Tonight I’m watching Wolf Blitzer and Dr. Drew Pinsky on CNN talking about the death of Robin Williams. The headline on the screen: “Breaking News: Robin Williams Dead of Suspected Suicide.”
I’m thinking back to February 28, 1978. I was five years old that year, and we almost always watched "Happy Days" on Tuesday nights in my house. We still had a black and white television in those days. (We wouldn’t get a color TV for three more years.) That evening’s episode of "Happy Days" was titled “My Favorite Orkan” and featured a 26 year-old comedian as an alien who visited Milwaukee and tried to take Richie Cunningham back to his home planet.
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