The Friday Link for 8/28/26

Hi all.

This week we lost two absolute legends, so the Link will pay tribute to them both.

Dolly Parton was a freaking Ray of Sunshine.  She was one of those people who always made everyone else feel better. Her passing due to cancer was a brutal loss.

Her music was fantastic, but I want to post tonight about her acting.  9 to 5 was a great movie, and lost on most people born after 1980 is that the film acts as a time capsule. Office environments in the 1970's were not worker-friendly and hyper-misogynistic. Women were entering the workforce, but they had to work harder and get paid less, usually keeping the company afloat in the process.

The concept of women not only finding their way into the office, but changing the dynamic for what was the beginning of a worker-friendly job experience is perfectly captured in 9 to 5.

Here are two clips from the movie featuring a pitch-perfect Dolly, with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, and also a wonderfully smarmy Dabney Coleman.

Here Dolly is with David Letterman doing a classic Top 10 list. She is so wonderful! 

Tim Curry also passed away. The craziest fact about him was that he, Ian McKellen, and Jane Seymour were the original Broadway cast for Amadeus.  Curry said it was his favorite theater performance he'd ever done.

Clue was such a good movie, and Tim Curry held that epic cast together.  There are three endings they shot for the movie; this is the 3rd one.

Warning: this does explain the murders in the movie (well, at least one of the three endings), so viewers be warned!

Finally tonight, we have Tim Curry as the demon Darkness in Legend, a weird fantasy/adventure movie featuring a miscast Tom Cruise, but Tim Curry (and Mia Sara) were pitch perfect as Lord of the Rings movie characters 16 years before the first of those movies came out.

Watch the heavily makeup-ed Curry create an absolutely amazing character/villain.

That's it for this week! Have a great weekend, everyone!

Make sure to stay up to date on all of your vaccinations!