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My Youthful Celebrity Crush:
Christopher George

Christopher George

While in junior high I had to be in bed by 9pm weeknights, Monday-Thursday. This curfew sorely curtailed my daily television watching as I usually missed some of the shows my classmates –with more lenient parents – would get to watch. For years I didn’t know what “Let’s be careful out there!” meant since I never saw an episode of Hill Street Blues until its syndication.

Friday nights were the nights I could stay up later. While my parents were sleeping I had full access to the living television set. Early Saturday morning about 12:30am, with not much interesting programming --this was before cable TV and Netflix -- I tuned to channel 5 and found the beginning of what looked like a WWII show; titled: Rat Patrol.

Six minutes into the show, I didn’t understand nor care about what this group of soldiers was trying to accomplish, but I sure did like watching the lead actor: Christopher George. This was during my blossoming pubescent descent into womanhood and Christopher’s character, Sgt Troy, was what I now understand to be the literal definition of, what I know now as: The Alpha Male.

I tried to watch every film and TV show starring Christopher George. Not until recently did I know he posed for Playgirl. Sadly, Mr. George died at the young age of 52.

As Sgt. Troy in Rat Patrol 

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