# RIP Loretta Swit **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [May 30, 2025, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-loretta-swit/1019021 "2025-05-30T21:35:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-loretta-swit/1019021/5 "2025-05-30T23:15:39Z")
Funny we were just discussing her role in the Cagney & Lacey pilot over in this other thread. The convo was totally _not_ occasioned by Swit’s death. > [@Old favorite TV show is holding up in rewatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-favorite-tv-show-is-holding-up-in-rewatch/1018997): > > If people haven’t guessed from references in “TV Binge-watch,” I have been rewatching one of my favorite shows from high school, and it is holding up really well. Cagney & Lacey Lacey’s work to maintain an egalitarian marriage, and Cagney’s attempts to balance being “One of the guys” without getting to the point of spouting any of their sexist rhetoric herself are surprisingly relevant. The main characters themselves are not dated, and the plots are not significantly so in that few of them hi… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-loretta-swit/1019021)._