Posted on 09/22/2006 6:07:48 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
Beloved TV star Andy Griffith is reportedly fighting for his life after breaking his hip in a fall. The 80-year-old actor had hip surgery on September 5 and has been in hospital in Los Angeles ever since, where he's being monitored for heart problems, according to reports that have not been confirmed by his publicist.
Griffith is a high-risk patient because he has suffered from heart problems and underwent quadruple heart bypass surgery in 2000.
A source tells the Globe, "He's in a lot of pain right now, but he's just trying to tough it out so he can get back on his feet... He's pretty frail."
Griffith is best known for his namesake family show, which was a TV favorite in America throughout the 1960s, and spin-off "Mayberry R.F.D."
Did you have that recording on an old LP? I bet my mother still has that in her record cabinet.
Oh, you meant "schnockered" or something like that. Heck, Barney gets "snookered" in every episode.
Yeah, the one where Otis put his booze in the jail water cooler and Barney kept drinking from it. He was gassed that time, for sure.
My paternal grandparents actually had three of his albums. A few years ago I bought a CD that contained many of his routines, but one that was missing was his recording of Jack the Giant Killer. It had a full orchestra backing with music by Earl Hagin (who, by the way must have been (be?) a very talented individual himself). Anyway, as Andy would say, "Outstandin!"
Remember when Barney gave the Gub'ner's driver a parking ticket? The governor came down to thank Barn and Ange for doing their job, but the Mayor was having a fit about it.
gotta turn in I'm falling asleep at the keyboard.
Oh, I was talking about Justin Wilson, a Cajun comic and cook - he said "rat chere" all the time for real.
Found an interview from Larry King Live in October 2003 with Don and Andy that's kind of nice - they reran it earlier this year, right after Don Knotts died:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/26/lkl.01.html
We didn't have the Andy Griffith records at home, so I've never heard them and don't have sound on this puter, so can't access the ones that are online. Wish I could.
TAGS has never been off the air, since it started in 1960. It comes on here locally now at 3AM and I have watched nearly all of the episodes all the way through, some of them 2-3 times.
We are back at the beginning again, when Opie was about 4 and Andy was just starting to go out with "Betty Anderson" from Father Knows Best - Elinor Donahue, the new pharmacist in town. I've seen all these probably 3 times now.
Oh, yeah, love the "fun girls." I swear that one sounds exactly like Harvey Fierstein. Hard to believe that's really a woman's voice.
"It's me, it's me - it's Ernest T." Howard Morris was funny - wonder how many people realized he was one of the writers (and remember him on Steve Allen?).
I saw one episode not long ago where he got all slicked up for a society party - it was one of the best.
Oh yeah.......I remember it well. :)
I still watch those old shows. I still quote some of Andy's zingers. I don't think a better show was ever made. I kinda lost interest when it went color though. Hang in there Andy......we're all prayin and rootin' for ya.
I wonder if he kept that round pool table, one foot high, covered in leopard skin.
I agree with you. The Andy Griffith Show was the best TV show ever made.
I know, me too. He gave me some great memories. I've been thinking of Charlton Heston lately too, wondering how he's doing and wishing him well. All the great ones are leaving us and leaving Hollywood nothing but a cesspool. :(
My parents had this sketch on an LP in the 60's. Lots of good, clean fun.
Those skirts covered a multitude of sins. A girl could appear to have a figure like Marilyn Monroe's when she was wearing a full skirt and crinolines, but if you took her to the beach on a Saturday afternoon her revealed thunder-thighs might frighten away the seagulls and fiddler crabs.
OTOH, the skin tight Levi button fly "nutcracker" jeans and white pocketless T-shirts that most of us guys wore, usually with a cigarette pack rolled up to the shoulder in a sleeve, didn't do much to disguise a boy's deficiencies in the physique department. The 50's era costuming in the film "Grease" went a bit too far in some things, but it wasn't too far off the mark in others.
I guess it depended on what area of the country you lived in. We once had some teen age guys come down from Detroit for a motorcycle exhibit, and they were all decked out like Hell's Angels wannabes with studded black leather jackets, pegged pant cuffs, black zip-up boots, extreme DA haircuts, and greasy fingernails. They thought they were the coolest of the cool, but the local girls were laughing at them behind their backs.
Good point; I quit years ago.
Andy and Barney. The best ever.
I'm sorry for what kids are growing up with now.
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