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Marcia Strassman, known for Welcome Back Kotter, has died at 66

Marcia Strassman dead at 66: Actress known for ‘Welcome Back, Kotter,’ ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ battled breast cancer

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Marcia Strassman’s career spanned five decades with appearances on the hit shows ‘M*A*S*H’ and ‘Welcome Back, Kotter,’ and in the ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ franchise. She died Saturday at 66 after a seven-year battle with breast cancer that spread to her bones.

BY NICOLE HENSLEY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Sunday, October 26, 2024, 8:44 PM
Updated: Sunday, October 26, 2024, 9:19 PM

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Marcia Strassman died Saturday after a seven-year battle with breast cancer that spread to her bones shortly after her diagnosis.
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The 66-year-old actress played Julie Kotter in ABC’s ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’ from 1975 to 1979 and appeared in the ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ franchise.
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Marcia Strassman, the actress best known as the long-suffering wife on “Welcome Back, Kotter” and in “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” died Saturday after a seven-year battle with breast cancer. She was 66.
“She was the funniest, smartest person I ever met,” the actress’ sister, Julie Strassman, told Deadline.com. “And talented. She knew everything. Now I won’t be able to call her and ask her questions.”
Her five-decade career started with guest appearances on the Patty Duke Show, before appearing as Nurse Margie Cutler in six episodes of “M*A*S*H.”
But she remains best-loved as the on-screen wife of Gabe Kotter, a Brooklyn high school teacher played by Gabe Kaplan on “Welcome Back, Kotter.” Kaplan would end every episode by telling Strassman’s character a ridiculous anecdote about one of his family members. “So sad that a sweet friend, kind person and wonderful actress lost her brave battle with cancer,” comic director Bob Weide tweeted.
The New York native appeared opposite Rick Moranis in “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” in 1989 as the mother of two teenagers mistakenly reduced to the size of bugs. She reprised the role in “Honey, I Blew Up the Kid” in 1992.
Her appearances in film and television slowed down after her diagnosis of breast cancer in 2024, which was Stage IV. It had already spread to her bones, she told Coping Magazine in a 2024 interview.
Her final years were spent advocating for breast cancer awareness.
She is survived by her daughter, Lizzie, and brother, Steven.
nhensley@nydailynews.com

Man Known As Kissing Sailor From One Of History’s Most Iconic Pictures Has Died

Man Known As Kissing Sailor From One Of History’s Most Iconic Pictures Has Died

HOUSTON (AP) — A man who became Known for claiming he was the Sailor Kissing a woman in Times Square in a famous World War II-era photo taken by a Life magazine photographer has died. Glenn McDuffie was 86.

McDuffie Died March 9 in a nursing home in Dallas, his daughter, Glenda Bell, told The Associated Press.

A mail carrier and semi-professional ****ball player after he returned From World War II, McDuffie’s life became more exciting about six years ago when Houston Police Department forensic artist Lois Gibson was able to identify him as the young man leaning over the woman in his arms to kiss her.

By taking about 100 Pictures of McDuffie using a pillow to pose as he did in the picture taken Aug. 14, 1945, by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gibson said, she was able to match the muscles, ears and other features of the then-80-year-old
McDuffie to the young Sailor in the original image.

"I was absolutely positive," Gibson said of the match. "It was perfect."

The identification remained controversial, partly because other men also claimed to have been the Sailor in the image, but also because Life magazine, whose photographer had Died years earlier, was unable to confirm that McDuffie was in fact the sailor, noting Eisenstaedt had never gotten ****s for those in the picture.

Yet for McDuffie, Gibson’s word was enough. A well-respected forensic artist who was in the 2024 Guinness Book of World Records for helping police identify more suspects than any other forensic artist, Gibson said McDuffie was ecstatic when she told him the results he had waited 62 years to hear.

And so began a whirlwind lifestyle of going to air shows, gun shows, fundraisers and parties to tell his story. Women would pay $10 to take a picture Kissing him on the cheek, Gibson said.

"He would make money and kiss women," Gibson said. "He had the Most glamorous life of any 80 year old."

McDuffie had told the AP he was changing trains in New York when he was told that Japan had surrendered.

"I was so happy. I ran out in the street," said McDuffie, then 18 and on his way to visit his girlfriend in Brooklyn.

"And then I saw that nurse," he said. "She saw me hollering and with a big smile on my face. … I just went right to her and kissed her."

"We never spoke a word," he added. "Afterward, I just went on the subway across the street and went to Brooklyn."

Gibson’s daughter, Bell, said on anniversaries of the war’s end her father would recall that moment and the air of excitement in Times Square.

For years it bothered him that he wasn’t identified as the man in the photo, she said, and he turned to Gibson for help to clear it up.

"He wanted to do it before he died," she said.

McDuffie is survived by his daughter and two grandchildren. His funeral will be held March 21 at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.

Florida Teen Gets First Known Penis Reduction

Sorry if this is a double post, it disappeared on me.

Florida Teen undergoes world’s First Penis Reduction surgery: study

The unidentified 17-year-old’s ‘massive’ phallus was ‘too large for intercourse,’ according to a report published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. It was almost 7 inches long and had a circumference of 10 inches when flaccid.

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A Florida teenager had surgery to make his Penis smaller because he couldn’t "penetrate his partner" or play competitive sports, doctors at the University of South Florida claim.
A Florida teenager has successfully undergone the world’s First Penis Reduction surgery, doctors at the University of South Florida claim.
The unidentified 17-year-old’s “massive” phallus was “too large for intercourse,” according to a report published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Shaped like an American football, it was almost 7 inches long and had a circumference of 10 inches when flaccid.
“It sounds like a man’s dream — a tremendously inflated phallus — but unfortunately, although it was a generous length, its girth was just massive, especially around the middle,” Dr. Rafael Carrion, the urologist who treated the teen, told the Daily Mail.
The well-endowed patient, who “reported inability to penetrate his partner,” had asked for the operation after the shape of his Penis also restricted his ability to play competitive sports, the study says.
“There comes a time in every urologist’s career that a patient makes a request so rare and impossible to comprehend that all training breaks down and leaves the physician speechless,” Carrion reportedly said.
Since he was 10, the teen, who has a history of sickle cell disease, had three episodes of priapism — a medical condition in which the Penis stays erect for hours — that “progressively” led to his Penis deformity, surgeons said in the report.
Doctors were able to make it symmetrical.
USF did not return calls for comment, and Carrion could not immediately be reached.
The average length and circumference of a Penis is about 13 and 9 centimeters, respectively, according to the study.
mchan@nydailynews.com