Wrecks wrote: > Sometimes I think that GLAAD just wants to see their name in the > papers.
Well ... I was looking up Rat Pack material for an article that never ran on Buddy Hackett's son Sandy's Vegas "Rat Pack is Back" tribute show. Hackett Junior plays Joey Bishop, as suggested by Joey Bishop. (I would demand a paternity test.) Among the Pack's high-larry-ous jokes: Frank Sinatra: Dean, How do you make a fruit cordial? Dean Martin: "Be nice to him I guess." Uh huh. The Advocate has an interview with Denis Leary in which the question is posed: "You also have a chapter titled 'Matt Dillon Is a Giant Fag.' What gives you the right to use the f word?" The answer: "Well, because I also have a chapter called 'We'd Hate You Even if You Weren't Black." I don't believe in the power of words. My parents came from Ireland, where the word cunt is literally a word your mother and father would use to describe the weather or the car: 'That c*nting car won’t start!' And I come from a Catholic background where the nuns were always telling you, "Don't do this, don't say this,' so anytime anyone tells me I shouldn’t say something, my reaction is, 'Why not?' So when I was writing a book, I wanted to make sure I got all those words in there." So to sum up: Leary was intending to be an asshole when using the pejorative in the name of comedy, while Lewis ... has not been funny since the movie "The King of Comedy" ... about 25 years ago. It could be argued that Jerry Lewis says stupid things "accidentally" like kids with MDA "are half a person" because he likes to his name in the papers, or that women shouldn't be comedians because he thinks of them as "producing machines that brings babies in the world." But I'll give Jerry Lewis the benefit of the doubt since he's pretty much become Estelle Getty's Sophia Petrillo character. Unable to filter, and a bitter soulless husk. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
