{"id":27686,"date":"2022-07-28T16:59:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T21:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/?p=27686"},"modified":"2022-08-01T21:11:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T02:11:39","slug":"rip-tony-dow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2022\/07\/28\/rip-tony-dow\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Tony Dow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tony had a pretty good run\/life and managed to avoid the post-child-actor tragedy we all hear about. Sure he was often remembered as Wally, the older brother from\u00a0<em>Leave it to Beaver<\/em>, a SitCom I never hated yet I could never really get into it. When\u00a0<em>SCTV<\/em> did a parody of it with a very cruel story involving a grown-up Beaver shooting Eddie Haskell for pissing him off, I laughed pretty hard given how idyllic and cheesy the show was. He made forays into the more &#8220;modern&#8221; world with a cameo in the R-rated skit film\u00a0<em>Kentucky Fried Movie<\/em> and I completely forgot his guest spot on\u00a0<em>Square Pegs<\/em>, the SitCom Anne Beatts beat out John Hughes into doing by two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I knew Tony more for being a TV director of episodic shows, namely\u00a0<em>Babylon 5\u00a0<\/em>alongside with Adam Nimoy (Leonard Nimoy&#8217;s son). The experience got him to chip in on\u00a0<em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em> too. What I learned through my cursory research was he got to be a special effects supervisor on\u00a0<em>B5<\/em> which is super impressive given how the show was the pioneer in using computer graphics instead of traditional, practical models.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Being born and raised in Hollywood did lead him to doing other jobs when acting or directing wasn&#8217;t happening. Tony was a sculptor and involved in construction. The latter was probably pretty lucrative when Los Angeles wasn&#8217;t a crowded as today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thanks for everything Tony. For years, you were America&#8217;s older brother and it&#8217;s not such a bad thing to be in public. I&#8217;m glad you continued to follow your passions, flex other creative muscles and contribute to vast collection of American Popular Culture.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony had a pretty good run\/life and managed to avoid the post-child-actor tragedy we all hear about. Sure he was often remembered as Wally, the older brother from\u00a0Leave it to Beaver, a SitCom I never hated yet I could never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2022\/07\/28\/rip-tony-dow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[367,457,300,64,183,807,120],"class_list":["post-27686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv","tag-babylon-5","tag-celebrity-obituary","tag-fifties","tag-science-fiction","tag-sitcom","tag-special-effects","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27721,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27686\/revisions\/27721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}