{"id":25298,"date":"2021-03-25T08:15:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T13:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/?p=25298"},"modified":"2021-04-11T23:17:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T04:17:42","slug":"rip-jessica-walter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2021\/03\/25\/rip-jessica-walter\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Jessica Walter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So sad to see Jessica go. Although many remember her best as the mean-ass matriarch from\u00a0<em>Arrested Development<\/em>, she will always be the crazy, racist head of ISIS (<em>Archer<\/em>)\u00a0and decades earlier, the obsessed fan in\u00a0<em>Play Misty for Me<\/em>. Good thing she didn&#8217;t get typecast after trying to kill Clint Eastwood in the latter. With the former, the spy parody wasn&#8217;t her first time voice acting, Jessica had worked on a\u00a0<em>Land Before Time<\/em> movie,\u00a0<em>The Pirates of Darkwater<\/em> and a little cult fave called\u00a0<em>Dinosaurs<\/em>, she was the mom (Fran). When I get around to re-watching\u00a0<em>Babylon 5<\/em>, I need to pay more attention to her role as a senator probably lecturing Commander Sinclair. Oddly, Jessica never appeared on the numerous\u00a0<em>Star Trek<\/em> franchises. Another movie I love and gotta&#8217; re-watch, probably to torment Jennifer is\u00a0<em>The Flamingo Kid<\/em>, the fictional bio of sitcom legend Gary Marshall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She had a helluva&#8217; career. Lead, support, star in an ongoing series, one-time guest, ensemble, soap opera, sitcom, drama, thriller, procedural, prestige flick, after-school special and even crap (an Eighties Twitter feed plugged the anniversary of <em>Going Ape!<\/em> being released, a post-<em>Taxi\u00a0<\/em>vehicle for Danny DeVito and Tony Danza). Several times on\u00a0<em>The Love Boat<\/em> covers multiple categories I just listed. I wonder why Jessica skipped\u00a0<em>Fantasy Island<\/em>, both Saturday-night hits probably had the same casting directors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thank you Jessica for your incredible body of work! You definitely perfected the stereotype of WASPs I have in my mind. I hope many current and future actresses follow your example so they too can continue to work, I agree with the criticism of Hollywood&#8217;s unhealthy obsession with false youth.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So sad to see Jessica go. Although many remember her best as the mean-ass matriarch from\u00a0Arrested Development, she will always be the crazy, racist head of ISIS (Archer)\u00a0and decades earlier, the obsessed fan in\u00a0Play Misty for Me. Good thing she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2021\/03\/25\/rip-jessica-walter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,115],"tags":[146,457,66,168],"class_list":["post-25298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-tv","tag-archer","tag-celebrity-obituary","tag-comedy","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25317,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25298\/revisions\/25317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}