Steve Landesberg, 65
MLW
From TMZ:
We're told Landesberg died of cancer early this morning. He had been
battling the disease for a while.
Landesberg played Dr. Rosenbaum -- the pediatrician -- in "Sarah
Marshall." But he was more famous for his role as Det. Sgt. Arthur
Dietrich on the TV show "Barney Miller," which ran from 1975 - 82.
Story developing ...
MLW
rwalker
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He also did commercials for Joseph A. Bank.
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Charlene
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:47:54 -0800 (PST), MLW <mlwallace...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >http://www.tmz.com/2010/12/20/forgetting-sarah-marshall-steve-landesb...
>
> >From TMZ:
>
> >We're told Landesberg died of cancer early this morning. He had been
> >battling the disease for a while.
>
> >Landesberg played Dr. Rosenbaum -- the pediatrician -- in "Sarah
> >Marshall." But he was more famous for his role as Det. Sgt. Arthur
> >Dietrich on the TV show "Barney Miller," which ran from 1975 - 82.
>
> He also did commercials for Joseph A. Bank.
>
> David Carson
> --
> Why do you seek the living among the dead? -- Luke 24:5
> Who's Alive and Who's Deadhttp://www.whosaliveandwhosdead.com
Never did I think that Fish would outlive Dietrich.
wd46
Charlene
> http://www.tmz.com/2010/12/20/forgetting-sarah-marshall-steve-landesb...
>
>
> We're told Landesberg died of cancer early this morning. He had been
> battling the disease for a while.
>
> Landesberg played Dr. Rosenbaum -- the pediatrician -- in "Sarah
> Marshall." But he was more famous for his role as Det. Sgt. Arthur
> Dietrich on the TV show "Barney Miller," which ran from 1975 - 82.
>
> Story developing ...
The LA Times is now reporting that his birthdate as previously given
is "uncertain". They've updated their first report to remove the age.
(It's still in the URL.)
wd46
Kris Baker
"Loki" <cubby...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:55:20 -0500, rwalker <rwa...@despammed.com>
> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:47:54 -0800 (PST), MLW <mlwall...@gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.tmz.com/2010/12/20/forgetting-sarah-marshall-steve-landesberg-dead-died-dies-barney-miller/
>>>
>>>From TMZ:
>>>
>>>We're told Landesberg died of cancer early this morning. He had been
>>>battling the disease for a while.
>>>
>>>Landesberg played Dr. Rosenbaum -- the pediatrician -- in "Sarah
>>>Marshall." But he was more famous for his role as Det. Sgt. Arthur
>>>Dietrich on the TV show "Barney Miller," which ran from 1975 - 82.
>>>
>>>Story developing ...
>>>
>>>MLW
>>
>>
>>Now this makes me sad.
>
> Get in line.
>
> Loki
>
Right behind me.
Kris
MWB
DAM...He was great.
I loved Barney Miller and I thought it got better as it aged.
GO TRILATERAL COMMISSION
Mark
Loki
>
>DAM...He was great.
>
>I loved Barney Miller and I thought it got better as it aged.
Barney Miller was one of those rare shows... The Odd Couple and The
Bob Newhart Show were others that was not a blockbuster cover of Time
Magazine series's, but were always excellent, never jumped the shark,
and are as funny now as they were when they originally aired.
Loki
Respond to this post, win a cat
peterpuck86
That sucks. He really made me laugh. Dietrich was such a bizarre
character. RIP.
so
Usually I agree with you, but The Odd Couple grew a little stale in my
opinion. I agree Barney Miller and The Bob Newhart Show did not.
scott
R H Draney
>
>> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:45:17 -0500, "MWB" <bick...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >DAM...He was great.
>>
>> >I loved Barney Miller and I thought it got better as it aged.
>
>character. RIP.
Before Barney Miller, he played the sidekick, a concert violinist, on a show
called "Paul Sand In Friends And Lovers"...I guess the network wanted to make
sure the star stayed with the show by putting his name in the title....
TV Guide used to give odds on which shows would be successful each fall, and in
'74 they picked PSIF&L as the one show to win it all, with "That's My Mama" a
close second...it was the same season that debuted "Rhoda", "Little House on the
Prairie", "The Rockford Files" and "Police Woman"...Paul Sand's show, despite
being scheduled between "All in the Family" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show",
lasted just fifteen episodes....r
--
Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.
Kris Baker
"R H Draney" <dado...@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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I may be the only person in the world, who adored Paul Sands.
Kris
Jed
<t_del...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On 21 Dec 2010 00:40:50 -0800, R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net>
>wrote:
>
>>Paul Sand's show, despite being scheduled between
>>"All in the Family" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show",
>>lasted just fifteen episodes....r
>
>I probably watched every one. One night, the 35mm film began jumping
>around and was, within seconds, replaced by the 16mm backup. It's the
>only time I ever saw something like that happen on a network
>broadcast.
>
>It was only years later that I learned that CBS used to run 35mm and
>16mm in sync for just such an emergency. All I knew at the time was
>that the picture quality took an obvious hit after the switch.
Paul Sand was an interesting case of failed hype. Sand, IIRC, was
touted as the "comedians' comedian" of the era and was expected to
move on to big things. Instead, his show and career seemed to fizzle
quickly.
The "flash in the pan" of the same era that I regretted the falure of
was Hot L Baltimore.
Loki
One of the great mysteries is how Paul Sands could come and go so
quickly while Jim Belushi keeps finding work.
Loki
Change is good. You go first.
Rick B.
4fe9de...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com:
> On Dec 21, 10:58 am, Jed <zyzygy@plenip tentiary.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Paul Sand was an interesting case of failed hype. Sand, IIRC, was
>> touted as the "comedians' comedian" of the era and was expected to
>> move on to big things. Instead, his show and career seemed to fizzle
>> quickly.
>
> Speaking of mid-70's "failed hype", anyone remember Leo Sayer? Maggie
> Bell? The New York Dolls? Jobriath? The Bay City Rollers?
> There was also some old balding porker from Greece or somewhere who
> had sold a zillion records worldwide and was a cinch to conquer the
> U.S. market. Name escapes me.
Demis Roussos? Polygram thought that anything they could sell in the rest of
the world they could sell in the US. They were usually wrong.
Charlene
>
> wd46
The Times now alleges that he shaved nine years off his age. See the
obit, posted separately.
wd46
Bryan Styble
sitcom-title inclusion in his Boston-based series.
And when I looked it up a few years ago, I was astonished to learn
that how it came about is unclear, and that even Sands didn't
understand it. It was a fine member of the--I believe--MTM stable of
sitcoms.
Existentially,
BRYAN STYBLE/Orlando
Scott Brady
> Barney Miller was one of those rare shows... The Odd Couple and The
> Bob Newhart Show were others that was not a blockbuster cover of Time
> Magazine series's, but were always excellent, never jumped the shark,
> and are as funny now as they were when they originally aired.
You'll find no Barney Miller fan than me, but I thought the quality
tailed off alarmingly the last season or so. And, upon recent
viewings, it seemed to have lost some of its bite (although I may be
judging unfairly based on early episodes, before the show really hit
its stride).
If there was a jump-the-shark moment, it was probably the extended
storyline in which Harris directed a porno film.
Brian
<zyzygy@plenip�tentiary.com.invalid> wrote:
>The "flash in the pan" of the same era that I regretted the falure of
>was Hot L Baltimore.
I really enjoyed that show.
Brian
<charlene...@gmail.com> wrote:
>The Times now alleges that he shaved nine years off his age. See the
>obit, posted separately.
>
>wd46
I really enjoyed his work and I'm saddened by his passing but he
always seemed more than 1-2 years older than me.
Louis Epstein
: Charlene <charlene...@gmail.com> wrote:
:
:> Never did I think that Fish would outlive Dietrich.
:
: Yeah! Well put.
:
: Fish even outlived Arnold Jackson! :)
However,it was "Willis" (Todd Bridges) who costarred in "Fish".
-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
Louis Epstein
: On Dec 20, 9:34?pm, Charlene <charlene.vick...@gmail.com> wrote:
:> On Dec 20, 5:47?pm, MLW <mlwallace...@gmail.com> wrote:
:>
:> >http://www.tmz.com/2010/12/20/forgetting-sarah-marshall-steve-landesb...
:>
:> > From TMZ:
:>
:> > battling the disease for a while.
:>
:> > Landesberg played Dr. Rosenbaum -- the pediatrician -- in "Sarah
:> > Dietrich on the TV show "Barney Miller," which ran from 1975 - 82.
:>
:> > Story developing ...
:>
:> The LA Times is now reporting that his birthdate as previously given
:> is "uncertain". They've updated their first report to remove the age.
:> (It's still in the URL.)
:>
:> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2010/12/actor-steve-landesb...
:>
:> wd46
:
: The Times now alleges that he shaved nine years off his age. See the
: obit, posted separately.
:
: wd46
NBC News tonight showed him "1936-2010",and Brian Williams
said for good measure that he was 74.
R H Draney
>
>poisoned rose <pro...@poisonedrose.com> wrote:
>: Charlene <charlene...@gmail.com> wrote:
>:
>:> Never did I think that Fish would outlive Dietrich.
>:
>: Yeah! Well put.
>:
>: Fish even outlived Arnold Jackson! :)
>
>However,it was "Willis" (Todd Bridges) who costarred in "Fish".
Roll call:
Yemana, Luger, Levitt and now Dietrich, all gone, as is gay purse-snatcher
Marty....r
Kris Baker
"Louis Epstein" <l...@main.put.com> wrote in message
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Thank God. The "he was only 65?" thoughts were still banging
around in the tin can I call my brain.
Kris
Brad Ferguson
Fuego <t_del...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 Dec 2010 00:40:50 -0800, R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Paul Sand's show, despite being scheduled between
> >"All in the Family" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show",
> >lasted just fifteen episodes....r
>
> I probably watched every one. One night, the 35mm film began jumping
> around and was, within seconds, replaced by the 16mm backup. It's the
> only time I ever saw something like that happen on a network
> broadcast.
>
> It was only years later that I learned that CBS used to run 35mm and
> 16mm in sync for just such an emergency. All I knew at the time was
> that the picture quality took an obvious hit after the switch.
Back when, the emergency facility from which they ran all that stuff
was located in Perth Amboy, NJ, just opposite the southern edge of
Staten Island. I think it was supposed to be outside the likely blast
zone of a 1950s bomber attack on Manhattan.
We had blast gates inside the Broadcast Center (they were rolled up
into the ceilings like blinds in a window), but they'd long ago been
painted over and rendered useless. We had a doomsday phone, too, but
it didn't work very well. It would ring at odd moments and there
wouldn't be anybody on the other end. Oh, and the phone was yellow,
not red.
Brad Ferguson
<36da9eea-c20f-4a05...@w2g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
Bryan Styble <radioacti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was always puzzled as to why the (then and still) obscure Sands got
> sitcom-title inclusion in his Boston-based series.
It has happened fairly often since. I remember The Brian Benben Show.
He'd starred in the HBO comedy Dream On, and I guess someone thought
he'd become well-known because of that. Meanwhile, America was
scratching its collective head and asking, "WTF is Brian Benben?"
There was a Fox series called Costello, about a young woman who tended
the family bar in Boston. I thought Costello was the character's name.
Nope. It was the name of the comedian playing her. She wasn't known
then, and she's become even more obscure since.
Kris Baker
"Brad Ferguson" <thir...@frXOXed.net> wrote in message
news:221220101107430609%thir...@frXOXed.net...
Back in those Dark Ages, many shows carried the star's name:
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
I Love Lucy
The Lucille Ball Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
I always figured they put the TITLE of the show alongside "Paul
Sand" (not Sands) as an acknowledgement of his obscurity.
He was always cast as the rejected boyfriend on MTM, Phyllis,
etc.
Amazingly, Paul Sand's still working:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761190/
Kris
Louis Epstein
What about the guy who played the Chief of the Bureau of Federal-Regional
Development and Planning Aid to Underdeveloped Suburban Areas,Mines,Parks,
and Indians?
(Said bureaucrat was arrested drunk in the first,or one of the
first,episode(s)...there was a running gag about nobody being
able to remember his title,which I have never forgotten).
Louis Epstein
:
: "Brad Ferguson" <thir...@frXOXed.net> wrote in message
:> In article
:> <36da9eea-c20f-4a05...@w2g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
:> Bryan Styble <radioacti...@gmail.com> wrote:
:>
:>> I was always puzzled as to why the (then and still) obscure Sands got
:>> sitcom-title inclusion in his Boston-based series.
:>
:>
:> It has happened fairly often since. I remember The Brian Benben Show.
:> He'd starred in the HBO comedy Dream On, and I guess someone thought
:> he'd become well-known because of that. Meanwhile, America was
:> scratching its collective head and asking, "WTF is Brian Benben?"
:>
:> There was a Fox series called Costello, about a young woman who tended
:> the family bar in Boston. I thought Costello was the character's name.
:> Nope. It was the name of the comedian playing her. She wasn't known
:> then, and she's become even more obscure since.
:
: Back in those Dark Ages, many shows carried the star's name:
:
: The Dick Van Dyke Show
: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
: I Love Lucy
: The Lucille Ball Show
: The Ed Sullivan Show
Brian Benben is far more recent.(Does he have a cousin Ben Brianbrian?)
: I always figured they put the TITLE of the show alongside "Paul
: Sand" (not Sands) as an acknowledgement of his obscurity.
:
: He was always cast as the rejected boyfriend on MTM, Phyllis,
: etc.
:
: Amazingly, Paul Sand's still working:
: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761190/
I remember one or two episodes of "Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers".
Was the one with the ballerina who regularly left the ballet for love
the same as the one with the bribed interpreter?
: Kris
Hyfler/Rosner
>
> "Brad Ferguson" <thir...@frXOXed.net> wrote in message
> news:221220101107430609%thir...@frXOXed.net...
>> I
>
> I always figured they put the TITLE of the show alongside "Paul
> Sand" (not Sands) as an acknowledgement of his obscurity.
>
> He was always cast as the rejected boyfriend on MTM, Phyllis,
> etc.
>
> Amazingly, Paul Sand's still working:
> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0761190/
>
> Kris
Why is it so amazing? Paul Sand was in the absolute funniest episode of
Curb Your Enthusiasm. (If you think Tourette's can be funny. And let's
face it.)
And JUST TONIGHT, I went to the movies to see the latest Henry Jaglom
film (Queen of the Lot) and Sand stole the movie in the 4 minutes he was
in it. It also had some of the creepiest plastic surgery I've seen in a
long time, in the mother daughter characters played by Kathryn and Mary
Crosby. Or is it Mary and Kathryn Crosby.
I got to talk in the theater and loud. Richard and I were the only ones
there! Oddly enough, when we were deciding what to see, R said, if we
don't go, who will.
No one, that's who.
Hyfler/Rosner
>
>
> I may be the only person in the world, who adored Paul Sands.
>
> Kris
See my post in the other thread. He's still quite funny and even
popular. Lots of people loved him.
Kris Baker
"Hyfler/Rosner" <rel...@rcn.com> wrote in message
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It was amazing, because I'd not seen him in anything for years.
I missed the Tourette's episode.....and yes, face it. It is.
Kathryn Crosby is the mother (Bing's widow). Mary's the daughter.
If Queen of the Lot ever comes to the fly-over states, I'll be sure
to see it. Bad plastic surgery is worth the price of admission.
We had the same "alone in the theater" experience last month,
when we went saw Due Date, which apparently qualifies as
art house fodder in Utah.
Kris
But hey....Robert Downey Jr and I'm there!
BobF
Previously on alt.obituaries Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:27:23 -0500 to be
exact, Hyfler/Rosner <rel...@rcn.com> wrote thusly:
I first met Paul when he lived in Malibu just up the beach from where
I lived on Topanga Beach. God he was funny. And gracious. And
intelligent. And delightful. And switched on. And very, very aware of
environmental issues before it became a cause célèbre.
And, and, and ....
BTW - Paul Sand. No "s." And a lot of people still love him.
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Kris Baker
"BobF" <b...@surfwriter.net.not> wrote in message
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>
> Previously on alt.obituaries Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:27:23 -0500 to be
> exact, Hyfler/Rosner <rel...@rcn.com> wrote thusly:
>
>>On 12/21/10 10:49 AM, Kris Baker wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I may be the only person in the world, who adored Paul Sands.
>>>
>>> Kris
>>
>>
>>See my post in the other thread. He's still quite funny and even
>>popular. Lots of people loved him.
>
> I first met Paul when he lived in Malibu just up the beach from where
> I lived on Topanga Beach. God he was funny. And gracious. And
> intelligent. And delightful. And switched on. And very, very aware of
> environmental issues before it became a cause célèbre.
>
> And, and, and ....
>
> BTW - Paul Sand. No "s." And a lot of people still love him.
Yes, I just copied the "s" from the previous post.
I had a gigantic crush on him, but life moved on and I lost track.
I'll catch up.
Kris