Her Heart Will Not Go On

(An epitaphany shared with Monty)

Or
It Was Great to Be Alive
(Kudos to Kirsti)

Or
Laughter in Hell
(Props to Kirsti)

Or
Island in the Sky
(Additional accolades for Kirsti)

Or
It Could Happen to You
(Further fanfare for Kirsti)

Or
Tragically, Celine Dion is Still with Us…
(Terry, giving us something to look forward to)
Gloria Stuart, the only Academy Award nominee ever to appear on Manimal, has died at the age of 100. Stuart was a beautiful blonde and an active contract player in Hollywood’s Golden Age, appearing in 46 movies from 1932 to 1946, ranging from girlfriend to cousin to girl reporter to fiancé to girl detective, most notably opposite Boris Karloff in The Old Dark House and Claude Rains in The Invisible Man. She then became an invisible woman, spending the next 50 years looking for a good role, with occasional cameo appearances, such as a dance with Peter O’Toole in My Favorite Year, and a guest spot on Enos. Eventually she met James Cameron’s strict criteria for the role of Old Rose in Titanic: “someone who could be aged to 101 without much trouble and still remember her lines and stand up straight.” Stuart parlayed her 10 minutes of doddering into a surprise Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, before losing to Kim Basinger, another surprising nomination for an actress who ironically has significant trouble remembering her lines and has spent more time in her career on her back than standing up straight. At the time of her death, Stuart was 13 years into her latest 50-year sabbatical.