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Luke Perry’s Career-Long Act of Generosity

The actor, who died on Monday at 52, continued to embrace Dylan McKay, his most iconic and beloved character, long after <em>Beverly Hills, 90210</em> ended.
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There’s a character, in , who makes a cameo appearance for a brief plot line involving Jack, Karen, and, improbably, the wildlife of New York City. Aaron, the character is named, wears a khaki-colored vest studded with a comically large number of pockets. He has thick glasses and speaks into a voice recorder, observing his surroundings in a tone of hushed wonderment. Jack encounters Aaron because, glimpsing this binocular-wielding fellow outside Karen’s window, Jack assumes the man is a stalker. He is incorrect: Aaron, it turns out, is merely a bird-watcher. You do a double take before you realize that the birder in question, swathed in the stereotypically drab clothing of the city-bound

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