Farewell, And Thank You.
Top: Actor Don Knotts, 7/21/24 – 2/24/06
Bottom: Actor Darren Mcgavin, 5/7/22 - 2/25/06
posted by John | 9:22 AM
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"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door." The Statue of Liberty (P.S. Please be so kind as to enter through the proper channels and in an orderly fashion)
- GITMO's No Gulag.
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- President's Day
- Bin Laden Unplugged
- Well, That Explains It (The Trademark Mouth).
- Bond...My Teeth, Please.
- :)
- Global Warming Fights Back!
- Happy Valentine's Day
- So predictable.
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Top: Actor Don Knotts, 7/21/24 – 2/24/06
Bottom: Actor Darren Mcgavin, 5/7/22 - 2/25/06
2 Comments:
Just a week or two ago we sat and watched the Apple Dumpling Gang Rides again...Don Knotts and Tim Conway....
We laugh every time we see it.
Yeah, Knotts and Conway made for good family fare in the 1970's.
And *The Andy Griffith Show* was one the very few television shows to exeunt at #1-- another being *Seinfeld,* so the passing of Barney Fife to that generation is felt much like the passing away of a beloved character like Kramer--decades from now-- would be felt by the later one.
Knotts belongs to the same college fraternity as I do (different university).
McGavin's 1970's series *Kolchak, The Night Stalker* preceded the "X-Files" by over two decades, and appears to have been--thematically--the intellectual ancestor of that series (Kolchak was a modern-day, hard-boiled dick who was able to solve mysteries only when he accepted--then explored--the possibility that the involvement of debunked monsters and concepts of folklore, superstitions, and science fiction were considered).
Of course, he achieved popular--and eternal-- icon status as Ralphie's father in the holiday classic *A Christmas Story."
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