Jeff MacKay, died Aug 22 2008: Some details and some old messages to us from Mac!
ThomasH
so premature departure:
[...
Actor Jeff MacKay died Aug. 22nd from liver failure in Tulsa, Okla. He was 59.
Jeff was a regular on several hit TV shows, including Baa Baa Black Sheep,
Battlestar Galactica, Magnum P.I., Tales of the Gold Monkey, and JAG. Magnum
fans will always fondly remember him as "Mac". Jeff is survived by his father
and two brothers. RIP "Mac"!
...]
Personally I will remember him as the one who talked to us
here in this newsgroup. His old email address was "boink,"
like this boi...@telocity.com, which he changed a few times.
Let me quote here one of his emails from my archive:
[...
> Subject: Re: Computer consulting
> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 12:12:55 -0700
> From: Mac <boi...@telocity.com>
> Newsgroups: alt.tv.magnum-pi
>
> No, it's not a 9 to 5. I just do it to pay some bills and it's mostly for friends
> who're trying to learn Macintosh. I've also designed databases to run different
> small businesses. I find it absorbing and more fun than working in a car wash or
> something worse.
>
> I never sat at a computer before playing Mac on MPI, and didn't after that until
> around 1990.
>
> Mac
>
> PETEKOW wrote:
>
>> Mac, You have mentioned several times that you are now involved in computer
>> consulting. I dont know about the rest of the group, but it would completely
>> floor me to have "Mac" come into my workplace and tell me about the pitfalls of
>> using 100 base T on the network. I probally have it all wrong, is it a 9 to 5
>> gig?
>>
>> Pete
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And here another message about Berlin Break. After Magnum
both Jeff MacKay and John Hillerman met together professionally
to make in Europe a post cold-war detective series for RTL
(Radio Television Luxembourg.) I have two tapes with a few
episodes from this series...
This is what Jeff MacKey has had to say about Berlin Break:
[...
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Wheres Higgins lately
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:26:01 -0800
> From: Mac <boi...@telocity.com>
> Reply-To: boi...@telocity.com
> Newsgroups: alt.tv.magnum-pi
>
>
> Thomas Kutzschebauch wrote:
>
>> <John Hillerman did a
>> German/US TV show called "Berlin Break" in 1992, shortly after the fall
>> of the Berlin Wall. I remember, at that time he was big in the news in
>> Germany, but the series was pretty bad. They took it off the screen
>> quickly, and it never made it to the US (I believe).>
>
> I'm afraid you struck a nerve with me on that comment. Allow me to be
> defensive for a moment...
>
> I have to agree that consensus has it that the show was pretty bad... in
> German. We made the series in English. It was produced by Reuben Leder,
> a wonderful writer, who wrote/produced many MPI episodes. Often, given
> the cultural differences between the US and Germany, humor doesn't
> translate. In fact, German humor is a strange animal to most Americans
> at best.
>
> The truth of what happened to Berlin Break is that there was a major
> power struggle between the head of programming and the head of
> development within RTL, the network that produced the show in Europe.
> Our supporter, the head of development, wanted desperately to bring
> American production values to a German production. When our man lost the
> battle and was canned, so were his projects... including Berlin Break.
> The network then put, what I've heard, is terrible dubbing/translation
> on the English dialog; sometimes _sacrificing what the scene was written
> about_ in order to match the lips moving to whatever German words they
> thought would suffice. How can a show be any good with that kind of
> treatment. Not only that, but the budget for each episode was about what
> it would cost to produce a quiz show here.
>
> One of the leads of the show, Kai Wulff, a German, is a fine actor that
> lives/lived in the States. He was hired in LA and went with the rest of
> us to Berlin. He was born and raised in Germany. They would not allow
> him to do his own dubbing of the English... of his own voice! Too much.
>
> Nevertheless, John Hillerman was great in the show. I learned much from
> working with him during that year.
>
> And you're right, the show never aired here. The episodes sit in a
> Columbia Pictures vault somewhere, gathering dust. We made 26 hours of
> it. RTL aired them at something like midnight on Tuesdays.
>
> Whew. I feel better now. End of rant.
>
> Mac
>
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I was delighted to see Jeff MacKey acting later in Jag.
Don Bellisario was always connected to his team across
projects.
My news archives have approx 10-12 messages from Jeff MacKay,
I chose these two because they appear very unique.
RIP Jeff, we will miss you!
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