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Post by StarFuryG7 on Jul 25, 2012 0:42:37 GMT -5
Over at Zap2it.com:Chad Everett of TV's 'Medical Center' dies at 75 Chad Everett, the star of the long-running 1960s-'70s TV drama "Medical Center," has died. Everett, 75, died Tuesday (July 24) at his Los Angeles home, the AP reports. He had been suffering from lung cancer for the past 18 months, daughter Katherine Thorp says. MORE: blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2012/07/chad-everett-of-tvs-medical-center-dies-at-75.html
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Post by Mel on Jul 25, 2012 1:12:37 GMT -5
I enjoyed Medical Center. I had expected to like Chad Everett, but on talk shows, he was off-putting. On a late night talk show, Chad mentioned that, now and then, his wife needed a good slap. The host was surprised that Chad was not joking. Chad was equally surprised to realize that others thought his behavior was wrong. Later, on The Dick Cavett Show, Chad referred to his wife as property. When Chad made it clear that he hadn't misspoken, Lily Tomlin, also a guest, walked off the set in disgust. Chad must have done something right, though. That same wife is now his widow, after 46 years of marriage.
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Jul 25, 2012 15:09:07 GMT -5
Mel, are you sure he wasn't just joking about his wife?
For years, Walter E. Williams would joke about his wife like that when he would sit in as a substitute host on the Rush Limbaugh show, and some women would actually take him seriously, even after how he would talk about having her work inside the house with a tool belt strapped to her waist, fixing door hinges and whatever else needed to be done. One time he claimed she walked up to him and told him she was done with the task at hand, with him responding to her, "What done? Now go outside and fix my truck!" How anyone could have believed he would actually treat his wife that way was beyond me, but he would get chastised about it from some of the callers, who probably at the very least just didn't like him talking about his wife that way even if he was joking. What it illustrated more than anything though is that some people just have to lighten up, and it wasn't Mr. Williams.
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Post by Mel on Jul 25, 2012 16:00:34 GMT -5
Yes, I'm sure, but you needn't believe me. There are plenty of references on the web.
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Jul 25, 2012 17:52:15 GMT -5
Yes, I'm sure, but you needn't believe me. There are plenty of references on the web.
And his wife is not his widow, since she died last year, following 45 years of marriage to him up to that point. |
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Post by Mel on Jul 27, 2012 0:15:23 GMT -5
You're absolutely right about his wife dying last year. I missed that.
As for the rest of it, I *watched* the shows. One was The Dick Cavett Show. That was 1972; a lot of things had changed and were still changing. He was slightly behind the times.
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