Who?
Dr. Bombay from BEWITCHED!!!!
He was 89 years old.
WIKIPEDIA notes:
On television, Fox portrayed the warlock physician (or "witch doctor") Dr. Bombay on Bewitched and the inept "Colonel" Crittendon (actually an RAF Group Captain, though always referred to as a Colonel) on Hogan's Heroes. However, his first appearance in Bewitched was not as Dr. Bombay, but as a professional witch debunker. He repeated the role of Dr. Bombay on the 1977 sequel Tabitha, and again in 1999 on the soap opera Passions, and spoofed it as a genie doctor ("wish doctor") in a 1989 episode of Pee-wee's Playhouse. He appeared in two episodes in the mystery series Columbo, "Dagger of the Mind" and "Troubled Waters". Fox was the penultimate surviving adult recurring cast member of the sitcom Bewitched, leaving Nancy Kovack as the only remaining one. Fox also appeared as English valet Malcolm Meriweather on The Andy Griffith Show, and in Knight Rider as Commander Smiths in season 2, episode 8.
Fox appeared as a British Major in "The Phantom Major," episode 3 of F Troop, and in "Tea and Empathy," episode 17 of season 6 of M*A*S*H.
In 1964, Fox appeared in episode 117 of The Dick Van Dyke Show, titled "Girls Will Be Boys." Fox plays the father of a little girl who keeps beating up Richie Petrie. He also appeared in episode 95, "Teacher's Petrie," where he played a night school creative writing teacher, and in "Never Bathe on Saturday" as the house detective.
In 1965 Fox made a guest appearance on Perry Mason as murderer Peter Stange in "The Case of the Laughing Lady."
Fox also appeared in McHale's Navy, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. "The Thor Affair" As munitions magnate Brutus Thor, intent on assassinating a "Gandhi-like" figure who is trying to bring world peace (1966). And a two-part episode "The Bridge of Lion's Affair" in 1966, as THRUSH agent Jordin, whose constant response to each additional assignment is "I'll look into it"; and in the Murder, She Wrote episode "One White Rose for Death" in 1986. He co-starred with Michael Evans as Dr. Watson in "Sherlock & Me" in the early 1980s.
He appeared in many movies as well including Julie Andrews' STAR!, THE HOUNDS OF THE BASKERVILLE, HERBIE GOES TITANIC and THE MUMMY. He also did voice acting in THE RESCUERS and THE RESCUERS DOWN UNDER.
I can't believe he was only 89.
He did 19 episodes of BEWITCHED.
The first was in 1966 and he wasn't playing Dr. Bombay.
From 1967 to 1972 he did 18 more episodes, all as Dr. Bombay.
So he played that role beginning in 1967.
That means he was 40 when he started playing the role.
Elizabeth Montgomery (the star, Samantha Stevens) had already passed and so had Dick York (Darren), Dick Sargent (Darren two), Agnes Moorehead (Endora), David White (Larry), George Tobias (Abner), Alice Pearce (Gladys), Sandra Gould (Gladys two), Alice Ghostley (Esmeralda), Paul Lynde (Uncle Arthur) . . .
It's really amazing, by the way, how varied and long his career was.
He'll always be Dr. Bombay to me.
I loved when he showed up with some potion to help Samantha. It would usually backfire.
Going out with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Wednesday, December 14, 2016. Chaos and violence continue, the Mosul slog continues, Kurds want independence, and much more.
RUDAW reports:
After ISIS, Kurds are Iraq’s biggest problem, said a Shiite militia leader.
In an interview with a local Iraqi TV station, Qais Al-Khazali, leader of the Shiite Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq militia, made the inflammatory statement against the Kurdish region saying, “After ISIS, Kurds are the greatest problem, especially Mr. Masoud Barzani. And solving the problems or peace with them is impossible.”
Khazali noted that “it is very unlikely that a decisive peaceful project with the Kurds will happen.”
The sects never die when someone's always pimping a grudge to trash 'the other.'
There is no peace in Iraq because the government doesn't represent all and because it persecutes pretty much everyone who's not an official or a militia member.
US President Barack Obama has been daily bombing Iraq for over two years now.
And he's seriously surprised that these bombings didn't result in peace?
It was Barack himself who stated on June 19, 2014 that the only answer to all of Iraq's crises was a political solution.
While time was spent bombing the country and training the military, no time was spent on diplomacy to get Iraq closer to a true political solution.
So whatever happens in Mosul doesn't really matter in four or five months.
The Islamic State took hold in Iraq because the government persecuted the people.
This has not been addressed.
And the people who already felt persecuted are only going to grow more angry as the 'austerity' measures of the 2017 budget go into effect.
With those measures in mind, it might be good to recall what the INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP said in "Fight or Flight: The Desperate Plight of Iraq's 'Generation 2000':"
The leadership’s inability to forge a future for “Generation 2000”, which grew up after Saddam Hussein’s fall, has turned it into easy quarry for predators, be they IS, Shiite militias or populists preaching Iraqi nationalism. The potential for mobilising large numbers of young men at loose ends as pawns in violent conflicts has enabled both IS and Shiite militias to gain recruits. In the process, it has compounded sectarian polarisation and widened the divide between street and elites. Fed by fresh pools of fighting-age men, local tensions and conflicts proliferate and escalate, destabilising the country and the surrounding region. The most powerful Shiite militias receive training and advice from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, have an ideological orientation consistent with Tehran’s and can be deployed as proxies outside Iraq as well.
The familiar expression “youth radicalisation” distorts the reality that an entire generation is adrift, in need of a dramatically new state-led approach. Young Iraqis whose formative years were in the post-2003 turmoil have much more in common than they suspect, whatever side of local conflicts they are on, but they have been increasingly socialised within communal confines and left to the mercy of radical groups that promote dehumanised, even demonised perceptions of one another.
Before violence engulfed Iraq again, with the rise of IS, youth had attempted to peacefully hold the political class accountable for years of dismal governance. Sunni Arabs staged sit-ins in several towns in 2013, questioning national leaders, including senior Sunnis. They met with repression, leaving scores dead, many more in prison. These events paved the way for IS, which seized Falluja, the Sunni town nearest Baghdad, Mosul and other majority-Sunni towns in June 2014.
The collapse of the Iraqi army triggered a Shiite call to arms. Militia commanders quickly tapped into youthful disappointment with the Shiite political establishment, turning it into sectarian mobilisation against IS. By summer 2015, IS’s battlefield fortunes had turned, even as it continued to control territory and population. The absence of services, especially electricity shortages in the searing summer, stimulated a popular movement in Baghdad and other majority-Shiite areas reflecting a general sense of frustration with the political establishment.
Youths flocking to either side of the sectarian divide faulted ruling elites on the same grounds but ended up fighting each other. The political class’ response has been to protect its interests by divide and rule, redirecting anger into fratricidal tensions. Iraq’s external supporters compound the problem by boxing a rudderless generation into distinct categories – fighters, protesters or emigrants – and taking a different approach with each: a military campaign to defeat IS, pressure on the government to institute reforms to undercut demands and an effort to strengthen border controls to keep out migrants. Putting the emphasis on fighting IS, in particular, translates into tolerance of the Shiite militias, whose rise has contributed to sectarian polarisation and empowered a militia culture that compels young professionals to emigrate while boosting commanders’ political ambitions.
Iraq's immediate future does not look pretty. Nothing's been done to address the issues and now a people already suffering will suffer more -- while wondering, with all the oil Iraq produces, why is the government unable to provide for them.
A very good question.
As to the KRG . . .
Aaron Hess (International Socialist Review) observed in 2008, "he Kurds are the world's largest stateless population -- whose main population concentration straddles Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria -- and have been the victims of imperialist wars and manipulation since the colonial period." A homeland in northern Iraq has long been desired and it is possible since the KRG is already semi-autonomous.
Today, the Kurdistan Regional Government reTweeted the following:
RUDAW reports:
After ISIS, Kurds are Iraq’s biggest problem, said a Shiite militia leader.
In an interview with a local Iraqi TV station, Qais Al-Khazali, leader of the Shiite Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq militia, made the inflammatory statement against the Kurdish region saying, “After ISIS, Kurds are the greatest problem, especially Mr. Masoud Barzani. And solving the problems or peace with them is impossible.”
Khazali noted that “it is very unlikely that a decisive peaceful project with the Kurds will happen.”
The sects never die when someone's always pimping a grudge to trash 'the other.'
There is no peace in Iraq because the government doesn't represent all and because it persecutes pretty much everyone who's not an official or a militia member.
US President Barack Obama has been daily bombing Iraq for over two years now.
And he's seriously surprised that these bombings didn't result in peace?
It was Barack himself who stated on June 19, 2014 that the only answer to all of Iraq's crises was a political solution.
While time was spent bombing the country and training the military, no time was spent on diplomacy to get Iraq closer to a true political solution.
So whatever happens in Mosul doesn't really matter in four or five months.
The Islamic State took hold in Iraq because the government persecuted the people.
This has not been addressed.
And the people who already felt persecuted are only going to grow more angry as the 'austerity' measures of the 2017 budget go into effect.
With those measures in mind, it might be good to recall what the INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP said in "Fight or Flight: The Desperate Plight of Iraq's 'Generation 2000':"
The leadership’s inability to forge a future for “Generation 2000”, which grew up after Saddam Hussein’s fall, has turned it into easy quarry for predators, be they IS, Shiite militias or populists preaching Iraqi nationalism. The potential for mobilising large numbers of young men at loose ends as pawns in violent conflicts has enabled both IS and Shiite militias to gain recruits. In the process, it has compounded sectarian polarisation and widened the divide between street and elites. Fed by fresh pools of fighting-age men, local tensions and conflicts proliferate and escalate, destabilising the country and the surrounding region. The most powerful Shiite militias receive training and advice from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, have an ideological orientation consistent with Tehran’s and can be deployed as proxies outside Iraq as well.
The familiar expression “youth radicalisation” distorts the reality that an entire generation is adrift, in need of a dramatically new state-led approach. Young Iraqis whose formative years were in the post-2003 turmoil have much more in common than they suspect, whatever side of local conflicts they are on, but they have been increasingly socialised within communal confines and left to the mercy of radical groups that promote dehumanised, even demonised perceptions of one another.
Before violence engulfed Iraq again, with the rise of IS, youth had attempted to peacefully hold the political class accountable for years of dismal governance. Sunni Arabs staged sit-ins in several towns in 2013, questioning national leaders, including senior Sunnis. They met with repression, leaving scores dead, many more in prison. These events paved the way for IS, which seized Falluja, the Sunni town nearest Baghdad, Mosul and other majority-Sunni towns in June 2014.
The collapse of the Iraqi army triggered a Shiite call to arms. Militia commanders quickly tapped into youthful disappointment with the Shiite political establishment, turning it into sectarian mobilisation against IS. By summer 2015, IS’s battlefield fortunes had turned, even as it continued to control territory and population. The absence of services, especially electricity shortages in the searing summer, stimulated a popular movement in Baghdad and other majority-Shiite areas reflecting a general sense of frustration with the political establishment.
Youths flocking to either side of the sectarian divide faulted ruling elites on the same grounds but ended up fighting each other. The political class’ response has been to protect its interests by divide and rule, redirecting anger into fratricidal tensions. Iraq’s external supporters compound the problem by boxing a rudderless generation into distinct categories – fighters, protesters or emigrants – and taking a different approach with each: a military campaign to defeat IS, pressure on the government to institute reforms to undercut demands and an effort to strengthen border controls to keep out migrants. Putting the emphasis on fighting IS, in particular, translates into tolerance of the Shiite militias, whose rise has contributed to sectarian polarisation and empowered a militia culture that compels young professionals to emigrate while boosting commanders’ political ambitions.
Iraq's immediate future does not look pretty. Nothing's been done to address the issues and now a people already suffering will suffer more -- while wondering, with all the oil Iraq produces, why is the government unable to provide for them.
A very good question.
As to the KRG . . .
Aaron Hess (International Socialist Review) observed in 2008, "he Kurds are the world's largest stateless population -- whose main population concentration straddles Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria -- and have been the victims of imperialist wars and manipulation since the colonial period." A homeland in northern Iraq has long been desired and it is possible since the KRG is already semi-autonomous.
Today, the Kurdistan Regional Government reTweeted the following:
DMI KRG
#KRG Deputy Prime Minister @qubadjt : #Kurdistan will become independent one day gov.krd/a/d.aspx?s=040…
And he's right, it will. That is the flow of history.
Back in 2011, the RAND Corporation's report entitled "Managing Arab-Kurd Tensions in Northern Iraq After the Withdrawal of U.S. Troops" noted US Gen Ray Odierno stating that the Arab and Kurdish tensions were "the greatest single driver of instability in Iraq."
Kurds want independence. It will come.
Will liberation ever come to Mosul?
Who knows but the operation continues 58 days later and, yes, it is a slog.
I missed Mohammed Tawfeeq's recent reporting on Mosul so let's note it now.
CNN's @SalmaCNN + @mtawfeeqCNN talked to people living in ISIS-controlled Mosul. Here's what they said -->
edition.cnn.com/2016/12/09/mid
Samantha Power was for the Iraq War. We've pointed that out numerous times here -- especially in 2008 -- and she's a War Hawk. She's a danger. Good for MEDIA LENS for digging up video of the lunatic.
Media Lens
Power, 2003: 'My feeling is that an intervention in Iraq... is undoubtedly going to make Iraq a more humane place' youtube.com/watch?v=hrRC77…
Also splashing some cold water on faces:
San
We've brutalised and tortured an entire generation of children. Millions of them have known nothing but war. And yet you sigh over Obama?
Chelsea Manning is rotting away in solitary & Obama has the power to pardon her & he hasn't. You all need to quit the sentimental claptrap.
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