Teri Garr

Teri Garr has died a few weeks short of what would have been her 80th birthday.

I always enjoyed her performances, which were memorable because they were pitch perfect in regard to her characters, as opposed to over the top I Am A Star acting.

Favorites include Mr. Mom, in which she played a harried housewife who becomes an advertising executive when her husband loses her job, Francis Ford Coppola’s somewhat forgotten great film The Conversation (forgotten relative to his other great films of the 1970s), Martin Scorsese’s under-appreciated black comedy After Hours, and the very first role in which I saw her, in a kitsch classic Star Trek episode.

RIP