The death of former child actor Jackie Cooper ( not to be confused with the , somewhat less fortunate as an adult and , infamously , ripped off by his parents Jackie Coogan ) inspires me to start a " Celebrity Deaths - That , Um , Don't Have The Most Obvious Connectuions To Our Beloved Genre , As Those Folks Will Tend To Get A Solo Thread , Admittedly..." omnibus thread .
Directly , Cooper played Perry White in the Salkind/Reeve series of Superman movies , and , as per Wikipedia , about the last thing he did in the directing of episodic TV series that occupied much of his later working years were episodes of the Salkind Superboy series...
Cooper also starred in the CBS series Hennessy ( Probably the subject of a couple Dell FOUR COLOR COMICS issues anyway , wasn't it ????????? ) , enthused over by our Cmdr. Benson , and another B&W-era series , The People's Choice .
In pre-TV days movies with ____ ____ made them something of a team
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Yeah, it's too bad he was revealed to be such a horse's neck later in life. In addition to a slipcased set of his Dilbert work, I also have his three books, The Dilbert Principle*, The Dilbert Future** and The Joy of Work***.
*(A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions)
**(Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century)
***(Dilbert's Guide to Finding Happiness at the Expense of Your Co-workers)
In a weird coincidence, I began rereading my Dilbert collections last week. I don't believe in erasing characters because of their creators (bob Kane, anyone?). Perhaps someone else can bring Dilbert, Dogbert, Wally, the PHB and the rest back in a better light.
I always try to maintain a clear differentiation between creators (such as Scott Adams, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller) and their creations. The same holds true with actors (Charlton Heston, Clint Eastwood, Bill Cosby) and their roles.
I try but I don't always succeed.
You made me look up Buddy Ebsen but I didn't find anything scandalous!
Ah, he was just a dick toward Nancy Kulp. I took him off the list.
Woo doggie!
I've said as much about Steve Ditko. His beliefs were his beliefs, and unlike a lot of people today, he never hurt anyone.
For some people I can, for some people I can't. I can with, say, Michael Jackson and Bill Cosby, although with Cosby it gets more difficult to do so every single day. I can't with Ted Nugent.
RIP Catherine O'Hara I mostly remember her from her days on SCTV, and from the movie Beetlejuice, although I know she was in many other things.
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