"That was her relationship with virtually everybody on the stage," Mutchnick said. Lavin passed on Sunday, Dec. 29 from complications deriving from her lung cancer, which was diagnosed during production for "Mid-Century Modern.

Linda Lavin, the TV legend who plays Sybil, died in December, during the filming of the season, and Sybil is written off the show in the ninth episode. In her time on “Mid-Century Modern,” she provided the best argument for viewers to keep watching,

Despite having already built a solid theater résumé, Linda Lavin was still the new girl in town in 1976, when she wowed viewers in the sitcom Alice as a waitress and single mom. A blue-plate special of snark,