I wish I could link to the two photos, but SPY magazine’s “Separated at Birth?” had Don Knotts and Mick Jagger with a close resemblance.
Knott’s got a huge amount of attention from 60s hippy types for “The Love God”. He was astonished at the adulation heaped upon him from that movie. So, for everybody there is another (group of) somebodies.
I didn’t see the A&E show, so somebody please clarify for me: what exactly do we mean by “Don Knotts: Stud”? Because, let’s face it, Don Knotts just getting to second base with any conscious human being could be considered quite the studly accomplishment, considering what he has to work with.
So just how much of a pimp daddy was ol’ Barney? Did he actually have groupies? Did women ask to see his “bullet”? Or what?
Why do you think Thelma-Lou always had a smile?
They showed lots of photos of “The Don” with some pretty hot looking women hugging him. Every person interviewed made a point of saying that he was “a ladies man.” :eek:
The really strange thing is that they said that there wasn’t much difference between “The Don’s” on-screen personality and his off-screen one. So what kind of pick-up lines was he using? “Hi! I’m Barney Fife. Wanna f*ck?” Oh and he’s got two kids. His daughter is at least 40 (she was born before he appeared on The Andy Griffith Show) and you’d never know it to look at her. I kept having to remind myself that she was born in the mid-1960’s (thus, making her older [but not by much] than me), and not the late 20 year old she appeared to be. Bastard’s got some good DNA, apparently.
Maybe there’s nothing more to it than women liking nice guys who can make them laugh? I don’t agree with Scumpup – it’s not the population at large that is so thoroughly fixated on weight and looks, just a distinct subset of people along with our mass media.
A few years ago, there was a website that had Thelma Lou Barney, Helen and Andy all sitting on a sofa naked. Remember it?
I think it was called “The Lost Episode”.
Well, what was significant about the picture was that the person who created it reversed the females so that Helen was with Barn’.
Q
One of the funniest moments for me on The Andy Griffith Show was when Andy and Opie showed up at the station one evening, flipped on the lights, and caught Barney and Thelma Lou necking. The stunned look frozen on Thelma Lou’s face was priceless.
Some women would fuck a porcupine if it was on TV or in a band or otherwise rich and/or famous, so I don’t see why Don Knotts wouldn’t be a ladies’ man.
Nah, that was Alan Arkin.
I only saw the last half of that Biography but they seemed to make the point that he wasn’t the same as he was onscreen. One of his wives said that when they met he was totally unlike what she expected. They also said he had difficulty with his variety show because he had to be himself instead of playing a character.
Marc
It was Mr. Furley.
You also missed the part about his daughter talking about how he’d be “sick” on the weekend because of his nerves, but the moment Monday rolled around, he’d be perfectly fine. From what they said, his on screen persona was an amplification of his offscreen one. He seemed to be taking the “darker” side of himself, and enlarging it for his onscreen roles. So, I wouldn’t say that he was totally like his onscreen self offscreen, but there was enough of it there to be noticed.