Mary Tyler Moore, Television Legend, Dead at 80

[WestVirginiaRebel]

NBC News:

A pop-culture icon who became a torch bearer for the changing perception of women in television, Mary Tyler Moore died Wednesday in a Connecticut hospital. She was 80.

 

"Today, beloved icon, Mary Tyler Moore, passed away at the age of 80 in the company of friends and her loving husband of over 33 years, Dr. S. Robert Levine," said her longtime representative Mara Buxbaum. "A groundbreaking actress, producer, and passionate advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Mary will be remembered as a fearless visionary who turned the world on with her smile."

 

Moore had long suffered from diabetes.

 

Moore became known for two beloved characters that spurned the traditional view of a women's roles in the home or the workforce, inspiring a generation along the way.

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A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants...she turned the world on with her smile. RIP Mary.

[nickydog]

This makes me sad. I loved the Dick Van Dyke Show, the Mary Tyler Moore Show, and everything else she did.

[Valin]

Four Last Minutes of Mary Tyler Moore
Peter Robinson
January 25, 2017

Almost all the tributes to Mary Tyler Moore, dead today at 80, have gone on and on about her role in the women’s movement, the sexual revolution, and blah, blah, blah. All this ideological nonsense is not only mostly mistaken–as far as I can tell, in her own life Moore remained apolitical–it neglects to real reason to celebrate her: She was very, very good at what she did.

Take a look at this scene. Chuckles the Clown, one of the celebrities at the Minneapolis TV station at which Mary works, has just died. Mary and her co-workers have gathered at the funeral parlor. Although she speaks only a few lines of dialogue, Mary Tyler Moore dominates the scene, providing a performance that is both brilliant and delightful. As I say, she was good. RIP.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92I04DkMEps

[righteousmomma]

I agree Valin.

 

I loved her as Laura on the Dick Van Dyke show and as Mary on her own show. She was truly America's Sweetheart.

 

Her personal life had tragedy though.The worse being her son's accidental shot gun death. She also fought alcoholism at times and diabetes and felt guilt that she had often "not been there" for her son because of work..

 

It is true that she began as pretty liberal but became more conservative with age. Said she liked Bill O'Reilly and watch Fox and Friends and Fox News.

"In a Parade magazine article from March 22, 2009, Moore identified herself as a libertarian centrist who watches Fox News. She stated, "...when one looks at what's happened to television, there are so few shows that interest me. I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly...If McCain had asked me to campaign for him, I would have." In an interview for the 2013 PBS series Pioneers of Television, Moore says that she was recruited to join the feminist movement of the 1970s by Gloria Steinem but did not agree with Steinem's views. Moore said she believed that women have an important role in raising children and that she did not believe in Steinem's view that women owe it to themselves to have a career."

 

She was one of those people that people loved. Closest I ever came to her was not close and was hearsay.

The sister of Grant Tinker (famous Hollywood Producer and one of MTM’s husbands for almost 20 years) was in my Bible Study in Boca. In season she lived way up by Stuart or somewhere but would drive down for my Study. In those days she was older than I by probably 15 or 20 years. She said her family all loved MTM and were so upset when Grant and MTM were divorced. MTM was still considered part of the family. Hard to believe that was in the mid 80s- a lifetime away.