# Whatever happened to...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/72793
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 17, 2001, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/72793 "2001-07-17T13:49:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2001, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/72793/1 "2001-07-17T13:49:55Z")
Y’ever have one of those “Whatever happened to [that guy]?” questions just pop into your head unbidden? Well, here’s the place to ask. Any answers or further “Whatever happened to…” questions eagerly solicited.
I’ll start:
Whatever happened to:
Paula Abdul and Arsenio Hall?
Phil Donohue?
McLean Stevenson and Gary Burghoff?
Rick Astley?
Philip Michael Thomas (from _Miami Vice_)?
I realize these are not earthshattering questions; I was just wondering how some of these formerly high-profile people managed to vanish out of the public eye?
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### Author:  [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2001, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/72793/2 "2001-07-17T13:57:49Z")
[McLean Stevenson](http://www.mash4077.co.uk/actor/stevenson2.html) - at 6 feet under, he is certainly out of the public eye
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### Author:  [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2001, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/72793/3 "2001-07-17T13:58:51Z")
Maclean Stevenson died 7 or 8 years ago. Gary Burghoff is very involved with an animal rescue society.
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### Author:  [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2001, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/72793/4 "2001-07-17T14:00:03Z")
Okay, he’s not [under, but back](http://www.seeing-stars.com/ImagePages/McLeanStevensonGravePhoto.shtml)
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2001, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/72793/5 "2001-07-17T14:04:14Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by screech-owl \*
> \*\*[McLean Stevenson](http://www.mash4077.co.uk/actor/stevenson2.html) - at 6 feet under, he is certainly out of the public eye \*\*
Y’know, I didn’t realize that he’d done half of that stuff, nor that he was related to Adlai.
[Yakov Smirnov]Is this a great message board or what?[/Yakov Smirnov]
Actually, speaking of Yakov…no, I won’t ask.🙂
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### Author:  [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2001, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/72793/6 "2001-07-17T14:51:15Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by jr8 \*
> \*\*Y’ever have one of those “Whatever happened to [that guy]?” questions just pop into your head unbidden? Well, here’s the place to ask. \*\*
No it’s not. And since the board is slow right now, I’m not going to move it to MPSIMS.
Please start a thread there. Or use a search engine.