[ourplace] Re: Feeling faces

  • From: "linda gehres" <ljgehres@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <ourplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:58:23 -0700

Of course, I’ve limited that sort of thing to my family members. I don’t care
what people look like either, and I wish they wouldn’t care what I look like
given my size.



Linda G.





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Sent: Monday, September 07, 2015 11:09 PM
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Subject: [ourplace] Feeling faces



Oops should have changed the subject.

Vickie





From: Phyllis Stevens <mailto:catlady1949@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Sent: Monday, September 07, 2015 9:58 PM

To: ourplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: [ourplace] Re: Martin Milner, dead at 83



Never have been into touching faces because some people have oily noses, ETC.,
and to me that’s gross!

I don’t care what folks look like!Even in college people would say that if I
knew what so and so looked like I wouldn’t want to hang around them!

I always look for a good personality and people who make me laugh!



From: linda gehres <mailto:ljgehres@xxxxxxx>

Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 12:36 AM

To: ourplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: [ourplace] Re: Martin Milner, dead at 83



Karen, thanks for sending this article. I remember “Adam 12” very well but
never knew the names of the actors who played the parts. I was only able to
watch one episode of “Root 66,” and as chance would have it, the show depicted a
blind person, I think getting newly adjusted to being blind. I saw the show in
1962 but don’t remember how the show’s characters helped this guy out, but they
obviously did some research. One of the things that came out of the show for me
was the idea of touching faces of people closest to you. My brother Doug, six
at the time, was a bit squeemish about it but eventually allowed me to touch his
face. Don, my brother who is a year and a half older, had no problem with my
touching his face, nor did my mom. My dad was working swing shift at the time,
and I’m not sure how he would have felt about that. I’ve touched my brothers’
faces on a couple of occasions since and realize how faces do change over the
years.



Linda G.





From: ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Karen Delzer
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2015 8:53 PM
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Subject: [ourplace] Martin Milner, dead at 83



Sending this again since it didn't go through to the list the first time:

Martin Milner, co-star of the hit 1970's TV show Adam 12, poses for a photo
before a charity baseball game against real cops on Sept. 5, 1972, at Dodger
Stadium in Los Angeles.
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Image removed by sender. Associated Press

Martin Milner, whose wholesome good looks helped make him the star of two hugely
popular 1960s TV series, "Route 66" and "Adam-12," has died.

He was 83. "Adam-12" co-star Kent McCord, who spoke to Milner's children, said
Milner died Sunday near the La Costa neighborhood of Carlsbad, Calif. He said
the family is doing well, but gave no other details.

Milner, who began his career as a teen actor, shot to fame in 1960 with co-star
George Maharis in the iconic TV drama "Route 66," which found two restless young
men roaming the highway author John Steinbeck had dubbed "The Mother Road" in a
red Corvette convertible.

Milner was Tod Stiles, a young man born to wealth but suddenly broke when his
father died and left him nothing but the new Corvette. Maharis was Buz Murdock,
a hardened survivor of New York City's Hell's Kitchen.

Together they toured the country in Tod's new Corvette, meeting all kinds of
people and becoming involved with their lives. The series was said to have been
inspired by Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" and it featured such weekly guest
stars as Robert Redford
<http://abcnews.go.com/topics/entertainment/actors/robert-redford.htm> , Alan
Alda <http://abcnews.go.com/topics/entertainment/actors/alan-alda.htm> and Gene
Hackman <http://abcnews.go.com/topics/entertainment/actors/gene-hackman.htm> in
some of their earliest roles.

As much the show's star as Milner and Maharis was Route 66 itself. Since
bypassed in favor of bigger, faster interstates, the iconic highway stretched
unbroken from Chicago to the Pacific Ocean during the show's heyday and was
venerated as a driving force behind the country's 20th century westward
migration.

"Route 66" was the only TV show filmed entirely on location in the early 1960s,
moving to new towns and cities for each new episode. But ironically, the action
often took place off the highway.

"The problem was that once you get into Oklahoma and Texas on the route, the
scenery is flat and boring," Milner recounted in a 1997 interview. "Pictorially
it just wasn't very interesting."

Maharis, who became ill with hepatitis and missed part of the third season, left
"Route 66" at the end of that year amid rumors of a contract dispute. He was
replaced by Glenn Corbett, who played a war hero trying to cope with civilian
life. The magic was gone, however, and the show lasted just one more season.

In 1968 Milner signed on to another buddy series, "Adam-12." This time he was
Officer Pete Malloy, a veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department assisted by
rookie cop Jim Reed, who was played by Kent McCord.

"I had a long, long friendship with Marty and we remained friends up till the
end," said McCord on Monday. "He was one of the really true great people of our
industry with a long, distinguished career...Wonderful films, wonderful
television shows, pioneering shows like 'Route 66.' He was one of the great
guys. I was lucky to have him in my life."

Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck said Monday that Milner's
"depiction of a professional and tough yet compassionate cop" led to his own
decision to apply to the department.

The series was produced by Jack Webb, who applied the same realistic treatment
of police doings that had made his "Dragnet" TV show, in which he was Sgt. Joe
Friday, a huge hit. During the seven-year life of "Adam-12," both Reed and
Malloy won promotions.

Milner had met Webb years before "Route 66" when both were appearing in the
feature film "Halls of Montezuma," and Webb had hired him for an early radio
version of "Dragnet." Later, he appeared in several episodes of the 1950s TV
version.


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