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I think they should make a remake of this


It might be nice to see a remake of this, updated of course, but with two actors/actress with chemistry as great as Rock & Susan.

I was on a cruise with Nancy Walker, who was:

1. an absolute doll

2. Has an amazing memory. My cabin was a few doors down from hers. I met her while boarding the ship, I had just found out I was an uncle for the 1st time, (less than a minute before I met her)....I was so excited that I said, "Hi my name is ____ & I just became an uncle & then blurted out my Nephew's name"...I must have sounded so foolish to her.

Instead she was very sweet about it and every day she made a point of asking me if I had gotten any more info on my Nephew. She remembered my Nephew's full name the entire length of the cruise...This was much before the Internet and I can to place ship to shore calls or send cables to my family for info on my Nephew. She kept track of when I was going up to the radio room to place a calls so she could get all of the update son the baby, (sadly there was no way to send photos to the ship back then). The cruise traveled from NYC to and around Europe and we are on the ship for several weeks. She asked me for baby updates several times a day. She was a lovely person.

We had a very long conversation about McMillan & Wife & Rhoda....she cried when speaking of Rock Hudson, not just did she say he was nothing but funny, sweet and kind, but they maintained their friendship until the very end, (she felt in the end just like most AIDS patients of the time, he was treated as a leper, which made her cry that much more). Even at the end she said he was charming and funny. She also said that Elizabeth Taylor should have been beatified for raising so much $ for HIV/AIDS research and dedicating so much of herself and time in the memory of Rock Hudson.

She felt as If Susan was a daughter to her, and when Susan had her miscarriage Nancy was the first person she told outside of her family....

Nice to know that it was much more than just actors playing parts...but dear friends who kept in touch all of their lives...

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Ilove,
Wow!!! Nancy sounds like a real nice lady!!! I really admired her on McMillian and Wife. I loved all of her comedic scenes throughout the run of the series!!! I too, loved McMillan and Wife. It was never the same when Susan St. James left the series.
It defintely jumped the shark.

Anthony

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Thanks for the personal anecdote! I always loved Nancy Walker in everything she did. You mentioning the cruise reminded me of the time she was on The Love Boat. She played a woman who actually moved onto the ship because she wanted to live there for the rest of her life. I seem to remember she moved all her furniture on board, even her Grandfather clock. It's been years since I've seen that show so I can't recall too many more details of that episode, I just remember it was pretty funny, thanks to Nancy W.

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Thank you for sharing this story.......very sweet. It is always nice to hear how awesome some of my favorite stars were/are:)

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Shut up with the remakes!

What the hell is it with the remakes these days?

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They definitely should.

Who would I like to see as McMillan and Wife?

How about DOMINIC WEST as the debonair McMillan (he is English, and McMillan's character has a background in Scotland)

And equally as sexy, how about ROCHELLE AYTES? Imagine those two on the screen together. H-O-T-T Hot!

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