Posted on 10/01/2024 11:48:45 AM PDT by Borges
I liked Hugh Beaumont
and also William Schallert
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Same here.
Best line I remember from his Good Times role was with a government bureaucrat who told him that he understood where he was at.
His reply, “How do you know where I’m at if you ain’t been where I been. You understand where I’m coming from?
"That's because we're poor. And if you made a list of all the things people wanted to be, being poor would be near the bottom of the list--right above sick and dead!"
Yes, three great TV fathers. Was reading about him and his children, and how the daughter was not happy with the son’s treatment of him. R.I.P. to a very talented man.
Dang.
He was the glue that held that show together.
Me too. I remember when John Amos threw off that cape he was wearing and I thought Holy Sh*t! That dude is built!
The story was actually pretty good.
Rip Torn was in it too as the bad guy. I was in a fantasy/sci-fi stage of my life, and I loved "Beast Master." Also "Dragon Slayer" and "Lady Hawke".
Haha, Chelsea’s dad was Stacy Keach. Stacy Keach and John Amos as gay lovers. Too funny.
He never really looked old enough to be Jimmie Walker’s father.
>>>Yes, he was only 8 yrs older than Walker.
Also, remarkable, Amos was nearly 20 yrs younger than Esther Rolle (Florida)
RIP, Mr. Amos. I remember him most in “Good Times,” but he was a good actor in everything he did.
Happy he is dead. Be with Jesus, man, the ultimate goal!
Your family will miss you, of course!
You said it better than I would have. Amen.
Myself and the wife back in 2011 were taking a trip from L.A. to Lake Tahoe via Reno. John sat down next to me (in a wheelchair with an assistant) at the LAX Terminal. We struck up a conversation as I recognized him, he seemed a good guy.
He was an Football player back in the day and I mentioned my Uncle who was a USC, NYG and Rams player back in the day and he mentioned he knew my Uncle to some degree. To be honest I would not have guessed he would had made it another 13 years as he seemed frail. I guess its possible he was recovering from some medical procedure and it was a temporary situation?
Yeah I remember him from Die Hard 2. :)
I loved Good Times as a kid. When the father died I was actually upset.
“He was good on “Coming To America” being the McDowell’s guy.’
He stole the show. funniest role in the whole movie. “They got the Big Mac; I got the Big Mick.”
All movies that resonated with me too. Discovered Heinlein and Alan Dean Foster then, and read the Pier’s Anthony Xanth series like it was dogma. Now we’re left with the ruination of Star wars and comics presented as sci Fi, while the last good fantasy stories from Tolkien have been woke. Depressing
Those aren't Tolkien's stories. Amazon bought the rights to some characters from some of Tolkien's works, (basically an index of characters) but none of his writing or plots.
They are vomiting up this new "Woke" garbage themselves. Tolkien had nothing to do with any of their stories other than to create the Character names they are now abusing to make their worthless shows.
And yeah, Heinlein was awesome till about the early 1980s when he lost his d@mn mind. Same thing with Piers Anthony, who was also a fantastic writer until he lost his d@mn mind.
Caution, don't read "Firefly" by Piers Anthony. You won't like him ever again.
His "Incarnations of Immortality" were flirting with the abnormal, and his Proton/Phaze series moved him closer to the edge. "Firefly" showed he went over it.
Star Wars only had two good movies, and the second was much weaker than the fist. Everything starting with the Teddy Bear movie was just trash, with increasing levels of suckage with each new iteration.
There is a video on Youtube that makes a very good argument that the real creative genius behind Star Wars was Lucas's wife.
After seeing what he created once she left, I fully believe that.
Another great writer that lost his d@mn mind was Keith Laumer. One who kept his all the way to the end was Jerry Pournelle.
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