By MARK KENNEDY

NEW YORK (AP) — Polly Holliday, a Tony Award-nominated screen and stage actor who turned the catchphrase “Kiss my grits!” into a national retort as the gum-chewing, beehive-wearing waitress aboard the long-running CBS sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 88.

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Holliday died Tuesday at her home in New York, said her theatrical agent, Dennis Aspland. She was the last

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