Presumably a closed casket

Earl Hindman, known primarily…. Ok, only, as often-heard, never completely seen neighbor Wilson W. Wilson, Jr., on Home Improvement, died yesterday of lung cancer at the age of 61. Hindman was also an original cast member on Ryan’s Hope, playing Lt. Bob Reid for the show’s entire run and has done KFC commercials, for the sharp-eared among us. He should be more well remembered for seizing the subway Pelham One Two Three along with Robert Shaw, Hector Elizondo and Martin Balsam and threatening to kill passengers unless a ransom is paid in the underrated 1974 film The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. But it’s for dispensing folksy wisdom to Tim Allen’s addled handyman on Home Improvement, for being the Spock to his Kirk, the Edmund Exley to his Bud White, the Larry to his cousin Balki, that Hindman will be remembered.