One of those 1980s soap operas. I can’t remember which one.
Yep, me too. “My lovely wife…Moorgan Fairchild…”
Cite? You may have her confused with Morgan Brittany, AKA: Suzanne Cupito, who also wasn’t in TOS, but broke my little heart in Twilight Zone and, especially, Outer Limits.
People who still look good year after year
One of the basic cable channels (CMT?) plays *A League of Their Own *a lot. I’ve been known to tune in right when I know the supremely sarcastic baseball scout that Lovitz played will be onscreen:
Classic.
eta: I guess the first thing I thought of at the sight of the name “Morgan Fairchild” was the Old Navy commercials.
Opposite James Brolin as Pee-Wee! Hysterical!
A transcript of my thoughts…
Blonde, pretty, “perfect”.
then
*80’s Actress
Dallas?
No, not Dallas?
How the hell do you know, you never watched an episode of Dallas in your life?
Look it up?
No, don’t care that much.
Plastic surgery
This pho is disappointing.*
That’s P.W. Herman to you!
I watched an interview with her probably 20 years ago in which she discussed this very thing. IIRC, she had an unfulfilled desire to go to medical school.
And it was the third thing I thought of when I saw the thread title. The first was the Jon Lovitz routine & the second was how incredibly hot she was & still is.
Looking at her Wikipedia page, she has been working consistently in TV & movies so my fourth thought “I haven’t seen her in years” just means that I haven’t been looking in the right places.
Did some great nude scenes in a movie I can’t remember the title of right now.
Always thought she was a classy looking beauty. Very pleasing facial features, IMHO. Back in the 80s she was one of my faves.
I knew it. Jon Lovitz was the first thing that popped in my head.
She wasn’t the butt of the joke at all. In fact, she did find it rather flattering. She even appeared as a guest on SNL and participated in the “Patholigical Liar” sketch in that episode.
Morgan le Fay; just because of the name.
In a very weird way, she had the “hot older woman” thing going on before she was old enough to be categorized with older women. It’s hard for me to describe. In her 80s heyday, she was only in her 30s but she comes across as a woman in her 40s . . . who looks really hot for a woman in her 40s.
She’s 35 years old in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, but I swear I watch her in that movie and think to myself “Damn, that 47 year old woman looks great! She looks like she’s only in her mid-30s! That is so hot!”
Of course she really was in her mid-30s, so she should have looked like she was in her mid-30s, but I give her extra credit for looking like she’s in her mid-30s because she seems like she’s in her mid-40s.
Does this make any sense to anyone besides me?
Mary Steenburgen always had the same kind of thing going on: “hot older woman” when she was actually a young woman. Of course, both women very handily eased into being hot older women once they actually became older women- they had had years of practice.
Same here. Unless I hear “Morgan Fairchild, whom I slept with” in Tommy FlaNAYgan’s voice, I wouldn’t associate it with the character.
Second thing I thought of was Celebrity Poker.
Yes, oddly enough. I agree with both your examples, and nominate Helen Mirren for inclusion into the club.
Yes, she wasn’t the butt of the joke. I’d like to point out, however, that just because she appeared on SNL and participated in the skit doesn’t prove anything either way. Many people went on SNL and made fun of themselves. My favorite example of this is Derek Jeter in the skit Yankee wives where he (dressed as a woman) utters the line “Derek Jeter looks like The Rock had sex with a Muppet.”
Bien: She was a cougar before she was a cougar?
OK, in the interest of honesty (isn’t that ironic?), I have to confess I got it wrong. Fairchild didn’t appear with Lovitz at all. I got her crossed in my mind with Jerry Hall, ex-lover of Mick Jagger. Hall was guest hosting SNL in 1985, when, according to Wikipedia:
So, what can I say? I’m wiped out from the wild sex Morgan Fairchild and I had this weekend. Yeaaaah. That’s the ticket! 