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THE WEB GOSSIP
Gossip By The Nostalgic New Yorker
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THE WEB GOSSIP
Gossip By The Nostalgic New Yorker
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DAYME DEBUTS --- We've just learned exclusively that the first recording to be released from Dayme, who we've trumpeted already in this column, will be Friday, December 23 at Club 141 Chrystie. The singer-songwriter has been working with producer/re mixer Freddy Bastone. Her Manager has told us what the song is … and, all we are allowed to say is that it will be a major, major surprise. We can say, that she did not write it and that a very big star -for decades- has. The club opens at 9:00PM and we'll be there.
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MORGAN PASSES --- Emmy-award winning actor Harry Morgan, who played the exasperated but endearing Col. Sherman Potter on MASH, died this past Wednesday. He was 96. Morgan appeared as a character actor in more than 100 films beginning in the late-30’s, but did so in relative obscurity until TV came along. He did two stints as Sgt. Joe Friday’s side-kick, Pete Gannon, opposite Jack Webb on Dragnet, in 1951-52 and in 1967-70. After MASH ended in 1983, he and several cohorts appeared in the spin-off series After MASH. Ironically, Morgan first appeared on MASH in 1974, not as Col. Potter, but as a deranged general who believes the unit should be moved dangerously close to the front lines. He was Emmy-nominated for this guest role and so impressed the show’s producers, that they chose him to replace the departing (and, subsequently killed in the show) McLean Stevenson. He was Emmy-nominated for his role as Potter eight times, winning in 1980. He also received a nom for directing an episode of the series that same year. It’s funny, I so well remember that first role in the show and certainly when he came on board the show. They were each so different, but he handled them most impressively. What an actor … he could handle almost anything; and, his time with Webb on Dragnet … talk about a dry role. He will be missed … unquestionably, one of the greats!
Photos By: RD/Dziekan/Kirkland/Sara De Boer/Retna
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MORGAN PASSES --- Emmy-award winning actor Harry Morgan, who played the exasperated but endearing Col. Sherman Potter on MASH, died this past Wednesday. He was 96. Morgan appeared as a character actor in more than 100 films beginning in the late-30’s, but did so in relative obscurity until TV came along. He did two stints as Sgt. Joe Friday’s side-kick, Pete Gannon, opposite Jack Webb on Dragnet, in 1951-52 and in 1967-70. After MASH ended in 1983, he and several cohorts appeared in the spin-off series After MASH. Ironically, Morgan first appeared on MASH in 1974, not as Col. Potter, but as a deranged general who believes the unit should be moved dangerously close to the front lines. He was Emmy-nominated for this guest role and so impressed the show’s producers, that they chose him to replace the departing (and, subsequently killed in the show) McLean Stevenson. He was Emmy-nominated for his role as Potter eight times, winning in 1980. He also received a nom for directing an episode of the series that same year. It’s funny, I so well remember that first role in the show and certainly when he came on board the show. They were each so different, but he handled them most impressively. What an actor … he could handle almost anything; and, his time with Webb on Dragnet … talk about a dry role. He will be missed … unquestionably, one of the greats!
Photos By: RD/Dziekan/Kirkland/Sara De Boer/Retna
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