Topic: In these times...
Bush and Rodney Dangerfield
You know you're in deep political trouble when even dead celebrities pick on you.
Tony Randall, the actor, the opera enthusiast, the celebrity, passed away today - well, last night at NYU Medical Center. He was eighty-four. Some knew him as Leonard Rosenberg of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Well, maybe not. He was only born there. He left.
This nugget from the Associated Press story coving his life:
But Tony Randall (or Leonard Rosenberg if your prefer) was not the kind of manly-man preferred by the neoconservative hawks, the NASCAR dads... or the "gays are evil and want to bugger our children" Republicans. Ann Coulter wouldn't like him - she'd call him a girly-boy as she did her editors at the National Review when they fired her. He could be a bit prissy - the role he played in "The Odd Couple" for all those years didn't seem far from the man. The Christian Right? I'm sure his existence puzzled them, as one of God's minor mysteries. How could He create such a specimen? What was He thinking? But then again I suspect none of them listened to years of The Opera Quiz at intermission on those Saturday afternoon live broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera.Randall joked in September about how he envisioned his funeral: President Bush and Vice President Cheney would show up to pay their respects but they'd be turned away, because his family knows he didn't like them.
Different worlds. President Bush and Vice President Cheney won't show for the funeral. What would be the point?
Posted by Alan at 12:15 PDT
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