RIP x 2

Shelley Duvall had an over thirty-year career in television and film.

She was in multiple seminal films in the 1970s and 1980s. Duvall was in The Shining and played Olive Oyl in the Robin Williams' Popeye film. She also was the host of Faerie Tale Theatre, an offbeat cable series. She also was in Roxanne, an amusing Steve Martin film.

She later appeared to have some issues, or at least, a bad interview with Dr. Phil. Duvall recently had another role, perhaps open to more. 

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Ruth Westheimer, another person in the "she was still alive?" sweepstakes, died at 96. "Dr. Ruth" had a more interesting life than a "short woman with a funny accent that talked about sex."  

Ruth was a Holocaust survivor, sent to Switzerland, while her family died in Germany. She was injured while trained as a sniper in Israel, injured by an exploding shell, but never killing anyone. 

Karola Ruth Siegel was married twice before finding her true love with her third husband, giving her the now famous last name.  She was named project director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Harlem in 1967, and she continued her night studies until she received her doctorate in education.

A community affairs director of a NYC radio station heard her give a lecture on sexual literacy to broadcasters. The rest as they say is history.

In 2023, Dr. Westheimer was named New York State’s first honorary “ambassador to loneliness” by Gov. Kathy Hochul. In that position, which RW had proposed, Dr. Westheimer would “help New Yorkers of all ages address the growing issue of social isolation, which is associated with multiple physical and mental health issues."

Sexual literacy and positivity remain important issues today. Many states have attacked both. 

ETA: Richard Simmons, famous for being a somewhat uncomfortable seeming fitness guru, has also died.