Ted Danson, John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis, and more pay tribute to the late Kirstie Alley
The Cheers actor died on Monday at the age of 71 after a battle with colon cancer, her family confirmed
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As the news of Kirstie Alley’s passing settles over the film industry, colleagues and friends from across her decades-long career have begun to share tributes to the late performer. The Cheers star died on Monday at the age of 71 after a battle with colon cancer, her family confirmed.
Alleys Cheers costars Ted Danson, Rhea Perlman, and Kelsey Grammer each shared statements with People magazine on Monday reflecting on Alley. Although Grammer notes that he believes grieving a public figure is “a private matter,” he does say that he “loved her.”
In his statement, Danson reveals that in the hours before he learned of Alley’s death, he found himself on a plane rewatching the episode of Cheers where she repeatedly refuses to marry Don Santry (Tom Berenger) despite what her heart wants. Per Danson, Alley gives a “brilliant” performance.
“Her ability to play a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown was both moving and hysterically funny. She made me laugh 30 years ago when she shot that scene, and she made me laugh today just as hard,” Danson shares. “As I got off the plane, I heard that Kirstie had died. I am so sad and so grateful for all the times she made me laugh. I send my love to her children. As they well know, their mother had a heart of gold. I will miss her.”
For her own part, Perlman muses: “Kirstie was a unique and wonderful person and friend. Her joy of being was boundless. We became friends almost instantly when she joined the cast of Cheers. She loved kids and my kids loved her too. We had sleepovers at her house, with treasure hunts that she created. She had massive Halloween and Easter parties, and invited the entire crew of the show, and their families. She wanted everyone to feel included. She loved her children deeply. I’ve never met anyone remotely like her. I feel so thankful to have known her. I’m going to miss her very, very much.”
Some of Alley’s mourners also expressed their thoughts on her passing via social media. Tim Allen, Alley’s costar in the 1997 film For Richer Or For Poorer, offered “prayers” to the actor and her family via Twitter, also calling her a “sweet sweet soul.” Steve Guttenberg, who played opposite Alley in It Takes Two, also highlights Alley’s affability in an Instagram message, warmly recalling the time Alley brought him a tuna fish sandwich on rye to set just because she knew it was his favorite.
“Every day she amazed me with her generosity of the tangible and with her soulfulness,” Guttenberg writes. “The world is a bit empty without Kirstie.”
John Travolta, who starred alongside Alley in 1989's Look Who’s Talking, memorialized the actor via an Instagram post where he referred to their bond as “one of the most special relationships I’ve ever had.”
“I love you Kirstie. I know we will see each other again,” Travolta concludes his message. In the comments, Sharon Stone also expressed condolences for Alley’s lost, remembering her as “so funny and warm.”
In her own Instagram tribute, Alley’s Scream Queens costar Jamie Lee Curtis describes Alley as a “great comic foil” on camera and a “beautiful mama bear” behind the scenes. Curtis says Alley once helped her buy onesies for her entire family one Christmas.
“We agreed to disagree about some things but had a mutual respect and connection,” Curtis concludes. “Sad news.”
Jackeé Harry also showed respect for Alley’s legacy, sharing a statement on Twitter alongside a tweet Alley once shared gushing over her love for Harry.
“Whether you agreed with her or not, Kirstie Alley was an undeniable talent who brought joy to many – through the screen and with her warm, hilarious spirit,” Harry writes. “RIP, luv. You were one of a kind.”
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First of all, Perlman’s tribute is quite touching:“Her joy of being was boundless. We became friends almost instantly when she joined the cast of Cheers. She loved kids and my kids loved her too. We had sleepovers at her house, with treasure hunts that she created. She had massive Halloween and Easter parties, and invited the entire crew of the show, and their families. She wanted everyone to feel included. She loved her children deeply. I’ve never met anyone remotely like her. I feel so thankful to have known her. I’m going to miss her very, very much.”Secondly, FIRST!
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Have you seen the after-finale special with Leno where the whole cast is three sheets to the wind? It does seem like it was fun.
Yes; wearing blackface is the classiest thing a man can do.
Yeah, the Friars Club thing was pretty rough. He seems to understand it was wrong in the interviews I’ve seen that mention it, though. I don’t know. He also stole Terry Farrell away from DS9 to star in fucking Becker, of all things, which is arguably an even more classless act.
Joking aside, I’m pretty sure Farrell left DS9 because she asked to be paid as much as her co-stars and the producers refused. Also she was sick of dealing with Rick Berman’s creepy harassment and comments about her body.
“We agreed to disagree about some things but had a mutual respect and connection,” Curtis concludes. “Sad news.”
Is the pizza basement where Hillary Clinton kidnaps children one of the things they disagreed about?
I don’t know. Doesn’t anyone here have to deal with crazy right-wingers in their daily lives? In their jobs? I do, in my work, and if I wasn’t able to separate the person from their politics for the purpose of getting work done I’d be unemployed. Doesn’t mean I want anything to do with them in my personal life. But it also doesn’t mean I’d bitch about it after they’re dead, either. What’s the point?
Sir this is an Arby’s
Mm hmm.
Sir this is a Spirit Halloween store wearing an Arby’s costume.
This is an abandoned Spirit Halloween with a Toys R Is inside of it, weirdly enough.
It’s actually a closed down Pizza Hut that’s been repurposed into an H&R Block but still looks exactly like a Pizza Hut.
Don’t even get me started on what they do in the basement of an Arby’s.
Why does an Arby’s have a basement? Bizarre. What dual level Arby’s are you frequenting?
Yeah, I’m extremely liberal, and the most liberal person in my department at work (I’m in Texas, so it doesn’t take much). The person I’m closest with on staff? The most conservative person in my department. And we’re both well aware of what each other believe, so we just don’t talk about religion or politics with each other. Sometimes people whose views you despise aren’t bad people (my coworker is not a fascist or any of that crap; she’s just from West Virginia).
If someone hates gay, trans, or jewish people they’re a bad person
No, people are either good or evil, no in-between.
Yeah, so I guess she was a Trumper as well as a Scientologist and I’m sure if I ever met her we wouldn’t have gotten along. But — holy hell, she was so great on Cheers. Her character was much more nuanced than Shelly Long’s (not either actress’ fault obviously) and Rebecca was so much fun to watch. Cast another actress in that role and I don’t believe the show would have gotten that second wind and lasted so long.(Also – she was great as Lt. Saavik in that Star Trek movie.)
She probably wasn’t a Trumper or a Scientologist in the 80s, which is the time I liked watching her on the screen. So I feel safe commemorating that Kirstie Alley. It’s a bummer she slipped into whackadooism later in life. Hopefully now that she has reached Sto-Vo-Kor (having battled Khan Noonien Singh with Admiral James T. Kirk), she has been shown the error of her ways…at the point of a bat’leth, no doubt.
Why would a Vulcan end up in the Klingon afterlife? Besides some kind of whimsical bureaucratic mix-up, I mean.
Everyone ends up in the Klingon afterlife, because their afterlife is cool (if derivative) and other…what’s the plural of afterlife? Afterlives? Other afterlives suck. I don’t want to hang out with Q rehashing my greatest mistakes or live in a fucking wormhole.
The fucking wormhole is the best one, though.
Hell is a fucking wormhole with no lube.
She joined Scientology in 1979. She was the only Cheers actor to not guest spot on Frasier. She refused to because the show dealt with psychiatry, which Scientologists don’t believe in. She’s always been a bit of whackadoodle. She’d been spreading lies and conspiracy nonsense about GMOs, for instance, for over two decades now. She was always a bit conspiracy minded even before she truly jumped down the rabbit hole in the Trump years.
i will admit i had a massive crush on kirstie alley when she was on cheers
Wow, thats such a bold admission.So glad you were able to get that off your chest and finally breath again.
Considering how relatively few full Vulcans there were when Wrath of Khan came out, she really nailed that role.
I was always more of a Sam & Diane fan over Sam & Rebecca . But she was perfect as Rebecca.
Anyone else think it would be weird to be on a plane, see Ted Danson sitting there, and notice that he’s watching…Cheers?
Even Ted Danson knows Sam Malone was the coolest TV character ever. How could he not watch it?
I have to admit to having a lump in my throat in the Good Place scene where Michael is behind the bar and runs through Sam’s little routines.
I think it would be great and memory to treasure. My guess is he has wonderful memories of the show and cast was probably just being nostalgic.
Ted Danson can do and watch anything Ted Danson damn well pleases.
*thinks back to blackface story* Checks out.
Less weird then if he was watching Becker.
Yeah, Becker would make more sense because if he didn’t watch it, no one would
I’ve met more than my share of crazy-ass Republicans but also,
weirdly, some who were incredibly sweet and generous people despite supporting
a psychotic fascist. People are nothing if not full of contradictions (and dome
of the biggest dicks I’ve ever met were progressives so go figure).I can’t judge someone I’ve never met and while I probably
wouldn’t have cared for her company she really was great in “Cheers” and played
a significant role in giving the show a terrific second wave. She was also
the second best thing about “Wrath of Kahn” after Nick Meyers.
I can’t judge someone I’ve never met
Of course you can, and you should.
I’m judging you for that hideous hat you once wore!
I never met Charles Manson. But I judge him to be unsound and probably dangerous.
Gene Roddenberry just performed an Olympic gymnast’s routine in his grave reading that.
I was shocked to learn she was 71. I assumed 10 years younger. Did she let people think she was younger than she was?
That makes her 31 in Wrath of Khan, which seems plausible. She sure doesn’t seem like she’s in her early 20s there.
john travolta has had a heck of a sad year, what with ONJ and kirstie alley passing away.
Hmm… I smell a conspiracy.
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Matthew Perry memorialized her by noting “She smelled kind of funny”
Kirstie Alley is dead, and yet Keanu Reeves is still alive!?
He still walks among us.
Man he was a dick for saying that, but the ironic version of the Keanu still walks among us meme is kinda glorious.
I think Curtis and Harry sum up my conflicting feelings about Kirstie Alley pretty well. I always thought she was a brilliant comedienne. We’ve lost so many greats from the Golden Age of Hollywood recently, I fear Alley’s passing marks the beginning of a wave of losses from the Golden Age of Television. I know actresses aren’t their characters, but as with Roseanne Barr, I prefer to believe some of her more incendiary and out-there comments were just the result of an odd mix of fame and Ambien. I’ve seen so much visceral on social media about her today, calling her out as a homophobe. But from what I can tell she was just an on-again, off-again Trumper who made some comments that the more woke 21st century set might deem offensive, but also probably shared a few cocktails with the Gay A List in the ‘80s. She was a Scientologist…because Scientology helped her overcome a cocaine addiction. Whatever it takes to tame the white serpent, I won’t judge.
What I’m saying is, she’s not Kirk Cameron. She’s the product of a very complicated era in television, and she never really let that era go.Toxic as it is, Twitter offers a unique insight into the private lives of public people, and I’m not sure Alley knew how to tow the line. I prefer to think many of her online remarks were knee-jerk or reactionary, or failed attempts at nuance, and are not representative of who she truly was. I prefer to think, were we friends, she’d extend the same respect she extended to John Travolta: you do you. I could obviously never know, but anecdotally I can’t believe she was a homophobe. Her opinions have never been black and white. They’ve never been exclusively guided by a third party, even Scientology. Like all of us, she was a complicated and beautifully messy person.
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I obviously didn’t know anything about her politics before 2016 (a simpler time when celebrities didn’t broadcast their every opinion) but it seemed like she suffered from the same thing every one else does- spending too much time on the internet and absorbing whatever dumbass opinion they read. Obviously, a lot of us don’t become right wing loons, but it seems wrong to suggest that was all she was in her life or even at the time of her death. She was an incredibly talented actress and I will be watching some of her movies in the next few weeks.
And again, looking at this I just wonder why on earth do people bother posting their political opinions on social media? I personally tend to keep everything behind Alt accounts, including this one. None of my (quite progressive) political opinions can ever be traced to my real name by anyone on the Internet. I don’t even put photos on Facebook. Only people who know them are people who have expressed them to me and thus I know agree with me. I just don’t understand why everyone can’t do the same and I am baffled that someone thinks people knowing their opinion is worth eventually people celebrating their deaths.
I really don’t care what others think of my political opinions; certainly not to the point of creating alt accounts or the like. The reason everyone can’t do the same thing you do is that not everyone wants to.I can assure you that whether my death is celebrated or not, it won’t be because of a FB post. Also, I don’t give a fuck whether my death is celebrated; I won’t be there.
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I’m gonna have to watch Drop Dead Gorgeous.
Steller cast in that movie too.
Bummer, big fan. Definitely Team Rebecca. I’d be remiss if I didn’t also mention her hilarious and sexy turn in “Madhouse” with John Laroquette. That movie is hilarious, and Allie absolutely kills in it
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/07/kirstie-alley-was-celebrated-not-because-she-was-flawless-but-because-her-flaws-were-so-visibleThis Guardian piece was nicely balanced.
Didn’t care for her politics (or Grammer’s for that matter), but Cheers (and its Frasier spinoff) was a great show and Alley was no small contributor to what made it great. Also, no one (not even the Orange Fuckwit) deserves to die of cancer. RIP.