Photos: Dr Joyce Brothers, pop psychologist, is dead
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Joyce Brothers, the pop psychologist who pioneered the television advice show in the 1950s and enjoyed a long and prolific career as a syndicated columnist, author, and television and film personality, has died. She was 85. Brothers died Monday of respiratory failure in New York City, according to her longtime Los Angeles-based publicist, Sanford Brokaw. Brothers first gained fame on a game show and went on to publish 15 books and make cameo appearances on popular shows including "Happy Days" and "The Simpsons." She visited Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show" nearly 100 times. The way Brothers liked to tell it, her multimedia career came about "because we were hungry." From The Associated Press
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Dr. Joyce Brothers in isolation booth during questioning by Hal March, right, in the finals of the $ 64,000 question which Dr. Brothers successfully answered after advice on some of the answers by Eddie Eagan, December 1955. (AP Photo/Hans Von Nolde)
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Dr. Joyce Brothers, child psychologist who hit the $64,000 jackpot in quiz on boxing knowledge is shown with photos of boxers James J. Parker, left, and opponent Archie Moore, July 22, 1956. (AP Photo)
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Psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers, right, is shown with her husband, Dr. Milton Brothers and their daughter, Lisa, 3, at the Goldman Hotel in Pleasantville, N.J. July 22, 1956, during a vacation. (AP Photo)
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Psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers, left, is shown with her husband, Dr. Milton Brothers and their daughter, Lisa, 3, at the Goldman Hotel in Pleasantville, N.J. July 22, 1956, during a vacation. (AP Photo)
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Psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers, left, is shown with her husband, Dr. Milton Brothers and their daughter, Lisa, 3, at the Goldman Hotel in Pleasantville, N.J. July 22, 1956, during a vacation. (AP Photo)
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Dr. Joyce Brothers, renowned psychologist, left, offers advice for just a nickel a minute to Samantha Lopez, 8, of Holbrook, Mass., and her mother Jakie, at Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston, Thursday, Aug. 2, 1999. Boston is Dr. Brother's last stop on a four-city tour to promote Sprint Nickel Nights, Sprint's new calling plan. All proceeds from the event will benefit Big Brothers Association of Greater Boston. (AP Photo/Kuni)
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Renowned psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers, left, sits on an over-sized couch as she listens to a question from Kasia Dzeskewicz, 5, as her mother Mary Dzeskewicz looks on in downtown San Diego Thursday, Aug. 26, 1999. Dr. Brothers answered questions for a nickel as part of a promotion for Sprint's new Nickel Nights calling plan. All proceeds from the event went to the Big Brothers and Sisters program of San Diego. (Photo/Denis Poroy)
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This Sunday is a big day for America's favorite dysfunctional family--The Sopranos. Not only do Tony, Carmella and the gang return to the airwaves after a long hiatus--they also appear on the cover of PARADE magazine with none other than Dr. Joyce Brothers, who has written the cover story on dysfunction. Clockwise from left: Edie Falco, James Gandolfini, Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Robert Iler and Dr. Joyce Brothers. (PRNewsFoto/PARADE PUBLICATIONS,INC.)
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Dr. Joyce Brothers in 1968. (AP Photo)
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Dr. Joyce Brothers arrives at the Quill Awards, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005, in New York. The Quills a new national book award honors excellence in book publishing in 19 categories and includes consumers in the voting process. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)
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Dr. Joyce Brothers, 28-year-old psychologist who won $64,000 television quiz on boxing knowledge, holds up arms of challenger Sugar Ray Robinson, left, and middleweight champ Carl "Bobo" Olson at stadium weigh-in December 9, 1955 in Chicago, Il.. Robinson scaled 159 3/4, Olson159 1/4. (AP Photo)
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Dr. Joyce Brothers films a Halloween television public service announcement prompted by the National Confectioners Association of the United States on Oct. 25, 1983. Worried about the effect of last years Tylenol killings, the candy makers are hoping to reassure the public and make them sweet on Halloween again. (AP Photo)
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Rep. Claude Pepper, D-Fla., chats with Dr. Joyce Brothers in Washington on Monday, May 7, 1979 prior to how national policy decisions affect the middle-age woman. (AP Photo/Duricka)
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Dr. Joyce Brothers, pictured in San Francisco on April 24, 1978 during an interview, is still an old-fashioned woman who won’t tell her age, primps for photographers and is being paid to preach the virtues of aerosol products. (AP Photo/JP)
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Irene Feldman, right, the woman who held up the handwritten sign: "Elvis is dead. Long live the Beatles." outside New York's Plaza Hotel in 1964, and psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers participate in a New York news conference Friday Jan. 16, 2004. The Fab 40 Committee, a loosely-knit group of Beatles fans and friends, held the conference to promote the events marking the famed Feb. 9, 1964, appearance by the Fab Four on "The Ed Sullivan Show." (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers displays flood of mail she received in wake of incident in which she saved the life of a Long Island housewife, who called during Dr. Brothers? radio program and threatened suicide on Jan. 8, 1971. Dr. Brothers held the woman on the phone until the call could be traced. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler )
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