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So, I see this chick in an episode of Emergency! and I'm thinking, wow, Paula Prentiss, cool, but...why Emergency!? So, it's like, a big role, right, three segments, and she's funny as hell in all of them (Preston Wood script, and oh btw the other big running plot is that Boot is sick, and there is some crazyass ensemble work with that one as well, and as a show-business aside, have any of you ever met a dog's agent? What kind of a guy is that gonna be anyway?) only...the end credits roll and I see that it's Ann Prentiss, not Paula. I never heard of no Ann Prentiss, that would explain why Emergency!? because it's Ann Prentiss and not Paula Prentiss, but how was I to know that? I guess that's why there are credits offered to and for the discerning viewer, eh? So we can learn. So, off to the internet (everybody else I know is asleep right now), and yes, Ann, not Paula, and guess what - Ann died in prison after being convicted of assault and for soliciting the murder of her father and her brother in law Richard Benjamin (not that Richard Benjamin hasn't gotten on my nerves over the years, but geez...otoh, he's not family so I don't see him regularly...still - not allowable by law, andd law trumps all, land of the free, nation of laws end of story, roll credits again, please). Anyway, this is the kind of thing, like, SO glad it's not happening to me, and since it's not, let's pry a little further...internet, go do your thing fetch, internet, fetch...GOOD BOY!!! And it did not take long at all to find this:http://mediafunhouse.blogspot.com/2010/07/sisterly-menace-deceased-artiste-ann.html with the great line: I know from my days of reading obituaries in search of unintentional humor that this is so often true. However, as if like life mirroring reality in internet form, the next click took me here: http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html?t=10104520#page:showThread,10104520 where it must be said that the blog's juiciest, strangest post is indeed contained at the very end, and I quote: And that's where I said, ok internet, you've done your job and done it well, thanks. Here, have a biscuit and let's go to bed. But still....DAMN.