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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsCatherine O'Hara, "SCTV Network 90"...I had all of those shows on VHS and watched them endlessly
Broke my heart to learn of her passing. And I know "Home Alone" was huge, and maybe her most high-profile role, but I think of her first as one of the brightest stars on SCTV...and LORD, her role in "Waiting For Guffman"...she was just one of the most supremely gifted humans to ever walk this planet, and I will miss her tremendously.
The VHS tapes are long gone but I now own the complete SCTV on DVD. I'll be watching tonight in her honor.
Skittles
(170,055 posts)but I loved her in Scorcese''s After Hours
Upthevibe
(10,092 posts)I'm absolutely devasted.........
I loved her in SO many movies! She was a regular in the Christopher Guest ensemble. Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, as well as a serious role in Temple Grandin. She also had a storyline for a few episodes in Six Feet Under. Those are just what I can think of off the top of my head.
After all of that, I think she'll maybe be mostly remembered as Moira Rose, the matriarch in the incredibly creative, quirky, and hysterical T.V. show, Schitts Creek. What she did with that role was absolutely epic! I bet the creators, writers and the other actors are in a state of shock right now.
R.I.P., Catherine O'Hara
Miles Archer
(22,133 posts)First, losing John Candy in 1994, then Joe Flaherty last year...their mutual roles on SCTV were so intertwined...Eugene as "Bruno" to Candy's "Dr. Tongue," and his insufferable "Earl Camembaert" to Flaherty's newsman "Floyd Robertson," who...of course...doubled as Count Floyd...but yes, "Schitt's Creek" was a real anomaly, a phenomenally successful late-career re-teaming of two veteran stars who shared a LOT of screen time. The Guest movies were all wonderful (even the ones that were perhaps a bit too esoteric for mass-appeal audiences, like For Your Consideration and A Mighty Wind).
All of the cast members from SCTV earned a unique distinction that many actors would love, but few achieve...they felt like our friends, because their work touched on so many feelings, made us laugh, made us feel that it was OK to not be a Vanilla person in a Baskin-Robbins world.