When you’re in the moment, it seems everything stays basically the same, for years. I’d say it’s especially the case when you’re younger. Relatives look the same. Celebrities look the same. In the old movies, when they want to convey the passage of time, they often put a little powder in somebody’s hair. Then all of a sudden time pulls the rug out from under you.
The last couple of decades were not kind to Teri Garr. But since she hasn’t really been in the spotlight so very much since her health struggles intensified, she’s been kind of frozen in time, on celluloid and on YouTube. I will always remember her as she was in her movies and on her appearances on “Late Night with David Letterman,” when the show was still great, still subversive, and still hilarious, on NBC.
She was so vibrant, so beautiful, and so fun. Can it really be 50 years since “Young Frankenstein?”
R.I.P.
