| Elizabeth Wilson has died. | |
| Posted by: | kieran 04:26 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| Link | NY Times |
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| I'm going to post her obit on a bulletin board... | |
| Posted by: | PatrickHSF 09:20 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | Elizabeth Wilson has died. - kieran 04:26 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| "I know just where to stick it." :-) | |
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| An astounding and unforgettable artist | |
| Posted by: | MFeingold (feinpress@earthlink.net) 08:13 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | Elizabeth Wilson has died. - kieran 04:26 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| Though the Times obit doesn't make this clear, she actually won three Obie Awards - the first was for her performance at the Public Theater in STICKS AND BONES, before it moved uptown so that she could win the Tony as well. I had the honor of being present at what may have been her very last performance of all - a private sitdown reading in a rehearsal room of a play by a friend of mine. This was just a few months ago, but she missed nothing: As always, her work was a model of clarity, incisiveness, and emotional fullness. | |
| Link | Elizabeth Wilson on the Internet Off-Broadway Database |
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| A great and sad loss after a long and wonderful life. | |
| Posted by: | portenopete 04:45 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | Elizabeth Wilson has died. - kieran 04:26 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| In addition to the many films and television shows in which she appeared, I will never forget her as the 60-something daughter of the 80-something Jessica Tandy, having an liaison with the 20-something Maxwell Caulfield in SALONIKA at The Public in the mid-'80s. (David Straithairn and Thomas Hill rounded out the cast.) She was a sensitive, wry and intelligent actress and I'm glad she was given a lovely cameo in HYDE PARK ON HUDSON as Sara Delano to Bill Murray's FDR. Like Rosemary Murphy and Marian Seldes, she was at the top of that group of actresses who never quite became stars but who gave life to some of the best roles their generation was offered and who enlivened and illuminated the New York theatre scene for many long and rich years. | |
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| re: A great and sad loss after a long and wonderful life. | |
| Posted by: | Delvino 08:26 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | A great and sad loss after a long and wonderful life. - portenopete 04:45 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| Where does one start? For me, with "Mornings and Seven" and her eccentric, unsentimental, brilliant Penny in "You Can't Take it With You." Two performances that were damn near definitive. But I loved her near misses and even, to some, critical failures (Bracknell in "Earnest" -- imperfect but wildly funny). And in the smallest roles -- Hoffman's mother in "The Graduate," or the teacher in "Picnic" (stage and screen) -- she was perfection. She contributed to "Sticks and Bones" one of the most daring performances in the New York theater, ever. How much did we love her, how much will we miss her. | |
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| "Morning's AT Seven." | |
| Posted by: | Delvino 08:29 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | re: A great and sad loss after a long and wonderful life. - Delvino 08:26 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| Sorry. iPhone. | |
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| re: Elizabeth Wilson has died. | |
| Posted by: | winters 04:44 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | Elizabeth Wilson has died. - kieran 04:26 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| 94! Wasn't she just in the revival of "You Can't Take It With You?" Time. | |
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| Posted by: | writerkev 04:58 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Elizabeth Wilson has died. - winters 04:44 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| It was Elizabeth Ashley who was in "You Can't Take It With You." | |
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| Posted by: | mendacity 05:25 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Elizabeth Wilson has died. - writerkev 04:58 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| It was Elizabeth Ashley who was in "You Can't Take It With You." Wilson played Penny in the '83 revival, opposite Jason Robards. | |
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| Posted by: | BruceinIthaca 07:11 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Elizabeth Wilson has died. - mendacity 05:25 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| So, '83 is "just"? | |
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| Posted by: | AlanScott 08:15 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Elizabeth Wilson has died. - BruceinIthaca 07:11 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| Last sentence in winters's post was one word: "Time." Suggesting, I think, that it was hard to believe it was so long ago, it seems like just a few months ago. | |
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| Posted by: | writerkev 08:36 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Elizabeth Wilson has died. - AlanScott 08:15 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| Oh, come on. Seriously, this is not a big deal, but you read a lot into one word. Perhaps "Time" was meant as amazement that she was fully 94 years old. At any rate, when someone refers to someone having "just" appeared in a revival of a play that truly was "just" revived without her, you would agree he misspoke, right? | |
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| Posted by: | mendacity 11:57 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Elizabeth Wilson has died. - writerkev 08:36 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| Translation: "How could Elizabeth Wilson be 94? It seems like only yesterday that she was barely in her 60s in You Can't Take It With You. Time certainly flies." Admittedly cryptic and misleading (because of the recent YCTIWY revival). Some of us for some reason understood. One of those things. No big deal indeed. | |
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| Posted by: | garyd 09:36 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Elizabeth Wilson has died. - writerkev 08:36 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| Yes seriously. I did not perceive any hint of misspoke. The OP's intent was quite clear… to me. A fact that surprises even me. | |
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| Posted by: | AlanScott 08:46 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Elizabeth Wilson has died. - writerkev 08:36 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| I read the post and immediately viewed the point of the post as being that she hadn't just appeared in the revival, but that time had flown so quickly since she had appeared in the 1983 production when she was in her early 60s. It did not seem to me that we were meant to take the post at all literally. Of course, if someone posted that Wilson had been in the recent revival and meant for us to take that as a statement of fact, that person would have misspoke. I thought that was not at all the poster's intention. | |
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| Posted by: | winters 07:14 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Elizabeth Wilson has died. - BruceinIthaca 07:11 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| For some of us '83 is 'just'. She was an amazing actress. Always believable. | |
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| IBDB | |
| Posted by: | Neilfrombrooklyn 06:47 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Elizabeth Wilson has died. - mendacity 05:25 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| NM | |
| Link | http://ibdb.com/mobile/person.php?id=69088 |
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| And Lortel link | |
| Posted by: | AlanScott 08:20 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
| In reply to: | IBDB - Neilfrombrooklyn 06:47 pm EDT 05/10/15 |
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| I'm guessing she did more off-Broadway earlier in her career, but the Lortel site is pretty spotty on productions before the early 1960s. | |
| Link | Elizabeth Wilson Off-Broadway |
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