From my continuing series of men I had a crush on when I was a boy, here's Hal Linden, as the unflappable Capt. Barney Miller. Like Jack Nicholson HERE, Linden was the same age I am now when he started the hit show about the comings and goings of the 12th Precinct in Greenwich Village. While Barney didn't fill out a pair of polyester dress slacks the way Wojciehowicz (Max Gail) did, his handsome face and warm eyes were simply irresistible to this 7-year-old Michigan boy.
Sorry to read that Steve Landesberg -- best known as Det. Sgt. Arthur P. Dietrich on "Barney Miller" -- died today at 74. While my inexplicable "attraction" (at age 8) was clearly on Barney and Wojciehowicz (I know, even with the toup -- but those pants), it was Harris and Dietrich who always made me laugh. Thanks, Steve. You will be missed.
Wojo (Max Gail) got back
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Growing up in Madison Heights, Mich.
The Web leads to an unexpected return to a house I grew up in.
Carlsbad, Calif. (2008)
Go Behind the Music of my high-school band, A La Plage
Little Larry left us too soon.
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With Roger Federer
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