About 90 minutes into the trip, he sideswiped another car and then swerved into a steel light pole. He had been drinking, and had taken a nap earlier that afternoon. On the night of June 1, 1969, when Shannon was 4, her father, Jim, was driving the family back from an all-day party to their home in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Then, in her own way, she explained that life can take away but it also gives back.Īs a teenager, Shannon said she had applied to a selective private school - one whose acceptance might have put her on a track to an adulthood of influence and prestige, if not necessarily future roles on TV shows like “Saturday Night Live,” “The Other Two” and “The White Lotus.”Īs I sat down with her to review the harrowing details, Shannon told me, “It feels very vulnerable to open yourself for people but I wanted to be brave and just push through it.” Occasionally she waved back at passers-by who shouted, “Hi, Molly!” (It wasn’t clear if she knew these people or not.) Dressed in a billowy sundress on a Friday afternoon in February, she walked around to the front of my car and eyed up the scuff marks near one headlight. I was fretting about a fender-bender I’d recently had with my rental car, but Shannon told me not to worry. LOS ANGELES - Just as I arrived for our lunchtime appointment, Molly Shannon came gliding up Larchmont Boulevard on a Trek bicycle, looking for ways to spread her personal brand of eccentric joy. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
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