JANUARY 1997: FAN'S HEARTS GO OUT TO ROLE MODEL; COMMUNITY SHARES COSBY'S GRIEF.Byline: Dennis McCarthy Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
The city wakes up to another murder Thursday, this one hitting close to home for all of us. The victim is the son of a man we all know and admire. A man we've come to love. Comedian Bill Cosby William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr., Ed.D. (born July 12 1937) is an American actor, comedian, television producer, and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a vanguard role in the 1960s action show I Spy. . Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable - the pediatrician who stepped into our lives in a 1980s television sitcom and became the nation's number one role model. He's the ideal father. Dad. And now that father grieves for his murdered son - his only son - in real life, and we all feel the pain. Los Angeles' latest murder victim - Ennis William Cosby Sir William Cosby (1690–March 10, 1736) served as the British royal governor of New York from 1732 to 1736. During his short term as governor, Cosby was portrayed as one of the most oppressive royal placeholders in British Colonial America. , 27. He was shot once fatally as he changed a flat tire near Mulholland Drive For the motion picture, see . Mulholland Drive is a very well-known road in Los Angeles, California named after engineer William Mulholland. A portion of it is also called Mulholland Highway. in the Sepulveda Pass Sepulveda Pass (el. 1130 ft. / 334 m.) is a mountain pass through the Santa Monica Mountains in Los Angeles, California. It is often called Poop-Out Pass, a phrase once used by now-deceased traffic reporter Bill Keene. , on his way into the Valley to visit a friend. He was a man who overcame learning disabilities he suffered as a kid and went on to receive his master's degree master's degree n. An academic degree conferred by a college or university upon those who complete at least one year of prescribed study beyond the bachelor's degree. Noun 1. in special education, tutoring young students with reading disabilities. The kind of kid you would expect Bill Cosby to raise. A good kid with his head screwed on straight. A winner. And some loser with a gun comes along and robs him of life. ``He was my hero,'' a puffy-eyed Cosby told reporters hours after learning of his son's murder. Did we ever see Bill Cosby cry in all those years he made us laugh as the wise, sly-as-a-fox Dr. Huxtable? All those years he was teaching an entire generation of men how to be good fathers? I can't remember any tears, only the laughs. Maybe there were some at a birth or at the sight of his little girls growing up, but Dr. Cliff Huxtable never cried over murder on his TV show. Cosby, the actor-comedian, had complete control over his TV family's destiny, its safety and health. He could make them bulletproof Refers to extremely stable hardware and/or software that cannot be brought down no matter what unusual conditions arise. See industrial strength. bulletproof - Used of an algorithm or implementation considered extremely robust; lossage-resistant; capable of correctly . Cosby, the man, though, proves to be just as vulnerable as the rest of us today. All his fame and fortune couldn't stop a murderer from coming at his precious son with a gun. The truth hits us all like a slap in the face today, a nagging reminder of a curse we'd rather forget. No one can control what's going on What's Going On is a record by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. Released on May 21, 1971 (see 1971 in music), What's Going On reflected the beginning of a new trend in soul music. out there - not even the nation's number one role model. Reaction around the Valley on Thursday to the murder was stunned stun tr.v. stunned, stun·ning, stuns 1. To daze or render senseless, by or as if by a blow. 2. To overwhelm or daze with a loud noise. 3. resignation. It was the kind of reaction you usually get when a popular personality dies young, or a casual friend or distant relative passes on. How could this be? How could Bill Cosby, our precious Dr. Huxtable, lose a son to murder? ``I grew up with the Huxtables on TV,'' said 27-year-old Gina Esperas. ``I'd sit close to my dad on the couch On the Couch is an Australian television program formally broadcast on the Fox Footy Channel and it focuses on the current issues in the AFL. This is now broadcast on Fox Sports after the closure of Fox Footy Channel. The show airs on Monday night and is hosted by Gerard Healy. , and we'd laugh at all the funny faces he (Cosby) made, and all the trouble he'd get in. ``But the thing I remember most, I guess, was all the love that came through the TV every week. I can't remember feeling closer to my own father than when we sat together and watched the Huxtables, and laughed together. ``Now, I feel like crying, like I've lost someone in my own family,'' Gina said. ``I feel so sorry for him.'' Frank and Marion DeLangio agree with Gina's feelings. The retired couple with four grown children think that Cosby, more than any man alive today, is responsible for turning more men into better fathers. ``We'd tell our boys when they were teen-agers to watch and learn, see how he (Cosby) handles situations, how he reasons and uses humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was , instead of yelling and getting angry,'' Marion said. ``He made them all better fathers.'' Her husband nods. ``He taught a lot of young men how to become fathers, and men like me who were already fathers how to be better at the job,'' Frank DeLange said. ``I know this has to be the worst day of his life.'' And so it went Thursday, as the city woke up to a murder that hit close to home. Our country's number one role model lost his son, and we all felt his pain. We all grieve. |
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