Re: CSI: Match Game Season 6-To ______ or not to __________
New phrases for Monday, Sept. 17th:
Stella Bonasera said "It's hard getting used to Peyton's British slang. The other day she asked for a ________________ and it took us a while to figure out what she meant by that!"
Greg Sanders said "I don't shop at Best Buy in the store anymore because every time I go there, other customers think I work for the _________________________________and ask me questions that I don't know the answer to!"
Re: CSI: Match Game Season 6-To ______ or not to __________
Hello fellow Match Game fans. I begin today by posting sad news: Brett Somers (Top center seat on the panel) has passed away:
Match Game' Panelist Brett Somers Dies
Sep 17, 9:02 PM (ET)
WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) - Actress and comedian Brett Somers, who amused game show fans with her quips on the "Match Game" in the 1970s, has died, her son said. She was 83. Somers died Saturday at her home in Westport of stomach and colon cancer, Adam Klugman said Monday.
Hosted by Gene Rayburn, "Match Game" was the top game show during much of the 1970s. Contestants would try to match answers to nonsense questions with a panel of celebrities; much of the humor came from the racy quips and putdowns.
Shows from the 1973-79 run, featuring regulars like Somers, Richard Dawson and Charles Nelson Reilly, are still seen on cable TV's GSN (formerly Game Show Network.)
Somers married actor Jack Klugman, the future star of the television shows "Quincy" and "The Odd Couple," in 1953. The two separated in 1974, but never divorced.
They made many television appearances as a couple. Somers appeared on several episodes of "The Odd Couple," playing the ex-wife of Klugman's character.
In the summer of 2003, she appeared in a one-woman cabaret show, "An Evening with Brett Somers," which she wrote and co-produced. She continued to perform after being diagnosed with cancer.
She was born Audrey Johnston in New Brunswick, Canada, and grew up in Portland, Maine. She ran away from home at age 17 and headed for New York City, where she settled in Greenwich Village. She changed her first name to Brett after the lead female character in the Ernest Hemingway novel "The Sun Also Rises." Somers was her mother's maiden name.
Her son said she was caustic, irreverent and a self-declared bohemian.
"She maintained her independence till the end, and her irreverence," Adam Klugman said. "She died very much at peace."
In addition to Adam Klugman, Somers is survived by another son, David, and a daughter, Leslie.
Thanks to Dynamo1 for the heads up. I didn't get your message until this AM
I am sure GSN will do a Best of Brett Marathon sometime this week--Dyanmo1 or I will post an update on this board when that happens. It's ironic that she passes not so long after Charles Nelson Reilly passed on. She's probably up there with Gene Rayburn, Johnny Olson, and Charles trading quips over 3 martini lunches now as I'm writing this. This also leaves Richard Dawson as the last of the original Match Game regulars still here on earth.
In memory of a great and sassy lady, I am now posting the following phrases for Tuesday, Sept. 18th:
Brass said "Back in the 1970s, I happened to meet and go on a date with Brett Somers when she was doing a show in Jersey. We had a lot of fun until _______________ showed up and ruined it for me!"
Brett Somers said "While I'm happy my ex-husband Jack got to be successful playing the M.E. on Quincy I would have rather he played a ________________ instead!"
Doc Robbins said "Jack Klugman inspired me to be a Medical Examiner when I was in college in the 1970s. Brett Somers inspired me to take up ___________________!"