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I just bought the Batman TV series boxset at Christmas, so I really must start watching it in his memory.
RIP Adam West.
"One last drink. Goodbye, dear @sirrogermoore - a beautiful and loving service for one of the great Saints, Knights and Gents of our time"
May we be as long-lived as the folks recognized here recently. Most really did live wonderful lives.
RIP Adam West. You were my first introduction to Super heroes! Thank you for the wonderfully fun memories.
Also did great cameos in King Of Queens and The Big Bang Theory.
Pleased I met him once.
I own Dynasty on DVD all of it. I spend really all of my youth watching Dynasty over and over and over again.
His Batman came after Michael Keaton for me as I was only 15 in 1989.
But Adam IS Batman and I enjoyed Return Of The Caped Crusaders SO MUCH!!! And hoped for more of that.
RIP Adam West. Another of my icons gone. Will 2017 indeed be even worse than 2016???? It sure looks that way :(
I just heard about Glenne Headly yesterday. That really took me by surprise. The first production I had ever seen her in was the 1989 miniseries, "Lonesome Dove". R.I.P. Ms. Headly.
I also just heard about Adam West. As a person who saw "Batman" as a kid, R.I.P., Mr. West.
It's strange that two actors who have portrayed major pop culture figures have passed away within a space of a month.
Roger Moore and Adam West in the same year, two heroes who knew just when to wink and when to scowl.
RIP Batman.
I have fond memories as a kid, as millions of others would, of watching the Batman TV series with Adam West. With his unmistakeable delivery and tongue firmly in cheek. It was good inoffensive fun. I love how he always went with the joke. Mayor Adam West in Family Guy being another notable character. Thanks for the fun Adam West, RIP.
I owe Adam's contributions to the world of entertainment a great debt. When I was a wee lad my mom would tape random re-runs of the old 60s show on VHS so that I could watch them before or after school, and at that time the campy but fun and vibrant world of the TV show really opened up a whole new world to me. It's hard to tell if I saw the 60s Batman or the 90s animated series first, but both takes were instrumental in me becoming obsessed with the character back in the day. It all seems silly now, but as a kid I thought the over the top show was the coolest thing going, and images like the King Tut episode are burned into my consciousness forever as Batman and Robin solved a sphinx riddle in a park and fought a bunch of mummified goons on a lavish set.
Adam was a class act, and was the Roger Moore equivalent of the Batman world, giving so much of his love and time to visiting Bat fans at cons all over. He never looked on his days as Batman with regret or shame, and embraced all that came with the title of being the second live action Batman outside the serials, truly changing everything. Around the time of the Batman TV show comics were dying out and it seemed inevitable that the major companies were going to run out of sustainable profit and close their doors for good. Then in comes Adam West and his supporting cast in a TV show that was a major achievement of its day, depicting action and intrigue hopped right from the comics page even down to the BOOMs and POWs. The show revitalized the comics market and sparked interest in Batman again, creating a ripple effect that we still reap the spoils of today. If not for the success of that show and the icon West became through it, we'd have no Keaton, and after that nothing we know of modern Batman would exist either. My gratitude is unending.
To one of the Hollywood good boys that redeemed the profession and became an unforgettable icon, I give my love and thanks to Mr. Adam West, my first Batman. Rest well, old chum.
but it's bittersweet and beautiful, thank you.