RIP Malcolm Jamal-Warner

[Imzadi]

Very sad.
I know him best from The Resident

He also had a recurring role in Suits. I just finished binge-watching several seasons again a couple weeks ago, so Malcolm is still fresh in my mind.

 

[Meriweather]

I also liked him in Alert and The Accused.

What a terrible way to go.....drowning and on vacation with his family. RIP

 

[Cadiewampus]

I remember when everything started coming out about Cosby. The reruns were immediately pulled from TV. Malcolm and the rest of the cast stopped getting those checks. To make ends meet, Malcolm took a job a a grocery store. Somebody recognized him, took his picture and mocked him on social media. If I remember correctly BET TV gave him a job so he wouldn't have to work at a grocery store.

That was not Malcom. That was the actor that played Elvin

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/2024/12/27/geoffrey-owens-cosby-show-actor/77264703007/

 

[sailorstitch]

That wasn’t Malcolm. You’re thinking of Geoffrey Owens, the actor who played son-in-law Elvin on the show. He was working at a Trader Joe’s in New Jersey, and as you say, was shamed on social media, which prompted offers of acting jobs from several television producers, including Tyler Perry.

Was it? Opps. Despite being an 80s kid, I was never a big fan of The Cosby Show. I'd watch an episode once in a great while, but there were other sitcoms I liked better. But that news article I read about Geoffrey really stuck with me.

 

[Skippy918]

I was shocked when I saw this news. At first I thought that it couldn’t be real. I watched him in the Cosby show and the Resident.

 

[citruscurtis]

Yeah, I know. I never did watch the Cosby Show, 1st run or reruns. I'm not much for the weekly sitcoms and zero for the so-called "reality" shows. Those make me nauseous. I'm more of a Columbo, Mission Impossible, Combat type guy.

Saw vic marrow on a outlaw Western station...cimmaron ..and Henry Morgan also same Glenn Ford movie

So did you watch the Flintstones on Friday nights

 

[Dan Murphy]

So did you watch the Flintstones on Friday nights

I did not. Probably caught a few episodes here and there, but not a must see like the others I mentioned.

 

[sarahann77]

This one hurts a bit. My heart goes out to the family. Recently the news was talking about the current, I believe, in this same area. An eerie feeling came to me but I lost a coworker to something similar a few years ago around the same time. Malcom will be missed as I've enjoyed a lot of his recent work and happy to see him in something that I didn't know he was going to be in.

 

[Disneefun]

I got a kick out of him in Community. He only had a small part, but he was playing a dad and he dressed in homage to Cosby in all those wild sweaters. Of course, this was before Cosby went down...

 

[HopperFan]

Just saw his daughter was in the water with him. Surfers saw them struggling being pulled out. One surfer grabbed the girl and got her to shore. The other surfer grabbed him but then rescue crew had to get both of them both in. MJW was unresponsive and they did CPR for 45 minutes.

They showed warning signs at the beach ... rip tides year round, high risk of drowning, bad currents, red flags up and a diagram how to get out of the rip tides. DEF not a beach anyone should swim at.

 

[fla4fun]

Just saw his daughter was in the water with him. Surfers saw them struggling being pulled out. One surfer grabbed the girl and got her to shore. The other surfer grabbed him but then rescue crew had to get both of them both in. MJW was unresponsive and they did CPR for 45 minutes.

They showed warning signs at the beach ... rip tides year round, high risk of drowning, bad currents, red flags up and a diagram how to get out of the rip tides. DEF not a beach anyone should swim at.

What a horrible thing for the daughter to go through.

 

[MIGrandma]

I just saw this on Facebook. It's heartbreaking. I grew up watching The Cosby Show and then more recently watched The Resident. He will be missed.

Loved him on the Resident, so sad

 

[Gracedis1]

So sad! We are the same age. I was also at a beach that day with my son (in the US). Rip tides are no joke.

 

[Imzadi]

Just saw his daughter was in the water with him. Surfers saw them struggling being pulled out. One surfer grabbed the girl and got her to shore.

ABC news said the surfer who rescued Malcolm's eight year old daughter used his surf board for her to hang onto. I think most surfers, nowadays have their boards tethered to their ankle, so when they fall off, it's nearby, and in this type of rip current, they can use it themselves to get to safer waters.

It's a warning that just because one sees surfers out in the water, not to assume the water is safe. They have a flotation device with them. And they could be surfing on either side of the rip current, as that is where the current and breaking waves are coming ashore, not the pulling outward.

They showed warning signs at the beach ... rip tides year round, high risk of drowning, bad currents, red flags up and a diagram how to get out of the rip tides. DEF not a beach anyone should swim at.

ABC also showed a sign in English clearly stating it was an area for high risk of drowning. I was mad and confused when I saw that. WHY would anyone take their 8 year old child to swim there?

Yet, NBC news showed this sign in only Spanish in the area. I saw another sign that had English warnings right underneath the Spanish.

Maybe Malcolm had been warned by friends or the hotel to heed signs of where to swim. They may have told them, the signs will be clearly in English, so he'd KNOW where not to swim. IF he and his family had walked only by the Spanish only sign, he might not have thought much of it.

 

[fla4fun]

It's a warning that just because one sees surfers out in the water, not to assume the water is safe. They have a flotation device with them. And they could be surfing on either side of the rip current, as that is where the current and breaking waves are coming ashore, not the pulling outward.

Very true. Local surfers know the conditions well and will avoid rips if they can, but they can sit on/hold onto the board if they get in a rip and get fatigued. That can mean the difference between life and death.

Living in Florida, there are always people on tv explaining rip currents and how to stay safe. We put those instructions into practice every single time we go to a beach. The first thing to look for is a calm stretch of water. If you see big waves to the left of you and big waves to the right, but the water in front of you appears to be calm, that is a strong sign of a rip current. It may feel counterintuitive to avoid the calmer water, but what you can’t always see is the current underneath moving away from the shore. If it’s a really strong rip, it doesn’t have to get very deep for you to be knocked off your feet and pulled out.

If you do get caught in one, don’t fight it. Don’t try to swim against it and don’t panic. Swim parallel to the shore until you are out of the rip, and then you will be able to swim to shore. If you try to fight the rip and swim back to shore against it, you will quickly exhaust yourself and increase the risk of drowning.

Whenever possible, swim near a lifeguard. They are trained to watch for rips and to rescue people from them. Not all beaches have lifeguards but if the one you are visiting does, take advantage of the extra eyes watching the conditions.

 

[Imzadi]

The first thing to look for is a calm stretch of water. If you see big waves to the left of you and big waves to the right, but the water in front of you appears to be calm, that is a strong sign of a rip current.

Until a couple weeks ago, when GMA mentioned that one can actually (possibly) spot a rip current from the beach, I never knew it was possible. We usually only get short blurbs on the news for if one is caught in a rip current. They always show a diagram from overhead of a swimmer in the water, far from shore. And the diagram shows arrows about swimming parallel to the shore. They always made it seem as though rip currents are an unforeseen and unknowable phenomenon ahead of time.

Then, on GMA, someone mentioned to be aware of a calm stretch of water in between breaking waves on either side. And they mentioned for the first time how when you look at the surf that had washed up on the sand already, it comes in along a straight-ish line up on the beach. But, the area where a rip current is, the water has washed up higher onto the beach. But, the tide there seems to be back out, and calmer. People who placed their beach blankets there, thinking the tide is out get wet as a sudden wave comes back up, again higher than the other areas.

It may feel counterintuitive to avoid the calmer water, but what you can’t always see is the current underneath moving away from the shore. If it’s a really strong rip, it doesn’t have to get very deep for you to be knocked off your feet and pulled out.

In thinking about it, that is the area were we always walk in the water along the shore line.

We go to a couple beaches along the Jersey Shore. There are long stretches of beach, about a half mile long. We usually don't hang out where the lifeguards are at as that's where the kids are noisily swimming and playing. It's, naturally more crowded by them.

We usually walk along the shore, wading our feet, only about knee deep and usually end up standing in the calm area. When the surf rolls in, since it's calmer there, a wave may go over us, only to thigh or waist high. Sometimes, we walk during sunset, after the lifeguards have left already. We always thought we were safe there. We weren't swimming. And we weren't in deep water.

But, I realize how lucky we've been. If there was a sudden drop off underneath us, eroded away, or we tripped, by the time we righted ourselves and tread water, we could have been pulled out a ways as we were in the rip current area. Our local news needs to spend just as much time on how to spot a rip current area to avoid it, as it does on getting out of one.

 

[Imzadi]