Tom Poston died Monday. I was surprised to hear that his widow was Suzanne Pleshette, and was curious about the backstory to their 2001 marriage, which I completely missed, but the Internet answers everything (dated in 1959, married other people, reunited after each had been widowed). Though that Star story presents other unanswered questions, such as "If you're having a small wedding because you're afraid of offending people who aren't invited to a big one, why is a supermarket tabloid photographer there?"

My personal Tom Poston anecdote: I was defending a deposition in Los Angeles, and the opposing attorney sent the young associate helping her out of the room to fetch some documents. She turned to me, and said conspiratorially: "We just hired him. He's Tom Poston's son. Doesn't he look just like his dad?" And, yeah, he sort of did. The case settled not much later, and I never saw him again. Google answers that question with a one-week-old LA Times story that interviews him for a "trend" story about contract attorneys.

(Update: Adam Bonin reminds us that Poston was the voice of the Capital City Goofball. The Simpsons Curse continues!)