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Ronnie Eckstine is a Actor American born on 1 january 1943
Ronnie Eckstine (born 1943) is a former actor and the stepson of singer Billy Eckstine by way of Billy's marriage to Ronnie's mother, Carolle Drake. Ronnie played high school football at Birmingham High School, where he and his older brother Kenny were the only African American students. Ronnie met singer Leslie Uggams in June 1964 while she was performing at the Flamingo Las Vegas and the two started dating. Uggams announced her engagement to Eckstine the following month while she was performing in Australia. Eckstine was then conscripted into military service, and Uggams left him for Grahame Pratt, a European Australian man who she married in 1965. Six months after he completed his military service, Eckstine made his acting debut in the 1967 film The Love-Ins. In February 1984, Eckstine was arrested on charges of forgery and evasion of arrest, and he escaped from jail the following month by exchanging identification bracelets with another prisoner and leaving on that prisoner's bail. Eckstine's family then issued a press release asking the Los Angeles Police Department to be discreet in their attempts to recapture him.
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The Love-Ins (1967)
, 1h31Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Richard Todd, James MacArthur, Susan Oliver, Mark Goddard, Frank Coghlan, Jr., Marc Cavell
Rating43%
Patricia Cross and her boyfriend Larry Osborne, two students in a San Francisco school, become expelled for the publication of an off-campus underground paper. As a result, a philosophy professor, Dr. Jonathon Barnett, resigns his teaching position and decides to become an advocate for the counterculture youth movement and, specifically, the use of LSD. The hippies of the Haight-Ashbury district (including Larry and Patricia) first see him as a hero and then as something even more. Dr. Barnett even makes an appearance on the Joe Pyne TV show to voice his support of the hippie community and the use of LSD.