Goodbye, Shelley

In: In Memoriam|Quotes

14 Jan 2006

Shelley Winters with one of her Best Supporting Actress OscarsShelley Winters is dead. You probably remember her as the biker granny on TV’s Roseanne, but my memories go fondly back to her many guest shots on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. She was loud, opinionated and one of a kind. I will never forget Winters’ honesty, her humor, or her voice. Winters was nominated for four Academy awards and won two of them, for Best Supporting Actress. She was 85.

[On nudity in films:] I think it’s all disgusting. Shameful. And damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive, religious experience.

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