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10. Actor Andy Griffith, 86.

Tue Jul 3, 2012, 06:22 PM

Jul 2012

Somehow it seems too soon.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/andy-griffith-beloved-the-andy-griffith-show-star-who-also-excelled-on-film-dies-at-86/2012/07/03/gJQACBAsKW_story.html?hpid=z2

I think I was in my late teens when I first rode through Mount Airy, North Carolina, Griffith's hometown, and realized Mayberry was based on a real place.

If you haven't seen Griffith in Waitress, be sure to check it out. He added just the right touch to Adrienne Shelley's fable about a woman with a "train wreck" of a life...and a few secrets.

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