I was mostly familiar with Kirstie Alley as the modestly cynical yet warmhearted social worker from the 1995 Olsen Twins movie It Takes Two. Upon reflection it is surprising how often I watched that movie when I was a boy—somehow we came into a copy of it on VHS and I recall practically wearing it out with repeat viewings. At the time it seemed like there was no more romantic pairing in cinematic history than Kirstie Alley and Steve Guttenberg. That, you may be surprised to learn, is not true, but you have to at least give Alley herself credit for selling a romantic attraction to a man as genially bland and unremarkable as Guttenberg himself. Dead at 71, RIP.
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Kirstie Alley and the passing of the old…
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I was mostly familiar with Kirstie Alley as the modestly cynical yet warmhearted social worker from the 1995 Olsen Twins movie It Takes Two. Upon reflection it is surprising how often I watched that movie when I was a boy—somehow we came into a copy of it on VHS and I recall practically wearing it out with repeat viewings. At the time it seemed like there was no more romantic pairing in cinematic history than Kirstie Alley and Steve Guttenberg. That, you may be surprised to learn, is not true, but you have to at least give Alley herself credit for selling a romantic attraction to a man as genially bland and unremarkable as Guttenberg himself. Dead at 71, RIP.