This feels like family. Rest in power, Mr. Casey:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.3509815
This feels like family. Rest in power, Mr. Casey:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.3509815
He and my high school basketball coach were buddies in college. I loved his work. Rest in peace Bernie and thank you!
Marv
My Mom went to high school with him for a year. I've been a fan since "Maury", "Cornbread, Earl and Me", and even "Gargoyles". Sad to hear about his passing. RIP.
Remember DR. BLACK, MR. HYDE [[a.k.a. THE WATTS MONSTER)? One of the best in the blaxploitation-horror genre. Bernie was fantastic in the lead roles. Just solid in everything he did.
Bernie was great. Always the tough guy, the Alpha male. He surprised me when he did that comedy, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. LOL!
When I was in high school, one of my teachers required us to read the screenplay of Maury [[about late NBA player Maurice Stokes), and it still is one of the most emotional things that I ever read.
Another great performance of his that gets little mention nowadays was in BROTHERS, the thinly veiled story of George Jackson and Angela Davis. The Angela character was played by the late, great Vonetta McGee. An overlooked gem.
So many of my childhood idols are fading away.
To go from UN Jefferson in "Revenge of the Nerds" to Felix in "Never Say Never Again" takes some talent. RIP
I haven't seen it since it was broadcast originally. The diverse cast was unique and I probably didn't even know it, but even as a boy, I liked seeing black and white people working with each other and being friends. The concept seems to be even more radical almost 45 years later. How sad.
It never struck me at the time that the show, the cast was pretty diverse. I was in the fourth grade when it premiered on television and my class was diverse now that I think about it. We didn't even use words like that then. We were just a bunch of 4th Graders LOL! Still, the show was ground breaking in a way.
When I started elementary school [[it was in the mid sixties) the racial makeup was approx 70% white, 30 % black. Our school went from K-8th. By the time I graduated it was approx. 40% white and 60% black. I guess we all were pretty dumb because even though it was at the height of civil rights and racial tensions in America, we all got along great.
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