Eight Is Enough's Dick Van Patten, gone at 86. One of the better comb-overs, even back in the day. Eight Is Enough was right in our families' TV wheelhouse, Elizabeth was one of my several teenage TV crushes, but that's not the point, here. The other "Dick Van", Van Dyke, still hanging in there at 89, although the trusted periodicals in my grocery store line indicate he may not be doing so well, understandably at that age. (Van Dyke did just guest-star on a recent episode of "The Middle", with 83-year-old brother Jerry.)