A beautiful woman who never had the career she deserved. In 2004, I attended a book signing/Q&A by the author Robert B. Parker, whose Spenser detective novels were turned into the '80s TV series SPENSER FOR HIRE, starring Robert Urich. (Menzies had a featured guest star role on a first season episode.)
Parker (who died in 2010) was pretty disdainful of Hollywood types, rolling his eyes whenever he described certain types of star behavior. He was not a fan of Urich (who had already been dead for a few years by this time); he complained about Urich's limited acting range (saying that he played Spenser and Dan Tanna exactly the same), and said that because Urich never read the novels, he didn't understand the character well enough. He then told a story - complete with eye roll - about the series wrap party, which was held at the Urichs' house outside Boston. At one point Menzies entered holding one of Parker's books, dropped the book on a table and said, "I just read this. It's really good. How come nobody told me?" On Monday, December 25, 2017 at 1:30:21 PM UTC-5, Bob Jersey wrote: > > > Louisa in "The Sound of Music" (which I think ABC reran just in the last > two days?), among many film and TV roles, and the widow of Robert Urich, > championing cancer research as his legacy, herself falls to the "big C." In > rural Canada; 68. > > Variety > <http://variety.com/2017/film/news/sound-of-music-heather-menzies-urich-dead-68-1202648607/> > > (link) > > B > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
