How did Ann Reinking die?
Buried in the Worst Performances at an Awards Show is this question. I googled it and there isn't an answer. Just that she died in her sleep in a Seattle hotel room. In the few videos shot before her death, she sounds very, very ill.
Reinking is an interesting talent. Married four times, including one of the richest men in the world. Had a severely disabled son. Ruined her Hollywood career at the Oscars. Thought to be a conservative. Buried in Florida where she missed the churches.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 39 | April 25, 2024 9:11 PM
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Ruined her Hollywood career ? Reinking had a successful Broadway career, not exactly a Hollywood career (I only remember her from the 1982 film 'Annie'). BTW, she was interred in Scottsdale, AZ (not Florida). She lived in Paradise Valley, AZ since she retired in 2017.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 25, 2024 3:29 PM
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She was a co-star in All That Jazz, among others.
What, "ruin," Mary OP?
by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 25, 2024 3:35 PM
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She was also a co-star in 'Mikki and Maude', but three movies in the early 80s doesn't make 'a Hollywood career'.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 25, 2024 3:37 PM
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Bob Fosse’s huge cock killed her.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 25, 2024 3:45 PM
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My friend and I were sitting underneath the Ann Reinking tree in Central Park and asked Ann to send us a sign that she was with us. A few seconds later, a leaf fell from the tree and landed on the top of my head. We both got chills and took it as a sign from Ann.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 25, 2024 4:04 PM
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One comment says "Despite wars and starving children this must be the worst moment of anything in all of time." I wish I had come up with that line.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 7 | April 25, 2024 4:29 PM
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OP, just look at her in your photo. She does not look healthy.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 25, 2024 4:48 PM
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Reinking's movie career was on an upswing because of Micki and Maude. Against all Odds, in front of the Hollywood heavy hitters made her a laughingstock. After the performance, she never did another movie.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 25, 2024 4:59 PM
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Was it possible that Reinking herself had Marfans? Her son had it and it's genetic.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 25, 2024 5:07 PM
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Her eyes are wonky in the video @ R7.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 25, 2024 5:14 PM
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This tribute to her is quite lovely.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 14 | April 25, 2024 5:16 PM
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She had a successful run on Broadway in Chicago with Bebe Neuwirth. She was 71, OP, it’s not like she was a member of the 27 club.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 25, 2024 5:17 PM
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I saw her perform in Chicago on Broadway with Ben Vereen. It was incredible.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 25, 2024 5:17 PM
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I saw her in "Sweet Charity." She was a great dancer, but she did not have the personality the part requires.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 25, 2024 5:33 PM
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She rode Bobby Fosse’s cock like a porn star.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 25, 2024 6:44 PM
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I had the fortune of taking a ballet class with her. She was striking and very personable.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 25, 2024 6:59 PM
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She had great legs and footwork, but her upper body was a mess and stiff, plus, her neck was very short for a dancer.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 25, 2024 7:02 PM
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Jesus, Jeff Bridges was so handsome in that Oscar clip from 1985.
I have nothing to add about Reinking except whatever talent she had, it didn’t translate through the movie or TV camera.
Good dancer, yes. Magnetic and beautiful woman, no.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 25, 2024 7:11 PM
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Her last husband said she had heart problems but didn't die of covid.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 25, 2024 7:58 PM
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Saw her on an episode of “The Cosby Show.” Her voice was like styrofoam being crunched.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 25, 2024 8:00 PM
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[quote]A few seconds later, a leaf fell from the tree and landed on the top of my head. We both got chills and took it as a sign from Ann.
I would take it as a sign from the tree.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 25, 2024 8:01 PM
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She looks like a cross between Carrie Fisher and Gloria Vanderbilt.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | April 25, 2024 8:04 PM
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[quote]A few seconds later, a leaf fell from the tree and landed on the top of my head. We both got chills and took it as a sign from Ann.
[quote]I would take it as a sign from the tree.
Maybe Ann *is* the tree.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | April 25, 2024 8:05 PM
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[quote]Reinking's movie career was on an upswing because of Micki and Maude. Against all Odds, in front of the Hollywood heavy hitters made her a laughingstock. After the performance, she never did another movie.
Micki and Maude was a flop. Reinking's movie career never took off because she photographed really badly and was difficult to cast.
[quote]Against all Odds, in front of the Hollywood heavy hitters made her a laughingstock.
Her performance in that dance number is fine. Please explain to us what is particularly wrong with it.
The heavy hitters of Hollywood were well aware that Reinking was a major Broadway musical star and deservedly so.
One cheesy dance number at the Academy Awards was not going to suddenly turn her into a "laughing stock".
by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 25, 2024 8:16 PM
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R27, yet it did. It is arguably the most remembered (for all the wrong reasons) Oscar musical performance ever.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | April 25, 2024 8:18 PM
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R28 Whew, what a relief it's not ours!
by Anonymous | reply 29 | April 25, 2024 8:23 PM
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What kind of a tree was she, R26?
by Anonymous | reply 30 | April 25, 2024 8:25 PM
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I don’t remember seeing her performance of “Against All Odds” at the Oscars that year. Seeing it now, while I thought the choregoraphy was boring her dancing was good. It was her singing — and especially her sudden shouting for emotional emphasis — that branded the whole performance as campily bad. Her serious attempts to ‘act’ the silly pop song (a huge hit record that year) was risible.
But the Rob Lowe/Snow White opening number was certainly worse.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | April 25, 2024 8:36 PM
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Micki & Maude was not a flop. It grossed $26m (the equivalent of $78m today) and only cost $15m.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 25, 2024 8:53 PM
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R7 I almost pissed myself laughing when I read that comment. I'm surprised she didn't die of embarrassment right there onstage.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | April 25, 2024 8:53 PM
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How could any performer mess up the lyrics when they were prerecorded?
She made no other films after the Oscars. I mean, not even a supporting role. She should have done Mame. She could have used Lucy's soundtrack and no one would have known the difference.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | April 25, 2024 8:55 PM
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Ann Reinking's number was hardly the most embarrassing or worst musical performance on the Oscars. Not when the Alan Carr 1989 ceremony exists with at least three even worse, much more memorable and frequently written about to this day, numbers. The only people who ever talk about the Ann Reinking numbers are bitchy old queens.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 25, 2024 8:56 PM
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I think Carrie Fisher strangled her with a chain while she was trying to dump Mark Hamill into the Sarlacc's pit.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | April 25, 2024 8:58 PM
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She was no Liza Minnelli ! That's for damn sure !
by Anonymous | reply 37 | April 25, 2024 9:00 PM
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"I have nothing to add about Reinking except whatever talent she had, it didn’t translate through the movie or TV camera."
It sure did in ALL THAT JAZZ. I can't imagine anyone else in the role, and she should have gotten a supporting nomination. Leland Palmer should have gotten one, too. Both perfectly cast.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | April 25, 2024 9:09 PM
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She was strangled to death by jazz hands.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | April 25, 2024 9:11 PM
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