<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: [lbo-talk] Bob Keeshan RIP</title></head><body> <div>Interesting that Keeshan was fired from his job as Clarabell the Clown by Buffalo Bob Smith at NBC in 1950 because Smith thought Keeshan, who was making $35 a week at the time, was trying to form an actors union. It's unclear in the otherwise fine obit whether Keeshan actually was "guilty" of union organizing.</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>The dear Captain K. has passed on:</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><<a href="http://nytimes.com/2004/01/24/obituaries/24KEES.html" >http://nytimes.com/2004/01/24/obituaries/24KEES.html</a>></blockquote > <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>I loved this show as a kid. It was intelligent, funny and strange -- Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose were my faves -- and Keeshan had a quiet elegance that gave the show its distinctive pace. Of its time, though, sorry to say. Wouldn't stand a chance against today's cybermadness and noise.</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>DP</blockquote> </body> </html>