From "Shannen Doherty, ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ and ‘Charmed’ Star, Dies at 53" (Variety).
I didn't watch "Beverly Hills 90210" but I remember the "I Hate Brenda" newsletter — that harbinger of the social media we live inside today. And I remember her from the great movie "Heathers."
Here's a Reddit discussion of "I Hate Brenda":
I found a scan of it years ago, and it was hateful garbage. A lot of slagging Shannen for her looks and acting.... It's one thing to dislike an actor/actress and their character, but imagine creating an entire movement for your distaste and going so far as setting up a phone line for people to call in and rag on them (it was called the "Shannen snitch line" apparently). The people that ran that thing were real losers....
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I might have been a tad too old (early 20s to late 20s). Never saw it. Wife watched it.
I watched 90210. It was a Generation X guilty pleasure.
A worthy battle. I hope she made the most of her years post-diagnosis. I hope I would do so (and of course I hope I won't have to).
NKP, thinking of you and your friend right now.
My sister lives in a suburban development called “The Heathers”. We always chuckle about it when we visit.
"The people that ran that thing were real losers...." could just as easily apply to Reddit.
Too old to be a watcher as well, here.
RIP Shannen Doherty. I hope she got a run at living a regular life at least for awhile. Experiencing that level of simultaneous hatred and desire had to have an effect. She was just a kid, really.
Cancer really sucks.
Many people were inconsolable after the death of Richard Simmons, and now this. Lots of celebrity deaths recently. When such deaths happen in the shadow of a Presidential assassination, insufficient attention is paid to their passing. They don't get to fluff their feathers in that last flurry of publicity....I vaguely knew who Shannon Doherty was. She was very pretty, and I'm sorry that she died so young.
That's three!! Richard Simmons, Dr. Ruth, and now Shannon.
"Beverly Hills 90210?"
No thanks. I'd prefer to live a Beverly Hillbillies world. Funnier and more down to earth.
And swimming in a cement pond with Elly May Clampett beats watching someone named Shannon Whatshername.
I am between the brat pack and her crew. Sooty to hear…
And Grannie pronounced it as a "Cee-meant Pond."
i liked her.. she was pretty
Heathers is, I think, the only thing I ever saw her in. Of course, I knew who she was since Beverly Hill 90120 was a cultural fixture of the early 90s when I was still a young man.
Didn't watch her shows, but she seemed a foxy young thing. RIP
I watch a youtuber, Casey LaDelle, who uses the "hate" to keep his numbers up. Even sells a "I hate Casey LaDelle" t-shirt. His major faux pas? Putting spikes on the lug nuts of his roll-back and heavy wrecker. Shannon was just ahead of the times.
Shannon played the little sister of the male lead in 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun'(1985)
https://youtu.be/Pz5T1JJ8I5s
Far too young.
I never saw the show but I know it was a big hit...
An earthly realm for women, celebrities, and all of us till death do us part.
Have you all forgotten? She was a Republican. No wonder she was hated.
Too bad. She had issues. I did watch 90210, which is odd because I was a male and out of the age demographic, but IIRC, it was one of, if not the, first show to take teen issues seriously. It was quite well done as a whole.
Weirdly, years later I was doing work for a contractor (male) whose name was Shannon Doherty. I was also at the UW (Seattle) when there was an undergrad named Britney Spears.
Heathers was great
RIP. Way too soon for her.
So sad when someone so lovely dies so young.
Doherty just won the “Farrah Fawcett poor timing award”
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