BroadwayWorld.com is reporting that stage, film, and television star Robert Goulet has been in the hospital for over three weeks and is in critical condition. The star was experiencing shortness of breath a couple of months ago and found out that he has Interstitial Pulmonary Fibrosis, which is fatal.
Goulet had been in a Las Vegas hosptial when it was determined that he would not survive without a lung transplant. They don't do that in Las Vegas so he was moved to Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles on October 12. He's waiting for a transplant.
Besides a long career on Broadway (Camelot, The Happy Time) and in films (Toy Story 2, The Naked Gun 2 1/2), Goulet hosted the Bell Telephone Hour in the mid-60s and has appeared on tons of TV shows over the years, including The Tonight Show, Howdy Doody, Mission: Impossible, Fantasy Island, Murder, She Wrote, The Love Boat, The Jackie Gleason Show, and did voices on several episodes of Recess. He's won a Tony, a Grammy, and an Emmy Award.
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10-23-2007 @ 6:50PM
Jonathan Toomey said...
Red Ships of Spaaaaaaaaain!
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10-23-2007 @ 8:24PM
Cody said...
so, you know, if you have a spare lung, I know someone who could really use one?
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10-23-2007 @ 8:59PM
The MediaBlog said...
If ever I would leave you...
It wouldn't be in Springtime.
Fall, on the other hand...
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10-23-2007 @ 10:03PM
Elf said...
And yet there's an entire generation who know him only for his commercial where he's crawling around an office creating havoc while the workers are tired, his only for being the one employee smart enough to eat nuts by the handful...
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10-23-2007 @ 10:10PM
1iPete said...
Don't forget those great college basketball fight songs he did for ESPN 10 or so years ago, funny stuff. He also did my favorite Winter Wonderland.
Good luck in getting a transplant, Robert.
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10-24-2007 @ 12:52AM
TomB said...
Getting the transplant is the easy part. Recovering from such a major surgery at his age is the kicker.
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10-24-2007 @ 2:33AM
Brent McKee said...
Actually Goulet's first TV credit was in Canada (where he grew up though he was born in Lawrence Massachusetts) where he played "Trapper Pierre" on the Canadian version of "Howdy Doody." I'm not sure if Trapper Pierre appeared on the first week or so of the show, when the temporary host was Ranger Bob, played by William Shatner.
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10-24-2007 @ 4:11AM
SUSAN said...
As a kid, I fell madly in love with Robert Goulet when he appeared on Broadway in "Camelot". I pray for his successful recovery.
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10-24-2007 @ 8:21AM
DENNY said...
MY HEART GOES OUT TO MR GOULET MY PRAYS GOES OUT TO HIM ALSO WHEN AND IF MR GOULET DOES PASS AWAY THE WORLD WILL LOSE A GREAT ACTOR HE HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN SHOW BUISNESS FOR A LONG TIME HE WILL SURELY BE MISSED GOD BE WITH YOU MR GOULET MAY YOUR JOURNEY TO OUR LORD AND SAVOUR JESUS CHRIST BE AN EASY ONE MY HEART ALSO GOES OUT TO HIS FAMILY AND LOVED ONES AND HIS CLOSEST FRIENDS
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10-24-2007 @ 10:49AM
pcjunkie said...
OMG Media Blog, you are sick, sick, sick .... and yet incredibly hilarious.
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10-29-2007 @ 3:02AM
albert miller said...
It seems ironic that a singer should develop lung problems. Whatever happens, mr. Goulet,may it go easy as possible on you.
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2-21-2008 @ 10:03PM
KM Frye said...
Bob was an inspiration to me in 1963, at the age of 8. By 21 I had followed him onto the stage (locally, at least) and actually 'was' Lancelot in a local production. I've been singing ever since. But to respond to the person who was surprised by his condition....
Singers often develop lung conditions. Most often it comes from being forced to inhale deeply over long periods of time in allergen-filled rooms (lounges, cabarets, nightclubs), where the working conditions are often as bad (polllution-wise) as West Virginia coal mines. Imagine breathing deeply eight hours a day (two shows) in rooms where the smoke is so thick they don't need to use fog machines and you're close. Speaking personally, I have a different condition -COPD- and my doctor has told me that my 35 years singing in bars and lounges has made my condition far worse than had I been an office worker.
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