BTW,
@JazzGal , I just noticed way back at the beginning of this thread, you mentioned a bunch who affected you, and David Ogden Stiers was on the list.
I wanted you to know, I actually did some work with him, he lived in Newport, OR for the last several years, and worked getting his network set up. He was an absolutely lovely man in person - although I didn't recognise him at first, on the phone, because of course he didn't sound like Maj Winchester, and he just said his name was David Stiers, but he pronounced it like "steers", and with no Ogden, of course, so it took me a bit. But he was a total sweetheart, and we got to talking about other stuff, and then whiskey, and he asked me what my favorite was, and I told him Lagavulin 16 yr old, and a few days later there was a bottle of it at my office for me - this is a $100 bottle of fine scotch, mind you.
He actually was the conductor for the Newport Symphony for several years. Never got to see him do it, altho I don't know enough to have been able to tell if he was any good at it.
I don't mind telling you I did cry a little bit when he died.