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Jim Nabors Changed My Life
Jim Nabors changed my life. No kidding. In June of , my family moved to Weirton, a town in the northern panhandle of WV about 25 minutes from Pittsburgh. I began my junior year of high academy that fall. I was skinny as a rail, nearsighted, wearing the ugliest glasses ever seen in that part of the world, and talked funny. Oh, yeah, I talked funny. I had grown up in the coalfields of southern WV, and my accent was more pronounced back then. "Low and slow" is a good description, and I have a cassette tape somewhere to prove it.
It didn't take long for a classmate to dub me "Gomer." I wasn't crazy about the nickname, but I endured it. When you're a preacher's kid, you learn to endure things. I added Gomer's catchphrases "Gah-all-lee" (Golly) and "Shazam!" to my vocabulary. When people smile at you, laugh with them. It's more productive than fighting.
The school year didn't start well. Everything was strange, from the area to the accents to the course operate. Algebra II was a disaster. I never liked math because I'm allergic to repeti
The world resounded with a predictable Gol-ol-olllll-leeeee! at yesterday's news that Jim Nabors had gay-married his long-term partner, Stan Cadwallader.
Nabors, who played Gomer Pyle in both s-era television series The Andy Griffith Present and its spin-off, Gomer Pyle, USMC (pre-Don't Request Don't Tell, we guess), announced the two had been wed in Seattle last month, following Washington voters' approval of queer marriage in
"I'm 82 and he's in his 60s and so we've been together for 38 years and I'm not ashamed of people knowing; it's just that it was such a personal thing, I didn't say anybody" Nabors eventually told AP. "I'm very delighted that I've had a partner of 38 years and I feel very blessed. And, what can I tell you, I'm just very happy."
Yep, he's gay.
Nabors's sexual orientation was long an open private in the LGBT society and among his straight(ish) friends like Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews. And if he wasn't lgbtq+, his character, surely Gomer Pyle was. After all, like that other irresistible Southern television icon, Honey Boo-Boo, says, "Everybody's got a little ga
Jim Nabors may include played the addle-brained, wholesome rural bumpkin Gomer Pyle in a popular military sit-com half a lifetime ago, but he is refreshingly profane when you meet him in person.
At the initiate of an extensive interview, it took less than two minutes for him to launch his first F-bomb. For people familiar with the golly-mouthed Gomer Pyle, it seems almost unimaginable.
Over the next hour, the year-old retired thespian and singer offered up a remarkably prolific array of swear words. Delivered in his mild manner, with his kindly Southern drawl, it almost didn’t across as profanity, which made it that much funnier.
Jim Nabors and husband Stan Cadwallader at their residence.
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A Unique Military Icon
Playing a gas station attendant-turned-Marine enlistee on &#;Gomer Pyle: USMC&#; was very good for Nabors, and he has been very fine for the military.
For one, he has enjoyed recognition and opportunities rarely accessible to someone who never enlisted in the Armed Forces.
Recently Jim sat at the controls of a Lockheed Martin F Lightning stealth multiro
The Untold Truth Of Jim Nabors
For anyone who was ever a fan of "The Andy Griffith Show," the goofy but big-hearted Gomer Pyle was a familiar tackle . In fact, the ethics was so beloved, he went on to actor in his own achieving spinoff sitcom, "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." We can all be thankful to thespian Jim Nabors for his fantastic portrayal of the character. He was only supposed to be a one-episode guest on "Andy Griffith," but Nabors knocked that performance out of the park, and no one could bear to see him go.
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But scant realize just how affluent and diverse Jim Nabors' life was beyond the role of Gomer Pyle. He was a magnificent singer as well as a talented variety illustrate performer. Although he made a name for himself in television, Nabors thrived best in front of a live audience.
However, Nabors never grew to resent the character he's leading known for. In an interview with American Profile, Nabors expressed just how much he enjoyed the character of Gomer Pyle: "I have never tried to rid myself of it. I love the character I did. Gomer was