One of the few bright spots on the dismal Chicago PD show was the performance of the great Markie Post as the mother of one of the leads. She plays the slutty Mom of Erin who was the the female lead for the first few seasons until she quit the show Now the premise of the show was that Erin was a bad kid who came on the cops because of her relationship with Hank Voight the corrupt sergeant in charge of the intelligence squad. He was constantly competing with Markie who played the girls mother. She was a beer drinking, cigarette smoking bimbo who was hanging around bars and having a grand old time. A far cry from her virginal defense attorney on Night Court.
I just thought she had a great career trajectory of taking the place that Sheree North used to hold in our hearts. You know what I mean. The boozy floosy at the end of the bar. The well worn but sexy dame who comes into the bar...orders a drink...fishes in her knock off bag for a crumpled five dollar bill with lint and an old life saver stuck to it for her first cordial. Bangs a hard pack of Marlboro Red against the bar and shakes out a cig. Lights it with a match from the bowl of matches on the bar. Takes a drag and looks around to see what there was to see.
It's not like I thought about this at all. Just sayn'
Rest in peace Marci. You will be missed.
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Markie, short for Marjorie.
And Heather Thomas is alive and well, clean and sober.
It ain't all bad out there.
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