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Our handshake in the doorway is interrupted when his dog rockets toward my crotch. The dude who opens the front door is in jeans, a T-shirt, and Nikes he has on a black ball cap with the NASA logo, and his beard is substantial enough that for a second it's hard to be sure this is the same guy who plays the baby-faced superhero. meditation retreat-there's even a little Buddha statue on the front step. He lives atop the Hollywood Hills, in a modern-contemporary ranch in the center of a Japanese-style garden. I ask Evans the same thing when we first meet, the evening before our jump, at his house. The rat is running circles in my belly.Īnother crew member asks, "So whose idea was this, anyway?" So I figure our odds are pretty good."Īgain the crew member shouts, "Who's going first?"Īgain I look at Evans again he looks at me.
"It's, like, 0.006 fatalities per one thousand jumps. Just really embrace it and jump out of that plane with gusto." Evans also shared that he'd looked up the rate of skydiving fatalities.
And then I was like, if you're gonna do it, let's just pretend there is no way this is going to go wrong. So what? Do I close my eyes? Hopefully, it would be quick. "You're not gonna pass out you're gonna be wide awake. ". . .Those last minutes where you know." As in you know you're going to fatally splat. While we were waiting to board the plane, Evans told me that as he lay in bed the night before, "I started exploring the sensation of 'What if the chute doesn't open?'. . ." Is it like foreplay? Do they rush off to the car after landing and get it on in the parking lot? They give us the thumbs-up and they're gone. Moments later, the plane's at ten thousand feet, and the next to go are a Middle Eastern couple in their late thirties. The last Canuck to exit into the nothingness is a freakishly tall stud with a crew cut and a handlebar mustache just before he leaps, he flashes a smile our way.
For them it's a training exercise, and Jesus, these crazy bastards are stoked. Out drop the eight commandos, all in black-and-red camouflage, one after the other. In whooshes freezing air and the cold reality that this is actually happening. Although it's a warm winter day below in rural southern California, up here, not so much. Our plane reaches an altitude of about eight thousand feet the back door opens. Gibbs has continued to work through her eighties and now into her nineties, with recurring roles on "The Hughleys," "Days of Our Lives," and a notable appearance in the "Breaking Bad" sequel film "El Camino" as a woman shopping for (what else) a vacuum cleaner.The Canadian commandos are the first to jump. Like her co-stars Hemsley and Sanford, Gibbs would reprise her role on an episode of "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air," a show whose own sarcastic domestic worker (Joseph Marcel as Geoffrey) owed an obvious debt to Florence.
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In 1981 she headlined her own spin-off, "Checking In," in which Florence worked at a hotel, but returned to "The Jeffersons" after the series failed to attract audiences. Born Margaret Bradley in Chicago, Gibbs moved to Los Angeles as an adult and began to take acting and dance classes while working a day job for United Airlines in fact, she maintained her ticket reservation job for the first two years she was on the show. Gibbs' skills as Florence and her ease in front of the camera was all the more remarkable considering how new she was to acting when was cast. When NPR caught up with him in 2007, he was working on an Associate's degree in Psychology from Bronx Community College, and would later graduate from Brooklyn College, where in 2021 he appeared as a special guest at an event hosted by that university's LGBTQ resource center. By 2001, he had entered recovery and was performing again in regional theaters. But success overseas did not translate to success in the US, and Evans struggled with depression and drug addiction as his career took a downturn.
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After "The Jeffersons" he focused on stage work, with just a couple of on-screen roles, most notably as young Alex Haley in the 1979 TV movie sequel "Roots: The Next Generations." Evans garnered acclaim for his stage work in British productions of "Carmen Jones" and the Gershwin opera "Porgy and Bess," which was filmed for a 1993 episode of "Great Performances" on PBS. Evans considered himself a musician first and foremost, having studied at Michigan's famed Interlochen Arts Academy as a young man.
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