Cheryl Harrell
12-31-2001, 08:27 AM
You may have heard of newsgroups which are discussion groups on the internet. (We need a newsgroup on Freddie!) :)
I did a search for him on newsgroups (using Google) & it came up with this info on him:
From: David E. Powell Subject: Re: (POLL) RYAN PHILLIPE OR FRED PRINZE JR.?
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
View: Complete Thread (3 articles) | Original Format
Date: 1999/06/12
Jay Leno once said that Freddie Prinze, Sr. once wanted a hole in a wall of his apartment, so he fired about 300 bullets through the wall. Jay said it was in the type of neighborhood where nobody really paid much attention to this variety of renovation. If Freddi Jr. has any of that streak in him, he's definitely Hardcore.
Respectfully,
David Powell
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Message 2 in thread
From: Ken Rudolph
Subject: Re: Freddie Prinze
Newsgroups: soc.motss
View this article only
Date: 1999/03/08
Richard Jasper wrote:
>
> It didn't occur to me until after we'd watched "She's All
> That" that Jeremy et al. might not know who Freddie Prinze
> Jr.'s father was. Considering Jeremy was six when Freddie
> Prinze committed suicide (January 1977) I don't suppose it's
> all that surprising.
"Strange small world department": Prinze Sr.'s business manager, who discovered the body, was also the business manager of my boss in 1977. The business manager (Marv somethingorother) later turned out to be a crook, having absconded with $2 million of my boss's money.
> I was never that much of a fan of "Chico and the Man," but a
> lot of that had to do with the fact I just wasn't watching
> much television in those years. Am I correct in recalling
> that before his death Prinze was being hailed as a young
> comic genius? Or did the adulation / attention he receive (I
> remember LOTS of magazine coverage) have more to do with the fact that he was one of the first Latino men in a TV leading
> role?
Something of both. I liked Freddie Prinze, Sr. I think his son is
more talented (fsvo talent.) Certainly better looking. Of course,
Sr. was a comedian, whose personal life was somewhat tortured
("laugh, clown, laugh!") Jr. has shown true sparks of acting talent
in such early films as "House of Yes" and "To Gillian on Her 37th
Birthday". I haven't seen him since he became a big teensploitation
star.
--Ken Rudolph
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Wow! I didn't know this stuff!
I did a search for him on newsgroups (using Google) & it came up with this info on him:
From: David E. Powell Subject: Re: (POLL) RYAN PHILLIPE OR FRED PRINZE JR.?
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
View: Complete Thread (3 articles) | Original Format
Date: 1999/06/12
Jay Leno once said that Freddie Prinze, Sr. once wanted a hole in a wall of his apartment, so he fired about 300 bullets through the wall. Jay said it was in the type of neighborhood where nobody really paid much attention to this variety of renovation. If Freddi Jr. has any of that streak in him, he's definitely Hardcore.
Respectfully,
David Powell
**********************************
Message 2 in thread
From: Ken Rudolph
Subject: Re: Freddie Prinze
Newsgroups: soc.motss
View this article only
Date: 1999/03/08
Richard Jasper wrote:
>
> It didn't occur to me until after we'd watched "She's All
> That" that Jeremy et al. might not know who Freddie Prinze
> Jr.'s father was. Considering Jeremy was six when Freddie
> Prinze committed suicide (January 1977) I don't suppose it's
> all that surprising.
"Strange small world department": Prinze Sr.'s business manager, who discovered the body, was also the business manager of my boss in 1977. The business manager (Marv somethingorother) later turned out to be a crook, having absconded with $2 million of my boss's money.
> I was never that much of a fan of "Chico and the Man," but a
> lot of that had to do with the fact I just wasn't watching
> much television in those years. Am I correct in recalling
> that before his death Prinze was being hailed as a young
> comic genius? Or did the adulation / attention he receive (I
> remember LOTS of magazine coverage) have more to do with the fact that he was one of the first Latino men in a TV leading
> role?
Something of both. I liked Freddie Prinze, Sr. I think his son is
more talented (fsvo talent.) Certainly better looking. Of course,
Sr. was a comedian, whose personal life was somewhat tortured
("laugh, clown, laugh!") Jr. has shown true sparks of acting talent
in such early films as "House of Yes" and "To Gillian on Her 37th
Birthday". I haven't seen him since he became a big teensploitation
star.
--Ken Rudolph
**********************
Wow! I didn't know this stuff!