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John Amos is Dead to Me

Damn, Damn, Damn!

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by Anonymousreply 73October 2, 2024 5:51 PM

What a wonderful man!

by Anonymousreply 1October 1, 2024 6:02 PM

Aw, just after Akim's Dad died.

by Anonymousreply 2October 1, 2024 6:02 PM

Beat me to it, OP.

by Anonymousreply 3October 1, 2024 6:03 PM

Shutter. Why are so many stars dying?

by Anonymousreply 4October 1, 2024 6:03 PM

his son says "my father has transitioned".

I don't think he knows what that word means.

by Anonymousreply 5October 1, 2024 6:04 PM

And Christ, we're really starting to get deep into mid-century television casts. Unreal.

by Anonymousreply 6October 1, 2024 6:04 PM

R5 It meant exactly what the fuck he said before a certain group hijacked it. They also hijacked the plural form of a singular person.

by Anonymousreply 7October 1, 2024 6:06 PM

He was great as the gay boyfriend of Stacy Keach in a story arc on Two and a Half Men.

by Anonymousreply 8October 1, 2024 6:06 PM

[quote]Shutter. Why are so many stars dying?

Getting hit by shutters?

by Anonymousreply 9October 1, 2024 6:07 PM

They’re dropping like flies.

by Anonymousreply 10October 1, 2024 6:09 PM

If we have this many dying in October, imagine how many are going to drop in December (typically a prime month for deaths).

by Anonymousreply 11October 1, 2024 6:14 PM

[quote]If we have this many dying in October, imagine how many are going to drop in December (typically a prime month for deaths).

He apparently died in August. It just didn't make the news until today.

by Anonymousreply 12October 1, 2024 6:15 PM

God, if we could have something of the magnitude of the Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher, and George Michael December 2016, I'll need to pre-order booze.

by Anonymousreply 13October 1, 2024 6:16 PM

R4, I'm starting to think they're being Raptured up.

by Anonymousreply 14October 1, 2024 6:16 PM

Loved him as General Fitzwallace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, in The West Wing

by Anonymousreply 15October 1, 2024 6:17 PM

Legend. Rest in power, Mr. Amos.

by Anonymousreply 16October 1, 2024 6:17 PM

I liked him, RIP

by Anonymousreply 17October 1, 2024 6:17 PM

There was something so sexy about him in his younger roles.

by Anonymousreply 18October 1, 2024 6:18 PM

R18 His insane bulge.

by Anonymousreply 19October 1, 2024 6:28 PM

R19 Not just that. He had a perfectly masculine face with great bone structure. Why did they cast someone so old to be his wife on Good Times?

by Anonymousreply 20October 1, 2024 6:31 PM

We just spoke to him after his brother Famous passed recently. What a tragedy to have them both gone in such a short amount of time.

by Anonymousreply 21October 1, 2024 6:32 PM

I shutter at the thought of losing my shudders!

by Anonymousreply 22October 1, 2024 6:44 PM

I remember him as Gordy on The Mary Tyler Moore Show

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by Anonymousreply 23October 1, 2024 6:44 PM

Ugh. I just started a duplicate thread. Sorry, OP. My bad!

by Anonymousreply 24October 1, 2024 6:46 PM

[quote]Ugh. I just started a duplicate thread. Sorry, OP. My bad!

No worries - let's blame Muriel for the inadequate search feature and lack of edit/delete button...

by Anonymousreply 25October 1, 2024 6:52 PM

He and Griffith should've done a show called "Amos & Andy."

by Anonymousreply 26October 1, 2024 7:32 PM

I never realized how much of a stud he was until "Beastmaster."

by Anonymousreply 27October 1, 2024 7:39 PM

I remember reading on Datalounge that John Amos was secretly gay and in the closet.

Is that true?

by Anonymousreply 28October 1, 2024 7:40 PM

According to Wikipedia he died back in August. Also some people were being looked into for elder abuse.

by Anonymousreply 29October 1, 2024 7:43 PM

Oh I see the deadline article does state that.

by Anonymousreply 30October 1, 2024 7:44 PM

The last living member of the cast of The Mary Tyler Moore show. And if you say one word, Joyce, so help me!

by Anonymousreply 31October 1, 2024 7:45 PM

[quote]The last living member of the cast of The Mary Tyler Moore show

Fuck you, r31.

by Anonymousreply 32October 1, 2024 9:07 PM

I’ll never forget when those white devils cut off his roots as the older Kunta in Roots. They used to make us watch Roots every spring at my elementary school. It forever left a lasting impression on me on the horrors of slavery.

by Anonymousreply 33October 1, 2024 9:11 PM

Crazy to think the entire cast of MTM has died:

Ted Knight was the first to go, in December 1986.

Next was Mary, who left us in January 2017.

Sweet Georgia Engel and feisty Valerie passed in 2019.

In 2021, they fell like dominos- Cloris, Gavin, Ed, and eventually Betty.

by Anonymousreply 34October 1, 2024 9:14 PM

[quote]It forever left a lasting impression on me on the horrors of slavery.

It was a jobs program! Why do you hate America?

by Anonymousreply 35October 1, 2024 9:24 PM

[quote]Also some people were being looked into for elder abuse.

Oh no, I hate to think of that happening to him.

(Or anyone of course but it somehow makes it worse when it's a man you had a thing for all your life.)

by Anonymousreply 36October 1, 2024 9:24 PM

He had a hot ass, but he couldn't live forever.

by Anonymousreply 37October 1, 2024 9:30 PM

Wow, two Good Times deaths in one week -- John Amos and Janet Jackson's career.

by Anonymousreply 38October 1, 2024 9:32 PM

I would comment but I’m under the weather

by Anonymousreply 39October 1, 2024 9:33 PM

I feel like he had a big dick

by Anonymousreply 40October 1, 2024 9:34 PM

[quote] I feel like he had a big dick

James had a penis like the Florida peninsula.

by Anonymousreply 41October 1, 2024 9:42 PM

[quote]I remember reading on Datalounge that John Amos was secretly gay and in the closet.

I remember reading on Datalounge that EVERY MALE WHO EVER LIVED was secretly gay and in the closet.

by Anonymousreply 42October 1, 2024 9:45 PM

Only the hot ones.

by Anonymousreply 43October 1, 2024 9:46 PM

James Evans seemed the type to get a blowjob from other guys on the downlow.

Lord knows that Florida Evans never gave him any.

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by Anonymousreply 44October 1, 2024 9:53 PM

Do these young snappers of whip not understand that the “dead to me” must be all-caps — DEAD TO ME — or else the deceased’s ghost cannot leave the earth to join the spirit world, and must haunt our mortal realm forever???

by Anonymousreply 45October 1, 2024 10:09 PM

R6- Good Times was on television not mid century but late 20th century.

by Anonymousreply 46October 1, 2024 10:16 PM

One of the ugliest mother fuckers of all time.

by Anonymousreply 47October 1, 2024 10:17 PM

r45 Absolutely no one cares

by Anonymousreply 48October 1, 2024 10:18 PM

This Friday, October 4, at 12:00 a.m. GMT, his fans across the world will simultaneously throw a punch bowl on the floor in his honor.

by Anonymousreply 49October 1, 2024 10:21 PM

R48

by Anonymousreply 50October 1, 2024 11:39 PM

.BBC Bathhouse Queen

by Anonymousreply 51October 2, 2024 1:16 AM

R.I.P.

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by Anonymousreply 52October 2, 2024 1:17 AM

Susan?

by Anonymousreply 53October 2, 2024 1:17 AM

Amos was cast as the Evans family's father in Good Times (1974) despite being only eight years older than Jimmie 'JJ' Walker, who portrayed oldest son J.J., and nearly nineteen years younger than Esther Rolle, who played his wife, Florida.

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by Anonymousreply 54October 2, 2024 1:58 AM

R38 😂.

by Anonymousreply 55October 2, 2024 1:59 AM

Has Ralph Carter commented?

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by Anonymousreply 56October 2, 2024 2:01 AM

R56 I was just thinking that.

by Anonymousreply 57October 2, 2024 2:07 AM

John Amos...Gordy the weatherman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show!

RIP

by Anonymousreply 58October 2, 2024 3:50 AM

Susan Dey is working overtime not sending out condolences this week.

They're dropping like flies!

by Anonymousreply 59October 2, 2024 3:51 AM

Sigh. It's only the kids left now with Esther Rolle and Ja'net DuBois gone. Why couldn't they have taken that asshole Jimmy Walker first?

by Anonymousreply 60October 2, 2024 3:52 AM

He messaged me on Instagram. I just commented something silly. “Tough year for the MTM crew.” This was after Cloris Leachman and Ed Asner died. He messaged me because he he was confused by the MTM abbreviation. He was extremely kind.

by Anonymousreply 61October 2, 2024 3:55 AM

He was on the Gilbert Gottfried podcast and was extremely fun.

by Anonymousreply 62October 2, 2024 3:58 AM

I remember being a gayling watching Good Times reruns and I just staring at him. I couldn't take me eyes off him and would get annoyed when he wasn't in a scene.

I was totally in love with him even before I quite understood that I liked daddy types.

I must have jacked off to him 500 times.

by Anonymousreply 63October 2, 2024 4:05 AM

Florida must have said "Damn,damn,damn!" every time James dropped his pants.

by Anonymousreply 64October 2, 2024 4:09 AM

R56- He’s an aging homosexual.

by Anonymousreply 65October 2, 2024 4:32 AM

R33- It forever left a lasting impression on me too- to the horrors of network television.

by Anonymousreply 66October 2, 2024 4:36 AM

[quote] We just spoke to him after his brother Famous passed recently.

The thread on the death of Wally "Famous" Amos.

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by Anonymousreply 67October 2, 2024 4:40 AM

Who recalls the DL threads on Amos being on the down low and being a habitué of Manhattan bathhouses?

by Anonymousreply 68October 2, 2024 4:42 AM

I do, r68.

by Anonymousreply 69October 2, 2024 4:43 AM

Wheezy he never sucked my dick !

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by Anonymousreply 70October 2, 2024 4:44 AM

Sherman Hemsley, on the other hand, was gay.

by Anonymousreply 71October 2, 2024 4:48 AM

Sadly Mexican-American Hollywood pioneer has passed. We have JLo on the line discussing their time together filming Selena.

by Anonymousreply 72October 2, 2024 4:49 AM

The more important question about Ralph Carter is does he still have that big booty?

by Anonymousreply 73October 2, 2024 5:51 PM
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