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Dana Delany Remembers Longtime Friend Bob Saget’s Magnetic Allure and Darkly Comedic Charms - Hollywood Reporter
Jan 11, 2022 1 min, 45 secs

The actress opens up to The Hollywood Reporter about the untimely death of the actor-comedian for whom she starred in a 1996 TV movie inspired by the death of his sister, Gay, from scleroderma: "He was a well of deep emotion.".

But seeing the outpouring of love for Bob from friends and from all over the world, I feel like he would be so happy to be getting so much attention.

Not long after Sharon Monsky started the Scleroderma Research Foundation, Bob and I went to the second event they had.

Neither of us knew anything about scleroderma, we just went because chef Susan Feniger invited us and we liked her food.

You may have heard this story by now but Bob was asked to host it and — since he was close with his family — his parents and his sister, Gay, went to the event.

We had to do extensive prosthetic makeup because Gay had the systemic type of scleroderma that really shows on the face.

But Bob was a fantastic director and I feel like not a lot of people know that.

He had such a fine sense of balance between comedy and tragedy and his whole life was like that because he lost so many people in his family early on [his sister Andrea died of a brain aneurism in 1985].

He got people like John Mayer, Jackson Browne and the Goo Goo Dolls to come play because being around him was like a traveling circus.

Wherever Bob went, people wanted to be a part of it.

I’m a bit prejudiced, but his work on behalf of scleroderma is what’s going to really resonate for years to come.

I think he would feel good about that because it was his legacy, especially for his sister and for his parents

Even if we used to joke about how long it’s taken to find a cure, that’s what I loved about him — that dark humor, again — because it’s possible to be funny while facing a horrible disease and still do some good along the way

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