Eileen Brennan, who died Sunday at age 80, is perhaps best known for playing Capt. Doreen Lewis, the Army commander so unsympathetic to Goldie Hahn’s spoiled Judy Benjamin in Private Benjamin. She also was also memorable as Billie in The Sting. I like her best as the waitress Genevieve in The Last Picture Show. She excelled at playing a very interesting, smart-alecky gal with some mileage on her. Brennan was apparently as spunky as her characters, having survived a near fatal auto accident in 1982 and having amassed over 60 screen credits AFTER a bout with breast cancer in 1990.
