Sebastian Cabot
This past week in 1977 was a great party for those who revel in the deaths of famous people. Though there are not as many of them as there once was, Death Party Rappers still like to snatch us bald-headed when we ain't looking.
On this day, August 22nd, 1977, Sebastian Cabot, one of the great television and motion picture actors of great fat fleshiness, died. And he was barely 60. Most of us remember him as Mr. "French" from the "Family Affair" tv show in the 60's. The story line was simple, Mr. "French" was "Uncle" Bill's butler and lover, when all of a sudden three orphans (his brothers kids or street kids, I forgot) show up on the doorstep of his 5th Avenue apartment.
"French" and "Bill" are quite happy with their discrete housekeeping arrangement when their gay affair is shot through to pieces as they take these kids in. This was the whole show. It lasted for five years of hi-jinks when it was canceled after Mr. "French" was caught with Miss Cissy in the laundry closet ("French" was bi-sexual).
I always liked Mr. Cabot. He was never a major star. He was, perhaps, to Sydney Greenstreet, what Chubby Checker was to Fats Domino. His lovely ability to wear his obesity and still be stylish was to his advantage.
I think he would have been a more successful actor if he had been fatter.
Let us mourn Sebastian Cabot. The last of the little Greenstreet's.
Joe Postove
On this day, August 22nd, 1977, Sebastian Cabot, one of the great television and motion picture actors of great fat fleshiness, died. And he was barely 60. Most of us remember him as Mr. "French" from the "Family Affair" tv show in the 60's. The story line was simple, Mr. "French" was "Uncle" Bill's butler and lover, when all of a sudden three orphans (his brothers kids or street kids, I forgot) show up on the doorstep of his 5th Avenue apartment.
"French" and "Bill" are quite happy with their discrete housekeeping arrangement when their gay affair is shot through to pieces as they take these kids in. This was the whole show. It lasted for five years of hi-jinks when it was canceled after Mr. "French" was caught with Miss Cissy in the laundry closet ("French" was bi-sexual).
I always liked Mr. Cabot. He was never a major star. He was, perhaps, to Sydney Greenstreet, what Chubby Checker was to Fats Domino. His lovely ability to wear his obesity and still be stylish was to his advantage.
I think he would have been a more successful actor if he had been fatter.
Let us mourn Sebastian Cabot. The last of the little Greenstreet's.
Joe Postove
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