RIP Kirstie Alley - TV icon

Kirstie Alley - a TV great passes.

Yesterday's news that Kirstie Alley had died from cancer at age 71 was a bit of a shock. It's difficult to divorce the TV and movie star from the 80s and 90s from the Scientologist right wing Trump-supporting firebrand she become known as in the last decade or so of her life, but her place as an all-time TV great can't be denied.

Alley was Emmy-award nom…