Bad Penny Turns Up

in Hits & Misses by
“I know. We all make mistakes.
If I could go back and change it, I would.
Perhaps someday the world can forgive me
for giving Rosie O’Donnell
her big break.”

Penny Marshall
Actress, director, hag.
October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018.
Aged 75 years.

Most recognized for: As co-star of the hit “Happy Days” spin-off “Laverne & Shirley,” she brought levity to closeted lesbian brewery workers around the world… or, at least, the greater Milwaukee area. She later squeezed her rump into the directors chair to cough up heart-warming box office sh!ts such as “Big,” “Awakenings,” and “A League of Their Own.” But after several years in remission from lung-turned-brain cancer, it was the ‘Beetus that ultimately left us all Penniless.