Jack Reynolds 97. One of those who you can say about that they don’t make ‘em like that anymore. A suit?
Another childhood memory gone. RIP Rhoda. Stage and screen actor who found fame in the US television comedy show Rhoda please log in to view this image Valerie Harper in Rhoda, 1974. She played an outgoing career girl in an era when women in sitcoms were mainly the recipients of an evening greeting from their husbands of ‘Honey, I’m home’. Photograph: Alamy “My name is Rhoda Morgenstern. I was born in the Bronx, New York, in December 1941. I’ve always felt responsible for World War II.” These voiceover lines began each episode of the television sitcom Rhoda, in which the title character was played with great gusto and wit by Valerie Harper, who has died of cancer aged 80. “The first thing I remember liking that liked me back was food,” the introduction continued. “I had a bad puberty. It lasted 17 years … I decided to move out of the house when I was 24. My mother still refers to this as the time I ran away from home.” The show, which ran for 110 episodes between 1974 and 1978, made Harper, in the guise of Rhoda Morgenstern, a model for many young women wanting to make their own way in life.
Arnie's best mate and fellow bodybuilder, Franco Columbu, has died aged 78... please log in to view this image
