I’ve read too that it wansn’t so much that Hexum was intellectually dumb (prop gun episode aside), just naive and a bit of a doofus.
Sort of OT, but if I believed in curses, I’d say COVER UP was a show to avoid. All three of the leads are dead or gravely injured.
JON-ERIK HEXUM: Dead–Prop Gun Accident
ANTONY HAMILTON (his replacement): Dead–AIDS
JENNIFER O’NEIL: Alive, but she has accidentally shot herself, and on another thread where I mentioned stars of recent shows who were dead, a poster pointed out that bad luck had dogged her her entire career, including being dropped by John Wayne on concrete or something like that.
I hope Richard Anderson and Mykelti Williamson are doing okay.
That sounds like what my friend was saying. She never mentioned that he was “dumb” as in a low IQ, but what he was a goofus/doofus type of guy. And naive, yes. (She worked with him on his first show, where his naivete was probably at its most pronounced. I remember her talking about how “new” it all was to him.) And the accident was one more (dumb, tragic) example of this.
I thought Antony Hamilton was so handsome as well. I really liked him. I forgot that he died of AIDS. Damn. I hate hearing about stuff like that. And I didn’t know about Jennifer O’Neill’s accident either. That’s very sad.
All a matter of taste I guess. I don’t think Airplane is a good movie, I think it’s a great movie.
Also I have to defend Hexum’s intelligence. I think he just thought " Oh, it’s only a blank cartridge and it can’t hurt me." Bet a lot of people would assume the same think. I don’t think it qualifies as stupidity.
Ant it wasn’t the wadding that killed him. The compression from the blank shot a fragment of skull into his brain.
For those of you still sad about Hexum’s death, it may make you feel a little better to know that his heart was successfully transplanted after his death (no cite, sorry, but I remember hearing it at the time).