Another "icon" bites the dust--an actress who few people outside of the business ever heard of, has died, and gets the Garbo/Hepburn treatment

By RM
sunday, february 1, 2026 at 2:04:00 p.m. est

Another "icon" bites the dust--an actress who few people outside of the business ever heard of, has died, and gets the Garbo/Hepburn treatment

Might as well post this gripe here: Catherine O'Hara, an actress I never heard of, died, and the news is being treated as if she were Garbo or Hepburn (big attention over at the Commie Film Board, including a headline banner with her photo-Barbara Rush didn't get that kind of treatment!)

Her big credits: SCTV (never watched it), Beetlejuice (saw it ages ago, made no great impression), Home Alone (which I HATED), and-this is what galls me-a TV series called-ready for this?-Schitt's Creek.

Something to be proud of?! I mean, she may well have been a good actress, but that list of titles doesn't impress me-and the last-mentioned is a real embarrassment. And the nyt is THRILLED to trumpet that in a headline!

Another "icon" bites the dust.

-RM