Farewell Barney
One of the best all-time comedic actors as well as one of my favorites, Don Knotts, has died at 81. There is simply no one, in my opinion, who compares to Barney Fife from the "Andy Griffith Show."
story here.
Didn't we all. Farewell, Mr. Knotts.Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, said Sherwin Bash, his friend and manager.
Griffith, who had visited Knotts in the hospital before his death, said his longtime friend had a brilliant comedic mind and wrote some of the show's best scenes. "Don was a small man ... but everything else about him was large: his mind, his expressions,"
Griffith told The Associated Press on Saturday. "Don was special. There's nobody like him. "I loved him very much," Griffith added. "We had a long and wonderful life together."
story here.
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posted by DAVID C. PRICE at 2/26/2006 07:29:00 AM
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There was never a funnier or more tasteful sitcom than the Andy Griffith show, America at its very best. Goodby Barny. Thanks to the wonder of reruns you will never be gone from our lives.
He remains one of the best memories in our collective consciousness...those of us old enough to remember...
I always wondered why my parents grieved the loss of luminaries like Benny, Armstrong, and others...
I know now that it put them in touch with their own mortality as they aged and they truly lost, as we have, something that gently took our guards down, made us laugh, and forget and celebrate...
He was wonderfully unique...
Peace Barney...
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