Who as a public figure do you miss?
Personally, I miss Anthony Bourdain. He left us way too early.
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rinkydinkydoink · M
val70 · 56-60
@rinkydinkydoink He's still around, mind you, but instead of hosting a cable television program he relaunched "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" as a daily podcast and digital program through iHeartRadio, while continuing political and media commentary online.
SumKindaMunster · 56-60, M
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SumKindaMunster · 56-60, M
@val70 Thanks. Personally, I believe Adams did this purposefully to move on from the mainstream. I don't think he liked having to conform to left wing opinions because his career as a cartoonist depended on it.
The whole thing was weird and overblown.
He was responding to a survey that stated a significant amount of Black people were "not ok" with White people...but he of all people knew there was a right wing meme out there saying "It's OK to be White" and that is what they were responding to, not actual White people.
The whole thing was weird and overblown.
He was responding to a survey that stated a significant amount of Black people were "not ok" with White people...but he of all people knew there was a right wing meme out there saying "It's OK to be White" and that is what they were responding to, not actual White people.
LeopoldBloom · M
val70 · 56-60
@LeopoldBloom Yes, I was wondering about him though. Wouldn't want him as a dinner guest or host. He used to be famous for "holding court" at lively, long-running dinners and parties filled with eclectic guests, flowing drink, and intense debate well into the night.
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MrSmartyPants · 46-50, M
We would watch him as a family on CNN ..... I don't really miss any famous person, even though I was a fan of some who have recently passed Prince and Jean-Luc Godard, Prince did more good in the world, Godard way more intellectual and privy to labels such as pretentious, but I see in his films especially in his later work a sadness that I find appropriate for the state of the world, and how he seemed to direct his gaze ever more intently to aesthetic matters, ceaselessly trying to say the unsayable. So Godard I think would be my pick, and if we were talking here in the early to mid 80s i'd be mourning the passing of my #1 filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. (1983).
MrSmartyPants · 46-50, M
@val70 Yeah, today's entertainment world has a love affair so to speak with "elevated" stuff, which is where I see the real pretentiousness, a hive mind approach, whereas with JLG there was a singularity of approach. The Elevated approach these days is formulaic to a tee. Not directed by whatever deeply concerns the artist, the artist as long gone could be a paper one would write ina film school ....:)