![]() ![]() Twice Around The Clock – The Yanks at Le Mans was voted Best Book of the Year by the Motor Press Guild and the author given their highest honor, the Dean Batchelor Award for Excellence in Automotive Journalism. It is the culmination of Tim’s research and interviews conducted for over 28 years and written over the last six years and Volumes I-III cover from 1923 through 1979. As Tim likes to say, “Yanks adds humanity, and a fair bit of profanity, to history.” Each of the three volumes (four more to come) is close to 120,000 words in length with approximately 300 curated black and white and color images from around the world, interspersed throughout – many never seen before. Yanks is a frank, sometimes blunt, personal account told in great part by the players – the drivers, mechanics and team owners who were there, which is what makes the work unique. He was also really cheap, and when Nickodell raised the price of their beer by 10 cents a glass, he stopped going there and went to Musso and Frank.Tim Considine is the author of the book Twice Around The Clock – The Yanks at Le Mans, a massive multi-volume, unapologetically chauvinistic personal history of hundreds of American drivers and the American cars that have participated in the epic 24 Hours of Le Mans. “He would drink there, and then after work, he would drink more. He would go to a place called Nickodell,” she continues. Tim Considine, an actor known for starring in several Disney films and TV series of the 1950s and 60s, has died. The idea that he took a drink or two … he was really a very, very bad alcoholic. Tim Considine, one of the most popular young Disney actors of the 1950s before originating the role of the eldest brother on the 1960s sitcom My Three Sons, died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles.He was 81. Simmons, who’s a really good actor, his character was just not like Frawley was. “I was very upset over the movie,” Kupferberg tells Page Six. Simmons is nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category of this year’s Oscars for his portrayal of Frawley.) Then he was cast as Joe, the younger of the two crime-solving Hardy brothers (Tim Considine played the other, Frank), in two Hardy Boys serial adventures broadcast on The Mickey Mouse. ![]() It was no secret that Frawley disliked Vance, but Audrey Kupferberg - who co-wrote “ Meet the Mertzes: The Life Stories of I Love Lucy’s Other Couple” with her late husband, Rob Edelman - says he was much worse than people know and that his character was sanitized in “ Being the Ricardos.” (J.K. Unfortunately, not even 30 yards from the entrance, the lieutenant general asked Frawley what Vance was really like - and that’s when Considine’s stomach dropped.Īccording to Considine, Frawley succinctly responded, “That miserable c–t.”Ĥ Frawley was on the first five seasons of “My Three Sons.” Getty Images hasn’t said anything to put anyone off,'” Considine remembers. “I was thinking, ‘Hey, this is a great success. Tim Considine exclusively tells Page Six that Frawley uttered the vulgar insult when a lieutenant general and his adjutant visited the set of the actors’ 1960s sitcom “My Three Sons” while Considine was in the Air Force Reserve.Īfter a pleasant lunch, the quartet walked back to work. “I Love Lucy” star William Frawley was such a crass curmudgeon that he once allegedly called his on-screen wife, Vivian Vance, a “miserable c–t.” ‘Alice’ star Linda Lavin: I was sexually harassed on the set of a TV movie Tim Considine, who starred in the 1960s television series My Three Sons and also acted in Disney’s Spin and Marty series, died Thursday in Los Angeles. Lucille Ball hated running a studio and was not a feminist, daughter says ‘Sixteen Candles’ star Carole Cook dead at 98 Why Lucille Ball’s daughter, Lucie Arnaz, made a deal to be fired from ‘Here’s Lucy’ ![]()
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