Thanks.  I'm 64 now.  My plan is to be immortal.  lol.

Thank you, one and all.  I am 59 now, but don't feel a day over 58.

Apparently this is from another soap opera he as on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKRWLpGgYhI&NR=1

Interesting show - Dennis Patrick played a real bad guy whose love for money, just like Jason McGuire, led to his violent death.   He was pretty tough - Adam had to shoot him twice to kill him.

Another heads up - Diana Millay will be the Bonanza episode entitled "The Dream Riders" on Thursday, August 10 at 2 PM. CST on TVLAND

... Anyway, celebrity databases such as these do serve a purpose and I don't think any one of them should be considered a definitive source anyway.  One friend of mine refers to IMDb as the Incorrect Movie Database.  But I think it's a good thing to see the DS actors included, so no worries, CastleBee.   

Obviously there are different ways of looking at this issue.  The problem is that, once a person becomes a "celebrity", then just about anything in his or her llife will become public fodder.  Of course, the more celebrated the person is, the more this will be true.

I myself don't watch Entertainment Tonight type programs on TV and I nevert buy magazines People, Us, or the gossip newspapers, but I am curious enough to read them as I am waiting in line at the grocery.

As for sexual orientation - e.g., is the fact that Joel Crothers was gay an interesting fact, an uninteresting fact, or a neutral fact?  Is it an important fact?  Is it none of anyone's business?  That this fact is known - does it hurt or help the "gay comunnity" or the world in general, or, again, is it neutral?  All answers to these questions will be highly subjective.

I am straight.  Crothers is one of my favorite actors.  When I found out he was gay it didn't change my opinion of him one way or another.  My personal attitude is that the more gay celebrities come out of the closet, the quicker will come the time when gayness is considered a normal way of being as much as straightness (or bisexualness for that matter) - ditto, of course, for non-celebrities who can without suffering too great a negative consequences (celebrities obviously are given a pass more so if they are gay just because they are celebrities.).

Why someone's sexual orientation, especially a celebrity's, is more interesting then, say, his or her foot size, car owned, or religion followed - well I don't know -  guess people are just curious by nature.  I don't think that is necessariy bad.

Quote from: Midnite on July 04, 2005, 06:09:19 PM

Re: "Spur of the Moment"... [spoiler]... His acting remaining unchanged as his characters change-- gee, whotta surprise.[/spoiler]

Well, I know I'm shocked to hear it.

Not!

Yeah, for sure - I saw him in a small part of an episode of Bonanza a while back - he came off as a rather stiff Charles Delaware Tate type.  I.e., the charactor he played tended to lose it alot and whine annoyingly and/or scream uncontrollably.  I wonder if he was type cast and chosen to play parts that called for a type of insane, hand-waving, yet stiff charactor, or was it just that he made his charactors what they appeared through his unique acting ability? 

Thanks, guys.  What a coincidence it would have been if I were going to be 55 tomorrow.  Alas, I will be 56.  Basically, I suppose I am just glad to be alive.  As the saying goes "If I had known I would live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself". 

BTW, I plan on going to the Festival in L.A. in July - hope to see many of you there.

Also, BTW, I flying out this Monday to do a road trip from San Francisco to Portland and back.  Is there anything on that route I should be sure to not miss?