Posted on 01/01/2017 7:12:21 AM PST by oh8eleven
William Christopher, the actor best known as Father Mulcahy on the classic sitcom M.A.S.H., died today following a battle with lung cancer. He was 84, and died in his Pasadena home according to his son, John, who made the news public.
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It is like Star Trek — we are down to listing who is still alive.
2016 seemed particularly cruel to entertainers. Just not the right ones.
• 55.3 million people die each year• 151,600 people die each day
• 6,316 people die each hour
The only reason we have the impression that more celebrities seem to be dying and frequently is due to the inordinate amount of media coverage their deaths receive.
And so many are dying that I just kinda assumed were already dead.
I get to mourn them again.
As Pat O’Brian and Bing Crosby was to the movies and the priesthood, so was William Christopher to television.
2016 just couldn’t leave without taking another one with it.
Jimmy Stewart death hit me like that. Same with Debbie Reynolds and William Christopher. Perhaps it was their sense of modesty.
It is a pet peeve of mine as well. The establishment media uses this as a form of propaganda. To them, a successful actor is very, very important.
A successful military hero is non-existent.
This signals to those listening and reading what is really valued and what is not.
It frosted me no end when a good friend, who was reportedly the second most decorated U.S. soldier in WWII, who had a long and distinguished career, died. He never got a peep on national media.
It is up to us to publish the obituaries of those who have made our society great, to offset this studied indifference by the establishment media.
Jocularity
The very first word I thought of when I heard of his death.
Me, too. May he Rest In Peace.
I don’t know anything about him but he played that part so well the man seemed completely real.
RIP William Christopher.
I believe Christopher was actually a Methodist priest.
There are some errors on that list. Joan Fontaine, for one, is no longer alive. She died in 2013.
Very sad. He was a big advocate for people with autism. He is in a much better place now.
First, I come from Los Angeles and have met more than my share of celebrities. Trust me when I say they are just ordinary human beings like the rest of us. They play-act or otherwise entertain for a living. Most are not particularly glamorous or special in any way other than their ability to act and/or entertain. Many are low-lifes.
Second, acknowledging is not worshiping, true. But investing an over-abundance of time and attention to the ever-increasing crowd of people who are called "stars" or "celebrities" these days becomes silly when people say a particular year was tough because a bunch of celebrities died. I just tried to provide the larger context -- that tens of millions of people die every year. Some small percentage of those tens of millions will be famous in their respective countries and/or worldwide. So what? With very rare exceptions, they all will be forgotten in the fullness of time just like the rest of us.
My father hated M.A.S.H. He served in korea from July 10th 1950 to April 1952. He thought it was propaganda to diminish the horror he witnessed perpetrated by “progressives”.
I want to know why we’ve heard very little about theses people sinc January 20th, 2009.
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