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tishaLA

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8. He did.

Reply to Greybnk48 (Reply #6)

Sat Feb 8, 2020, 11:35 AM

Feb 2020

"Meanwhile, his politics turned more conservative. He became related to a leading rightwing commentator, Andrew Breitbart, when his daughter, Susannah, married him. Breitbart died in 2012 and Steve Bannon, later a top adviser to Donald Trump, took over Breitbart’s eponymous website, for which Bean had penned occasional columns."

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/08/orson-bean-actor-car-los-angeles

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