Just another moment humanity died. DONNA DOUGLAS

Goodbye to Donna Douglas.

Her old TV show, "Beverly Hillbillies" came at a time when there was such a thing as "family entertainment." The entire family could sit around and watch this shit. And "The Ed Sullivan Show" and all the rest of it.

She signed her autographs with a gentle little inscription that suggested you just might want to read The Bible, and know the kind of morality she knew.

Now? Now religion involves killing anyone who doesn't believe what YOU believe.

Now? Even so-called "family entertainment" is going to include things that would've made The Clampetts blush and turn the set off. Even "The Simpsons," a cartoon family, has insults, crudeness, people walking around in their underpants, and all kinds of vulgarity. A sitcom on at 8pm is going to be referencing oral sex, drugs, and be loaded with, in lieu of funny lines, a whole lotta put-downs and insults. What sitcom family DOESN'T do "snaps" at each other, with every other line a nasty joke at the expense of Mom or Dad or the kids?

Those over 40 are watching the death not of actors and actresses who played roles on old TV shows, but the death of civility. Every death is replaced by something disgusting, obnoxious and mean.

Who replaced Donna Douglas, as wholesome a sex symbol as you could find? Viley Virus? Is there an 18 year-old female who hasn't appeared naked in a movie? Even in a fucking movie about "The Titanic" there had to be a nude scene! And if the chick didn't do a nude scene that exposed it all, just go over to eBay or some idiot Internet forum and you'll find Photoshopped images of the woman being gangbanged or worse.

In act, if you have "Safe Search" off, and just type on "Donna Douglas" images...you'll get tons of porn. You'll get fake nudes of her, fake hardcore of her, and just plain hardcore images because a lot of pornographers deliberately load up a photo with every star's name buried in the jpeg or gif so a search for something nice ends up nasty and disgusting.

When somebody from the 60's dies, we're certainly talking about somebody from the last generation of taste and quality. From then on, it's more an exception than anything else, if the star, the TV show or the movie involves talent or art.

Maybe in previous generations, you could argue, "No, Gramps, the good old days weren't better, and we actually have even more quality and art than ever before." That's not the case now. Aside from athletics, where the sports figures are better conditioned (and/or more doped on steroids), the average TV show or movie is worse, and the average star is much less talented. Christ, you don't even see a woman of natural beauty like Donna Douglas anymore. It's somebody loaded with silicone and tattoos, wearing whorish make-up and falling out of her dress whenever she's in public. Bye, Donna. You took some class with you.