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Hello fans,
Today we are catching up with Vicki Lawrence, who
played Thelma Harper on the show Mama's Family.
These days, Lawrence still has an active career in
show business. Find out what she is doing now...
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--DEAD OR ALIVE?
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a
visit from the "Grim Reaper":
Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Esteemed Hollywood writer, director,
and producer and the only writer/director ever to win two
Oscars in two consecutive years for "A Letter to Three
Wives" and "All About Eve", he also directed "The Barefoot
Contessa", "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", "Cleopatra", and
other movies
Howard Keel: He appeared in movie musicals, including
"Annie Get Your Gun", "Show Boat", and "Seven Brides for
Seven Brothers" where he was known for his baritone voice,
he played Clayton Farlow on the TV series "Dallas"
Pia Zadora: Actress and singer, she appeared in "The
Lonely Lady" and other poorly received movies, her
singing career has been more successful
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Vicki Lawrence
http://www.celebritynooz.com/vicki_lawrence.aspx
BIRTH DATE: March 26, 1949, Inglewood, California
BIRTH NAME: Vicki Ann Axelrad
CLAIM TO FAME: She is best known for her co-starring role
on The Carol Burnett Show, and as the sharp-tongued Thelma
Harper on Mama's Family.
FAMILY LIFE: Lawrence was married to Robert "Bobby" Russell
from 1972-1974. She has been married to Hollywood make-up
artist Al Schultz since 1974. They have two children,
Courtney Allison Schultz (born May 5, 1975) and Garrett
Lawrence Schultz (born July 3, 1977).
INFO: Lawrence first made a name for herself when she
co-starred on The Carol Burnett Show from 1967-1978. Her
next big role was that of "Mama" on the NBC sitcom Mama's
Family, which ran from 1983-1985 on NBC, and was renewed
from 1986 to 1990 in first-run syndication. She has made
appearances on a number of other shows, inlcuding Laverne
and Shirley, Major Dad, Roseanne, and Yes, Dear.
Aside from acting, Lawrence is also a singer. She released
a number one hit, The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia,
in 1972. It sold over two million copies, and was awarded a
gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in April 1973. She followed this
up with the albums "He Did With Me" in 1973, "Ships In the
Night" in 1974, "The Other Woman" in 1975, and a disco
album entitled "Newborn Woman" late in 1979.
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TRIVIA: Graduated from Morningside High School in Inglewood.
Is the sister of make-up artist, Joni Lawrence.
Is a huge game show fan and appeared often as a popular
panelist on such game shows as Match Game, Password,
Password Plus, Super Password, various incarnations of the
Pyramid game show.
Was the only cast member, except for Burnett herself, who
stayed on the Carol Burnett show for the entire eleven
seasons.
Was hired for the Carol Burnett show because of a letter
she sent to Burnett and the producers, with a photograph
of Lawrence that clearly showed her resemblance to Burnett.
Was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Best Talk Show
in 1993 for the eponymous Vicki!, but the show was canceled
after two seasons.
WHERE IS SHE NOW:
Lawrence provided the voice of Flo on the faith-based
animation series "Hermie and Friends". She also had a
recurring role on the Disney series Hannah Montana as the
mother of Robby Ray Stewart and grandmother of Jackson and
Miley Stewart.
Lawrence currently tours the country with her "two-woman"
show with the first half as herself and the second half
done as Thelma "Mama" Harper.
In January of this year, she received some criticism for a
video she made that parodied Ted Williams, a homeless man
and former radio announcer who gained media attention
after another video of his vocal talents went viral on
Youtube. Advocates for and members of the homeless
community criticized her for saying "some of the most un-
Christian things imaginable."
WRITE TO VICKI LAWRENCE: Sorry, no address found.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.vickilawrence.com/
Video Clips of Vicki Lawrence
Carol Burnett Does Charades
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=12391
Family Feud - Mama´s Family
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=14331
More Nuts - Mama´s Family
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=14342
High School Crush - Mama´s Family
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=14350
Moving In - Mama´s Family
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=14358
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CREDITS:
2006-2011 Hannah Montana (TV series)...Mamaw Ruthie / Grandma Stewart
I Am Mamaw, Hear Me Roar! (2011)
B-B-B-Bad to the Chrome (2009)
You Give Lunch a Bad Name (2009)
I Will Always Loathe You (2007)
Grandmas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Play Favorites (2006)
2009 Hermie & Friends: The Flo Show Creates a Buzz (video short)...Flo
2008 Phineas and Ferb (TV series)...Hildegard
Crack That Whip/The Best Lazy Day Ever
2008 Hermie and Friends: Hermie and the High Seas (video short)...Flo
2007 Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular (TV movie)...Mama
2006 The Fox and the Hound 2 (video)...Granny Rose (voice)
2001-2005 Yes, Dear (TV series)...Natalie Warner / Natalie
2004 Hermie & Friends: Webster the Scaredy Spider (video short)...Flo (voice)
2004 Hermie & Friends: Flo the Lyin' Fly (video short)...Flo the Fly (voice)
2004 Hermie & Friends (TV movie)...Flo the Lyin' Fly
1999 Ally McBeal (TV series)...Dana
Saving Santa
1998 Love Boat: The Next Wave (TV series)...Kate Granville
Affairs to Remember
1998 Nunsense Jamboree (TV movie)
1998 Elvis Is Alive! I Swear I Saw Him Eating Ding Dongs Outside the Piggly Wiggly's
1996 Diagnosis Murder (TV series)...Kitty Lynn Hastings
FMurder
1995 Burke's Law (TV series)...Felicia Harper
Who Killed the Gadget Man?
1995 All-American Girl (TV series)...Phone Lady
Young Americans
1994 Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die (TV movie)...Nora Kingsley
1993 Roseanne (TV series)...Phyllis Zimmer
Guilt by Imagination
1991 Major Dad (TV series)...Pookie Pond
Steel Magnolia
1991 The Carol Burnett Show (TV series)...Skit characters
1983-1990 Mama's Family (TV series)...Thelma 'Mama' Crowley Harper
1978-1986 The Love Boat (TV series)...Betty Logan / Carol Holtham / Gloria Baxter / ?
The Art Lover/Couples/Made for Each Other (1986)
First Impressions/Love Finds Florence Nightingale/Paroled to Love (1983)
Vicki and the Gambler/Love with a Skinny Stranger/That Old Gang of Mine (1981)
Rent a Romeo/Matchmaker, Matchmaker/Y' Gotta Have Heart (1980)
The Congressman Was Indiscreet/Isaac's History Lesson/Winner Take Love (1978)
1985-1986 Murder, She Wrote (TV series)...Jackie MacKay / Phoebe Carroll
Trial by Error (1986)
My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean (1985)
1985 Anything for Love (TV movie)...Elaine Monty
1979-1983 Laverne & Shirley (TV series)...Sgt. Alvinia T. Plout
The Baby Show (1983) ? Sgt. Alvinia T. Plout
Out, Out Damn Plout (1981) ? Sgt. Alvinia T. Plout
The Survival Test (1980) ? Sgt. Alvinia T. Plout
We're in the Army, Now: Part 1 (1979) ? Sgt. Alvinia T. Plout
We're in the Army, Now: Part 2 (1979) ? Sgt. Alvinia T. Plout
1982 Eunice (TV movie)...Thelma 'Mama' Harper
1982 Fantasy Island (TV series)...Jenny Casey
Funny Man/Tattoo, the Matchmaker
1981 Mean Jeans (TV series)
1980 Katmandu (TV short)
1979 Carol Burnett & Company (TV series)...Various
1979 Supertrain (TV series)...Karen Prince
Express to Terror
1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries (TV series)
Murder on the Flip Side (1978)
1967-1978 The Carol Burnett Show (TV series)...Various Characters / Sissy
1976 Having Babies (TV movie)...Grace Fontreil
1970 The Carol Burnett Show in London (TV movie)...Various Characters
To see Then & Now pictures of Vicki Lawrence, visit:
http://www.celebritynooz.com/vicki_lawrence.aspx
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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - DEAD (Heart failure)
Born: 02/11/1909 Died: 02/05/1993
Howard Keel - DEAD (Cancer)
Born: 04/13/1919 Died: 11/07/2004
Pia Zadora - ALIVE
Born: 05/04/1954
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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
4/22
Cheung Sai Ho, 35, Hong Kong footballer, suicide.
Wiel Coerver, 86, Dutch footballer and manager.
W. J. Gruffydd, 94, Welsh poet.
4/21
Tine Bryld, 71, Danish social worker, writer, radio host
and letters editor.
Jess Stonestreet Jackson, Jr., 81, American wine
entrepreneur, founder of Kendall-Jackson, cancer.
Max Mathews, 84, American engineer and computer music
composer, complications from pneumonia.
Yoshiko Tanaka, 55, Japanese actress (Godzilla vs.
Biollante) and singer (Candies), breast cancer.
4/20
Allan Brown, 84, Scottish football player and manager
(Blackpool, Scotland).
Tim Hetherington, 40, British photojournalist and filmmaker
(Restrepo), mortar attack in 2011 Libyan civil war.
Chris Hondros, 41, American photojournalist, mortar attack
in 2011 Libyan civil war.
Osvaldo Miranda, 95, Argentine actor (Cita en las estrellas).
Madelyn Pugh, 90, American screenwriter (I Love Lucy,
Here's Lucy, The Mothers-in-Law).
Tul Bahadur Pun, 88, Nepali World War II veteran,
recipient of the Victoria Cross, cardiac complications.
Franky Sahilatua, 57, Indonesian musician, complications
from spinal cancer.
Gerard Smith, 36, American musician (TV on the Radio),
lung cancer.
Kerry Smith, New Zealand actress and broadcaster,
melanoma.
Antonio Tauriello, 80, Argentine composer.
4/19
Roy Burris, 79, American drummer (Merle Haggard), heart
complications.
Lynn Chandnois, 86, American football player (Pittsburgh
Steelers).
Norm Masters, 77, American football player (Green Bay
Packers), cancer.
Serge Nubret, 72, French bodybuilder and actor (Pumping
Iron).
Elisabeth Sladen, 65, British actress (Doctor Who, The
Sarah Jane Adventures), cancer.
Grete Waitz, 57, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning
(1984) marathon runner, cancer.
4/18
Olubayo Adefemi, 25, Nigerian footballer, car accident.
Sadiq Ali, 58, Indian politician.
Juan Pedro Domecq, 69, Spanish breeder of fighting bulls,
car accident.
Pietro Ferrero Jr., 47, Italian businessman (Ferrero SpA),
bicycle accident.
Kjell Hakonsen, 75, Norwegian harness racer and trainer.
Joe Pavia, 72, Filipino journalist, lung cancer.
Mason Rudolph, 76, American golfer.
Giovanni Saldarini, 86, Italian cardinal, Archbishop of
Turin (1989?1999), natural causes.
William Donald Schaefer, 89, American politician, Governor
of Maryland (1987?1995), pneumonia.
Ivica Vidovic, 72, Croatian actor, after long illness.
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