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Oscar Shame: How Could They Forget Andy Griffith?

By Bill Newcott, February 25, 2013 01:48 PM

As Gomer Pyle would have said, "Golllll-eeee!" How could Sunday night's Oscarcast have neglected to mention the late great Andy Griffith among the stars who died in the past year?

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Bye Now, Andy. Y'All Take Care, Y'Hear?

By Bill Newcott, July 03, 2012 01:33 PM

Jim "Gomer Pyle" Nabors, who owed his entire career to Andy Griffith, once told me about the first time the two ever met, after Andy had seen his nightclub act in the early 1960s.

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