A Few Reads for Tuesday

 Conspiracy theorists are hard at work trying to figure out whether Senator Mitch McConnell is still alive or dead, more or less.

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In real obituary news, actress Louise Lasser, 87, best known for her role in the 1970s  cult television soap opera parody Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, died of natural causes yesterday at her New York home.

She was also known as Woody Allen's second wife before they divorced and he became infamous for poaching long-term girlfriends' adopted daughters and marrying them.  Louise was more age-appropriate, but that was a different era.  She was in a number of her ex's movies during that time.

Snip:

Louise Jane Lasser was born on April 11, 1939, in New York. Her father, S. Jay Lasser, was a renowned tax expert who wrote the book Everybody’s Income Tax Guide. Though Lasser studied political science at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, she couldn’t resist the lure of the stage, joining the school’s musical productions alongside the likes of Margo Howard and Stuart Damon. 

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Even though Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (aka MH2) was popular and critically acclaimed, I have yet to see it.  I have been wanting to get the DVD boxed set of the show, but I never got around to it.

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