Rest In Peace, Don Knotts
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Rest In Peace, Don Knotts
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I didn't say he was the only one.Congratulations wrote:Also, that guy that played Gilligan.Cranberry wrote:He was one of the few really famous native West Virginians.
RIP, Don.
While we're on the subject, though, Patsy Ramsey (JonBenét's mother) and Lynndie England (the soldier who tortured Iraqi prisoners) are also both originally from WV, but their fame isn't a good kind of fame.
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He was brilliant on Andy Griffith. I still laugh at him when they play the re-runs. I think I watched that show mostly for him and Otis. Aunt Bee creeped me out, as did Howard Sprague and especially Floyd the Barber (who probably could have starred in the Shining, if he was younger).
He's a really good example of somebody taking the cosmetic card he was dealt and doing just fine. RIP.
He's a really good example of somebody taking the cosmetic card he was dealt and doing just fine. RIP.
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I read somewhere that the episode in which Barney tries out for the choir was his favorite. I'm inclined to agree.The Weekenders wrote:He was brilliant on Andy Griffith. I still laugh at him when they play the re-runs. I think I watched that show mostly for him and Otis. Aunt Bee creeped me out, as did Howard Sprague and especially Floyd the Barber (who probably could have starred in the Shining, if he was younger).
He's a really good example of somebody taking the cosmetic card he was dealt and doing just fine. RIP.
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BTW-- has anyone else noticed that in some pictures, Mick Jagger looks a LOT like a somewhat younger Don Knotts?
I have another very slight Don Knotts connection: my uncle wrote the stage play for No Time For Sargents, which is where Don first teamed up with Andy Griffith. Unc says he was a truly nice guy.
I have another very slight Don Knotts connection: my uncle wrote the stage play for No Time For Sargents, which is where Don first teamed up with Andy Griffith. Unc says he was a truly nice guy.
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That's pretty cool.brewerpaul wrote:BTW-- has anyone else noticed that in some pictures, Mick Jagger looks a LOT like a somewhat younger Don Knotts?
I have another very slight Don Knotts connection: my uncle wrote the stage play for No Time For Sargents, which is where Don first teamed up with Andy Griffith. Unc says he was a truly nice guy.
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Aha! From the Washington Post:brewerpaul wrote:BTW-- has anyone else noticed that in some pictures, Mick Jagger looks a LOT like a somewhat younger Don Knotts?
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Among Knotts's longtime fans is John Waters, the Baltimore filmmaker, who said yesterday that he began following Knotts in the late 1950s, attracted to his "nervous man" character on Steve Allen's show. "There was never a second 'Don Knotts,' " said Waters last night. "If he wasn't playing the part, who else could you get?" Knotts, said Waters, "never took a bad step. There was always something interesting about him." Even in his throwaway movies, "you could never hate him." And Waters knows whom he'd choose to star in Knotts's life story: Mick Jagger ("same lips, same cheekbones").