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RE: LOTW suggestion





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<P><FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2><FONT size=3><FONT face=Garamond>andre 
[<A 
href="mailto:andre@monmouth.com" 
target=_blank>mailto:andre@monmouth.com</A>] 
submitted:<BR><FONT color=#800080>&gt; ...and i would humbly submit, howza 
bout 
a loop o'the week for:<BR>&gt; roddy mcdowall - actor, esp know for planet 
of 
the apes series<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt; cleveland amory - animal rights activist, 
esp 
known for<BR>&gt; protecting the apes of this 
planet</FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT 
color=#800080><FONT face=Garamond><BR></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT 
face=Garamond 
size=3>Ahem! :)&nbsp; You got some kind of ape thing, huh? 
[wink]<BR><BR>Last 
week's LOTW <EM>was</EM> dedicated to Roddy (though I misspelled his 
name!&nbsp; 
It's &quot;McDowell&quot;), and, having replaced it today, the dedication 
text 
follows:</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia>Roddy McDowall 
(1928-1998), who 
you probably know passed October 3, at his Los Angeles home. He had been 
diagnosed in April earlier with cancer. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia></FONT></FONT><FONT 
size=2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia>Born September 17, 1928, Roddy 
McDowell's acting career began in England at age 8, in the film 
&quot;Murder in 
the Family.&quot; In 1940, following the outbreak of WWII, he and his 
mother 
came to Hollywood (to escape the Blitz), and in 1941 he attained stardom 
with a 
leading role in &quot;How Green Was My Valley,&quot; with Maureen O'Hara 
and 
Donald Crisp. In 1943 he starred in both &quot;My Friend Flicka&quot; and 
&quot;Lassie Come Home,&quot; the last of which co-starred Elizabeth 
Taylor, who 
had also emigrated to Hollywood to escape the war. The two became lifelong 
friends. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia></FONT></FONT><FONT 
size=2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia>In 1950 Roddy temporarily retired 
from 
films, turning to stage and television; he recounted later that, while he 
repeatedly was given &quot;child&quot; roles, he perceived the difference 
between being a child actor and an adult one, and decided to become an 
&quot;adult actor.&quot; He returned to films in &quot;The 
Subterraneans&quot; 
(1960), &quot;The Longest Day&quot; (1962), and &quot;Cleopatra&quot; 
(1963), in 
which he was reunited with his old friend, who played the title role. He 
also 
appeared as Malcolm in Orson Welles' &quot;MacBeth.''</FONT></FONT><FONT 
color=#0000ff face=Georgia><FONT size=2> </FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT><FONT 
size=2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia>In 1967, he took on the role of 
Cornelius in &quot;Planet of the Apes&quot;, the beginning of a series of 
films 
(though he was contractually unable to be in the second), the last in 
1973, 
recreating the role for television in 1974. He appeared on an episode of 
&quot;Hotel&quot; with Elizabeth Taylor, before returning to film in 
&quot;The 
Poseidon Adventure&quot; (1972), &quot;Funny Lady&quot; (1975), and 
more.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia>Roddy McDowell's other 
films, 
more than 140 at the actor's count, include &quot;Inside Daisy 
Clover,&quot; 
&quot;Bedknobs and Broomsticks,&quot; &quot;The Legend of Hell 
House,&quot; 
&quot;Fright Night,&quot; and &quot;It!&quot; His television work, which 
was the 
majority of his work in the 1980s and 90's, includes &quot;The Martian 
Chronicles,&quot; &quot;Alice in Wonderland,&quot; and &quot;Around the 
World in 
80 Days.&quot;</FONT></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia><FONT size=2> 
</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT><FONT 
size=2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia>A longtime student of film, he 
gathered 
one of the largest private collections of classic movies, (though an FBI 
raid 
with mucho fanfare in 1975 depleted his collection completely) and was 
prominent 
in the film restoral movement to the last.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia></FONT></FONT><FONT 
size=2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia>His photography is well-known as 
more 
than a passion outside of Hollywood, spanning more than several magazines 
and 40 
years, including Elixabeth Taylor's nude layout for Playboy in 1963. His 
photo 
books (1966's &quot;Double Exposure&quot; for example) are still high 
sellers, 
and he was praised for his ability to allow the best in his subjects to 
show 
through in the work.. (This ability did not however translate to 
directing, and 
his sole effort in 1970 was less than successful.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia></FONT></FONT><FONT 
size=2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia>In 1985 McDowall and actress 
Deborah 
Kerr were honored at an American Cinema Awards banquet in Hollywood. Among 
the 
tributes to the two stars at the time are the following, which were only 
echoed 
immediately after his passing. President Reagan sent telegrammed that 
&quot;Deborah and Roddy are two of filmdom's brightest and most enduring 
stars. 
Each, in their own way, has brought a special magic to the movie screen.'' 
</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia></FONT></FONT><FONT 
size=2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia>Elizabeth Taylor called Roddy 
&quot;a 
genius at friendship,'' and said that her family chose the actor to inform 
her 
of the deaths of her former husband Richard Burton and good friend 
&quot;Monty'' 
Clift. &quot;`They trusted his inherent wisdom and warmth,'' she said. 
&quot;They trusted him with my life to keep me together, and he did,'' she 
told 
the audience.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia></FONT></FONT><FONT 
face="" 
size=2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia>Roddy himself added, ``Love, 
affection, 
strength and friendship, that is the mortar of one's survival. And my life 
has 
been blessed, inundated, by those extraordinary qualities from an army of 
people.&quot;</FONT></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff face=Georgia></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2><FONT face=Garamond size=3>I just 
replaced 
it with one for <STRONG>Frankie Yankovic</STRONG>.&nbsp; Having been 
impressed 
enough with not only general public reaction to his life, but especially 
his 
wife's quote, which I put on the site.&nbsp; I should mention with respect 
to 
Cleveland Amory, whose comments many of us read weekly in TV Guide at 
least, 
that, as part of the Media (and especially the news industry), he's got 
enough 
of a crowd of people with superior access to media that have and will 
eulogize 
him.&nbsp; I try to find people who for the most part may <EM>not</EM> get 
more 
than a mention in the latter part of the NY Times Obit section, despite 
their 
accomplishments; someone you might not have heard of.&nbsp; Well, there 
<EM>are 
</EM>exceptions, in cases where they're people <EM>I</EM> particularly 
like - 
but I doubt greatly whether newspeople will ever make the LOTW.&nbsp; Even 
the 
venerable John Holliman from CNN didn't make it, for just that 
reason.&nbsp; 
Neither can I do it for anyone with a political career, since, again, 
they've 
already got lots of public mourners, dubious or not; I wanted to dedicate 
one to 
Barry Goldwater, a particularly misunderstood politician, but again could 
not.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2><FONT face=Garamond 
size=3></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Garamond>Sorry bout the long wind.&nbsp; 
<EM><STRONG>Go Yankees!</STRONG></EM></FONT></P><FONT face="Book Antiqua" 
size=2><FONT face=Garamond size=3>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 face=Georgia size=2>Stephen Goodman&nbsp; -&nbsp; 
It's... The Loop Of The Week (Frankie Yankovic)!</FONT></DIV>
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