Luke Perry, who burst onto the television scene and countless fan-magazine covers in 1990 as one of the core cast members of the Fox drama “Beverly Hills, 90210,” then went on to a busy career in television and film that included, most recently, the CW series “Riverdale,” died on Monday in Los Angeles. On “Beverly Hills, 90210,” a series about young people in a well-off ZIP code, Mr. Perry played Dylan McKay, a bad-boy teenager who struggled with alcoholism. The show, after a sluggish first season, became a hit and a pop-culture phenomenon, and the good-looking Mr. Perry was a primary reason. “Young women are obviously lured by the guys-to-drool-over factor,” Caryn James wrote in The New York Times in August 1991. Mr. Perry, who was 24 when the show began (although he played a teenager), stayed for the first six seasons, left for Seasons 7 and 8, then returned for the final two.

Source: New York Times March 04, 2019 18:21 UTC