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| Julesy | Jun 23 2008, 03:02 AM Post #301 |
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| Denovissimus | Jun 23 2008, 03:23 AM Post #302 |
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They tried to make me go to rehab but I said, brains brains brains! |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Jun 23 2008, 12:41 PM Post #303 |
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George Carlin mourned as a counterculture hero By KEITH ST. CLAIR, Associated Press Writer 14 minutes ago LOS ANGELES - George Carlin, the frenzied performer whose routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television" led to a key Supreme Court ruling on obscenity, has died. ADVERTISEMENT Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. He was 71. "He was a genius and I will miss him dearly," Jack Burns, who was the other half of a comedy duo with Carlin in the early 1960s, told The Associated Press. Carlin's jokes constantly breached the accepted boundaries of comedy and language, particularly with his routine on the "Seven Words" — all of which are taboo on broadcast TV and radio to this day. When he uttered all seven at a show in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace, freed on $150 bail and exonerated when a Wisconsin judge dismissed the case, saying it was indecent but citing free speech and the lack of any disturbance. When the words were later played on a New York radio station, they resulted in a 1978 Supreme Court ruling upholding the government's authority to sanction stations for broadcasting offensive language during hours when children might be listening. "So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I'm perversely kind of proud of," he told The Associated Press earlier this year. Despite his reputation as unapologetically irreverent, Carlin was a television staple through the decades, serving as host of the "Saturday Night Live" debut in 1975 — noting on his Web site that he was "loaded on cocaine all week long" — and appearing some 130 times on "The Tonight Show." He produced 23 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, three books, a couple of TV shows and appeared in several movies, from his own comedy specials to "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" in 1989 — a testament to his range from cerebral satire and cultural commentary to downright silliness (and sometimes hitting all points in one stroke). "Why do they lock gas station bathrooms?" he once mused. "Are they afraid someone will clean them?" He won four Grammy Awards, each for best spoken comedy album, and was nominated for five Emmy awards. On Tuesday, it was announced that Carlin was being awarded the 11th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which will be presented Nov. 10 in Washington and broadcast on PBS. Carlin started his career on the traditional nightclub circuit in a coat and tie, pairing with Burns to spoof TV game shows, news and movies. Perhaps in spite of the outlaw soul, "George was fairly conservative when I met him," said Burns, describing himself as the more left-leaning of the two. It was a degree of separation that would reverse when they came upon Lenny Bruce, the original shock comic, in the early '60s. "We were working in Chicago, and we went to see Lenny, and we were both blown away," Burns said, recalling the moment as the beginning of the end for their collaboration if not their close friendship. "It was an epiphany for George. The comedy we were doing at the time wasn't exactly groundbreaking, and George knew then that he wanted to go in a different direction." That direction would make Carlin as much a social commentator and philosopher as comedian, a position he would relish through the years. "The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things — bad language and whatever — it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition," Carlin told the AP in a 2004 interview. "There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. ... It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have." Carlin was born on May 12, 1937, and grew up in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan, raised by a single mother. After dropping out of high school in the ninth grade, he joined the Air Force in 1954. He received three court-martials and numerous disciplinary punishments, according to his official Web site. While in the Air Force he started working as an off-base disc jockey at a radio station in Shreveport, La., and after receiving a general discharge in 1957, took an announcing job at WEZE in Boston. "Fired after three months for driving mobile news van to New York to buy pot," his Web site says. From there he went on to a job on the night shift as a deejay at a radio station in Fort Worth, Texas. Carlin also worked variety of temporary jobs including a carnival organist and a marketing director for a peanut brittle. In 1960, he left with Burns, a Texas radio buddy, for Hollywood to pursue a nightclub career as comedy team Burns & Carlin. He left with $300, but his first break came just months later when the duo appeared on Jack Paar's "Tonight Show." Carlin said he hoped to emulate his childhood hero, Danny Kaye, the kindly, rubber-faced comedian who ruled over the decade Carlin grew up in — the 1950s — with a clever but gentle humor reflective of the times. It didn't work for him, and the pair broke up by 1962. "I was doing superficial comedy entertaining people who didn't really care: Businessmen, people in nightclubs, conservative people. And I had been doing that for the better part of 10 years when it finally dawned on me that I was in the wrong place doing the wrong things for the wrong people," Carlin reflected recently as he prepared for his 14th HBO special, "It's Bad For Ya." Eventually Carlin lost the buttoned-up look, favoring the beard, ponytail and all-black attire for which he came to be known. But even with his decidedly adult-comedy bent, Carlin never lost his childlike sense of mischief, even voicing kid-friendly projects like episodes of the TV show "Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends" and the spacey Volkswagen bus Fillmore in the 2006 Pixar hit "Cars." Carlin's first wife, Brenda, died in 1997. He is survived by wife Sally Wade; daughter Kelly Carlin McCall; son-in-law Bob McCall; brother Patrick Carlin; and sister-in-law Marlene Carlin |
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| Julesy | Jun 23 2008, 02:17 PM Post #304 |
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Didnt he have his own tv show in the early 90s? I dont really know much about him cause Im not old. jk Sad though |
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| Rodney | Jun 23 2008, 05:48 PM Post #305 |
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Don't count on it... From Perez Despite her fragile state, Amy Winehouse will supposedly play Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday Concert on Friday and Glastonbury….with an ambulance crew on standby at the gigs, the British media is reporting. We really hope that's not true! Health first, girl. Your health first. Amy is reportedly determined not to let Nelson Mandela or her supporters down. Wino's not going to let emphysema put a damper on things! Wino's enablers entourage will probably be banned from hanging with her at the gigs. Poppa Winehouse said, "What hope does she have if people are taking drugs around her? I don't want her hanging out with mates like Pete Doherty." Concert organizers are looking to outfit her backstage area like a private hospital suite with a massage bed and paramedics. But, that's not all Amy needs! A friend reveals, "After everything Amy has been through, her main fear is that she has lost her lucky pendant containing a lock of hubby Blake's hair. Amy is desperate to find it because she reckons she can only perform at her best when she's wearing it." That sounds like crack talk! Do y'all think Wino will make the gigs? Hope it's just rumours.... if it's true then she might appear on stage with a syringe in her arm. I know that she's considered an adult at 24 but, surely her parents can have her commited? |
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| Julesy | Jun 23 2008, 05:51 PM Post #306 |
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She needs to learn the concept of MODERATION. I have nothing against doing whatever, but not ecessively Especially when your health/career is at stake.
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| Rodney | Jun 23 2008, 05:58 PM Post #307 |
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I just think it's silly for people actually wanting to accomodate her. If I was the the organizer I'd be like: Okay she's a big star blah blah. But,we don't really want a druggie performing in front of someone as respected as Mandela. Plus it would look bad on the orginasation to ask someone with 70% lung capacity to perform when they've just gotten out of hospital Seems to me that the organisers just want her as a crash-car attraction to reel in some money and a lot of press for the event. Just like having Britney at the VMA's |
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| Julesy | Jun 23 2008, 06:01 PM Post #308 |
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Maybe Mandela loves him some Wino.
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| Rodney | Jun 23 2008, 06:06 PM Post #309 |
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They look about the same age...maybe he thinks it's another 90 year old |
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| Julesy | Jun 23 2008, 06:08 PM Post #310 |
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drugs ravaged her face! |
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| Rodney | Jun 23 2008, 06:24 PM Post #311 |
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and her lungs, heart....most of what's left of her really. And it looks like she's wearing nappies. Think she's incontinent |
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| Julesy | Jun 23 2008, 06:34 PM Post #312 |
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I saw that pic a while back with her in a diaper/nappies That alone would scare me straight. |
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| Noname | Jun 23 2008, 06:35 PM Post #313 |
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Oh, God no! Not Mandela! He's an icon! How about... Bush. That way she wont be able to use syringes because Bush would be using them! LOL! |
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| Rodney | Jun 23 2008, 06:48 PM Post #314 |
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Nah...would'nt work. As soon as Bush finds out that Amy is a Jew 'he'll boycot her ass. |
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| Julesy | Jun 23 2008, 06:50 PM Post #315 |
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Corey Haim reveals he was raped and so was Corey Feldman Corey Haim has revealed that at the age of 14, he was raped by a friend of Corey Feldman's. Feldman also reveals he was the victim of abuse by someone. Haim is quite angry at Feldman about him not doing anything about it. Of course a lot of people are saying its a certain king of pop. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5vyjh_co...orey_shortfilms |
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| Noname | Jun 23 2008, 06:52 PM Post #316 |
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Why don't I believe this? Oh, yeah, because these were the kids who said NO to drugs while doing crack and weed in their rooms! |
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| Julesy | Jun 23 2008, 06:58 PM Post #317 |
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well maybe getting ass raped when you are a young teen could make one spiral into the drug scene. Im just saying...... |
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| Denovissimus | Jun 23 2008, 07:00 PM Post #318 |
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Them Corey's were fucking each other!
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| Noname | Jun 23 2008, 07:00 PM Post #319 |
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I need more than the Corey's to say "I was raped". Give me proof and I'll give you a tear! |
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| Noname | Jun 23 2008, 07:01 PM Post #320 |
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