A Tisket, A Tasket
We came across this factoid while surfing and looking for something else (of course) - what three TV programs “went out on top”? Here are your hints: one starred recently departed Don Knotts, one starred a wacky red-headed lady and the third was the quintessential “show about nothing”. Did you get them all?
Rodney Strong the founder of the Rodney Strong Vineyards is one of our guests today. Rodney’s obit indicates that he was first a dancer, then married his dancing partner and then started up his Sonoma County vineyard. He apparently decided it was easier being an old winemaker than being an old dancer.
Another guest today is Richard Kuklinski aka “The Iceman” - no, not the 40,000 year old guy Italian Iceman Oetzi (as in the 5,000 year old guy found in the Italian Alps because the glaciers are receeding) and no not the Iceman
Our third guest today is photographer Gordon Parks. Gordon’s obit mentions his start in life in a “…clapboard house in a segregated town in rural Kansas…”, but goes on to point out that covered a lot of ground in his life coming all the way to a “…high-rise Manhattan apartment with a panoramic view of the East River…”. Quite the distance both in space, time and culture. Along the way Gordon found the time, energy and resources to help create the timely movie “Shaft”. And no we do NOT mean that remake.
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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