Talk:Laraine Newman

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Hello. How do people feel about adding to the article some information from a 2003 issue of Philadelphia (magazine)?

An article headlined "City of Eagles" says Laraine Newman and her husband, Philadelphia native Chad Einbinder, regularly join comedian Craig Shoemaker and other friends at Braemar Country Club in Tarzana, California to watch Philadelphia Eagles games on a "giant-screen TV."

It's on page 41 of the November 2003 issue of the magazine.

I'll wait several days for a response here. If none, then I'll add a short passage to the article. Chad Einbinder doesn't have his own article. If he did, then I would put the passage there. He's the Philadelphia native. Laraine grew up in L.A. Earththings (talk) 23:07, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

she was also in an episode of ellen — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.230.80.36 (talk) 14:34, 20 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Juice Newton

I remember her saying that Juice Newton was her sister. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 23:50, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Virginity

It says she lost her virginity to Johnny Winter. This doesn't seem consistent with regular Wikipedia narrative, unless it's part of a larger issue. Usually, there is no reference for others when they lose their virginity. I think it's inappropriate and it should be removed. Also, Johnny Winter was 25, and she was 17. I realize he has passed, but at the time, he was guilty of statuatory rape.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:443:200:3650:84F2:AE8F:B387:9881 (talk) 22:29, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"In movies like ..."

One way that all articles about actors can be improved is to erase the phrase "... in movies like ..." (or anything similar) from every actor biography on Wikipedia.

It doesn't take a brilliant mind to realize that such phrases really mean "Some of the movies were lower quality, or a flop, or both, so those have been left off the list; only the better and more successful ones are named here."

In other words, "... in movies like ..." is almost always a lie, because the important thing about a worse movie is that it is NOT like the better ones, and similarly a flop is exactly unlike a success.

It is usually fine to say "... was in this movie and that one and this other one" while not mentioning the less-good movies. (One time to not do it that way is if someone literally became famous for being in a lot of bad movies.) But it's not fine to try to inflate anyone's reputation by pretending they were in more good movies than they really were. TooManyFingers (talk) 06:20, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]