Known for her roles in The Drowning Pool with Paul Newman; Norma Rae with Sally Field; and the classic Sienfeld episode, Strickland disappeared from the public
Now we know why. She retired from acting because she suffers from spasmodic dysphonia - a neurologic disorder that affects the voice and speech.
Rare video where she comes back into the spotlight to talk about living this disability
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 14, 2023 10:39 PM |
Gail also played a lead role as a lesbian MD on tv’s Heartbeat, a medical show in the late 1980s.
The clip below shows Gail and her girlfriend in domestic bliss. It is shameful: Gail dumps some pasta into the sink, assumably into a strainer.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 14, 2023 8:42 PM |
She played a drunk in an episode of MASH on TV.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 14, 2023 8:43 PM |
I remember that episode of MASH, R2.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 14, 2023 8:44 PM |
She has a freakout from the DT's.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 14, 2023 8:46 PM |
In MASH she was already shaking from the disease so her character having the DT's is a bit ironic.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 14, 2023 8:50 PM |
Considering she wasn't diagnosed with the disease for another 10-12 years after she did MASH, I would guess it was an acting choice instead.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 14, 2023 8:54 PM |
Gail also played a recurring character on The Bob Newhart Show. She was a love interest of the Jerry Robinson character.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 14, 2023 9:00 PM |
It hasn’t stopped that Kennedy loon.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 14, 2023 9:00 PM |
Here's the MASH episode. Her voice is a bit shaky.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 14, 2023 9:01 PM |
I have SD too, and I'm a perpetually-frowny, backstabbing CUNT of a US Senator. You don't see ME quitting, do youse?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 14, 2023 9:02 PM |
"She played a drunk in an episode of MASH on TV."
Funny how the alcoholism of almost all the male characters was no big whoop, but...
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 14, 2023 9:28 PM |
I believe Diane Rehm suffered from this, too.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 14, 2023 10:39 PM |
