On Sep 23, 10:10 am, "Frank R.A.J. Maloney" wrote:
> Jim Beaver wrote:
> > "Okierazorbacker" wrote in message
> >news:1190511088.441707.89310@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...
> >> On Sep 22, 6:42 pm, Howard Brazee wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:21:48 -0700, tomcervo wrote:
> >>>> Joe McBride told Roddy McDowell in the course of an interview that his
> >>>> performance in "How Green Was My Valley" was the best child
> >>>> performance ever. McDowell demurred, citing Jackie Coogan in "The
> >>>> Kid".
> >>> Two excellent performances, but Joe was right, Roddy wrong here.
> >> Very right to mention Coogan, though. He turned out to be quite a
> >> turd as a person, from what I've heard, but that's a great kid
> >> performance in an overall great film.
>
> > I've never heard anything bad about Coogan as a person, aside from some
> > difficulties with alcohol in the aftermath of his betrayal by his parents.
> > He apparently served heroically in WWII. What have you heard, and where?
>
> When I still in high school, I met Jackie Coogan at a dinner for a
> political candidate my father was backing. He struck me as a nice man
> who spent several minutes talking to an uninteresting, unimportant
> teen-ager without looking bored or in a hurry.
>
I'm sorry, Frank, and everyone else. I request that you slap me
hard. I just did something that I hate to have done to me. I hate to
hear something bad about someone in this way. That kind of character
assassination and/or gossip sticks with me for a long time,
obviously. I just clearly recall some grousing on a retrospective
show about "The Addams Family" where one (or, it seems, more) cast
member(s) made a point of singling out Coogan as being particularly
unpleasant in general to work with. Regardless, there was absolutely
no call for me to bring it up in this context. I am chagrined at my
own behavior, and I apologize.
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