Remembering Linda Lavin

Playing the title character on the very successful and fine television show, “Alice,” Linda Lavin, who died days back at age 87, was afforded less “laugh lines,” at least proportionally, to that of some of the fine actors/characters in that show’s superb cast.

However, seeing Ms. Lavin on Broadway in “My Mother’s Brief Affair,” and surely in other shows I was not fortunate enough to see, (“The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife,” to name one), her comedic chops were more than evident. As once said on a famed television show, those “chops” were evident and they are/were “fantastic!”

The dramatic skills were certainly there as well.

Upon meeting Ms. Lavin outside, after her stellar performance in “My Mother’s Brief Affair,” (comedic and dramatic skills evident/fantastic), she showed an even more important side, her truly friendly, personable warm self, as she signed autographs and posed for pictures in her most dignified way.

She got it!!

Andy B. with the classy, talented, beautiful Linda Lavin, some years now in the “rear view.”