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TV's "Laugh-in" comic Dick Martin dies in Calif
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| May 24, 2008
Posted on 05/24/2008 9:02:59 PM PDT by lunarbicep
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To: wtc911
wtc911 - thanks - just an hour before my post, I discovered that poster “Travis McGee” and I lived and worked at the same time just a few blocks away from the Bahia Mar Yacht Basin in Ft. Lauderdale, which is where John MacDonald based the “Travis McGee” books - “Travis” the poster was the first to get the Dick Martin story up, and I couldn't believe the “small world” irony
To: lunarbicep
R.I.P. Dick.. thanks for many laughs over the years...
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posted on
05/25/2008 9:38:26 AM PDT
by
Awestruck
(All the usual suspects)
To: Travis McGee
If you're old enough to remember Laugh-In......you're as old as me. I have fond memories of Laugh-in, particularly Goldie Hawn's segments. You remember when President Richard Nixon did a cameo and went "sock it to me" ?
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posted on
05/25/2008 9:45:32 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
To: lunarbicep
They also gave us the Farkel Family. From Wikipedia ...
"The Farkel parents, Freddy and Fanny Farkle, played by Dan Rowan and Jo Anne Worley (later by Barbara Sharma), both had dark-colored hair and good eyesight.
Curiously, all the children had red hair and wore glasses, just like their "good friend and trusty neighbor" Ferd Berfel, played by Dick Martin. One daughter, Flicker Farkel, played by Ruth Buzzi, had no lines, she always yelled, 'Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!' "
"The youngest was Sparkle Farkel, played by Goldie Hawn. They also had the twins, Simon and Gar Farkel (a pun on Simon and Garfunkel). Despite being identical twins, they were played by actresses of different races, Pamela Rodgers and Teresa Graves."
LOL ... Laugh In was the best! RIP Dick & Dan.
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posted on
05/25/2008 9:48:51 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: zeestephen
There was a film series waiting to happen. For years we argued who would make the best Mcgee (and Meyer). The Rod Taylor - Theodore Bickel effort was pretty good but there should have been a franchise.
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posted on
05/25/2008 11:25:26 AM PDT
by
wtc911
("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
To: lilylangtree
No, it was Dan Rowan:
Some anecdotes reveal just how far outside the law some C.I.A. agents strayed. One technician was arrested in 1960 after trying to bug a Las Vegas hotel room. The operation had been requested by Sam Giancana, the Chicago mobster, who was then helping the C.I.A. in a plot to assassinate Mr. Castro. Mr. Giancana had been concerned that his girlfriend, the singer Phyllis McGuire, was having an affair with the comedian Dan Rowan, and surveillance was ordered to determine the extent of his intimacy with her.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/washington/27cia.html?pagewanted=print
There is no mention as to whether or not Rowan did have an affair with Phylllis, but Rowan did outlive Giancana. :-)
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posted on
05/25/2008 11:58:59 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
("I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it" - Van Den Boogaard)
To: wtc911
wtc - I had completely forgotten about the Rod Taylor movie - I know who Theo Bickel is from a zillion TV character roles, but I can't place him in the film - and, while hunting around “IMDB” for movie trivia, I just discovered that Frank Sinatra NEVER played Travis McGee - I would have bet my life on that fact - actually, Sinatra played Tony Rome, a Miami Beach private investigator who skippers his own big fishing boat
To: lunarbicep
Good night, Dick.
“Laugh-In” was arguably Vaudeville’s last hurrah.
I watched it as a kid, and when I see an episode nowadays, it brings back fond memories.
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posted on
05/25/2008 2:46:43 PM PDT
by
Tony in Hawaii
(Lookin' for the joke with a microscope)
To: zeestephen
Bickel played Meyer, McGee’s brainiac buddy. Nick Nolte at 35 would have been ideal as the skipper of the Busted Flush.
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posted on
05/25/2008 2:53:42 PM PDT
by
wtc911
("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
To: lunarbicep
To: Travis McGee
If you have about three uninterrupted minutes to kill, here is pure bliss.
Turn up your speakers a little and sit back. It doesn’t get any better than this.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nt4HZ7AKp1s
To: tet68
To which islands are you referring? Why, the far flung Isles of Langerhans, of course. When you get there, would you please tell my electrician that I am still waiting for him? Thanks
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:55:25 PM PDT
by
MistrX
To: Lancey Howard; Travis McGee
WOW.
We watched the Andy Williams Show every week as a kid, I don't remember that clip. Goosebumps.
This is one of the best threads I've read here in a long time. Very good memories of being able to stay up past 8:00pm when I was 5. Thanks Travis.
RIP, and goodnight, Dick.
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posted on
05/25/2008 11:03:00 PM PDT
by
kstewskis
("Political correctness is intellectual terrorism"....Mel Gibson)
To: lunarbicep
Good, um....Dick
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posted on
05/26/2008 12:12:06 AM PDT
by
Leisler
To: South40
I second that.
RIP, Dick.
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posted on
05/29/2008 8:02:51 PM PDT
by
T Lady
(The Mainstream Media: Public Enemy #1)
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