Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Ivan Dixon 1931-2008
Actor-director Ivan Dixon is dead at 76 from kidney failure. Most obituaries lead with Dixon's portrayal of Staff Sergeant James Kinchloe in the sixties World War II TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes. That role neither defined nor took the full measure of Dixon as a man and artistic contributor. Besides Hogan's Heroes, Dixon had roles and directorial credits in several series: The Waltons, The Rockford Files, Magnum P.I., and The Heat of the Night. His theatrical film credits include Trouble Man and The Spook Who Sat By the Door. But for me his most significant role came in the 1964 film Nothing But a Man, one of the few films of its time to portray the fullness and complexity of black life. Dixon played Duff Anederson, a railroad worker in an Alabama town, who along with his schoolteacher wife Josie (Abbey Lincoln) tried to live with dignity despite pervasive racial injustice. "That was me" Dixon said. "I had to live every moment . . . I was living my whole life on film."
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CT, wondered what your thoughts were on Bill's comments intimating that Barack was not a loyal American. He is showing his true COLOR. Also, isn't it interesting that a Clintonite, like Richardson would come out against hilary. He knows where the bones are buried. He will pull in a lot Hispanics. It will be a struggle in PA. The biggest source of revenue in most of Counties in the Central & the Northern part of the State from E-W comes from the sale of hunting licenses. Do you or I hunt?
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