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Brooke Shields Will Not Stand For You Slandering The Memory of Sophia Petrillo!
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 7:30 AM on August 13, 2008
Though no one cared enough to actually make it to her funeral, Golden Girls actress Estelle Getty was beloved in Hollywood, where actors and agents whiling down coke benders at 4 a.m. grew to love the misadventures of her sassy Sophia Petrillo during countless late-night Lifetime reruns. Still, that didn't stop the sketch comics at Upright Citizens Brigade from trotting out their impressions of the actress — as well as those of the deceased Heath Ledger and Bernie Mac — during a 72-hour marathon at the theatre. According to the NY Daily News, celebrity panelist Brooke Shields wasn't laughing:
"She was so freaked out, her eyes welled up, and she actually bit her nails at one point," says the spy. "When someone pretended to dump Estelle Getty's ashes on [30 Rock star] Jack McBrayer's head, Brooke got up and walked offstage."
"She watched the rest of the show from behind a curtain backstage, with a grimace."
Shields' spokesman said she left to talk to the writers before she was about to go on.
Content that her concerns were heard, Shields returned to the panel, only to once again storm off when a simple improv exercise solicited the suggestion of, "You're a frequent narrator! And you're in a 1997 Nissan Maxima!"
- Brooke Shields balks at 'dead' gag [NY Daily News]
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Fama Est
Posted 8:27 AM 13/8/08
That's Shields? I thought it was that guy from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Fama Est
mothrafairy
Posted 8:23 AM 13/8/08
It's understandable. I heard that Getty said something really sweet about 'The Blue Lagoon' once. Shields was bound to remember an anomaly like that.
mothrafairy
Old No.7
Posted 7:54 AM 13/8/08
You know what gets between her and her memories of Sophia? Nothing. Nothing at all.
Old No.7
BowlingForDollars
Posted 7:46 AM 13/8/08
:::::::::Paging Tom Cruise!:::::::::
BowlingForDollars
kookla
Posted 7:45 AM 13/8/08
Maybe Brooke Shields was just suffering from Post-Mortem Depression?
kookla
Breadbowl
Posted 7:45 AM 13/8/08
With some vitamins and exercise...she'll be fine.
Breadbowl
Mr-Busy
Posted 8:45 AM 13/8/08
Suddenly Susan is not so happy...
Mr-Busy
NoGrumpys
Posted 8:38 AM 13/8/08
Picture it Sisily 1952...
NoGrumpys
LBJeffries
Posted 9:35 AM 13/8/08
A 72 hour improv marathon with Brooke Shields sounds pretty grim already.
LBJeffries
Miss Anne Thrope
Posted 10:32 AM 13/8/08
@Fama Est: Which one?
Miss Anne Thrope
Fama Est
Posted 11:19 AM 13/8/08
@Miss Anne Thrope: the old one
Fama Est
thecomicscomic
Posted 12:15 PM 13/8/08
The newspaper account is not exactly true. There were plenty of things happening in this improvised tribute to "Match Game 76" that could freak anyone out, but Brooke Shields did not go hide behind a curtain. And she certainly could not have gotten up, because she was standing during the entire show. Although Horatio Sanz, as Heath Ledger's Joker, did freak everyone out when he lobbed a smoke bomb onstage at the end of the half-hour.
thecomicscomic
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 1:27 PM 13/8/08
How she is/was friends with Kathy Griffin and I'm not is beyond me.
Little Mintz Sunshine
raincoaster
Posted 5:55 PM 13/8/08
@LBJeffries: What I was thinking.
raincoaster