Sure, I remember Johnny Sheffield. Wasn't he Boy in one or more of the Tarzan films as well??





TIS

and 5 minutes later:



Hmmmm....

Ha ha ha!!! Oh, get out of the city!! What ya gonna do about it?

TIS

Wasn't he Boy in one of the Tarzan films named Johnny Sheffield ?

"Penthouse" magazine publisher, Bob Guccione, died at age 79.

I was never a Penthouse reader but am trying to figure out why I know him. I think I remember seeing him on tv in the 70's from time to time. He was not as popular as Hefner, but probably next no?? Oh what about Larry Flynt? Then again, this is out of my area.



TIS

Guccione cancels out the squeaky clean of recent deaths, Barbara Billingsley and Tom Bosley.

That's true!! This makes 3 deaths in a week right? They say these things come in threes.



TIS

Who is "they"?? This makes four if you count "Boy".

Don't know the "They" exactly. Good and/or bad things usually come in threes. You never heard that??? Oh yea, with boy that's four. "They" are wrong.


TIS

Now, we could say that "Boy" wasn't really the fourth; he might have been the first of the next three!

I mean, who actually determines where one week ends and another begins?

I know, I know...I'm a cynic.

Signor V.

"They" do.

Picky picky picky

I think Bob Guccione became a national name when deciding to publish nude photos of then Miss America Vanessa Williams...which of course led to her unprecedented resignation, only two months prior to the end of her reign.

I remember the cover photo w/ George Burns and headline of "OH, GOD...SHE's NUDE!!" Capitalizing on Burns recent hit film.

Not really, he became a national name when he started showing women with public hair in his shots, full fronts....and when that became the norm, he started showing more and more female parts. Let's just say, more with color. (pink)

Correction acknowledged, fathersson!

I suppose what I should've said was the Vanessa Williams incident was the first that I heard of Bob Guccione.

Am sure that based upon your information...my father among others was familiar w/ his 'work' long before that. (I'll never forget accidentally finding a pile of Penthouse magazines underneath the bathroom sink.)

Tom Bosley - Richie's dad Howard Cunningham died yesterday. The article I read had him on a list of best TV Dads, but said he could never be considered the best TV dad until he could explain the whereabouts of his oldest son, Chuck.

Fonzie killed Chuck so that he could move into the Cunningham's home and get close to Mrs. C.

I don't know what all the confusion is about; as far as I'm concerned there was never a mystery at all regarding what became of Chuck.

He simply moved on to a better-paying gig.

Signor V.

Oh yea, he took a bride and had a son if I recall.


TIS

But he DIDN'T play "Boy" in the Tarzan movies.

Sure he did. Didn't you ever hear of Chuck E. "Boy?"




TIS

I thought it was this one.

How ironic that with the re-make of Hawaii Five-0 this year the original "Danno" has passed away.

James MacArthur, the boyish actor who became a household name in the 1970s as Danny "Danno" Williams on TV's Hawaii Five-0, died Thursday, a family representative told PEOPLE.

He was 72 and his family was at his side at the time of his death, according to a family statement. No further details, including a cause, were given.

Born in Los Angeles on December 8, 1937, MacArthur was adopted shortly after his birth by two living legends: actress Helen Hayes, considered the First Lady of the American stage, and her husband, Charles MacArthur, who, with collaborator Ben Hecht, wrote what some consider the greatest American stage comedies of all time, The Front Page and Twentieth Century.

The young MacArthur grew up with his parents' biological daughter, Mary, on the family estate in Nyack, New York, which was called "Pretty Penny" – so named because that's what it had cost.

Growing up in such an atmosphere was not always easy. As MacArthur told McCall's magazine in 1956 (and reprinted on his official Web site): "I think my mother is a great actress and the sweetest, gentlest and most generous woman I ever met. But she's vague at times and often impractical and sometimes does strange things … She knows practically nothing about handling money."

Though he played sports as a boy, it seemed almost pre-ordained that MacArthur would become an actor. During summer breaks as a student at Harvard in the late 1950s and early '60s he played the clean-cut male love interests in Third Man on the Mountain, Kidnapped and Swiss Family Robinson – all for Walt Disney – and, in 1961, debuted on Broadway opposite another newcomer, Jane Fonda, in the comedy Invitation to a March, which ran 113 performances and won him the Theatre World Award for Best New Actor.

Other Broadway roles followed, as did movies, including the 1965 all-star WWII drama, The Battle of the Bulge and 1968's Clint Eastwood spaghetti Western, Hang 'Em High, in which MacArthur played a traveling preacher.

That was the role that led to his being cast as Detective Dan Williams on Hawaii Five-0, which costarred Jack Lord and ran on CBS from 1968 to 1980. (A new version, starring Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan, debuted this fall on CBS and is also a ratings hit.)

Off camera, according to the family statement, "James was an avid tennis player and enjoyed skiing, fishing and hiking. He was a skilled flamenco guitarist and a consummate reader. His passion for playing golf led him to meet and fall in love with his wife, LPGA tour player and teacher, 'H.B.' Duntz."

His wife of more than 25 years, Helen Beth Duntz, survives MacArthur, as do four children and seven grandchildren. (MacArthur's first two marriages, from 1958 to 1967 to actress Joyce Bulifant, and another, from 1970 to 1975 to actress Melody Patterson, both ended in divorce.)

In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions be made to the Helen Hayes Awards in Washington, D.C.; the Helen Hayes Hospital in Nyack; the Solebury School MOM Fund in New Hope, Penn.; the Palm Desert Community Presbyterian Church, Palm Desert, Calif.; and the Hawaii Theatre in Honolulu.

Oh no! I am sorry to hear that. I remember him from the Disney movies mentioned. One not mentioned, and I THINK was a Disney film, was "A Light In The Forest." Anyone remember that one?

Gee, I thought I read he was going to make a cameo in the new Hawaii Five-0 too. RIP James MaCarther (aka Danno)


TIS

Melody Patterson? Wrangler Jane from F Troop??

I had totally forgotten about that.

Signor V.

Oh yea, I wasn't a regular watcher of F-Troop, but I thought I knew who she was. Joyce Bulifant sounds familiar too.




TIS

Joyce Bulifant is the quirky woman with short blonde hair that was a regular on "Match game". She might have been in that "Love boat" pull of actors too.

I think Joyce Bulifant also made several appearances in the 1970's on The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Gavin MacLeod's wife.

Signor V.

Yes, she did.