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Bean There, Done That
Steyn Online ^ | 8 Feb 2020 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 02/09/2020 5:21:51 AM PST by Rummyfan

Just a few weeks ago, Orson Bean appeared on The Mark Steyn Christmas Show, and delighted both the audience in the room and the far larger crowd who watched the broadcast. All of us who worked on the show were devastated to learn that last night Orson was killed by a car while crossing the street in Venice, California.

As Orson said on stage, he was born during the last year of the Coolidge Administration, which would make him ninety-one years old, which is, as he put it, "not bad". (Silent Cal was a maternal second cousin once removed.) In fact, Orson was spectacularly "not bad" for his four-score-and-eleven - spry, vigorous, and working till the end. He and his wife Alley Mills (from "The Wonder Years", "The Bold and the Beautiful" et al) had just finished a run in Santa Monica in their new play Bad Habits, and they had every reason to believe he would die in harness somewhere the other side of his centenary.

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Orson Bean with jazz great Russell Malone, backstage just a few weeks ago at The Mark Steyn Christmas Show

1 posted on 02/09/2020 5:21:51 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Not to mention that I think he was a conservative mentor to Andrew Breitbart, his son-in-law.

RIP


2 posted on 02/09/2020 6:31:47 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: gloryblaze

Added bonus. I only knew him from tv. In 2016 only learned if his connection to Breitbart.


3 posted on 02/09/2020 10:46:47 AM PST by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction)
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