Peter Graves died sunday. One of my heroes as a kid as Mr Phelps, clearly one of the coolest men alive. <\/p>\n
His earliest work such as the spy in Stalag 17, was impressive to say the least. The later stuff showed he could take himself less seriously, and he was funny. <\/p>\n
My sister’s church had a priest who looked very much like him, and I always envisioned him saying ‘Ever see a grown man naked, joey?” I often felt moved to ask him if he liked movies about Gladiators but the chance never presented itself. <\/p>\n
For the longest time I confused graves and leslie Nielsen. Not their names, but their personalities. Nielsen was incredible and had a marvelous range, from Forbidden Planet to Kung Fu, to.. well, to Airplane. <\/p>\n
At least I don’t have to confuse them anymore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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