{"id":292,"date":"2004-07-13T10:23:13","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T14:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=292"},"modified":"2007-03-05T07:08:30","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T12:08:30","slug":"good-night-sweet-weezie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/good-night-sweet-weezie","title":{"rendered":"Good night, Sweet Weezie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isabel Sanford, best known for her role as Louise &#8220;Weezie&#8221; Jefferson on the eponymous TV show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wistv.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=2028394\">died yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My buddy <a href=\"mailto:tomspurgeon@yahoo.com\">Tom<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think I&#8217;m the only one who finds it super odd that the actress who played Weezie Jefferson was 21 years old than the actor who played George Jefferson on The Jeffersons. I can&#8217;t think of any other television pairing with that particular age disparity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Howzabout it, VM reader? Can you think of any other more disparate age-pairing? And no fair going with Joan Collins and any other cast member on Dynasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isabel Sanford, best known for her role as Louise &#8220;Weezie&#8221; Jefferson on the eponymous TV show, died yesterday. My buddy Tom writes: I think I&#8217;m the only one who finds it super odd that the actress who played Weezie Jefferson was 21 years old than the actor who played George Jefferson on The Jeffersons. 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