Porky dies at 71

The mainstream media is almost a week behind on this news, but check out this article from late Friday here. In an October 2000 entry in the Classmate News of John Jay High School, San Antonio, TX, (scroll down to find the proper entry with photos of Porky then and more recently) a longtime friend Dennis Dupriest mentions that it was Porky not Buckwheat who first uttered the immortal word “otay” despite the Eddie Murphy skit. Check also this German site for a full filmography and here for an extensive gallery of young film stars from the 1930’s including the photo above.