So true - #3 happened a few days ago - Darren McGavin. He was the dad in my all time favorite Christmas movie - "A Christmas Story". Remember? He was so excited to win the lamp with legs...He also played TV private eye Mike Hammer.
Hmmm--three marginally famous TV/B-actors bite it in short order--could it one of the signs of the impending apocalypse???? A message from the Dude of Bigness? A warning related to reality schlock ala: Dancing with the Stars?
Dear, sweet, YOUNG grace, the recently departed pictured here is Dennis Weaver.
He played a cowboy/cop/detective on a TV series in the seventies called "McCloud."
Jeebus, do I feel OLD.
Speaking of feeling old, I teach a class at a local college and several of the 20-somethings had no idea who Walter Cronkite is. This is just too sad. And did I mention that they are journalism students? Lawdy, Miss Scarlet.
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Michael Jackson
one can only hope
So true - #3 happened a few days ago - Darren McGavin. He was the dad in my all time favorite Christmas movie - "A Christmas Story". Remember? He was so excited to win the lamp with legs...He also played TV private eye Mike Hammer.
K-
you're right--will add Darren to my RIP list.
Hmmm--three marginally famous TV/B-actors bite it in short order--could it one of the signs of the impending apocalypse???? A message from the Dude of Bigness? A warning related to reality schlock ala: Dancing with the Stars?
~ell
I still love Duel - one of the great existential thrillers of all time. May Dennis in all of us always survive the desert of the demented.
I don't even know who that is
Dear, sweet, YOUNG grace, the recently departed pictured here is Dennis Weaver.
He played a cowboy/cop/detective on a TV series in the seventies called "McCloud."
Jeebus, do I feel OLD.
Speaking of feeling old, I teach a class at a local college and several of the 20-somethings had no idea who Walter Cronkite is. This is just too sad. And did I mention that they are journalism students? Lawdy, Miss Scarlet.
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