There are not many actresses that I feel I truly identify with, but one of them passed away this week.
Susanne Pleshette died Saturday at her home.
Of course, we all watched her in The Bob Newhart show, and in lots of movies from back in the day. There was just something about her that was comforting and nice to be around. She seemed like good people.
Her obit at the New York Times brings back more than a few memories.
Arguably Ms. Pleshette’s most memorable television moment was not in “The Bob Newhart Show” but in the final episode of “Newhart.” On May 21, 1990, Mr. Newhart’s character, Dick Loudon, was hit in the head by a golf ball and woke up to find himself in Dr. Robert Hartley’s bed, with his beautiful, unfailingly sane wife, Emily, at his side. The whole second sitcom had been a nightmare.
