Friday, September 12, 2003
JOHNS DEERE
Two passings in American culture to talk about today.
Johnny Cash, the Man in Black, has passed away at age 71. We saw this coming. He died of complications with diabetes. He inspired a generation of talent and was quite the showman in a live setting. And that video for the cover of "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails...haunting.
The one we didn't see coming, though, is this. Actor John Ritter, a.k.a. Jack Tripper from the immortal 1977 show "Three's Company," has passed away at the age of 54 from a "dissection of the aorta" which went undetected. A guy who made everyone happy, he will be sorely missed. In an equally startling fact, Ritter's co-star from Three's Company for six years, Don Knotts (Barney Fife from "The Andy Griffith Show") has outlived him by 25 years. I sure as hell didn't expect THAT.
Rest in peace to both.
Johnny Cash, the Man in Black, has passed away at age 71. We saw this coming. He died of complications with diabetes. He inspired a generation of talent and was quite the showman in a live setting. And that video for the cover of "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails...haunting.
The one we didn't see coming, though, is this. Actor John Ritter, a.k.a. Jack Tripper from the immortal 1977 show "Three's Company," has passed away at the age of 54 from a "dissection of the aorta" which went undetected. A guy who made everyone happy, he will be sorely missed. In an equally startling fact, Ritter's co-star from Three's Company for six years, Don Knotts (Barney Fife from "The Andy Griffith Show") has outlived him by 25 years. I sure as hell didn't expect THAT.
Rest in peace to both.
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