That Orson Bean (probably only old geezers here will remember him) was hit and killed by 2 cars today (the first one knocked him over and left the scene, the second killed him but stopped) or that the only place I’ve seen anything about it is in facebook posts by others as old as I am and who remember him.
He was married to a soap opera actress and the mother on “The Wonder Years” (Alley Mills) and father in law to the late Andrew Breitbart.
Orson Bean had a quick wit and was on many TV game shows. RIP Orson.
Oh good- I am glad the first one stopped. I read that it did not, and perhaps didn’t realize they’d clipped him and knocked him over. He was 91. So sad.
When I first saw it on facebook earlier today, I checked snopes to see if it was real. Sometimes things make their way around facebook about deaths of famous folks that are either wrong or are many years old. Sadly this was accurate (well except for the first car leaving).
I remember him from game shows, too. Had not heard this. How awful. Stories of people getting hit by cars particularly affect me, having had that happen to me once. I was luckier than him.
Okay - I am going to be a contrarian here. If I was 91, I would prefer to leave this earth by being hit by a car (instant crash and oblivion) rather than all the sad ways there are to die. Dementia, bedridden, broken hips, feeding tubes… believe me, many ways to die involve pain and suffering. This is a good way to go, and at 91, it is often downhill and rapidly. I’m sad that he’s gone, but - it was a good way to die - on his own feet, heading where he wanted to go, when he wanted to go.