Earl Hamner Jr. Creator of "Waltons" TV Show, Dies at Age 92

Associated Press ^ | 3-25-16 | John C. Rodgers

[windcliff]

Earl Hamner Jr., the versatile and prolific writer who drew upon his Depression-era upbringing in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to create one of television's most beloved family shows, "The Waltons," has died at age 92.

Hamner's friend Ray Castro Jr., who produced a documentary about Hamner, says the writer died Thursday in Los Angeles and had recently been battling pneumonia.

Although best remembered for "The Waltons," which aired for nine seasons and won more than a dozen Emmys, that show barely scratched the surface of Hamner's literary accomplishments.

He was a best-selling novelist ("Spencer's Mountain"), the author of eight episodes of the classic 1960s TV show "The Twilight Zone".

[Chode]

ouch

[greene66]

Actually, contrary what so many people seem to assume, I really don’t believe Valentino was a homo. And I don’t think a studio (not back in 1920, when Valentino hadn’t even reached stardom, and wasn’t a high-value property for Zukor’s Paramount) had anything much to do with the Jean Acker marriage. Finally saw Acker in that Arbuckle western-comedy she made around that time in a supporting role, as well as the serial her lesbo lover, Grace Darmond, made “The Hope Diamond Mystery” (1921).

Anyway, it’s often been my theory that the endlessly distributed photo stills from Valentino’s ridiculously frilly and effeminate costuming (which his second-wife, a set designer, was most responsible for) from his last few movies around 1925-26, helped perpetuate the notion that he was a homo. Which, the usual seedy faggot ‘biographers’ have undoubtedly helped stoke, through the years. There was a whole cottage industry of these types who put out books and liked to state or imply EVERYONE was a damned fruitcake.

[Borges]

It’s not new in the Arts in general. Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Saint Saens...