Local sleuth spots 'Murder' star
Bev Roers Korkowski, JHS '65, pictured below left, writes breathlessly from somewhere in Alexandria:
Stan:
Here’s a little “star power” tidbit for you…..
I just got back from Osakis, where I was shopping at Just Like Grandmas.
When I arrived, people were standing around in clusters, looking at these three people headed to their car with ice cream cones. I heard them talking about “her” but figured it was some local person that everyone knew. Only upon checking out and asking the clerk if they had had a famous visitor today, she confirmed that indeed they had: Angela Lansbury, who starred in “Murder She Wrote” for 12 years on television.
The clerk asked the lady if anyone had ever told her she looked like Angela Lansbury, to which she was told “Yes, I’ve been told that before." Then a person accompanying her nodded his head up and down, mouthing the words “she IS Angela Lansbury."
Seems she has relatives in the Lake Miltona area where she is visiting and they came to Osakis for a bit of boutique shopping and an ice cream cone. Next time I’d better gussy up a bit more….never know who’ll be in Osakis next!
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More on Miss Lansbury from Wikipedia:
Angela Brigid Lansbury, CBE (born October 16, 1925) is an English actress and singer whose career has spanned seven decades. Her first film appearance was in Gaslight (1944), for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and she expanded her repertoire to Broadway and television in the 1950s. Highly respected for her versatility, Lansbury has won five Tony Awards, six Golden Globes, and has been nominated for three Oscars and eighteen Emmys.
Her more popular films include The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) and Beauty and the Beast (1991) and she was successful in such Broadway musicals as Gypsy, Mame and Sweeney Todd. Lansbury is more recently known for her role as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher on the U.S. television series Murder, She Wrote, in which she starred from 1984 to 1996.
