{"id":211120,"date":"2021-03-26T00:40:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jessica-walter-dead-at-80-was-the-ultimate-new-yorker\/"},"modified":"2021-03-26T00:40:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:40:16","slug":"jessica-walter-dead-at-80-was-the-ultimate-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jessica-walter-dead-at-80-was-the-ultimate-new-yorker\/","title":{"rendered":"#Jessica Walter, dead at 80, was the ultimate New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Jessica Walter, dead at 80, was the ultimate New Yorker<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Jessica Walter was beloved as one of TV\u2019s most privileged Californians, Lucille Bluth, but in real life she was the quintessential New Yorker.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The actress died Wednesday at age 80 at home in New York. She was born in Brooklyn and raised in Astoria, Queens.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy husband and I are mostly in Pound Ridge [Westchester], but we do love the hustle and bustle in the Upper West Side,\u201d she told The Post in 2018 of her pied-\u00e0-terre<\/em>. \u201cEvery day is an adventure here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walter\u2019s own adventure began with her first glimpse of showbiz at none other than the iconic Rockefeller Center. Her dad, a bass violinist with the NBC Orchestra and later for \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d with Steve Allen, would regularly take his little girl into the studio.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe used to watch the rehearsals,\u201d she told Seth Meyers on \u201cLate Night\u201d<\/a> in 2019. \u201cIt gave me a lot of connections.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how a young Walter got an early gig in the \u201cpeanut gallery\u201d of the kid\u2019s show \u201cHowdy Doody,\u201d which was also filmed in the famous Midtown building.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jessica Walter waves to admirers before a television app<\/a>earance in New York in 2018.<\/figcaption>
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The budding actress caught the bug here and still didn\u2019t hightail it West right away. She attended the High School of Performing Arts (from the movie \u201cFame\u201d), located on Sixth Avenue back then, and later trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Watch her in 1971\u2019s \u201cPlay Misty For Me\u201d \u2014 the first film Clint Eastwood ever directed \u2014 as Evelyn, an unstable woman who stalks a DJ, played by Eastwood. \u201cYou\u2019re nothing!\u201d she yells at him from the doorway of her apartment. \u201cYou\u2019re not even good in bed! I just felt sorry for you \u2014 that\u2019s all!\u201d<\/p>\n

What you see is not the indifferent acting of a Hollywood baby who knows in her DNA how to just be pretty (she was), learn the lines and hit her marks; this is the psychologically committed, off-the-rails tirade of an actress who studied with Sanford Meisner and had already been on Broadway in plays written by Peter Ustinov (\u201cPhoto Finish\u201d) and produced by David Merrick (\u201cA Severed Head\u201d).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Walter gradually did less and less film and stage and became a mainstay of television instead, appearing in countless series<\/a> from the 1970s up until just last year. But her most iconic and acclaimed role was as the acid-tongued mother of the Bluth family in \u201cArrested Development\u201d \u2014 Lucille. She\u2019s the sort of lovable monster Eugene O\u2019Neill might\u2019ve come up with had the playwright pursued stand-up comedy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love all my children equally,\u201d Lucille once said, before a quick-cut to her hours later, loose-lipped with a martini. \u201cI don\u2019t care for Gob.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitchell Hurwitz\u2019s brilliant Fox comedy was, of course, set in Southern California. However, looking back on the cold zingers, dismissive laughs, free-flowing clear liquor and \u2014 good God \u2014 her rivalry with Liza Minnelli, Lucille was more of an Elaine Stritch than a Florence Henderson. She was, at heart, a New Yorker.<\/p>\n

In life and in love, Walter always came back to Broadway. In 1983 she married the Tony Award-winning actor Ron Leibman (\u201cAngels in America: Millennium Approaches\u201d), who died in 2019. Early in their marriage, they starred together in Neil Simon\u2019s Broadway farce \u201cRumors,\u201d set in upstate New York. But Walters\u2019 final role on the Great White Way was as a tart-tongued mother \u2014 go figure \u2014 in the musical \u201cAnything Goes\u201d in 2011.<\/p>\n

To quote its great composer, Cole Porter: Bon voyage<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Jessica Walter played Lucille Bluth on \u201cArrested Development.\u201d<\/figcaption>
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