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Dig A Hole: Nicolette Goulet, actress and daughter of Robert Goulet

April 21st, 2008 by Scott Marks

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Nicolette Goulet, a former soap opera actress, died on Wednesday April 17th after a long battle with breast cancer.

Ms. Goulet was the daughter of singer Robert Goulet from his first marriage to Louise Longmore.

Throughout the 80s, Nicolette Goulet made the rounds of several daytime soaps. She was best known for playing Dr. Meredith Reade on The Guiding Light and recurring characters in Ryan’s Hope, Search for Tomorrow and As the World Turns.

Robert Goulet died less than six months ago on October 30, 2007. No doubt his passing had an impact on her will to survive.

Nicolette Goulet was 52 and had been living in Las Vegas for several years.

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Dig a Hole: Robert Goulet Leaves Us In Autumn

October 30th, 2007 by Scott Marks

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Robert Goulet’s quest for a replacement lung turned out to be an impossible dream.

Mr. Goulet died today at the age of 73.

Born in Canada, Goulet gained popularity in the fifties hosting his own show, General Electric’s Showtime. His good looks, rich baritone voice and Broadway debut in Camelot led to countless appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show where he became an overnight sensation in the States.

He fit the part of a matinee idol, but he couldn’t make it as one. After a couple of duds (Honeymoon Hotel for Metro and at Universal opposite Sandra Dee in I’d Rather Be Rich) Goulet’s performances over the next 15 years were relegated to nightclubs and the small screen.

Louis Malle’s casting of Goulet as “Himself” in Atlantic City was a stroke of genius. Long before the films of Zucker-Abrahms-Zucker transformed celebrity has beens into a cottage industry, Malle slyly played off the entertainer’s tuxedo-clad presence as a symbol of decay in an entertainment mecca.

Malle knew that Goulet had long ago mastered the art of sincere insincerity. As the wrecking ball levels a building, Bob’s snazzy rendition of the title tune ( I’m glad to see you’re born again, Atlantic City my old friend…), ironically highlights the blight.

And speaking of born again, Goulet did an abrupt about face in the 1980’s. After a highly public divorce from his second wife Carol Lawrence ended in cries of spousal abuse and a longstanding bout with the bottle, Goulet turned his life around by finding The Lord! Goulet could frequently be seen on talk shows sporting a crucifix around his neck bigger than the one Jesus was nailed to.

On one such occasion, Goulet joined Don Rickles, Tommy LaSorda and WLS-TV sportscaster Tim Weigel for a taping of Kup’s Show. Kup waited for the most inopportune moment to bring up the subject of alcoholism. With the panel and crew still cracking up from one of Rickles’ barbs, Kup turned to Goulet and said, “Robert, you’ve done a very great thing in your life, and it’s something you publicly espouse on. You stopped drinking.”

As the gang giggled on Goulet thanked Kup for acknowledging his struggle. Big boob Kup couldn’t take the hint. “Well, there must be more to it than that,” he blubbered.

“There is,” Goulet patiently replied, “but I choose not to talk about it.”

The laughter stopped.

In an attempt to smooth things over, bigger boob LaSorda shattered the silence with, “I had a player like that once. I never knew he was a drunk until the one day he showed up sober.”

Even a red hot Don Rickles failed to get a bigger laugh that night.

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