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- SARGENT/YORK — A TALE OF TWO “DARRS”HERBIE J PILATO·FOLLOWPUBLISHED HERBIE J’S HOE·7 M READ·FEB 12, 2020--2SHARETHE DYNAMIC TW ASPECTS OF “BEWCHED” ACTORS DICK YORK AND DICK SARGENTDICK YORK (LEFT) AND DICK SARGENT SHARED THE ROLE OF DARR STEPHENS ON “BEWCHED”“I THOUGHT DICK SARGENT DID A MARVELO JOB AS DARR ON BEWCHED.”— DICK YORKIT IS WHOUT A DOUBT THE BIGGT DOUBLE-STG NTROVERSY THE HISTORY OF CLASSIC TELEVISN: DICK YORK AND DICK SARGENT’S DUAL TURN AS MORTAL AD-MAN DARR STEPHENS, MARRIED TO ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY’S ADORABLE WCH-WH-A-TWCH SAMANTHA ON TV’S CLASSIC WUATN EDY, BEWCHED, WHICH ORIGALLY AIRED ON ABC OM 1964 TO 1972.THE ACTORS REMBLED ONE OTHER, ACTED LIKE THE OTHER, AND YET WERE VERY DIFFERENT. CAST AS DARR BEFORE SARGENT, YORK PLAYED THE CHARACTER WH ANIMATED APLOMB WHILE MANY VIEWERS BELIEVED THAT SARGENT, WHO JT SO HAPPENED TO BE GAY, PORTRAYED A KR-GENTLER DARR. MONTGOMERY EXPLAED ALL QUE DIPLOMATILLY THE BEWCHED BOOK, WHICH WAS LATER REVISED AS BEWCHED FOREVER. BY THE TIME SARGENT ME TO PLAY DARR, MONTGOMERY SAID, THE CHARACTER WAS NOT AS STARTLED BY SAMANTHA’S MAGIC (OR HER OTHER-WORLDLY CHARACTERS):“DARR WAS BEG A MORE EASYGOG PRENCE. THE SHOW’S SUATN ALMOST BEME FUNNIER. HE WOULD LAPSE TO THIS KD OF PLACENCY AND MAYBE TO SOMETHG THAT HE JT MIGHT ENJOY FOR A MUTE OR TWO. IT WAS ALMOST AS IF DARR GREW AS THE RELATNSHIP VELOPED. HE DIDN’T HAVE TO BE ON HIS GUARD AS MUCH. SO, WHEN HE WAS SUDNLY NONTED BY WCHCRAFT, THE NEWNS OF THE MARRIAGE WAS GONE. IT WASN’T AS SHOCKG AN EXPERIENCE — AS [HAD BEEN FOR YORK’S DARR] WAS THE SHOW’S FIRST SEASON.”DOUBLE INTY
- WAS DICK YORK GAY
- HOLLYWOOD FLASHBACK: ‘BEWCHED’ HAS BEEN A GAY FAVORE SCE 1964
SARGENT/YORK — A TALE OF TWO “DARRS”HERBIE J PILATO·FOLLOWPUBLISHED HERBIE J’S HOE·7 M READ·FEB 12, 2020--2SHARETHE DYNAMIC TW ASPECTS OF “BEWCHED” ACTORS DICK YORK AND DICK SARGENTDICK YORK (LEFT) AND DICK SARGENT SHARED THE ROLE OF DARR STEPHENS ON “BEWCHED”“I THOUGHT DICK SARGENT DID A MARVELO JOB AS DARR ON BEWCHED.”— DICK YORKIT IS WHOUT A DOUBT THE BIGGT DOUBLE-STG NTROVERSY THE HISTORY OF CLASSIC TELEVISN: DICK YORK AND DICK SARGENT’S DUAL TURN AS MORTAL AD-MAN DARR STEPHENS, MARRIED TO ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY’S ADORABLE WCH-WH-A-TWCH SAMANTHA ON TV’S CLASSIC WUATN EDY, BEWCHED, WHICH ORIGALLY AIRED ON ABC OM 1964 TO 1972.THE ACTORS REMBLED ONE OTHER, ACTED LIKE THE OTHER, AND YET WERE VERY DIFFERENT. CAST AS DARR BEFORE SARGENT, YORK PLAYED THE CHARACTER WH ANIMATED APLOMB WHILE MANY VIEWERS BELIEVED THAT SARGENT, WHO JT SO HAPPENED TO BE GAY, PORTRAYED A KR-GENTLER DARR. MONTGOMERY EXPLAED ALL QUE DIPLOMATILLY THE BEWCHED BOOK, WHICH WAS LATER REVISED AS BEWCHED FOREVER. BY THE TIME SARGENT ME TO PLAY DARR, MONTGOMERY SAID, THE CHARACTER WAS NOT AS STARTLED BY SAMANTHA’S MAGIC (OR HER OTHER-WORLDLY CHARACTERS):“DARR WAS BEG A MORE EASYGOG PRENCE. THE SHOW’S SUATN ALMOST BEME FUNNIER. HE WOULD LAPSE TO THIS KD OF PLACENCY AND MAYBE TO SOMETHG THAT HE JT MIGHT ENJOY FOR A MUTE OR TWO. IT WAS ALMOST AS IF DARR GREW AS THE RELATNSHIP VELOPED. HE DIDN’T HAVE TO BE ON HIS GUARD AS MUCH. SO, WHEN HE WAS SUDNLY NONTED BY WCHCRAFT, THE NEWNS OF THE MARRIAGE WAS GONE. IT WASN’T AS SHOCKG AN EXPERIENCE — AS [HAD BEEN FOR YORK’S DARR] WAS THE SHOW’S FIRST SEASON.”DOUBLE INTY
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Who better than the Mount Vernon, Oh-born funnyman to play gay whout explicly g out as gay? LOS ANGELES -- Dick Sargent, 64, who played the beleaguered hband on the televisn seri "Bewched" and later clared his homosexualy wh pri, died of prostate ncer July 8 at Cedars-Sai Medil Center here. Sargent announced he was gay.
HOLLYWOOD FLASHBACK: ‘BEWCHED’ HAS BEEN A GAY FAVORE SCE 1964
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