DAWDLING WITH DORIS

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text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> So Doris Roberts has died, the “mother in law in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Everybody Loves Raymond</i>,” as she was generally known.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>She was aged 90 so it was hardly premature but I’m still very sorry to see her go.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WHjO9zoAv0..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WHjO9zoAv0..." width="430" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The great and improbable thing about her performance in “Raymond” was that if anybody had behaved in real life the way she behaved in the show you would have truly despised and wanted to kill her, but within the show, even as the behavior still seemed both completely believable and despicable, you came away with a great fondness for her.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GMPjpfsyJf..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GMPjpfsyJf..." width="424" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I didn’t know much about Doris Roberts except for that show, but I gather she’s been in a great many TV shows and movies including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Remington Steele</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Honeymoon Killers</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>In the latter she played Bunny.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a4D6FM95Hz..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="488" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a4D6FM95Hz..." width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Since I didn’t know much about her, I obviously didn’t know that she was a walker but it seems she was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The LA Times obituary has this quotation from a 2000 interview with her:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Sometimes what I do for fun with friends is go on a ramble … My life is always planned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>When you ramble you choose north, south, east or west and you just go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And when you see something you like, you stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It could be anything – a flea market, a restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>And if you don’t like it you can just leave.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-25vQQupYY0..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-25vQQupYY0..." width="480" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Not just a rambler, but a psychogeographer!</span></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheHol..." height="1" width="1" alt=""/>