Brett Somers, perhaps best known for being Jack Klugman's wife and one of the perennial panelists on Match Game, has died, aged 83, after a bout with cancer. Ms. Somers brightened many an afternoon in my salad days with her acerbic wit and continual banter (usually in doubles entendres) with Charles Nelson Reilly (who also died this year, apparently without attracting much notice, considering this is the first I've heard of it).
As a long-time viewer of the show (and thanks to GSN, I can catch it again--and marvel at the schlockiness of the late '70s), I can also definitively state that Reilly sat to Somers's left, not to her right as claimed in the E! News piece linked to above. Considering that they posted a video clip of the show along with their obituary, I'm surprised at that gaffe.
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