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Man, all the ‘Beaver’ jokes are just too easy. But at least he took time to serve in the National Guard. Given his age, it was probably a case of the studio pulling strings to keep him from heading a few thousand miles west, but at least he did something during a time when many did nothing but protest. Recurring cancer did him in yesterday the 25th according to his wife.<\/p>\n
Later on the 26th a correction was issued – apparently his wife was mistaken and he is still with us. I suspect he is in rough shape for such an error to be made, here’s hoping his transition to the other side is easy and peaceful.<\/p>\n
Added info -Mr. Dow passed July 27.<\/p>\n
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May as well throw a Navy vet in – one of my personal favorites, L.Q. Jones died earlier this month on July 9. If the name doesn’t ring a bell (sad after a LONG career) he was Three-Fingered Jack in the ’90s Zorro movie among many, many other roles,\u00a0 and directed the Harlan Ellison written cult classic “A Boy and His Dog”.<\/p>\n
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One we missed along the way was Sidney Poitier, a giant in American cinema, who died back in January. He volunteered and lied about his age to enlist in the Army. The Army was not a good fit for him, and he wound up faking illness to get a section VIII discharge (notably, he confessed faking to the Army shrink, who allowed the discharge anyway.) Not much loss to the Army, but a good deal for Hollywood. A great pioneer who was always a class act.<\/p>\n
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Only non-military death I saw of note today – Yoko Shimada, the lady who played Mariko on “Shogun” (back before most of you kiddies came along) died. When “Shogun” came out it was unique in that it was a mini-series using Japanese prominently without subtitles. Every language nerd at places where they translated foreign stuff was learning all the Japanese they could from the show. Even heard European linguists telling their bosses “Hai! Wakarimas!”. Linguists are wierd…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"