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Teri Garr, offbeat comic actor of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' has died

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Damn. She's in the category of people who were all over the place in my childhood, then disappeared and never aged in my memory, and suddenly she's nearly 80 and now dead. The cast list of Mom and Dad Save the World, a stupid as fuck movie that is one of the lowest rated on Rotten Tomatoes, but for whatever I reason I loved as a 12 year-old, is practically a who's who of these people. Jon Lovitz, Jeffrey Jones, Wallace Shawn. Jones got outed as a pedophile and is hopefully gone forever from public life, with Tim Burton pretty creatively writing his character's head out of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice so they could recast him. God knows what happened to the rest.

Apparently Teri Garr got MS in the late 90s (which is ultimately what killed her), significantly scaled back her work, then retired. She was in Ghost World? I don't even remember her in that.

> She's in the category of people who were all over the place in my childhood, then disappeared and never aged in my memory, and suddenly she's nearly 80 and now dead.

Yup. Seemed like she was in everything, and then … she wasn’t. She was a talented and very funny actress!

Sad that multiple sclerosis was what eventually ended her career, although I think it was already (also sadly …) slowing down.

Ghost World is one of my favorite movies and I don't remember her character either.

she was Maxine, Enid's father's new-old girlfriend who was re-introducing herself back into Enid's family-life (to Enid's dismay).[0]

apologies for the horrible picture URL, it's a picture of the character Maxine.

[0]: https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2K83FJR/bob-balaban-teri-garr-film...

Thanks. I don't need the pic, I can picture Maxine immediately. I absolutely don't see Teri Garr in that face and I don't remember her voice well enough to go by that.

Wow. All the times I've seen that movie and never even noticed her name in the credits. Gotta say, I love these little surprises.

Oddly enough, Mr. Mom is the first thing my mind brings up when Teri Garr is mentioned. Just a solid, 80s comedy set against the changing roles of men and women in the workplace and home.

My first thought was "Teri G-something... _Frazer_'s Roz??? But naah, that's Teri Gilpin. Or Terri. Something like that.

Well, MS isn't fatal, but it certainly doesn't HELP... people with it have a generally shorter life expectancy (by like 7 years) from complications with something else, like heart disease or cancer.

None of which takes away from it being terrible that we've lost Terri Garr.

> Apparently Teri Garr got MS in the late 90s

Mid-early eighties, according to either the article linked here or the one in the other HN post about it. IIRC.

> Bob Thomas, a longtime Associated Press journalist who died in 2014, was the principal writer of this obituary

They really planned ahead!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teri_Garr

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