On Sunday, October 3, 2021 at 8:44:33 AM UTC-4, The old geezer wrote:
Dead @ 79 of Shaggy Dog - itis.
TOG
In my opinion, Old Yeller is his Disney stand-out.
Kirk's career received its biggest break yet when, in January 1957, Disney cast him as Travis Coates in Old Yeller (1957), an adventure story about a boy and his heroic dog. Kirk had the lead role in the film, a success at the box-office, and he became
Disney's first choice whenever they needed someone to play an all-American teenager. Kevin Corcoran played his younger brother and the two of them were often cast as brothers.
Tom Kirk was gay;
Tom Kirk was busted for marijuana possession, 12/24/1964.
On Christmas Eve 1964, Kirk was arrested for suspicion of possession of marijuana at a house in Hollywood. The district attorney's office subsequently refused to file a complaint against him on the marijuana charge. The city attorney's office, however,
filed an illegal drugs charge, because officers found a vial of barbiturates in his car. This charge was dismissed by a judge in early January when Kirk's attorney established that the barbiturates had been prescribed by a physician.
"This town is full of right-wingers—the world is full of right-wingers—intolerant, cruel sons-of-bitches", Kirk said later, but he also said later that he "richly deserved to be fired from the studios because of my irresponsibility. A person on drugs
is not fit for work".
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