Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, June 26, 1990 TAG: 9006260209
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The Rev. Bobs Watson was 7 years old when he appeared in the movie with Mickey Rooney as Whitey Marsh and Spencer Tracy playing Father Flanagan.
He's now 59 and an ordained United Methodist minister in Montrose, Calif. He gave a sermon Sunday at the dedication of Boys Town's $3 million Chambers Protestant Chapel.
Watson said giving the sermon was "the most privileged thing that's ever happened to me. Here it is 52 years later and Pee Wee has come back."
Before he became a minister, Watson starred in the 1960s television series "Hot off the Wire" with Jim Backus.
"I had the world by the tail, but I was hearing a voice in the back of my mind saying `Isn't there something more than this?' "
John Voldstad, one of the silent brothers Darryl on television's "Newhart," choked out the words "I do" at his wedding.
For years, the blond, chubby Voldstad only grinned when introduced by brother Larry as one of the two Darryls. The grin remained when he recently wed 20-year-old Kellye Fowler in Gadsden, Ala.
Voldstad, 39, met Fowler in August when he was playing tennis in a celebrity tournament in Macon, Ga., and she asked him for an autograph.
"She was spelling Kellye with a ye, and I thought, `Umm, that's very pretty,"' Voldstad said in the July 2 issue of People magazine.
William Warfield just keeps singin' along.
The 70-year-old Warfield is back in Nashville to sing "Old Man River," the meandering melody he immortalized in the 1951 movie of the musical "Showboat."
Warfield will sing during a fifth anniversary celebration Wednesday for the General Jackson showboat at the Opryland U.S.A. country-music theme park.
"The thought of performing `Old Man River' on a true showboat certainly brings back some fond memories," Warfield said.
by CNB