RIP Andy Griffith, 86

[RGMike]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/07/andy-griffith-dies-at-age-86/1

[Lightnin' Rod]

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RIP.  Seemed to be as nice a guy off screen as he was on. 

[urth]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/07/andy-griffith-dies-at-age-86/1

RIP.  Seemed to be as nice a guy off screen as he was on.

I'm sure you're right, which is what made his role in Elia Kazan's A Face in The Crowd such a departure for him. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it. Griffith plays a character whose public image seems pretty close to Andy's own, but his private persona is quite different.

A few years ago Sarah and I visited Mt. Airy, NC, where Andy grew up, and which was purportedly the inspiration for Mayberry. Talk about a town that has reinvented itself around a television show, this is it. Very charming and cute, but if The Andy Griffith Show had never existed I can't imagine what it would be like.

RIP Andy.

[RGMike]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/07/andy-griffith-dies-at-age-86/1

RIP.  Seemed to be as nice a guy off screen as he was on.

"ah 'preciate it and... good naht!"

[ggould]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/07/andy-griffith-dies-at-age-86/1

RIP.  Seemed to be as nice a guy off screen as he was on.

I'm sure you're right, which is what made his role in Elia Kazan's A Face in The Crowd such a departure for him. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it. Griffith plays a character whose public image seems pretty close to Andy's own, but his private persona is quite different.

A few years ago Sarah and I visited Mt. Airy, NC, where Andy grew up, and which was purportedly the inspiration for Mayberry. Talk about a town that has reinvented itself around a television show, this is it. Very charming and cute, but if The Andy Griffith Show had never existed I can't imagine what it would be like.

RIP Andy.

I heard on the radio this afternoon that the reason Keith Olbermann always calls Glenn Beck "Lonesome Roads Beck" is because of the character Andy Griffith played in the movie.  I haven't seen it, perhaps it will be on a channel I get soon.

[RGMike]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/07/andy-griffith-dies-at-age-86/1

RIP.  Seemed to be as nice a guy off screen as he was on.

I'm sure you're right, which is what made his role in Elia Kazan's A Face in The Crowd such a departure for him. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it. Griffith plays a character whose public image seems pretty close to Andy's own, but his private persona is quite different.

A few years ago Sarah and I visited Mt. Airy, NC, where Andy grew up, and which was purportedly the inspiration for Mayberry. Talk about a town that has reinvented itself around a television show, this is it. Very charming and cute, but if The Andy Griffith Show had never existed I can't imagine what it would be like.

RIP Andy.

I heard on the radio this afternoon that the reason Keith Olbermann always calls Glenn Beck "Lonesome Roads Beck" is because of the character Andy Griffith played in the movie.  I haven't seen it, perhaps it will be on a channel I get soon.

Yes, the movie is indeed a very prescient.

[Lightnin' Rod]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/07/andy-griffith-dies-at-age-86/1

RIP.  Seemed to be as nice a guy off screen as he was on.

I'm sure you're right, which is what made his role in Elia Kazan's A Face in The Crowd such a departure for him. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it. Griffith plays a character whose public image seems pretty close to Andy's own, but his private persona is quite different.

A few years ago Sarah and I visited Mt. Airy, NC, where Andy grew up, and which was purportedly the inspiration for Mayberry. Talk about a town that has reinvented itself around a television show, this is it. Very charming and cute, but if The Andy Griffith Show had never existed I can't imagine what it would be like.

RIP Andy.

I heard on the radio this afternoon that the reason Keith Olbermann always calls Glenn Beck "Lonesome Roads Beck" is because of the character Andy Griffith played in the movie.  I haven't seen it, perhaps it will be on a channel I get soon.

TCM shows it on occasion.  I hate it.  Andy is the Mayberry sherrif for me, for now and always. 

[urth]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2012/07/andy-griffith-dies-at-age-86/1

RIP.  Seemed to be as nice a guy off screen as he was on.

I'm sure you're right, which is what made his role in Elia Kazan's A Face in The Crowd such a departure for him. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it. Griffith plays a character whose public image seems pretty close to Andy's own, but his private persona is quite different.

A few years ago Sarah and I visited Mt. Airy, NC, where Andy grew up, and which was purportedly the inspiration for Mayberry. Talk about a town that has reinvented itself around a television show, this is it. Very charming and cute, but if The Andy Griffith Show had never existed I can't imagine what it would be like.

RIP Andy.

I heard on the radio this afternoon that the reason Keith Olbermann always calls Glenn Beck "Lonesome Roads Beck" is because of the character Andy Griffith played in the movie.  I haven't seen it, perhaps it will be on a channel I get soon.

TCM is showing it on Friday at 1:45 in the am (although check the schedule--that might be eastern time).  And I'd bet that since Andy's death it gets shown a few more times in the near future.

[ggould]

I heard on the radio this afternoon that the reason Keith Olbermann always calls Glenn Beck "Lonesome Roads Beck" is because of the character Andy Griffith played in the movie.  I haven't seen it, perhaps it will be on a channel I get soon.

TCM is showing it on Friday at 1:45 in the am (although check the schedule--that might be eastern time).  And I'd bet that since Andy's death it gets shown a few more times in the near future.

Damn, I've gotta get a DVR

[RGMike]

Andy Griffith Show marathon on TVLand starts in 2 minutes.