In Memoriam: Farewell, Sweet Prince With The Big, Gay Glasses
We take a moment now to remember Charles Nelson Reilly, who passed away Friday from complications due to pneumonia. Long before it became de rigeur for TV personalities to declare their gayness on the covers of celebrity weeklies, the unabashed Reilly added an unmistakably floral, and slightly acidic, air to the 1970s TV landscape. He'll forever be remembered as Match Game's wittiest panelist (see him take over for Gene Rayburn in the above clip), but he'll always have a place in our hearts as the villainous magician Horatio J. Hoodoo from Lidsville, Sid and Marty Krofft's even-more-whacked-than-usual series set in a land inhabited by giant, talking hats.