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RIP 7th Heaven: Top Five Movie-Star Guests

Thu., May. 10, 2007 4:06 PM PDT by Caroline Kepnes

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The funeral for 7th Heaven, the longest running family drama, like, ever, was right on. It was in the spirit of the show's creator-keeper-upper-storyteller Brenda Hampton. We all gathered at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, just a few feet from Joey Ramone's grave, to bid farewell. Stephen Collins made me cry—almost—and then made me laugh with great stories about Danny DeVito. Which got me thinking.

There have been some absolutely unreal episodes of this show that feature legendary movie types. Here, in honor of 7th Heaven's final episode airing this Sunday (whimper, whimper) are my top five movie-star appearances.

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1. ROBERT EVANS
His Movies: Chinatown, Urban Cowboy, The Kid Stays in the Picture
His Heaven: I thought someone had spiked my Kool-Aid when the legendary womanizer lent his raspy voice to Heaven. It was the one where Simon Camden (David Gallagher) makes a video chronicling some classic Camden moments. If you missed it, go rent the DVD. You'll have great cocktail party conversation fodder, I swear.

2. MARY-KATE AND ASHLEY OLSEN
Their Movies: New York Minute, deleted scenes from Factory Girl
Their Heaven: Just a wee bit before the Olsen twins began their transition into the Starbucks-toting, fashionista waifs that they are today, the tiny ones took a trip to Glen Oak, where they played wild twins. You know, the kind of tartlets who corrupt your son, make out, dine and dash and chase that lip action with a little shoplifting. Ah, if only they knew what the future held for them.

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3. RICHARD LEWIS
His Movies: Drunks, Leaving Las Vegas
His Heaven: It's the storyline you can only describe as "the one where Matt Camden (Barry Watson) falls in love with a Jewess." Lewis played Matt's girlfriend's rabbi father. Easily the greatest TV rabbi ever, he kvetched, he threw his hands up, he craved bagels. Pure bonus: Laraine Newman as his verklempt wife. Dramedy before dramedy was so hip.

4. PETER GRAVES
His Movies: Airplane!, Airplane 2: The Sequel
His Heaven: Teenage girls all across America quivered at the sight of the colonel. Graves was a captain of tough love, a Buffalo-based grandfather so stern and militant that he could probably fix Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan in mere hours. Back in the day, he took on Mary (Jessica Biel) as a passion project when she was going all Bad Girl on us. Okay, so maybe his policies weren't completely effective, but still.

5. BO DEREK
Her Movies: 10, Tommy Boy
Her Heaven: Ms. Cornrows was the perfect choice to play the mother of hunkazoids George Stults and Geoff Stults. The best part was that when Bo was onscreen with her TV sons, she could barely mask her decidedly un-motherly stirrings. It felt like she was going to jump a Stults brother at any moment.