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The World Beyond BetterMost => The Culture Tent => Topic started by: delalluvia on February 26, 2010, 01:20:11 am
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The police say there's no question it was suicide. Sad. :(
Actor Andrew Koenig, missing since Feb. 14, was found dead in Vancouver, Canada, on Thursday, CNN is confirming.
The body of the former "Growing Pains" star was discovered in a Vancouver park, as reported earlier Thursday by TMZ.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/02/police-believe-body-of-former-growing-pains-star-andrew-koenig-found.html
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That's very sad news. My sympathies to Walter and his wife.
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Did Walter play Chekov?
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Did Walter play Chekov?
Yes, he did.
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The first pic, he really looked like his old man. :(
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=andrew%20koenig&oq=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
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This is how weird life gets when you're old-ish. When I was in about third grade, I had a crush on Chekov. I knew his name was Walter Koenig, but I just thought of him as "Chekov." I wrote about my crush in my own secret code in my diary and my friend Julie found it and, because she knew the code, read it out loud, which was momentarily mortifying. I remember watching Star Trek on a family vacation in the summer and dreaming of Chekov.
So! OK. Fine. We all have those.
But what if I'd somehow been told, back then, at age 8, that 40-plus years later I'd be looking at online pictures of him, an old man reacting to an unspeakable tragedy ...
I guess this has always happened, though in past millennia it would have been some other guy in the tribe or village, as opposed to a TV celebrity. We all get old. Me, Chekov, everybody.
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Just in case my reference was obscure...
I was using the expression 'old man' in the sense that bikers still use it and hippies used to use it.
If you are married or are seriously in a relationship, that person is your 'old man' or 'old woman'. Age has nothing to do with it.
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Just in case my reference was obscure...
I was using the expression 'old man' in the sense that bikers still use it and hippies used to use it.
If you are married or are seriously in a relationship, that person is your 'old man' or 'old woman'. Age has nothing to do with it.
I knew how you meant it. I, however, was using "old man" as in, a man who is old.
He is 73. That's the age my dad was when he died.
"Old" isn't an intrinsically pejorative term. It's a neutral descriptive. As a society we make it negative by pathologizing age.
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:'( Was sorry to hear about this, and also did not know till this thread that he was Chekov's son ... I too loved Chekov, if not as madly as you Serious...
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I had a crush on Ilya Kuriakin, from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. So you're among friends!!
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So you're among friends!!
Don't I know it! :D