That Guy -What’s His Name?
Watching an episode of Combat! last nine on the Heroes & Icons channel, 9–4 on over the air antennas in NYC, a familiar voice served as a reminder to do research I’d been neglecting. George Petrie played a captain. The name may be unfamiliar but the face won’t be to fellow baby-boomers. He was in 14 episodes of The Honeymooners, playing various roles from co-worker to criminal. I don’t have a count for how many of The Lost Episodes he appeared in, as there doesn’t seem to be cast info anywhere on the web, but it was a lot. He was also in 57 episodes of The Jackie Gleason Show of the ‘50’s. Overall, there are 141 titles listed under his name at IMDb, almost exclusively in TV. His career spanned 1944-’96. He was in 52 episodes of Dallas, ten of Mad About You, eight of Wise Guy, and ten of the Gleason show of the ‘60’s. He also did 19 episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. I’d bet he did a lot of radio early in his career, as his voice was a natural for the medium. Here are two great bits of trivia: he was in a 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone, and in one of the reboot in 1985 — and he played Eddie Haskell’s dad in two episodes of Leave It to Beaver! What a run! He passed away at 85 in 1997.
Republican elites outside of politics, George Will, Bill Kristol etc., seem to prefer being able to scold from a minority position rather than assuming power and trying to make things better. They are Democrats by default.
In his column of 7/16, NY Post sports media critic Phil Mushnick shared reader suggestions for the renaming of the Redskins: the Lobbyists, the D.C. Comics and, in honor of all the lawyers in Swampville, the Sioux.
Headline from foxnews.com: “A long-needed conservative movie studio is being created to counter far-left Hollywood.” Sounds good on the surface, but past independent productions by conservatives have been less than mediocre. They are no better than leftists films that lecture moviegoers.
The real feel temperature was forecast near 100. Still, I would not forgo the floating book shop. I set up slowly and left two big boxes of non-fiction in the trunk, which I would have opened at a customer’s request. I didn’t expect much business given the paltry returns on Bay Parkway lately. Fortunately, there was a nice breeze blowing from the direction of Gravesend Bay, so conditions were not bad under the tree in front of Chase. My thanks to the gentleman who did a swap and buy of books in Russian, and to the friendly young woman who purchased several books, among them Killing. One of my mantras was again corroborated: Give it a shot; you never know.
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