In one of Linda Lavin’s favorite episodes of the television sitcom Alice, her title character, an aspiring singer working as a waitress, agrees to star in a commercial for Mel’s Diner.

Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a waitress on the TV sitcom ‘Alice,’ has died at age 87.

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WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Award-winning actress and American singer Linda Lavin has died at 87 years old. Lavin had strong ties to Wilmington and lived here for over a decade before moving to New ...