RIP Suzanne Pleshette

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#1 Post by **Bob78164** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:55 am

Dead of respiratory failure at age 70. --Bob

Ritterskoop · #2 Post by **Ritterskoop** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:05 am

Damn.

peacock2121 · #3 Post by **peacock2121** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:42 am

I still get warm and fuzzy when I remember how she and Tom Poston found love so late in life. I am surprised she lived so long after he died.

silverscreenselect · #4 Post by **silverscreenselect** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:57 am

She had received treatment for lung cancer.

A bit of trivia was that she was the producers' original choice to play Catwoman on the Batman TV series but her financial demands were too high and they wound up going with the less expensive Julie Newmar.

ne1410s · #5 Post by **ne1410s** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:04 am

A bit of trivia

Trivia!!! How dare you bring up trivia on this shoes, weather, injuries, wedding, pets bored??????????

I always loved her low sexy voice. Now I realize it was from all the cigarettes.

BTW, I need good thoughts and vibes: I am dogsitting my son's two Labs next weekend. No, really.

silvercamaro · #6 Post by **silvercamaro** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:20 am

She always has seemed like an incredibly beautiful woman to me, not just in her appearance, but also in her soul. I am sad that the planet will no longer have her here and, far more than for most celebrities, I feel personal sorrow that I never had an opportunity to meet her or otherwise tell her how wonderful she was.

themanintheseersuckersuit · #7 Post by **themanintheseersuckersuit** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:29 am

Since we are making confessions.

I had a crush on her for years.

Sir_Galahad · #8 Post by **Sir_Galahad** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:00 am

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Since we are making confessions.

I had a crush on her for years.

Didn't we all (us guys I mean) at some point?

I didn't realize she was 70!

macrae1234 · #9 Post by **macrae1234** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:39 am

Bucket list
Evening, dining and chatting with Suzanne damn

traininvain · #10 Post by **traininvain** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:24 am

I thought I was the only teenager who had a crush on her back in the '70's.

May she rest in peace, she brought much joy to me through her work.

Beebs52 · #11 Post by **Beebs52** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:01 pm

Back in the day I wanted to be like her. For all the reasons the guys had crushes on her. Plus she was sarcastic and snarky.

silvercamaro · #12 Post by **silvercamaro** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:22 pm

Question for the bored doctors:

What exactly is "respiratory failure" supposed to mean? After all, isn't death from any cause always accompanied by a cessation of breathing?

Bob Juch · #13 Post by **Bob Juch** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:30 pm

silvercamaro wrote:Question for the bored doctors:

What exactly is "respiratory failure" supposed to mean? After all, isn't death from any cause always accompanied by a cessation of breathing?

Well yeah, and your heart and brain fail too.

It's what happens first that counts.

BackInTex · #14 Post by **BackInTex** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:09 pm

Sir_Galahad wrote:
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Since we are making confessions.

I had a crush on her for years.
Didn't we all (us guys I mean) at some point?

I didn't realize she was 70!

Count me in as one of the crush'd.

She was adorable.

etaoin22 · #15 Post by **etaoin22** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:42 pm

SC has a good point.

The same term can be used for physiologic process, or syndrome (identifiable collection of symptoms), or diagnosis.

And of course, the breathing stops and the heart stops no matter what the diagnosis and the physiology are, at some point.

"Respiratory Failure" as a diagnosis should imply that the most important stuff going on in her last days of life was progressive inability of the lungs to do their work of gas exchange, and oxygen going down and carbon dioxide going up in the blood.

BackInTex · #16 Post by **BackInTex** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:45 am

etaoin22 wrote:SC has a good point.

The same term can be used for physiologic process, or syndrome (identifiable collection of symptoms), or diagnosis.

And of course, the breathing stops and the heart stops no matter what the diagnosis and the physiology are, at some point.

"Respiratory Failure" as a diagnosis should imply that the most important stuff going on in her last days of life was progressive inability of the lungs to do their work of gas exchange, and oxygen going down and carbon dioxide going up in the blood.

The best cause of death (if there is such a thing) I've ever heard was made by Billy Crystal to Gregory Hines in Running Scared. They (being Crystal and Hines playing detectives) arrive at a crime scene where the victim was thrown off the top of a high rise. Crstal comments on the cause of death as being "Sudden Deceleration Syndrome".

tlynn78 · #17 Post by **tlynn78** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:35 am

This makes me sad, too. I really liked and admired her.

t.

Buffacuse · #18 Post by **Buffacuse** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:07 pm

Sweetheart of Sigma Chi at Syracuse University.

mellytu74 · #19 Post by **mellytu74** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:12 am

Reading this thread, I have a mad desire to join Netflix so I can rent Rome Adventure.

Like Beebs, I wanted to be like her back in the day because all the guys were crazy about her.

And what terrific comic timing.

Appa23 · #20 Post by **Appa23** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:50 am

Sir_Galahad wrote:
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Since we are making confessions.

I had a crush on her for years.
Didn't we all (us guys I mean) at some point?

MAWGs and OWGs, maybe.

For my generation, it was someone more like Deborah Foreman, for example.

themanintheseersuckersuit · #21 Post by **themanintheseersuckersuit** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:24 pm

Appa23 wrote:
Sir_Galahad wrote:
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Since we are making confessions.

I had a crush on her for years.
Didn't we all (us guys I mean) at some point?

MAWGs and OWGs, maybe.

For my generation, it was someone more like Deborah Foreman, for example.

Guilty as charged, though Valley Girl is a guilty pleasure also.

gotribego26 · #22 Post by **gotribego26** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:39 pm

My favorite final TV episode ever is when the lights came on on Bob started explaining his dream about the Inn in Vermont to Suzzane.

MASH had a great final episode, but this still gets my vote as the best final scene.

I can't believe she was 70.

gsabc · #23 Post by **gsabc** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:31 am

gotribego26 wrote:My favorite final TV episode ever is when the lights came on on Bob started explaining his dream about the Inn in Vermont to Suzzane.

I fully agree. That was the best series ending ever.

The back story on that scene is great. They kept that part of the set screened off and dark, so the audience had no idea what was coming. When they got to the part where Bob the innkeeper got conked off the head with a golf ball, the entire set went dark. They got the bedroom set out, Pleshette dashed out and into the bed, Newhart got in with her, and then they lit it up. The audience reaction you heard was real and wonderful. IIRC, I started applauding at home, too.

BackInTex · #24 Post by **BackInTex** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:15 am

gsabc wrote:
gotribego26 wrote:My favorite final TV episode ever is when the lights came on on Bob started explaining his dream about the Inn in Vermont to Suzzane.
I fully agree. That was the best series ending ever.

The back story on that scene is great. They kept that part of the set screened off and dark, so the audience had no idea what was coming. When they got to the part where Bob the innkeeper got conked off the head with a golf ball, the entire set went dark. They got the bedroom set out, Pleshette dashed out and into the bed, Newhart got in with her, and then they lit it up. The audience reaction you heard was real and wonderful. IIRC, I started applauding at home, too.

And I never saw this. I'm pretty sure I told the story before, but I loved Newhart. The night of the final episode I was on a plane to Florida for business and didn't record it. No one I knew recorded it. I never saw it in reruns either. If there is a box DVD set of the final season I would buy it just to see the one episode.

gsabc · #25 Post by **gsabc** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:18 am

BackInTex wrote:And I never saw this. I'm pretty sure I told the story before, but I loved Newhart. The night of the final episode I was on a plane to Florida for business and didn't record it. No one I knew recorded it. I never saw it in reruns either. If there is a box DVD set of the final season I would buy it just to see the one episode.

"Newhart" is just now starting to come out on DVD, according to Amazon. First season is due out at the end of February. So yes, it will be out eventually.

The entire run of "The Bob Newhart Show" is already out.