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actress Francey Yarborough at the time of his death.<BR><BR>"He saw =
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people's pride and pain and he turned it into something endearing and=20
hilarious," Yarborough, who is also an actress, said in a statement=20
Saturday.<BR><BR>Knotts received a star on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk =
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in January 2000.<BR><BR>In the foreword to Knotts' 2000 memoir, "Barney =
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Other Characters I Have Known," Griffith wrote that Knotts personally =
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in common with his most famous creation. "Don was not Barney Fife," =
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wrote. "I know Don to be a bright man and very much in control of =
himself. As=20
everyone knows, Barney Fife had very little control of himself. In the =
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scenes we did, I was often closer to Don than the camera and I could =
look at him=20
before we started those scenes, and through his eyes, I could see him =
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Barney Fife." </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>

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