Actor Darren McGavin Dies at 83, RIP.

Darren McGavin passed away at the age of 83 from natural causes on Saturday. We truly have lost a great guy who has brought so much to the TV and movie industry and enjoyment to all of us over the years. His career was was endless stratching from the 1940’s to the present. BIO.

These day Darren McGavin was best known as Ralphie’s dad on the 1983 Christmas Classic, “A Christmas Story.” A continual 24 hours of this tale on Christmas Eve brought McGavin into our homes on the holidays as Mr. Parker (Ralphie’s dad) was just priceless.

He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.

Some other lines from Darren McGavin that will make us smile and think about him forever:

He looks like a deranged Easter Bunny, He does too, he looks like a pink nightmare!

[after Mother “accidentally” breaks the Old Man’s leg lamp] Why did you touch that? You were always jealous of this lamp.

However, I will always remember Darren McGaven for one of the greatest TV shows of all time, Kolchak: The Night Stalker. In the 1970’s this show had no equal and kept you on the edge of your chair. The Night Stalker was a show way before its time.

The concept of The Night Stalker series is of reporter Carl Kolchak, working for the Independent News Service in Chicago, encountering the unnatural. Each week he dealt with a supernatural (whether mystical, scientific, or alien) threat.

Slide show of Darren McGavin

The passing of Darren McGavin really does hit home as losing one of those pieces of your childhood. To the family of Darren McGavin, our condolences. To Mr. McGavin, thanks for all the memories.

He is survived by his four children — York, Megan, Bridget and Bogart — from a previous marriage to Melanie York McGavin, Bogart McGavin said. McGavin was separated from his second wife, Kathy Brown, he said. Services were set for March 5 at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Amigoe: Joran van der Sloot tells his ‘truth’. (aka: a new version of Aruba the Truth)

From Amigoe: Sunday 26 February 2006, Joran van der Sloot tells his ‘truth’.

“It is time to tell the truth”, said Joran in the interview.

Well I guess Karen Janssen will be interested to know then that would mean he was lying all summer when he was being questioned. Now its time to tell the truth? Not when it could have made a difference in gaining valuable leads and information in finding Natalee Holloway. The tales Joran Van der Sloot spins makes one wonder exactly what is truth and what is fiction.

He claims he lied in the beginning because he was scared, yet he was not scared to continually tell lies to the interrogators until this interview with the US media? That is believable. Aruba, he belongs to you and your island hangs in the balance as to the perpetual lies he tells and obstructs an investigation. Support him if you will, but there are consequences that go with it. For all those that back him and support Joran; if your life was on the line as to whether he was lying or telling the truth, would you still trust him?

From Amigoe:

ARUBA — Natalee Holloway had drunk some, but was not under the influence of alcohol on the evening of her disappearance. She did say something strange about her mother. “She said that her mother is Hitler’s sister.” This is what Joran van der Sloot, the main suspect in the case of the disappeared girl, said in Primetime on the American TV-station ABC that was broadcasted on Thursday evening.

It’s the first time that the suspect gave a detailed interview. He recently refused to talk to the Aruban and Dutch media. It was also the first time that the Americans could hear the other side of the story.

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