WEHT Crystal Bernard

She was the only woman, other than Lassie, who's could pull off that bountiful shag.

She went lez-lez, gained a bunch of weight, and this weekend she's on garbage detail at Michfest.

Good question. And yes, Crystal had a nice singing voice too. One of her early roles was on Happy Days where she sung a few songs.

Her fabulous shag enlightened many an episode of "It's a Living."

Crystal wore the shag well.

Here's a link to the Peter Cetera duet ....

And what about Rebecca Shull who played darling old....what was her character's name, again?

That song is about fucking.

Forget Crystal. I want to know why Tim Daly divorced his wife of almost 30 years.

R6 - Crystal's hair should have listed as a co-star.

Very conflicted lesbian -- treats the women she brings home to afters consisting of Crystal jumping out of bed to pray (in her own private chapel) for God to forgive her for pumping yet another lady.

LIVING A BETTER LIFE THAN YOU EVER HAD OR WILL HAVE, CUNT-OP!

I think #2 is right: the 'shag' is a pre-mullet.

R12, it's nice to know that there's someone more bitter than Joyce De Witt out there in the world.

R13 - Not quite, shags can turn into mullets, but they don't have to.

Did Crystal gain weight over the course of Wings?

It was Faye, R7.

Wow, the whitest song ever @R6.

She's a lesbian.. or bi.. is she out? Did anyone read "You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again?" They talk about her sleeping with Vanna White. She used to be hot!

Cute pic

And another

I got my wires crossed and thought this thread was about Park Overall.

Well since you mention her what was the deal with Park Overall? Lesbian? Kristy McNichol finally came out but never heard much from Park after Empty Nest went off.

Park Overall is now an environmental and women's rights activist in Tennessee and ran for Senate this year but lost. She actually sounds kind of cool.

Here's a thread Park or someone pretending to be starts posting in:

Crystal was a lot more attractive than Park ever was.

I like Crystal a lot on that old sitcom, but i most enjoyed Faye. Faye must be as old as I am.

I love her in the opening credits of It's a Living. Bitch. Get some originality.

Wasn't Crystal a protegee of Debbie Reynolds at one time?

RE. 20 pic - Ouch. Mom jeans strike again.

[quote]I like Crystal a lot on that old sitcom, but i most enjoyed Faye. Faye must be as old as I am.

The whole cast was remarkably good, but the woman who played Faye could have held her own in 1930s screwball comedies. (And that's a compliment.)

I like those jeans on her.

Pic

WEHT Roy Biggins?

She got girl AIDS

David Schramm (Roy Biggins) still does theater pretty much exclusively. His imdb page is bare bones aside from Wings. Here's a recent article and picture.

Last I heard of her she did "Annie Get Your Gun" on Broadway. She should do "Dancing With The Stars"

She should do dancing with the stars!

She used to date Danny Thomas' son, then some music producer.

I found a twitter account for her, but it looks fake. Well, I hope it's fake for her sake. Ugh.

I don't think she's a lesbian, I've only ever heard that here.

She is a song writer, and responsible for some pretty big hits in the 1980's (ie Steve winwood's higher Love)

21 year old Shaniqua Anders dumped two puppies with mange at an animal hospital and she was arrested for animal abuse.

Park Overall was supposed to be the comedy force behind Reba. But Reba proved to be a funny lady and Melissa Peterman was so funny, the dropped Park as "yesterday's news."

She was so mad, she swore never to do TV again.

The world was not at a loss because of her hissy.

She had nothing to do with "Higher Love." She did do some treacly duet with Peter Cetera but let's not confuse the two.

"Higher Love" is a 1986 number-one hit song by Steve Winwood. It was the first single released from his fourth solo LP, Back in the High Life. It was written by Winwood and Will Jennings, and produced by Russ Titelman and Winwood. The female vocals on the song were performed by Chaka Khan, who also appeared in the promotional music video. -- wikipedia

She a registered Republican bitches!

I would feel bad if someone prayed to Jesus for forgiveness after having sex with me.

Or maybe not -- a fervent prayer would mean I had done everything right.

Crystal was fucking Rush Limbaugh!She might have been bi-sexual(there's too much smoke not there to be fire) BUT she must have been crazy to have sex with him. She even claimed that he was the "best".Fatman must be hung like an elephant because there's not way a hottie like that would have screwed a nottie like that otherwise.

I remember reading that she hired a female rent girl with her boyfriend and pushed him out of the picture and just had sex with the girl. What was supposed to be a MFF threesome became a FF twosome.

She could have been the "it" girl for the 1990s. But God had other plans for her and now she is doing HIS work. She will pray for you all.

Her first time presenting at the Emmy awards, she fell in the middle of the stage.

She later told the audience that was her tribute to comedy.

R40 I'm trying to figure out how this ties in to the topic. Were the mangy puppies the inspiration for Crystal's hairstyle? Were the dogs St. BERNARDS?

I always thought she was cute.

Wings was such an underrated show. The whole cast was amazing, I can't believe that none of them were nominated for Emmy. And writing was really funny as well. When I look at some other shows and actors that get recognition, it's just unbelievable.

She also wrote "Never Gonna Give You Up", performed by Rick Astly.

I liked the feathered hairstyle on Crystal. It suited her face.

[quote]I loved the video and used to twirl around my bedroom window pretending I was her.

MARY!!!

its so interesting to see as what passed for sexy back then! Girl has a big fat ass, chimpmunk cheeks and with that nasty hair on her head, one can only shiver to think what's going on between her legs.

[quote]David Schramm (Roy Biggins) still does theater pretty much exclusively.

He was in the same Julliard Drama Class as Patti LuPone. If you watch "The Time of Your Life" that's Patti's entire graduating class.

r55, that's why you're a homo.

R55 - fat ass? No.

She had the flattest chest of the eighties.

R1

She was the Reese Witherspoon in her day?

That made me laugh. Seriously laugh.

R59 - small busted, but not that flat.

And more.

I follow her on Twitter. She makes outrageous statements about turning down roles that went to Meryl. The last oen I remember is that she was offered the lead in Nashville, but turned it down. Check it out if you want some fantasy reading.

Still more. She's not flat.

She did that horrible MOTW about Federico Pena's crazy wife. Never saw her again.

She had an AMAING ass.

Oh, she did.

She became an entertainer at a young age, singing gospel songs with her elder sister, Robyn (also an actress, who played "Terry Brock" on General Hospital, 1984-1990[3]). One recording of the two that has survived from those years is a song called "The Monkey Song" (an objection to evolution), on Feudin' Fussin' and Frettin' recorded when Crystal was 8 years old,[4] a recording of a 1972 Thomas Road Baptist Church service led by Jerry Falwell.

No she didn't, R52. Seriously.

R52 = Crystal, taking a break from Twitter.

R66 and R67 are straight males who got lost.

Was her sister on episode of the Facts of Life? The episode was titled star at Langley and the character's name was Heather Hunt, a Jennifer Beals like movie star who enrolls at Langley college.

Heather puts the moves on Blair's boyfriend Cliff. Jamie Gertz is also in this episode.

Rebecca Schull, who played Faye on WINGS, was most recently a recurring character on SUITS on USA, as Patrick J. Adams' grandmother. Her character's death at the end of the most recent season was a big plot point...

Was she friends with Gail fucking Edwards? I'm so trying to make Gail happen on DL.

Her twitter account has her eating BLT. Now what does she call the BLT? Something like Boobies Labia and Testicles. In one tweet she's carving her Blumpkin?! Also, Taylor Swift is Cuntry! If she's not bi she's nutty at the very least....

R72, yes, that's her sister.

I think Crystal and Cher were friends at some point but ended up in a feud over Cher's bf the bagel guy. I'm not sure if it was just a hook up behind Cher's back or if the bagel guy left Cher for Crystal. I remember fearing for Crystals life as you probably wouldn't want to be on Cher's bad side especially when it was about a man.

The first thing I saw her in was Happy Days.

Yes, Crystal was fucking the Bagel Boy.Cher was so old at that point so bagel boy wanted the randy horny bisexual Crystal. That's when Cher was starting to look like more of a drag queen impersonator of herself than anything else.

The recent Tim Daly thread got me thinking about Wings. I thought it was a very funny, underrated show. It still stands up too. Tim Daly was gorgeous. It got me wondering what happened to Crystal Bernard.

She took a shit in my dressing room.

Who knew there was so much dirt on Crystal Bernard? I always thought she was fundamentalist went on her merry way away from Hollywood.

[quote]She was the Reese Witherspoon of her day,

She was never an A-list movie actress, and she never won an Academy Award.

Why do you even post such complete horseshit? They are in no way comparable.

You might as well post of Victoria Principal, "She was the Angelina Jolie of her day."

Barbara Billngsley was the Meryl Streep of her day.

Frances Bavier was the Mariska Hargitay of her day.

Her fake twitter account is a hoot.

She was offered the part of June Carter in Walk the Line but Gary Busey wouldn't let her do it.

I liked her in Wings where every attempt to continue her music career turned into a disaster.

I liked her on Happy Days when she and Jenny Piccolo used to lust after the guy with the half shirt.

CB in the holiday movie Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus

Mmmm -- muffin!

(Forgive me, Jesus)

Mmmm -- another muffin!

(Sorry, again, Jesus)

MUFFIN! MUFFIN!

(I'm leaving Hollywood, Jesus).

After Cher (yes, THE CHER) and Rob broke up, Crystal dated Rob.

She replaced Susan Lucci in Annie Get Your Gun.

Victoria Principal was the Morgan Fairchild of her day.

Recent pic.

Is that not a 10 year old Nick Jonas on the left?

Not bad. I would have thought she would have been fat.

She looks good!

Crystal Bernard and Courtney Thorne Smith are similar in type. Can't think of their equivalent among younger actresses.

She looks like Felicity Huffman

R100 - a little.

Yeah, that picture at r95 is from 2001 when she did "Annie Get Your Gun." Hardly recent.

And yes, that's a young Nick Jonas with her.

She will sell you photos of herself

Interesting photos...she's very beautiful. Wonder what the "Jerry Wayne Bernhard Family" is?! Will have to Google....

I thought she was perfect on Wings, just like the rest of the cast. Pity she didn't get more chances--she has talent.

I also agree wings was terribly underrated. That ensemble and writing was right up there with cheers, taxi, and Frasier. And I would have loved to have had either tin Daly or the guy who played Lowell.

Jerry Wayne Bernhard Family -- I think that's her family.

She and her sister(?) sang with their dad(?) as part of an evangelical troupe.

In "You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again" CB is shown as one very conflicted about her attraction to women.

R106 - Wings was good, though not quite the caliber of Cheers or Taxi.

[r107] her light started to dim in Nashville when she was seeing Billy Dean and Teri Clark at the same time.

When Teri Clark was between husbands?

Billy Dean AND Teri Clark...oh my!

c 1998 [r110]

The last time she did work was 2008.

I got old and decided to muff dive full-time...

i heard joanie from chachi won't speak with her nor will anne jillian. must be something wrong with her

They gave out boxes of Krispy Kreme donuts at the ANNIE GET YOUR GUN box office when Crystal Bernard took over.

Did she comment on Scott Baio?

I heard a while back that she was in a relationship with Vanna White years ago . Any truth to that ?

She was so beautiful.

R119, are you watching Wings reruns in Chicago? It's just funny that that is what was on just now when you posted. I think we had the same exact thought at the same time! Farrah Forke was hot, too. I wonder if they ever got together because Forke really pings, too.

She always looked like she was one sugar cube away from maximum density.

R120, I was watching it on Antenna TV.

Farrah Forke got a lousy send off ala Terry Farrell.

Loved her and all the cast in Wings the most pointless nothing sitcom I truly loved. Like, how did they even pitch the show?

LOL

So, R124, the dumb isn't just skin deep with her!

Forke and Bernard cuddling while the guys have their hands in the pockets! Ha.

She was with Billy Zane at an Arts Heart Fashion event in L.A. back in March.

Vintage gossip circa 2004: “Bernard, Crystal. "Hypocritical Christian who engages in lesbian affairs and then quickly retreats to religion and her boyfriend and pretends to be Miss Moral." Linked with Morgan Fairchild.“

That’s Crystal Bernard at R127?! Doesn’t look like her!

“Wings” was always a guilty pleasure of mine, and Bernard developed into a fine comedienne over the course of the show.

That tweet at R124 is ... odd!

Unless Crystal Bernard regressed in age to younger than she was on Wings, that ain't her at r127.

R127 I think that is her - after extensive plastic surgery and fillers. That looks like her chin.

The twitter account at R124 isn't authenticated, it's not her.

She just dropped out of sight like her sister Robyn.

Big haired family.

I'll go out on a limb and say that is a picture of Crystal Bernard at r127 . She must have gone to Jane Fonda's plastic surgeon. The work is excellent.

Getty Images says that's her. Hope this link works:

Sorry, her Helen Chappel character on Wings was not believable because of her hillbilly accent. How did she supposedly grow up on Nantucket Island and talk like a Texas redneck? And to make it worse, her "sister" Casey joins the cast and talks normal.

But Crystal was always good with a comedy line. Even on It's A Living.

WEHT to Amy Yasbeck, who played Casey? I know she lost her suit against the hospital where her husband John Ritter died. Is she living on food stamps now?

Most actors can modify their regional accents for a part but the producers must have just said to hell with it.

I'm not sure if Bernard was capable of modifying her accent, since she seemingly never did once in her entire career.

WOW she looks amazing with the work she's had done. Still think she's a second-rate actress but looks great for her age.

Maybe like Barbara mandrell she decided she was tired of being a celebrity and dropped out.

She was the reason I quit

She was very talented.

Couldn't Tim Daly throw her a bone on Madam Secretary?

Helen was created with Peri Gilpin in mind.

Interesting...

I had no idea Tim Daly was the brother of Tyne Daly! WOW!

I thought she was in a relationship with Park Overall

I always thought their father was the guy from What's My Line?

[quote]I always thought their father was the guy from What's My Line

No ... he was Capt. Frank Furillo's fuck-buddy for years, though.

Her Annie.....

Believe it or not she used to date none other than Rush Limbaugh. She retired in 2008 and has never been married.

I don't know how recent this is but she looks good. It appears to be long after her stint on Wings.

Link to Travanti thread, r149...

Apparently the character of Helen Chapel was born in texas but moved to Nantucket as a girl. A convenient excuse for the accent.

WOW! If that's her in the link at R127, she looks great!

That Twitter account is so bizarre. You’d think she’d try to get it shut down.

I AM funny!

They used to tease her about her accent on “Wings”.

Wasn’t she dating that handsome country singer Billy Dean for a while?

Who knew the most famous actor on Wings would be Tony Shalhoub

Bernard shone on a hilarious “Wings” episode where she pretended to be engaged to sleazeball Roy to appease his obnoxious mother, played by Rose Marie (and yes, it’s pathetic that I remember this!)

She married Antonio so he could get his green card.

I can't stand Tony Shalhoub. I think it's just because I find him extremely unattractive.

Her Wikipedia page R151 doesn't list her as retired, although it looks like she hasn't done anything for 10 years.

I love Amy Yasbeck, she hates Trump, my kinda gal.

[quote] Her Wikipedia page [R151] doesn't list her as retired

Surely you don't actually think the information you get from Wikipedia is 100% correct or complete.

I certainly think someone of her background could have booked jobs in the last 10 years if she had wanted to work in the industry.

Her father was one of those traveling revival preachers. Holy roller, don't you know.

Surely you don't think I would trust a poster R165 over Wikipedia. Even a google search doesn't come up with anything about retirement. There are a lot of people that don't work for a number of years (even over 10 years) and all of a sudden there are in something.

*they

Amy has a transgendered son. Of course she hates Trump.

People, the woman with Billy Zane in that photo is not Crystal Bernard regardless of what Getty says. That is not a 56-year old woman in that picture.

I agree R170. The eyebrows are different and there is a mole on her right side that isn't in other photos of her.

R167 this is from the link at R151.

[quote] Bernard has retired from the film and music industry for about a decade now

[quote] She was the Reese Witherspoon of her day,

not even close

That's not a reputable site R172. The writing is so amateurish.

IMDB

She picks up cans off the street.

It's dirty work but

IT'SSSSSSSS

AAAAAAAAA

LIVING!!!!

She would made a sexier Claire Dunphy.

Crystal Bernard was great with the insult humor on “Wings”, but I don’t know if she could do as good a side-eye as Julie Bowen, R177!

Also, considering she has yet to demonstrate an ability to tone down the Texas accent, her playing SoCal Claire would've been a bit of a reach.

"Who knew the most famous actor on Wings would be Tony Shalhoub?"

Fuck you, cunt!!!!!

To be fair, Thomas Haden Church hasn't done too poorly for himself, either.

Thomas Haden who?

And Tim Daly is still working, and still looks terrific! Of course, it helps when you look like Tim Daly to start with!

Jenny Piccolo bullied her and Fonzie beat her to a bloody pulp.

She would be an ideal Ashley Abbott recast if she is willing to do soaps.

Very candid about aging here.

She must have saved up enough "F U!" money.

She looked very nice in r186's clip. But I know she spends a lot of time in an indoor gym.

She was adorable on it’s a living , just catching up on that show for the first time thanks to Logo.

I wasn't really that attracted to her.

Didn’t she have a sister in the biz too?

I know I do, r192.

Great smile . I heard she used to have something going with Vanna White . Anyone else hear these rumors?

I miss seeing her face.

Her sister Robin was on General Hospital for a while, late 80s I think.

She was always crying.

What's the biggest church in the world?

Helen Chapel

She needs a comeback vehicle.

How about a Ford Fiesta?

Great comic timing.😂

Funny I should stumble across this thread as not long ago I was having dinner at that restaurant at the Nantucket airport where her signed photograph was right in front of me.

I’m surprised the fake twitter page hasn’t been taken down. It’s kind of amusing and one of her sisters and a brother in law have responded that it’s fake but people were still responding to it.

Very underrated.

Please report these bumped threads to webmaster at datalounge dot com. The people who are bumping old threads are doing so maliciously. Take a couple minutes out of your day to improve this site so we can enjoy it.

Well there is a Wings marathon currently running on Antenna TV so it may just be eldergay nostalgia and not malicious distraction, r205.

Perhaps R206 but I'm not buying it. There have been a shit ton of bumped threads today, one after the other. All weekend in fact.

Before Wings, I remember Amy Yasbeck from a guest role on the awful 6th season of Designing Women. She played a bimbo nurse attending to Julia and she was hilarious. I recall thinking at the time how much of a better fit she would have been as a regular on the show versus Duffy/Hooks.

Crystal Bernard was just as good as Julia Louis-Dreyfus yet her star faded. Too bad.

[quote]Crystal Bernard was just as good as Julia Louis-Dreyfus yet her star faded. Too bad.

Oh my sides!

Well?

If this is a picture of Crystal Bernard, she has discovered the Fountain of Youth.

It's her.

I remember when USA would play Wings 4 times a day, 5 days a week.

That is an old picture of her.

I read somewhere about a year ago that she had retired from acting and was living in Garland, Tx. (suburban Dallas).

Bump

[quote] She was the Reese Witherspoon of her day

LOL....no

Is she the one that did commercials for those Q gyms?

The name Crystal Bernard sounds like a character rather than a real person.

[quote] She was the Reese Witherspoon of her day,

No she was not.

Crystal Bernard was a hot but minor TV star.

Reese Witherspoon is a major billionaire movie star who has a face like a frying pan.

She's totally unsung. Her turn as Helen Chapel on Wings is comedy gold.

[R9] Ten years later, we still don't know why.

I was obsessed with Wings for many years and then binged it a few years ago. It really doesn't hold up, and I found alot of it very homophobic.

That's a bummer R224 . The episode where Roy's son RJ comes out is one of my favorites of the series, and I thought handled very well.

Nobody cares you loser

Outside of a party or audition, etc., one of the only celebs I ever saw when out and about in L.A. was Steven Weber. Frozen food aisle of Ralphs Supermarket on Sunset.

I had a huge crush on him from Single White Female and he smiled at me but for some reason I froze up.

Steven Weber had a decent face, a fantastic body, and a nice easy manner. He found work exactly at his level. He was fine in "Jeffrey" although because his part was so underwritten (it was Paul Rudnick's idea of what "normal" gay men from the Mdwest were like in the 1990s, which was pretty thin) that a better actor could have done more with the part. He at least had a great ass in it, though.

Bump

Crystal Bernard

Not much of a hint here...

I always liked her.