R.I.P. Mary Tyler Moore (1936-2017)

 

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When I was a kid, my family watched the Dick Van Dyke show every week.  For years now, every night, Tananarive and I have watched an episode of the show, and after watching them all about five times, went to the Mary Tyler Moore show and relished them as well.  Mary was a perfect foil for Dick: elegant, sexy, funny, with chemistry to burn, and such obvious intelligence and talent and charm that you never, ever doubted that these two belonged together–that he was in fact lucky to have her.

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