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Peg Phillips, who played Ruth-Anne on the Northern Exposure series, died Nov. 7 at the age of 84. NPR remembered a collision of their two worlds, when Ruth-Anne landed a commentary on All Things Considered and real-life host Robert Siegel introduced it. synergy before its time.

Laurence Simon:

Not a single ounce of bullshit in that woman.

CBS's PR flaks released some sort of statement. Who gives a fuck what they think?

Heart, Mind, and Strength weblog:

IF YOU DON'T HAVE A DREAM, HOW YOU GONNA HAVE A DREAM COME TRUE? [Woodeene Koenig-Bricker]11/12/02

So you think you are too old to fulfill your dreams?  Think again.  Incidentally, I spent a day on the set of Northern Exposure and got to meet Ms. Phillips who was every bit as much of a character as Ruth-Anne. Into your hands, we commend her, O Lord.

Margaret "Peg" Phillips, a retired accountant who took acting classes at age 65 and won fame as the tart-tongued shopkeeper Ruth-Anne Miller in the television series "Northern Exposure," has died. She was 84....

Phillips appeared in at least eight movies, a number of television commercials and made guest appearances in such TV series as "Seventh Heaven," "Touched By An Angel" and "E.R."

She appeared with Shirley MacLaine in "Waiting for the Light" (1990) and in the made-for-TV movies "How the West Was Fun" (1994) and "Chase" (1985).

Born in Everett, Phillips overcame polio, peritonitis, a ruptured aorta and, at age 81, a broken hip and wrist from being hit by a car.