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  • WearyTraveler

    Very interesting!

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  • US Military Guy
    Sorry.

    I like my ad blocker.
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  • Rocky Raab
    I met Ken Osmond in Vietnam, believe it or not. He showed up one evening at Ban Me Thuot with a truck convoy. He talked with us, shared drinks, played pool. I found him to be quite a nice guy to be with, not at all like snarky Eddie. He was bitter about Hollywood, who had him so typecast that he couldn't get any other parts, and about his parents, who had squandered all his acting earnings when he was a minor. He was a two-stripe security police soldier, having enlisted at what had to be 25 years age or so. He got triple kudos from me for that. I only spent those few hours with him, but it was memorable - and can you imagine the blown mind I had being in such a place and seeing Eddie Haskell walk through the door?
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  • David Nunn
    Yes, he was a LA police officer, and he was shot by a suspect, causing him to retire on disability after around 18 years of service.  RIP, Officer Osmond!
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  • cbxjeff
    I'm with you on that US Military Guy.
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  • allen griggs
    Rocky, you had some drinks with Eddie Haskell in Vietnam.   That is really weird.
    So he was bitter about being typecast.  Yes that is a tough row to hoe.  It is good to be a star as a kid of a hit tv show, but in that role he was typecast and the more successful that show was, the more his career was ruined.
    Same thing happened to the cute gal who played Baby's goofy big sister in Dirty Dancing.  She played a fool so well, she could never get a good role after that hit movie.

    Same thing happened to George Reeves.  He had a pretty big role in From Here to Eternity and was on screen for about 20 minutes and what a big hit that movie was.
    Prior to the release of the film they showed it several times to select "test" audiences in LA.  When George came on screen, the fans began yelling "Superman!"
    The director went back to the cutting room and when he was done, Reeves  was on screen for about 90 seconds.  He was telling Burt Lancaster what a sl*t the pretty blonde was and in fact he had banged her back in the states.   He was really good in that film very believable as an army guy.   But his film career was ruined.  He was bitter and depressed.
    And his life went downhill from there, several years later he was dead in his bedroom with a Luger by his side.  His wife was in the house, she said "suicide."   The cops thought it was murder but they never filed charges.
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  • Rocky Raab
    Allen, 90% of Vietnam was surreal to begin with. Imagine being in a compound 300 by 300 meters in size on the Cambodian border, and you look up from your CC/Seven to see that head of wiry red hair and unmistakable face walk in. It would not have been more weird if Glinda the Witch of the South had floated down in full costume.
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