Before Buffy and Angel made vampiring cool….before that dang Twilight series….before Corey croaked…before Keifer racked up the body count in 24 hour time constraints…there was….The Lost Boys. Cult classic stuff. The soundtrack rocked!
Corey Ian Haim (December 23, 1971 – March 10, 2010)
Even though I was really young, I remember distinctly, Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, as played by Fess Parker:
I haven’t seen this since I was around 4; but the final scene of Davy Crockett fighting to the end- that image in this movie has always remained with me:
True to character, he was not a modest man, and once said in an interview that his Davy Crockett was “bigger than anything, ever, including the Beatles and Elvis.” I remember them all clearly, and I’m not sure I’d argue with that. Elvis and the Beatles certainly lasted longer, but there was never a day when either of them was beloved by the majority of the people in America, the way Fess Parker’s character was. During the anxiety of the Cold War with its duck-and-cover drills and our own soldiers having to integrate our own schools, he took us back to a time when being proud to be American was not so complicated.
~~~ He was a wise money manager and invested his money in California real estate, building hotels and starting a cattle ranch in Los Olivos, northwest of Los Angeles near Santa Barbara. His son convinced him to turn it into a vineyard instead and the Fess Parker Winery has become very successful, its label featuring a coonskin cap.
Parker was married to his wife, Marcella Belle, for fifty years; they have one son, one daughter, eleven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Fess Parker died on his wife’s 84th birthday, in their home in Santa Ynez, near the winery. But thanks to him the Davy Crockett legend, rooted in truth, will never die.
Fess Elisha Parker, Jr. (August 16, 1924 – March 18, 2010)
This was played at Peter Graves’ Memorial:
Peter (Graves) Aurness (March 18, 1926 – March 14, 2010)
A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
MY MY how times fly i liked PETER GRAVES and DAVY CROCKET
I remember watching Daniel Boone in the afternoon when I got home from school when I was a kid. And I remember watching Davy Crockett when Disney would play it on The Wonderful World of Disney that was on each Sunday night.
Good memories.
Colonel Crockett, Jim Bowie and 180 more, against 13,000, held for 13 days of Glory at the Siege of Alamo, broke the morale and the back of Santa Anna’s Army. Hurahh! for Texas!
It is estimated that the crew at the Alano had 20% to 30% men of Hispanic heritage. These Texans from Mexico wanted freedom from Mexico as much as anyone there, they paid for it with their lives.