At 03:36 PM 28/02/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>I just heard that Dennis Weaver passed away
from
>complications from cancer, only days after
Darren
>McGavin and Don Knotts.
I think it an oversight that we've ignored the dark side of
Barney Fife in this latest thread of noir character roles
played by recently deceased actors.
It's true that in his nineteen motion pictures, his own
television variety series and several specials, Knotts was
known best for his comedy roles, but Barney was forever
scheming for permission to put bullets into his gun, to what
nefarious purposes we may only speculate. How eagerly Fife
wanted to lock up everyone in Mayberry, and have his way with
them. What greater example exists in the history of American
television entertainment of the bald exercise of corrupt
power? In hindsight, it was really only Griffith's comic
reaction, as the long suffering and overly patient Sheriff
Taylor, who brought out what humour there was in the
existence of the loser Fife.
I'd also like to ask who could forget the darkly sinister,
sexually obsessive Ralph Furley, as assayed by Knotts on
Three's Company, but apparently everyone has.
Best, Kerry
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