> > In case you do not know, he passed away today.
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> > He was truely one of my favorite people, so kind and gentle and caring. And he also had a love for good music. His show taught children (and adults I am sure) morality and self-respect, and it also exposed them to wonderful music from classical to jazz.
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> famous IMed me yesterday to talk about an LJ post I had written about him, and in the course of that conversation, I mentioned some of my favorite things about his show. Like trying to guess what color his sweater would be that day, or how it was SO COOL that he had a traffic light in his house. Or how whenever he'd go to some factory to show us how they made crayons or some such, they'd show the camera panning through that little model town. And I wanted one of those little model towns so badly.

And then there was "Picture-picture," the thing that turned a painting on his wall into a viewing screen. I still can't get that to work on the paintings in my house. And how he could toss a shoe up from one hand over his head and into the other hand. It took years for me to get that right.

And he had FRIKKIN' YO-YO MA on his show when Ma was just starting to play that Strativarius he's now had for decades. Wow!

And the fact that Candid Camera tried to prank him and it DIDN'T WORK. He's the only person i've ever seen one of those practical joke shows apologize to. It was great.