{"id":138098,"date":"2019-03-08T17:14:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T00:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138098"},"modified":"2019-03-08T17:14:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T00:14:45","slug":"rip-jan-michael-vincent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/08\/rip-jan-michael-vincent.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Jan-Michael Vincent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though\u00a0<em>Airwolf<\/em> was a really dumb show (a supersonic helicopter? really?), I enjoyed it as much as any other quasi-SF-hi-tech-vehicle-TV-show fanboy of the time, in large part because of broodingly handsome Jan-Michael Vincent, who I&#8217;d similarly liked in the mini-series\u00a0<em>The Winds of War.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/jan-michael-vincent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-138100\" title=\"jan-michael vincent\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/jan-michael-vincent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/jan-michael-vincent.jpg 645w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/jan-michael-vincent-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/jan-michael-vincent-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alas, despite being at one point the most highly-paid actor on TV, a lot of that money was ploughed into cocaine and booze, cutting short his career and dogging him with trouble for the rest of his life, which included an ugly domestic violence lawsuit and a vehicle accident a few years back that lost him a leg.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in Peace.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you want to know more?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/tv\/news\/jan-michael-vincent-dead-dies-airwolf-1203158399\/\"><em>Variety<\/em> obit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/jan-michael-vincent-dies-movie-and-tv-heartthrob-struggled-with-addiction\/2019\/03\/08\/3a8837b4-41c0-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html\">WaPo obit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001821\/\">IMDb<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uY5ogQ-kZrY\"><em>Airwolf<\/em> opening<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though\u00a0Airwolf was a really dumb show (a supersonic helicopter? really?), I enjoyed it as much as any other quasi-SF-hi-tech-vehicle-TV-show fanboy of the time, in large part because of broodingly handsome Jan-Michael Vincent, who I&#8217;d similarly liked in the mini-series\u00a0The Winds of War.\u00a0 Alas, despite being at one point the most highly-paid actor on TV, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/08\/rip-jan-michael-vincent.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP, Jan-Michael Vincent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75,40],"tags":[1778],"class_list":["post-138098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-performers","category-media-tv","tag-airwolf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/jan-michael-vincent.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28488,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/rip-ernest-borgnine.html","url_meta":{"origin":138098,"position":0},"title":"RIP Ernest Borgnine","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Jul-12 3:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I grew up watching \"McHale's Navy\" re-runs, and that's the biggest memory I have of Borgnine -- though his turns on \"Airwolf\" and The Black Hole and, especially, Ice Station Zebra, also come to mind. 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