions of grade-Z actress fans, mourned.
But yesterday, in a scenario that seemingly had been planned by P.T. Barnum, or “a sucker is born every minute” fame, we were told that the news of Roberts being dead were premature at best, and that she was still alive.
The original news of her death was released not by her family, but by her publicist, which should have raised red flags to begin with, but the scene on the TV show “Inside Edition” really amplified the fact that this is one bizarre case.
The show was interviewing her supposed boyfriend of a number of years, a guy who looked like the ravages of time had been dumped on his own head.
They were right smack dab in the middle of the interview, and all of a sudden, he gets a phone call right in the middle of being spoken to, and to his surprise, he is told that his paramour is not dead, but alive.
When he gets off the phone—the call was quite short, which also puts up some red flags because he could not possibly have gotten all the details in that brief moment of a call--he starts crying, tells the interviewer what has happened, and breaks down sobbing uncontrollably.
At this point, who can believe anything coming out of this story? It just seems so calculated and so planned, and would you put it over the publicist and the boyfriend that it is a hoax, maybe not on the level of Tawana Brawley, but somewhere in its tentacles?
So, is she alive or is she dead?
Apparently, she is alive, even though some sites on the Internet still list her as being dead.
I know this is Dr. Larry talking, and my masters degree does not give me any medical knowledge, but it seems to be that Roberts—who supposedly had been ill prior to her collapse—probably had a stroke, was rushed to the hospital, and somehow, her condition was reported incorrectly by the hospital, or at least her publicist—who probably should be fired—fouled up her condition.
She is, in fact, in a hospital in Los Angeles, and her prognosis is not good. The last I heard, she was in grave condition … not in the grave yet as had been reported, but she isn’t doing very well.
I don’t know, maybe the publicist believes that even such terrible news was news nonetheless, and it got Roberts’ name in the newspapers and on everyone’s lips for the first time in eons.
Roberts has had a pretty non-descript career—another pretty face and pretty body in the midst of many pretty faces and pretty bodies—but she is the answer to a fun a trivia question: who is the only actress to star in the “Charlie’s Angels” TV show and also appear in a James Bond movie?
As you know, she was one of the myriad replacements for Farrah Fawcett in “Charlie’s Angels” and she did appear in one of the Pierce Brosnan Bond films, “A View To Kill.”
But after reaching those pinnacles of success, her career pretty much reverted back to where it started, as a member of the cast of the 1970s exploitation movie “The Yum Yum Girls.”
She made several other classics during her career, including “Sheena,” “Night Eyes” and “Almost Pregnant,” did lots of television, but I dare say that TCM was not planning any tributes to her by showing her movies in a marathon if, in fact, she had died.
Just another pretty face, just another pretty body, but just another story was both a publicist’s dream and nightmare at the same time.
“No news is bad news,” I guess.
But in the midst of a pandemic, where thousands of people are dying each days from this scourge, this is among the top stories of the day?
I think that says more about us than it does about Roberts.
We wish her a speedy recovery, if that is possible at this point, but like someone on the Internet said in reaction to her supposed death and then her actually being alive:
“No, I thought that her career is the thing that was dead.”
Only her hairdresser knows for sure>”
You might remember that popular advertising pitch that Clairol used in its advertising campaigns in the 1960s.
Well, in today’s COVID0ravaged world, where everything is certified topsy-turvy, I am going to adapt that pitch to the times we live in, related to one story that we all heard about yesterday:
“Is she or isn’t she?
Only her mortician knows for sure.”
Yes, you know the story I am talking about.
Is actress Tanya Roberts dead or alive?
Who knows what to believe at this point.
On Sunday, we were told that actress Roberts—still a beauty at age 65 but with even less talent then even Elizabeth Hurley—had been out walking her dogs the day before Christmas, collapsed, and never recovered, dying in the hospital as her boyfriend and legions of grade-Z actress fans, mourned.
But yesterday, in a scenario that seemingly had been planned by P.T. Barnum, or “a sucker is born every minute” fame, we were told that the news of Roberts being dead were premature at best, and that she was still alive.
The original news of her death was released not by her family, but by her publicist, which should have raised red flags to begin with, but the scene on the TV show “Inside Edition” really amplified the fact that this is one bizarre case.
The show was interviewing her supposed boyfriend of a number of years, a guy who looked like the ravages of time had been dumped on his own head.
They were right smack dab in the middle of the interview, and all of a sudden, he gets a phone call right in the middle of being spoken to, and to his surprise, he is told that his paramour is not dead, but alive.
When he gets off the phone—the call was quite short, which also puts up some red flags because he could not possibly have gotten all the details in that brief moment of a call--he starts crying, tells the interviewer what has happened, and breaks down sobbing uncontrollably.
At this point, who can believe anything coming out of this story? It just seems so calculated and so planned, and would you put it over the publicist and the boyfriend that it is a hoax, maybe not on the level of Tawana Brawley, but somewhere in its tentacles?
So, is she alive or is she dead?
Apparently, she is alive, even though some sites on the Internet still list her as being dead.
I know this is Dr. Larry talking, and my masters degree does not give me any medical knowledge, but it seems to be that Roberts—who supposedly had been ill prior to her collapse—probably had a stroke, was rushed to the hospital, and somehow, her condition was reported incorrectly by the hospital, or at least her publicist—who probably should be fired—fouled up her condition.
She is, in fact, in a hospital in Los Angeles, and her prognosis is not good. The last I heard, she was in grave condition … not in the grave yet as had been reported, but she isn’t doing very well.
I don’t know, maybe the publicist believes that even such terrible news was news nonetheless, and it got Roberts’ name in the newspapers and on everyone’s lips for the first time in eons.
Roberts has had a pretty non-descript career—another pretty face and pretty body in the midst of many pretty faces and pretty bodies—but she is the answer to a fun a trivia question: who is the only actress to star in the “Charlie’s Angels” TV show and also appear in a James Bond movie?
As you know, she was one of the myriad replacements for Farrah Fawcett in “Charlie’s Angels” and she did appear in one of the Pierce Brosnan Bond films, “A View To Kill.”
But after reaching those pinnacles of success, her career pretty much reverted back to where it started, as a member of the cast of the 1970s exploitation movie “The Yum Yum Girls.”
She made several other classics during her career, including “Sheena,” “Night Eyes” and “Almost Pregnant,” did lots of television, but I dare say that TCM was not planning any tributes to her by showing her movies in a marathon if, in fact, she had died.
Just another pretty face, just another pretty body, but just another story was both a publicist’s dream and nightmare at the same time.
“No news is bad news,” I guess.
But in the midst of a pandemic, where thousands of people are dying each days from this scourge, this is among the top stories of the day?
I think that says more about us than it does about Roberts.
We wish her a speedy recovery, if that is possible at this point, but like someone on the Internet said in reaction to her supposed death and then her actually being alive:
“No, I thought that her career is the thing that was dead.”
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