A star of the '70s and '80s sitcom that featured a Phoenix diner, has died.
Polly Holliday played Flo the waitress on the TV show "Alice" and will be remembered for a famous insult.
FLO: Is that all you have to say to me?
MEL: Yeah. Is that all you got to tell me?
FLO: No, Mel ,there’s one more thing:
MEL: What?
FLO: Kiss my grits!
The Alabama-born Holliday was a star of stage and screen. She was nominated for a Tony award for a revival of “Cat On a Hot Tin Roof” after her best-known role as Flo on TV, for which she won a Golden Globe in 1980.
She also appeared in the movies “All The President’s Men” and “Gremlins," and played the mother-in-law on the TV show "Home Improvement."
Holliday was 88.
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