From the L.A. Times:
From all accounts, a really nice, down-to-earth guy and a much-needed stabilizing influence on Jaynie.
Poor Mariska.
Yeah, this could make for some gawdawful post-partum depression. Hope she takes care of herself as much as she’s able.
You have to wonder if he managed to stick around just long enough to see the grandkid, huh? (Like that statistic that the elderly are more likely to die shortly after a birthday than just before it.)
Come on, dude was 80! It sucks, but it’s not exactly a tragedy!
But it’s good to have an occasion to reflect on the unusually favored gene pool (bombshell & bodybuilder) that produced the exotically lovely, sexy and strong-looking Ms. Hargitay. I like to imagine she’s as kind and brave and strong IRL as her L&O character, with whom I am half in love.
It doesn’t matter how old he was, he was her father. Losing a parent is never easy.
How the hell do you manage to be only have in love with Olivia Benson?
Even with that truly hideous bob she had a few years back, she’s worth being at minimum 3/4 in love.
He was in an episode of L&O SVU a couple of years ago, and for an old guy, he still looked pretty damn good.
Of course not, but age makes a difference. My mother died three years ago and she was only 64 – very young, by today’s standards. (When she was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 62, and the surgeon gave us his grim diagnosis, he mentioned he was especially upset by it because she was “so young.”) It hit me and my brother really hard, but I don’t think we would have minded nearly as much if she had been pushing 80. That is, we would have been sad, but not on a “How can life be so unfair?!” level. (And it was unfair – my mother took better care of her body than anybody I ever knew. College phys.ed. prof, no unhealthy vices, only drank wine and little of that, watched her diet, her hobbies were ballroom dancing and gardening – healthy lifestyle all around and then she gets struck down by cancer. But I digress.)
Fear of intimacy, combined with the depressing awareness of certain [ahem] lifestye choices that would make dating a police officer problematic. Oh, Olivia, it just wasn’t meant to be! 
I don’t think age makes a difference. My father is over 70 and I have an icy chill of fear that his years are numbered. Losing a parent is losing a parent, I don’t care how old the parent is. Just ask Sampiro.
Have you ever read the story of Jayne, with her kids, riding through the bayous of Lousiana, and hitting the stopped truck. Mariska, in the back seat, was lucky to get off with only a scar.
Aww…hopefully they’re swimming together in that big heart shaped swimming pool with “I Love You, Jaynie” mosaiced on the bottom 
He was hot. http://images.wireware.net/murraygarrettcom/c_img/h.v.145.mansfield&Hargitay.jpg
Mariska didn’t stand a chance of NOT being gorgeous with that gene pool.
VCNJ~
Welll, except that Nelson Sardelli dipped his toes into that particular pool . . .
Are you serious? You type this in response to “Poor Mariska”?
You would prefer, maybe, “Eh, too bad Mariska!” Or “Sucks to be you Mariska”? Or “Get over it Mariska”?
-FrL-
Yeah, I wasn’t going to mention that. Even so - Hargitay was her father in all aspects that mattered. Anyone can be a sperm donor. And she obviously adored him & considered him her father.
VCNJ~
Oh, Mickey was certainly her real father, and they were very close. A swell guy, all around. And he’s so fine he blows my mind. Oh, Mickey!
Huh.
Did we discuss anyone else at the DopeFest that we may want to warn?
Hmmm . . . Melanie Griffith and her upside-down mouth?
Damn. You beat me to it. shakes fish
I always thought that Jayne Mansfeild was the actress that ended up being involved in some kinda stabbing incident.
Apparently, I am wrong. But it was some kinda bombshell of the 50’s, I know.