.

Celebrific

Tracking Celebrities in Their Native Habitat

Deaths

Despite Rotten Reputation Robin Williams a Sweetheart

by

Reeve & Williams.jpgOscar-winner and funnyman Robin Williams is making good on a promise.  Williams insists he will care for the orphaned son of Christopher & Dana Reeve, after the teenager’s mother died of lung cancer last week.

Williams & Superman Christopher Reeve, who died October 2004) were always close, after having studied together at the Julliard school of drama in New York City.  After Reeve suffered from the riding accident in 1995 which left him paralyzed from the neck down, the One Hour Photo star was quick to assure the family that he would never desert them, or make dessert out of them.  He is standing by his vow and is up for caring for 13-year-old Will. 

A relative of Dana Reeve said, “He has already been making good on a promise he made to Chris in 1995.  They were closer than brothers and Robin swore then and there that he would look after Dana and Will after Chris was gone.  Both of them knew Chris might not last long but neither of them could possibly have imagined the tragedy that would befall Dana so soon after Chris’ own death.”

Dana Reeve died March 6th of lung cancer despite being a non-smoker, she was diagnosed in August of last year.  She was respected and admired world-wide for her dedicated research on stem cells & paralysis as well as supporting and standing beside her husband after his riding accident that occurred after only three years of marriage.

In his autobiography, Still Me, Christopher Reeve wrote that he suggested early on to his wife, “Maybe we should let me go.” She responded, “I’ll be with you for the long haul, no matter what. You’re still you and I love you.”

Those were “the words that saved my life,” Christopher Reeve said.

That is really beautiful, I have to say. 

{Source}

‘The Jeffersons’ Franklin Cover is Truly Moving on Up

by

The Jeffersons.jpg

Franklin Cover (November 20, 1928 – February 5, 2006), who became a familiar face as George & Louise Jefferson’s white neighbor in The Jeffersons, died of pneumonia Sunday.  He was 77. 

Cover was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1928.  He began his career on stage in productions of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” & “Henry IV“, and later in many Broadway plays. He made his television debut on Naked City & later appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show.

He was best known, however, for his role as Tom Willis in the long-running sitcom The Jeffersons. His character was one half of one of the first interracial marriages to be seen in primetime television.  The show ran from 1975 to 1985.

Following the end of The Jeffersons, Cover continued to make guest apperances on television shows and played a supportive role in the 1987 movie Wall Street.  His final appearance was in an episode of Will & Grace in 1999.

He is survived by his wife Mary, and a son & daughter.

{Source}

I’ll leave you with these familiar words:

We’re a movin’ on up,
To the east side.
To a de-luxe apartment,
In the sky-.
Mo-vin’ on up
To the east side,
We finally got a piece of the pie.Fish don’t fry in the kitchen,
A beans don’t burn on the grill.
Took a whole lot of trying
Just to get up that hill.
Now we’re up in the big leagues,
Gettin’ our turn at bat.
As long as we live
It’s you and me baby.
There ain’t nothing wrong with that.We’re a movin’ on up
To the east side,
To a de-luxe apartment
In the sky-.
Mo-vin’ on up
To the east side.
We finally got a piece of the pie-. 

Â