Thursday, March 18, 2010

Davey, Davey Crockett, King of the Final Frontier

(More merit for Mark)

Or
Davy, Davy Crockett, Buried Under the Wild Frontier

Or
No Mess, No Fess
(Additional accolades for Phil)
Fess Parker, wearer of the most ridiculous headwear on TV until Donald Trump, has died at the age of 85. First as Davy Crockett and then as Daniel Boone, Parker re-introduced America to frontier life and got millions of children, and at least 3 members of a certain trivia team, to wear coonskin caps. He got his big break when Walt Disney went to see James Arness in Them! to assess him as a potential Crockett, and instead seized on Parker, who had a small role as a pilot whose plane had been downed by giant flying ants. But Walt giveth and Walt taketh away, keeping him from roles in the John Ford classic The Searchers and John Wayne and Bus Stop with Marilyn Monroe and Clark Cable, while having him play the father in Old Yeller. His film career petered out, so he bought a large vineyard and produced award-winning wines with a coonskin cap on the label.

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