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Strong rec to watch the George Carlin doc on HBO. As a kid who always associated him w/ Shining Time Station, Bill & Ted's, Dogma, and - vaguely - a bit about 7 dirty words...fuck. My mind was cracked right open.
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Little Neddy goes to war wrote:The norm bit about Lee Majors is such an all timer.
Just popped in to post this exact same thing… so it’s fun to see how much I evolve over time.
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Fun read on Sandler in WaPo: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0diiSuD7RJGCzz31iPWNtXGpjv9UuyprmUyPgSCR5Rxwdeijj7dtdMFKf8KPurP3ol&id=6250307292&mibextid=ncKXMA
This Jim Downey bit about “half brights” is really on point imo:
“Ordinary people had no problem with him, and really smart people had no problem,” says Downey. “But there was this group in the middle who would just take great offense at this kind of thing. They thought it was self-indulgent and infantile. And the thing about Adam was: … Most performers — it’s very important that they be respected as intelligent and often more intelligent than they really are. Adam was a guy who did not care if you thought he was smart and, in fact, went out of the way to obscure the fact that he is, I’d daresay, a lot more intelligent than 90 percent of the performers I’ve worked with.”
This Jim Downey bit about “half brights” is really on point imo:
“Ordinary people had no problem with him, and really smart people had no problem,” says Downey. “But there was this group in the middle who would just take great offense at this kind of thing. They thought it was self-indulgent and infantile. And the thing about Adam was: … Most performers — it’s very important that they be respected as intelligent and often more intelligent than they really are. Adam was a guy who did not care if you thought he was smart and, in fact, went out of the way to obscure the fact that he is, I’d daresay, a lot more intelligent than 90 percent of the performers I’ve worked with.”
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