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Phil Kumin
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Date Posted: 23:06:17 09/11/05 Sun
Boy, oh, boy do I remember the good old days of Bewitched! Those were the 60's, and that was my childhood! My mother, (who died in 1968,) used to like Bewitched as much as I did, and we watched it together. Lots of times, my brother would watch, too. We're talkin 1965-66 here, folks! I was 12 years old back then. Around that same time, I remember reading an expose on Elizabeth Montgomery in the TV supplement which used to come in the Sunday papers. All I can remember at this point of what it said, was that she was of English descent. (Well, of course! Back then, anybody who was anybody in the entertainment biz was of English descent, especially if they had blonde hair and great looks like she did. Remember Julie Christie?)
A year or so later I went off to school, and the appeal that my first girlfriend there had for me, (she had blonde hair,) was that she reminded me of Elizabeth Montgomery. I remember telling her that back then, and again in 2001, when I saw her at a reunion. (My old girlfriend, that is, not Elizabeth Montgomery!) When Bess and I saw each other in 2001, we talked about how Liz Montgomery had passed away.
I hate to say this, but wasn't that picture of poor old Liz on the front page of USA TODAY, absolutely AWFUL, when she died? That poor, poor girl. Cancer and aging really have ways of chewing a person up. I couldn't believe this was the same person whom I had known so well on TV some 30 years earlier. Seeing the headline about her was a shock, since I hadn't thought about her in years when I saw USA TODAY. I honestly don't know what she did professionally after Bewitched went off the air. Seeing her on the front page was not only an unexpected jolt from the past, it was of the worst kind. She was dead! She wasn't very old either, if you think about it. She was probably in her 20's when she starred in Bewitched? That meant she couldn't have been any older than in her 50's at the time she died. Cancer really grabs a lot of people, and it grabs them young. (Sigh.)
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