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Post by CentreHice on Dec 14, 2016 10:28:10 GMT -5
Heart attack while playing hockey with his youngest son. Thicke |
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Post by Polarice on Dec 14, 2016 10:36:34 GMT -5
Read that this morning....awful thing to happen like that. RIP!!
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Post by franko on Dec 14, 2016 11:15:55 GMT -5
Read that this morning....awful thing to happen like that. RIP!! actually, a great way to have it happen . . . quickly, doing something that you love. hard on the son, though, for sure |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Dec 14, 2016 13:39:06 GMT -5
We've had a few older guys suffer the same fate here in town while playing hockey ... they have portable 'defibs' at the rinks now for just that thing ... I remember Alan Thicke from the 70's ... RIP
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Post by Gogie on Dec 14, 2016 13:57:01 GMT -5
One thing I'll say about Alan Thicke is that in my view he never lost his "Canadianism". He was one guy that I always thought exhibited the best of what it means to be Canadian.
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Post by CentreHice on Dec 14, 2016 19:08:12 GMT -5
I did not know that Thicke was chosen by Norman Lear to produce Fernwood 2Night, as well as to be head writer. That was in 1977. So he'd already been working with big names in the States...but came back to do The Alan Thicke Show from 1980-83. Back to the States to do Thicke of the Night, which didn't last an entire year. I remember Gilbert Gottfried being on that show as a comedy player. Then on to Growing Pains...just gotta keep at it in show biz. He was also a gifted songwriter. An extremely talented and, from all reports, nice man.
From imdb....
Norman Lear originally planned for all of the dialogue on the show to be improvised as Martin Mull and Fred Willard are skilled improvisational comedians. But head writer Alan Thicke insisted that the show would be better scripted with Mull and Willard improvising occasionally. Lear threatened to fire Thicke after the first week of shows but because of the audience's positive response, Lear relented.
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