RIP Eb

'Green Acres' actor Tom Lester dies at 81

 

That's the worst. At least when I go, it'll be a pretty fuckin' sad copy desk that gets a three-letter last name wrong. Just kidding. I'll get a good sendoff in the Herald and a decent one in the Globe. If they had any respect for readers, the Daily Form would at least go "Michael Gee, incompetent bettor, dead at XX"

 

All bets are off if you die in a fire.

 

My name is not a terribly uncommon name, but there are three common spellings of it. Mine’s the only four-letter version. My mother, the CPA who mails me her bills so I can pay them for her (she doesn’t know how to write a check anymore), misspells my name on the envelopes.

 

Looked at the thread title and immediately wondered why E flat had died.

 

Ha! Me too!

 

Golllllly!

 

Tom Lester was a sweet guy who sometimes sat in to read for new playwrights. He was that generous sort of actor who would laugh when other people hit sweet spots in performnce. RIP.

 

There aren't many survivors left from that whole collection of 60s rural comedies. Jethro is still kicking, that's damn near it.

 

Ron Howard, too.