WATCH: Oscar-winning Moonstruck actress Olympia Dukakis dies at 89
By Reuters
By Jonathan Oatis and Will Dunham
NEW YORK - Olympia Dukakis, who won an Oscar for her performance as a sardonic, middle-aged mother who advises her headstrong daughter on matters of love in the 1987romantic film comedy Moonstruck, died on Saturday at age 89.
Dukakis - a cousin of unsuccessful 1988 Democratic US presidential nominee Michael Dukakis - passed away at her New York City home on Saturday morning after months of failing health, according to her agent, Allison Levy. Her daughter,Christina Zorich, was by her side.
Dukakis, the Massachusetts-born daughter of Greek immigrants, worked for decades as a stage, TV and film actor before rocketing to fame at age 56 playing the mother of Cher s character in Moonstruck.
Cinéma Olympia Dukakis, qui a joué Rose Castorini dans Éclair de lune , est décédée
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Lady Antonia Fraser, pictured here in 1966
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Like so many of us, Lady Antonia Fraser – “Please, just Antonia” – has spent most of the past year at home. Today, the sitting room of the house in Holland Park where she has lived for “62 and a half” years, is bathed in sunlight, streaming in through the French windows, but there is a hint of perturbation in the air.
Last night, as she was watching television, the bulb in the lamp next to the sofa exploded, showering glass everywhere. An electrician has been summoned. Happily, the television remained on.
“Do I have Netflix?” She feigns astonishment at my question. “Is the Pope a Catholic?” The delights of Netflix – or “Lady Nettie” as she calls it – are something the family talks about all the time. She is particularly fond of Shtisel, a subtitled Israeli soap opera set in a Hassidic community in Jerusalem. “Akive,” she sighs, recalling the good-looking, permanently bewilder