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(Ivan Dixon)'Hogan's Heroes' actor dies in Charlotte
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| Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Posted on 03/18/2008 7:19:13 PM PDT by lunarbicep
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To: mware
The guy who played the FRee FRench POW, (can't remember his name, was a survivor of the Holocaust. Best casting (IMO):
Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink) was Jewish; his family fled Germany before the war, and he agreed to play the part only if Klink was always portrayed as a failure.
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posted on
03/19/2008 7:28:14 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Kirkwood
Kind of hard to believe she'd bust a cap on you, isn't it? Next question: Would you go out with her, even knowing she might take you out? I'm guessing about 75% of the guys would say yes.
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posted on
03/19/2008 7:53:24 AM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(Sure, they'd love to kill me, as long as they can do it without admitting I exist)
To: Clemenza
Banner even played a commandant at a death camp in a Marlon Brando movie I cant remember the name of."The Young Lions." Monty Clift and Dean Martin also starred. I have the DVD, great flick.
To: Clemenza
I wonder if he ever refused an invitation to one of Bob Cranes parties.
Beats me.
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posted on
03/19/2008 8:57:13 AM PDT
by
durasell
(!)
To: Clemenza
"wonder if he ever refused an invitation to one of Bob Cranes parties."
Apparently Richard Dawson accepted. They were into all kinds of kink.
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posted on
03/19/2008 11:56:50 AM PDT
by
boop
(Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
To: lunarbicep
Bless him and all of the others on that show. They brought many smiles to many of us.
Rest In Peace, Sir.
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posted on
03/19/2008 11:58:16 AM PDT
by
bannie
(clintons CHEAT! It's their only weapon.)
To: ArrogantBustard
Lots of Jews were connected with the show, including the producer, Bernie Fine, Schultz, Le Beau and I believe one of the two regular visiting German officers. Werner told Sigrid Valdis, Hogan's wife, that he took the role because he was an actor and actors don't turn down work.
Interesting trivia: the initial concept for the series was for prisoners in an American prison breaking out at night to do good deeds and then return. They didn't think the concept would work but hit on the idea of making them POW's instead, where returning to the prison to do intel and underground work made more sense.
I frankly don't see how anyone could have been offended by the series where it made the Nazis into such buffoons.
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posted on
03/19/2008 12:30:40 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
To: colorado tanker
I frankly don't see how anyone could have been offended by the series where it made the Nazis into such buffoons. The show was created only twenty years after the end of WWII.
Many people who had been through the war in Europe and escaped to the US objected to the trivializing of the Nazi camps as being run by humorous clowns, when they had seen the reality.
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posted on
03/19/2008 12:42:03 PM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(Sure, they'd love to kill me, as long as they can do it without admitting I exist)
To: Richard Kimball
Uh, Le Beau was a camp survivor in real life. He wasn’t offended.
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posted on
03/19/2008 12:46:52 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
To: Kirkwood
She was married to Andy Williams and then became a recluse after killing Spider Sabich. I remember the Claudine Longet Invitational Ski Tournament sketch on SNL many years ago.
-PJ
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posted on
03/19/2008 12:52:19 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
To: Charles Martel
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posted on
03/19/2008 12:54:42 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("I Believe In Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
To: buccaneer81
Right - too late after I posted it to correct myself ....
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posted on
03/19/2008 12:55:29 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("I Believe In Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
To: colorado tanker
I'm aware of that. Clary was not the only person who had been in a concentration camp, and many who had been in concentration camps were offended, as were people who had lost loved ones. Some also objected to it humanizing the German guards.
Some people deal with trauma by making fun of it. Others deal with it differently. Having been born after WWII, I didn't understand the hubbub when the show came on, but some people I know with serial numbers on their arms talked about it, and eventually I figured it out. I'm not saying whether it was right or wrong, but many of the holocaust survivors saw it as I would see a humorous show about child rape. They didn't see anything funny about the situation.
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posted on
03/19/2008 1:00:30 PM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(Sure, they'd love to kill me, as long as they can do it without admitting I exist)
To: Richard Kimball
More of a Sigrid Valdis fan myself...
To: Callahan
Thanks for mentioning Nothing But a Man,a marvelous film with co-star Abbey Lincoln.
And don’t forget Dixon’s most controversial work,The Spook Who Sat by the Door,based on the Sam Greenlee book about a black guerilla uprising filmed in Gary,Indiana.
To: Richard Kimball
She also played the love interest opposite Peter Sellers in "The Party" which is one of the funniest movies ever made.
L
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posted on
03/19/2008 1:23:27 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Pimping my blog: http://lurkerslair-lurker.blogspot.com/)
To: lunarbicep
no memorial is planned In fact, the news people only found out about it because they had a microphone hidden in his nurse call button.
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posted on
03/20/2008 10:36:21 AM PDT
by
steve-b
(Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. --RAH)
To: scrabblehack
What I recall is that Hogan's scheme was to make the other Germans think that Klink was "Nimrod" for long enough to distract them while they pulled off something else.
One scene:
[Klink walks past]
Maj. Hochstetter: See, you only thought he was stupid--
Gen. Burkhalter: I thought he was stupid? You thought he was stupid too! Everybody thought he was stupid!!
Maj. Hochstetter: Hard to believe that that's the most brilliant enemy agent in Germany....
Gen. Burkhalter: He still looks like stupid old Klink to me.
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posted on
03/20/2008 10:43:08 AM PDT
by
steve-b
(Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. --RAH)
To: steve-b
In the final scene, Hogan reads a letter from Nimrod — I think it is cut from the telecasts today in order to show an extra commercial — it mentions Klink, and Hogan is left with a surprised look on his face, as if he hadn’t really fooled the Germans as much as he thought he did.
Does anyone have the episode uncut? It’s episode 107, “The Missing Klink,” shown in Season 4 (Jan 4, 1969).
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