Right now over on the East Coast, viewers are sitting down to watch the West Wing election — and prepare for the tragic loss of Leo McGarry. It was sad when John Spencer died back in December, but the time lag involved in creating television drama means that we will all go through it again, in about an hour for the folks in the East. I still have nearly four more hours of anticipation, knowing that despite the fact that I am a 39-year-old man watching a fictional television program… I’m probably going to be crying later tonight.
1 comment
You may also like
Shelly Winters
She was 85 years old when she died today–a grand and brassy lady who could be a dame or a vamp, a frump or an object of lust. The actress sustained her long career by repeatedly reinventing herself. Starting as a [more...]
January 14, 2006
I yearn for the transporter to be invented
I’ve unwittingly put myself into DC mode already — that stressed out, overwhelmed, frazzled state that I moved to California to escape. This move is fraught with stress, not just because I don’t really [more...]
December 21, 2007
Love, strange love a star woman teaches
The soaring, otherworldly voice behind the Star Trek theme has died. Loulie Jean Norman was the soprano who lent the futuristic, spacey wordless voice to the Star Trek theme in 1966. In order to save money on royalties [more...]
August 15, 2005
There’s nothing fictional about John Spencer’s death. He was a fine actor and his ability to touch people through the characters he played (including Leo McGarry) is what made him a star.
One of an Actor’s goals is to leave behind a body of work that continues to move people years after they are gone. There can be no greater tribute to an Actor than someone crying over the death of a fictional character they created.
John Spencer would be honored to achieve such a feat.