Howard Hesseman, the actor who portrayed a man experiencing a rebirth on WKRP in Cincinnati, passed away on January 29th at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
His third wife, Caroline DuCroc, was at his side when he died of complications from colon cancer. The actor had no biological children, but he did have three god-children, Hamish, Grace and Chet. Hamish and Grace were also present at his passing.
Yeppers, kids, since the dawn of commercial TV, all the way back in the late 1940s, there have been two major reasons people have pulled up stakes, abandoned their loved ones, and flocked to New York and Hollywood and London et al to give everything they’ve got, mentally, spiritually, and physically in exchange television careers.
Money, of course, is one.
And the other is this:
Just saw this on one of my favorite blogs. Hmm. Profundity or an example of the importance of context in creative work?
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…Who knew that cartoons don’t always have to be funny. They’re just as lovable when they’re simply WISE.
And, of course: