March 29, 2016
We learned today that Patty Duke has died. The recent loss of SAGAFTRA President Ken Howard and now Patty's departure is sad. Neither Ken's health issue nor Patty's has been mentioned. I do know that over time tobacco was a big deal in Patty's life and it always made me a bit sad. We worked together on the first SAG Animation Contract Negotiation. She was dynamic and involved. She walked the picket line with voice actors. We even got in trouble for the public address system she arranged for when we wound around the block at Disney. (It's a hospital zone!)
It is interesting to me how the deaths of folks we know effect us. I'd only met Ken Howard one time and felt that he was a decent guy, though tall! Patty was a dynamo but never close. The loss of Earl Hamner, the probably least well known to the general public until reminded of his narration on The Waltons, is most moving to me because of his genuine personal warmth one on one as well as in a huge gathering.
I've not heard the latest on Wally Burr's situation. I write to him and want to see him, but he has not said okay for visit... yet.
Steve Julian's unhappy situation is artistically narrated by his wife, Felicia Friesema. Her writing is intelligent and thoughtful: filled with passion... and recipes!
We may lose more friends as the year goes on.
Acceptance of the inevitable is not easy. But, life goes on! Life goes on.
March 29, 2016
michaelsheehan
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