Catherine O'Hara dead
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Catherine O'Hara the actress best known for Schitt's Creek, Home Alone and in Canada Second City TV has died at age 71.
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Yeah. Heard about that yesterday. I liked her in anything I've seen her in over the years. She'll always be Lydia's mom to me. 
I can't remember the name, but my old man said he heard some old comedian actor and/or producer or something that he remembered from back in the day that worked closely with her since before she broke out and said she was the sweetest person he ever met.
To me, she was one of those Gene Hackman hero types of celebrity who managed to live and pass on without me ever hearing what her politics were, so I don't disbelieve it.
71 ain't a bad run. I hope whatever it was, was swift, painless and took you while you were sleeping, Ms. O'Hara. You are one of the immortalized. I think it will be quite a while before your name stops showing up in the history of Hollywood for your contributions.
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Quote:She had dextrocardia with situs inversus, a condition where her heart and other major internal organs are reversed from their normal positions.[39]
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
71 ain't a bad run. I hope whatever it was, was swift, painless and took you while you were sleeping, Ms. O'Hara.
On January 30, 2026, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department said that the department received a call from O'Hara's home address at 4:48 a.m. regarding a woman believed to be O'Hara.[40] She was transported to hospital "in serious condition".[40] O'Hara died later that day in Los Angeles at the age of 71.[41][42][43]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_O%27Hara#Personal_life_and_dea
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Read about her condition somewhere and I have heard of it before.
I grew up watching her on Second City TV. Also remember her speaking at John Candy's funeral.
Her characters on Second City were quite wild at times. SIX, maybe you should check some of them out. I am sure there are full episodes on YouTube. The show was only half an hour.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:She had dextrocardia with situs inversus, a condition where her heart and other major internal organs are reversed from their normal positions.[39]
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
71 ain't a bad run. I hope whatever it was, was swift, painless and took you while you were sleeping, Ms. O'Hara.
On January 30, 2026, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department said that the department received a call from O'Hara's home address at 4:48 a.m. regarding a woman believed to be O'Hara.[40] She was transported to hospital "in serious condition".[40] O'Hara died later that day in Los Angeles at the age of 71.[41][42][43]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_O%27Hara#Personal_life_and_dea
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You're a miserable little prick, Second.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Read about her condition somewhere and I have heard of it before.
I grew up watching her on Second City TV. Also remember her speaking at John Candy's funeral.
Her characters on Second City were quite wild at times.
I watched some SCTV reruns with my old man and my brothers when we were kids, but they didn't have them on rerun a lot around us like they did The Best of Saturday Night. Been so long now though, all I really remember about the show is the cast outside of Bob and Doug.
John Candy was a legend too.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Read about her condition somewhere and I have heard of it before.
I grew up watching her on Second City TV. Also remember her speaking at John Candy's funeral.
Her characters on Second City were quite wild at times.
I watched some SCTV reruns with my old man and my brothers when we were kids, but they didn't have them on rerun a lot around us like they did The Best of Saturday Night. Been so long now though, all I really remember about the show is the cast outside of Bob and Doug.
John Candy was a legend too.
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I remember the Best of Saturday Night being run up here. Might have watched one.
Oh, yeah. Bob and Doug where great.
Eugene Levy and Joe Flaherty used to do a news desk skit and that was really funny because all the stories took place around the fictional town the "station" was in. There was a town mayor and of course who could forget "Monster Horror Chiller Theater" with Joe Flaherty as "Count Floyd" and Eugene Levy as "Bruno" who was side kick to Dr. Tongue played by John Candy.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I remember the Best of Saturday Night being run up here. Might have watched one.
Oh, yeah. Bob and Doug where great.
My first exposure to Bob and Doug, probably unsurprisingly was their Christmas song... "And a beer... in a tree."
I thought it was great to get to see them both on TV a few years later with those reruns. I totally remember Count Floyd, now that you mention it. I seem to remember a skit where John Candy and Eugene Levy were pulled over by the police while drunk, and they were trying to mask their breath with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups or something too. Pretty sure Joe Flaherty was the cop in that sketch. Don't know why that one sticks out to me like that, or what I found particularly funny about it that would make me remember that specific sketch one day. Maybe I'll look SCTV up on YouTube and see what they've got up there now. I know that I knew Catherine O'Hara was in SCTV, but I might not have ever caught a skit that she was in.
It's funny you mention Dr. Tongue. Sounds like a character from a point and click adventure game series called Maniac Mansion that came out years after SCTV that my brothers and I were all excited for, and it starred Joe Flaherty and a few others from SCTV I believe and we were so disappointed. It was such a weird show... The theme song was so light hearted, and though the family was strange and had all the names of the crazy family that lived in the mansion, they behaved nothing like they did in the games and I don't even think they really were in a mansion either. Definitely not a scary old looking mansion that was kidnapping teenagers and a dungeon in the basement. I think they were just in a bigger than average sized suburban house that would be dwarfed by the McMansions they've put up all over our country in the decades since.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I remember the Best of Saturday Night being run up here. Might have watched one.
Oh, yeah. Bob and Doug where great.
My first exposure to Bob and Doug, probably unsurprisingly was their Christmas song... "And a beer... in a tree."
Maybe I'll look SCTV up on YouTube and see what they've got up there now. I know that I knew Catherine O'Hara was in SCTV, but I might not have ever caught a skit that she was in.
It's funny you mention Dr. Tongue. Sounds like a character from a point and click adventure game series called Maniac Mansion that came out years after SCTV that my brothers and I were all excited for, and it starred Joe Flaherty and a few others from SCTV I believe and we were so disappointed. It was such a weird show... The theme song was so light hearted, and though the family was strange and had all the names of the crazy family that lived in the mansion, they behaved nothing like they did in the games and I don't even think they really were in a mansion either. Definitely not a scary old looking mansion that was kidnapping teenagers and a dungeon in the basement. I think they were just in a bigger than average sized suburban house that would be dwarfed by the McMansions they've put up all over our country in the decades since.
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I've got the CD that parody of the 12 days of Christmas is on and I think I have the vinyl as well. That is my idea of Christmas music. :laugh, smile:
I don't remember that sketch but I probably saw it. I even posted a bit on here. It was John Candy and it was called "Hey, Yorgi!". The character wandered around his village talking to various characters. The SCTV satellite was taken over by a Russian satellite. Another skit from that episode was "What fits into Russia?" and the character host for that was Dave Thomas. Another skit was called "Farm Film Report" and the two for that were Joe Flaherty and John Candy. Once Catherine O'Hara was in the skit and she was playing a young Brooke Shields. So, she got up to do a song after telling them that her mom said no blowing her up. Well, they blew her up.
Think I remember the Maniac Mansion too but never really watched it. Just caught pieces of it.
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Quote:What Catherine O'Hara Said About Her Health
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:She had dextrocardia with situs inversus, a condition where her heart and other major internal organs are reversed from their normal positions.[39]
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
71 ain't a bad run. I hope whatever it was, was swift, painless and took you while you were sleeping, Ms. O'Hara.
On January 30, 2026, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department said that the department received a call from O'Hara's home address at 4:48 a.m. regarding a woman believed to be O'Hara.[40] She was transported to hospital "in serious condition".[40] O'Hara died later that day in Los Angeles at the age of 71.[41][42][43]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_O%27Hara#Personal_life_and_dea
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You're a miserable little prick, Second.
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