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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJeff Bridges punches back at cancer and Covid: "Covid kicked my ass"
Made the cancer a piece of cake by comparison.
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
marble falls
(57,010 posts)2naSalit
(86,323 posts)He survived it.
I know he's a Dem.
bedazzled
(1,759 posts)I live there now and wish I didn't
FelineOverlord
(3,571 posts)He was diagnosed with lymphoma in October 2020. The chemo made him weak and vulnerable to infection.
TxGuitar
(4,177 posts)at the link.
central scrutinizer
(11,637 posts)Good news!
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sheshe2
(83,654 posts)First watched him as a kid on Seahunt with his dad and Beau. I had a crush.
CatWoman
(79,293 posts)sheshe2
(83,654 posts)38 years before The Big Lebowski, Jeff Bridges (credited at the time as Jeffrey Bridges) was just a little dude getting his acting career started on his dad Lloyds TV show Sea Hunt (1960)
dameatball
(7,394 posts)Still a staple of my impressionable youth in Central Florida.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)bedazzled
(1,759 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)cellphone in sight, just people living in the moment"
Uncrowded, lots of still undisturbed nature, I loved every minute of it.
Then we moved to Chicago, which was a shock, but opened up whole new worlds for me!
ShazzieB
(16,273 posts)The ocean and scuba diving were pretty exotic things to me back then, totally outside my landlubber existence, and that made the show especially fascinating.
PufPuf23
(8,755 posts)in the north coast California and also owned the Vance Hotel in Eureka (county seat of Humboldt county).
Here is an interesting story about a building developed by Lloyd Bridges and named for his Sea Hunt son, Lloyd Bridges II, the actor.
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2015/oct/26/whats-story-place-eurekas-lloyd-building/
bedazzled
(1,759 posts)Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Never saw seahunt. He must've been a serious cutie when he was little