Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87. Lavin died in Los Angeles on Sunday of ...

Linda Lavin, the Tony- and Golden Globe-winning actor best known as a wisecracking waitress with a heart of gold on the hit 1970s sitcom "Alice," has died at 87. She passed away "unexpectedly" on Dec.

NEW YORK (AP) — Polly Holliday, a Tony Award-nominated screen and stage actor who turned the catchphrase “Kiss my grits!” into a national retort as the gum-chewing, beehive-wearing waitress aboard the ...