Black Hole

(Merit for Monty)

Carol Ann Susi, who achieved the highlight of her career by shrieking off screen, has died of cancer at the age of 62. Prior to finding her faceless fame as Howard Wolowitz’s immense, clingy, over-protective Wheel of Fortune savant stereotype of a Jewish mother, Susi had appeared in bit parts in more than 70 TV shows and movies, only one of which I even vaguely remember, 1987’s Secret of My Success, one of the first forays in the futile attempt to make Michael J. Fox a movie star.