Whit
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I'm just warning everyone in advance. I now feel compelled to add a gif to everything I write. :041:
I think Liz it to blame...
I think Liz it to blame...
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@southernlady Oh yes...yes I do.
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Me too Whit, I love them! 
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I swear to you - my cousins just pointed this out to me today. My late aunt (actually my father's first cousin) and favorite relative, is the late character actress Lillian Adams. It just appeared as a meme in an online ad for vaping (http://www.cyclopsvapor.com/30-undeniable-truths-about-vaping/). This is from her appearance in Little Nicky - she was about 83 at the time:
You can see other things she was in at imdb.com. You might remember her in this:
You can see other things she was in at imdb.com. You might remember her in this:
I just found something I wrote about her in 2011 after she passed away - copying it here:
Did you see these CVS commercials over the past couple of years?
The older woman in these commercials is veteran actress Lillian Adams, who was my father's first cousin, and my favorite relative. She passed away in May, at the age of 89, sharp as a tack until the end. She was on my mind tonight, and I decided to write this to capture my thoughts.
Lillian's list of acting credits was enormous (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011148/), especially in TV, and you've probably seen her many times - usually playing a Jewish or Italian grandmother, even when she was too young for those roles, because she was on the heavy side and had "that kind of a face." But she used her appearance, including her warm lovely face, to her advantage and had a happy career in show business spanning 7 decades (the 50s to the 2010s), as well as many voice over roles. I recall numerous times listening to the radio when I would realize I was hearing her distinctive voice in a commercial, and it would give me a small thrill to know I was hearing her - and that she was making some money every time the commercial played.
But she was also a deeply spiritual woman, well-read and warm, funny as hell, without a hint of condescension. She had many strong views about life and love, and could share them without making you feel threatened by her wisdom and advice, even if you didn't agree with her. I will never forget inviting her to my house for my son's bris, and her deciding to take all of the kids into a bedroom to read to them, because she hated watching the ceremony.
And her life was not without tragedy. In the early 1970s, her son Brian, my second cousin, disappeared from his apartment in Isla Vista, the funky student village near UC Santa Barbara. Two weeks later, his body washed ashore from the Pacific. He was just 20 years old - I had spent some time with him a few months before when I had spent the summer at UCSB as a high school junior, and he had seemed happy to me. I always thought that the prevailing theory about his death was that he had been served LSD-laced potato chips at a party, and disoriented, had decided to take a swim at night. But years later, in a long and wonderful conversation Lillian and I had (she called me out of the blue, not even knowing it was my birthday or what was going on in my life at that time - we hadn't spoken for some reason for a couple of years), she shared with me the pain of her own personal belief that he had taken his own life - and gave me much appreciated advice about how to deal with my own troubled son, who was at that time just about the same age as Brian was when he died.
In 2007, Lillian was filmed as part of a student film contest - the filmmakers interviewed Shelley Berman and Lillian, and a few other residents of the Motion Picture & Television Fund retirement home - a beautiful campus by the way - discussing the poetry class that Berman was teaching. The short film, which won several awards, includes Lillian reciting a poem she wrote about Brian's death that is so moving - and terrifying for any parent to watch as she expresses the agony of losing him.
Some movie credits you might recognize: she was the baker in "Bruce Almighty;" she was a older woman in the basketball crowd in "Little Nicky" who, under the influence of the Devil, takes her shirt off and whips it around over her head shouting "Do it, DO IT!" (She was very proud of that - Adam Sandler asked her if he could use the clip on his website, and she teased hin by saying "NO! It could harm my career to have an almost nude scene!"And Sandler didn't get her joke - she was 83 when she did that scene! - and didn't use it thinking she was serious!)
Beside the CVS commercials, another one you probably have seen had Lillian as the head Devil in the Orbit Gum commercial with Snoop Dogg: http://www.kewego.com/video/iLyROoaftMP4.html
Last fall, I took a drive down to LA by myself, to see my brothers and to meet up with some college classmates for lunch. I decided somewhat at the last minute to take a side trip from Malibu to Woodland Hills to stop by the MPTF campus to see Lillian, and had a glorious afternoon sitting outside under a gazebo, talking with her about her life, and her views on aging and dealing with the changes that come with it. I am so glad I did that, instead of thinking "oh next time I will visit her," because her health was failing, and although women in our family live to be old, sometimes VERY old, her heart was giving out, and she passed away from heart failure while I was away on a business trip. She was 89 years young.
She was very much loved by a large and extended family, and we miss her terribly. Me especially. Don't tell my mother, but I used to wish Lillian was my mother instead ...
Did you see these CVS commercials over the past couple of years?
The older woman in these commercials is veteran actress Lillian Adams, who was my father's first cousin, and my favorite relative. She passed away in May, at the age of 89, sharp as a tack until the end. She was on my mind tonight, and I decided to write this to capture my thoughts.
Lillian's list of acting credits was enormous (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011148/), especially in TV, and you've probably seen her many times - usually playing a Jewish or Italian grandmother, even when she was too young for those roles, because she was on the heavy side and had "that kind of a face." But she used her appearance, including her warm lovely face, to her advantage and had a happy career in show business spanning 7 decades (the 50s to the 2010s), as well as many voice over roles. I recall numerous times listening to the radio when I would realize I was hearing her distinctive voice in a commercial, and it would give me a small thrill to know I was hearing her - and that she was making some money every time the commercial played.
But she was also a deeply spiritual woman, well-read and warm, funny as hell, without a hint of condescension. She had many strong views about life and love, and could share them without making you feel threatened by her wisdom and advice, even if you didn't agree with her. I will never forget inviting her to my house for my son's bris, and her deciding to take all of the kids into a bedroom to read to them, because she hated watching the ceremony.
And her life was not without tragedy. In the early 1970s, her son Brian, my second cousin, disappeared from his apartment in Isla Vista, the funky student village near UC Santa Barbara. Two weeks later, his body washed ashore from the Pacific. He was just 20 years old - I had spent some time with him a few months before when I had spent the summer at UCSB as a high school junior, and he had seemed happy to me. I always thought that the prevailing theory about his death was that he had been served LSD-laced potato chips at a party, and disoriented, had decided to take a swim at night. But years later, in a long and wonderful conversation Lillian and I had (she called me out of the blue, not even knowing it was my birthday or what was going on in my life at that time - we hadn't spoken for some reason for a couple of years), she shared with me the pain of her own personal belief that he had taken his own life - and gave me much appreciated advice about how to deal with my own troubled son, who was at that time just about the same age as Brian was when he died.
In 2007, Lillian was filmed as part of a student film contest - the filmmakers interviewed Shelley Berman and Lillian, and a few other residents of the Motion Picture & Television Fund retirement home - a beautiful campus by the way - discussing the poetry class that Berman was teaching. The short film, which won several awards, includes Lillian reciting a poem she wrote about Brian's death that is so moving - and terrifying for any parent to watch as she expresses the agony of losing him.
Some movie credits you might recognize: she was the baker in "Bruce Almighty;" she was a older woman in the basketball crowd in "Little Nicky" who, under the influence of the Devil, takes her shirt off and whips it around over her head shouting "Do it, DO IT!" (She was very proud of that - Adam Sandler asked her if he could use the clip on his website, and she teased hin by saying "NO! It could harm my career to have an almost nude scene!"And Sandler didn't get her joke - she was 83 when she did that scene! - and didn't use it thinking she was serious!)
Beside the CVS commercials, another one you probably have seen had Lillian as the head Devil in the Orbit Gum commercial with Snoop Dogg: http://www.kewego.com/video/iLyROoaftMP4.html
Last fall, I took a drive down to LA by myself, to see my brothers and to meet up with some college classmates for lunch. I decided somewhat at the last minute to take a side trip from Malibu to Woodland Hills to stop by the MPTF campus to see Lillian, and had a glorious afternoon sitting outside under a gazebo, talking with her about her life, and her views on aging and dealing with the changes that come with it. I am so glad I did that, instead of thinking "oh next time I will visit her," because her health was failing, and although women in our family live to be old, sometimes VERY old, her heart was giving out, and she passed away from heart failure while I was away on a business trip. She was 89 years young.
She was very much loved by a large and extended family, and we miss her terribly. Me especially. Don't tell my mother, but I used to wish Lillian was my mother instead ...
I'm watching your post on FB, Diana - way cool woman!!
Whit - I am all excited about the smilies, too, but I think we will gradually become used to them. and use them in moderation!!
Whit - I am all excited about the smilies, too, but I think we will gradually become used to them. and use them in moderation!!
Whit
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@JackieOnLine maybe maybe not...I can not promise anything!:eightballno77788:
@JackieOnLine maybe maybe not...I can not promise anything!:eightballno77788:
Munchkin
Full of Fairy Dust
I'm very glad you went to see her that one afternoon! Love the clips!
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