{"id":19708,"date":"2013-02-21T14:33:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19708"},"modified":"2013-02-21T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T19:34:09","slug":"different-world-actor-lou-myers-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19708","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Different World&#8217; Actor Lou Myers Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lou Myers<\/strong>, a stage, film and TV actor who memorably portrayed <strong>Mr. Gaines<\/strong> on the comedy &#8220;A Different World,&#8221; has died.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Myers <\/strong>had been battling pneumonia for months at the time of his death, according to a statement from Global Business Incubation, a nonprofit of which he was chairman. He passed away in Charleston, West Virginia, on February 19.<\/p>\n<p>Although <strong>Myers <\/strong>is known for playing the lovably grumpy restaurant owner on <strong>Bill Cosby&#8217;s<\/strong> <em>&#8220;A Different World&#8221;<\/em> \u2013 a spinoff of &#8220;<em>The Cosby Show<\/em>&#8221; that followed a group of college students \u2013 the actor held a variety of credits to his name.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in TV shows such as <em>&#8220;NYPD Blue,&#8221;<\/em> &#8220;<em>JAG<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>ER<\/em>&#8221; in addition to movies like 2001&#8217;s <em>&#8220;The Wedding Planner&#8221;<\/em> and 1998&#8217;s &#8220;<em>How Stella Got Her Groove Back<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The actor is survived by his mother, who is 95, and his son.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lou Myers, a stage, film and TV actor who memorably portrayed Mr. Gaines on the comedy &#8220;A Different World,&#8221; has died. Myers had been battling pneumonia for months at the time of his death, according to a statement from Global Business Incubation, a nonprofit of which he was chairman. He passed away in Charleston, West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}