She got herself a dewey in Southern California over the holiday weekend, 4:30 in the afternoon… Man, she sure looks, uh, different…
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Who is this?
Erica Barnett?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/06…
Is that Dewitt from 3’s company?
“celebrity” is kinda stretching it.
How does she look different? Her eyes are wide open?
http://images.google.com/images?q=Joyce%…
You probably just have some leftover hate from when you were younger and wished you could be pretty too
She doesn’t look that bad for 60, in a freakin’ mugshot.
The chick’s allowed to age, fer chrissakes–it’s been 30 years. I’d say she looks pretty good for 60!
DOOOD!!! Check out that chick! She got, like, so OLD!!!
I agree with the notion that this is a lame piece of schadenfreude reporting.
Hold on, is that Joyce freaking DeWitt?
Did she ever do anything after Three’s Company? She’s like whatserface from Laverne and Shirley; practically a household name, then totally disappeared off the face of the earth.
@10: she pulled a Palin.
@10
You mean Cindy Williams? I’d say “Laverne & Shirley” was already a few steps down after having done “American Graffiti” and “The Conversation”.
she can come and knock on my door! baby!
A “dewey”?
On one hand, very few 60 year olds are going to look good in their drunk mugshot.
On the other, she looks like the love child of Janet and Mr. Furley.
I don’t think she looks all that crazy — certainly a little startled. While she certainly shouldn’t be behind the wheel if she’s impaired, I think the Holiday weekend bit serves as adequate explanation as to why she may have been drunk at the entirely reasonable hour of 4 freakin’ 30. It’s not like she was going the wrong way on I5 on a Tuesday morning.
Kelly, some day, if you’re really lucky, you’re gonna be that old. We’ll see who’s laughing then.
This makes me sad. In the same way that Jane Wiedlin was/is my favorite Go-Go, Janet was my favorite of the two girls in Three’s Company, no matter who was the third or forth replacement for Chrissy.
Geez. I wasn’t trying to be ageist. Really I wasn’t. It’s her eyes. Something so wild in her eyes…
Or maybe not.
“Maybe not” for the win.
DOW yes, craziest not. Good to see she’s still partying, though too bad she decided to drive. 😛
What a horrible way to use New Media in such a destructive and corporate form. The Stranger is proposing prohibition values. It’s life destroying, saying, “Mrs. Sallie Drunk doesn’t conform. We’ll place her in a 17th century public stock.”
@12 Yeah, Cindy Williams. And I know she had those other two good gigs, but I what everyone knew her for was “Laverne & Shirley”.
And, really, she was barely in The Conversation. It’s not like the guy who played her boyfriend or husband or whatever got super famous. He was the captain on “21 Jump Street” for one year, then nobody ever heard of him again.
I agree with @18 exactly. Very sad. Sigh.
Re: dewey
California used to call it or does call it a DUI (driving under the influence) Washington used to call it or does call it a DWI (driving while intoxicated)
State parlance/slang lends it to dee-wee
It’s kinda like California’s DMV (dept of motor vehicles) versus our DOL (department of licensing)
Or even California’s PTA (parent teacher association) versus our PTO (parent teacher organization)
All of this was very odd to my transplanted self circa 1990
that’s some Choice Dewitt.
Joyce grew up in Speedway, on the west side of Indianapolis. Her sister once substitute taught a class of mine when I was in grade school. Of, course, that was at the height of Three’s Company, and all the kids wanted to know about Joyce.
Ah, who hasn’t tied one on and gone for a spin at 4 in the afternoon.
Linda Brill from KING5?
I saw her once in the mid ’90s playing professional pool on TV. she was just okay.
Brilliant career move. She’ll be on some reality show in no time!
This item originally appeared in http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/jd…, then Huffington used it, then the Stranger used it.
The Stranger never gave credit anyone for the item it reposted, as usual.
The eyes are seriously bizarre. She always had a crazy look in her eye when she was on 3’s Company, but I thought that was for the show. I guess she just comes by it naturally….or with the help of pharmaceuticals.
Too many drinks at the Regal Beagle. Zing!
Um, Kelly O, were you even born when Three’s Company was on? That was what, THIRTY years ago?
She looks like a regular 60-year-old woman to me. And your point is….?
constipation is the damnedest thing.
@21 (badempire): your succinct post nails it. @34 (rotten666): heh!
“Three’s Company”, and most specifically Joyce DeWitt, to whom I have no personal animus, represented the nadir of TV in the 70s to me — all single-entendre, homophobic, sleazy-sex without humor or purpose. While John Ritter had a certain comic facility and affability and Somers and the subseuqent blonde jigglers were requisite post-Farrah casting, the show and Joyce de Witt, specifically were just awful. Formless, functionless and obvious as a concept (show) or an actor (DeWitt), they just pissed me off. I think she was lucky to have landed that gig and while I think it noble that you never heard her quit over salary, I thought it unfortunate that she was ever on the radar as part of our cultural iconography. There’s sort of a symmetry in posting her picture here, not because time has done a number (time does that constantly), but because of the wide eyed google take which was, to me, her only talent utilized on the show, coming back to haunt her here.