Given the attitude of some right-wing elements of Christianity, it is no wonder Harrison Butker's commencement address deriding women's ambitions and rejecting "traditional roles" was no surprise.
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Obituary: Character actor Dabney Coleman, who was only 92 but seemed to be around forever, died yesterday. He seemed to be on every television show ever made and every movie made in the past 50 or 60 years. That is how much in demand this actor was.
No cause of death was given.
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Born on Jan. 3, 1932, in Austin, Texas, to Melvin Randolph Coleman and Mary Wharton, the actor was the youngest of four children and was raised by his mother after his father died of pneumonia when Coleman was 4. He grew up in Corpus Christi.
With a background as eclectic as his characters, Coleman studied at the Virginia Military Institute and served in the U.S. Army in Europe in 1953 and, as an avid player, played for the U.S. Army tennis team while posted there for two years.
He continued his education at the University of Texas, where he studied law and met his first wife, Ann Harrell. Through her, he met actor Zachary Scott, who inspired him to drop out of college and pursue acting, a career he admits he came to "late in life." Coleman and Harrell married in 1957 and divorced in 1959.
Coleman and his second wife, Jean Hale, married in 1961. They traveled to Los Angeles where he began regularly appearing on television in shows such as "Naked City" and "The Outer Limits."
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For bad movie buffs, Jean Hale will always be remembered for her role in the immortal 1966 turkey, The Oscar, as a temperamental actress paired with rising star Frankie Fane (Stephen Boyd) for publicity reasons. She and Dabney divorced in 1984, and she passed away in 2021 at the age of 82. Coleman didn't remarry.
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