Well, he died in 1977, so it’s doubtful.
*beaten by mere seconds. ::shakes fist at runner pat::
He called Ryan “Ron”.
Oh wow, I thought everyone knew him. But if you’re not into Bravo, I guess not. He’s a producer at Bravo but he also became well known for hosting the Real Housewives reunions. And then he later gave himself a live show that comes on after the Housewives shows on Sunday and Thurs called Watch What Happens Live. He’s really fun and adorable. Really watchable. Everyone I know who watches it wishes they could be best friends with Andy. I can totally see him taking over that Dick Clark type role.
Didn’t recognize name, but INSTANTLY recognized his face.
Watching the Backstreet Boys and NKOTB try to relaunch their 20 year old careers and fail was sadder.
to you it is. To others its pointless to rename a word because it is negative in context. Any word used in substitution has the same meaning. Whatever politically correct word sounds good in your mind will be challenged down the road by another version of you. He sounds [del]retarded[/del] mentally challenged.
He has no more right to the job than a surgeon with advanced MS has a right to perform surgery because he owns the hospital. It’s painful to watch. If he is putting himself in front of the camera because he’s the producer than it’s a selfish act that borders on arrogance. I don’t say this lightly because I like my traditions but at what point is he going to give it up? Are we going to have a bedside Dick Clark special with tubes hooked up to him so he can blink down the numbers?
The whole show was a well scripted parody of itself right down to a song about getting drunk.
I missed the mod note about discussing the word “retarded” so my apologies.
Your first sentence could be read to imply that accuracy demands that it be used in a clinical sense. I’m not prepared to say whether elmwood’s line of work or personal experience make him a likely “clinical sense” user, but in the absence of evidence that he is, I’m going to bet against “clinical,” and in favor of “puerile.”
Not that I necessarily have any brief against puerility on the internet, the Dope, or the Pit, but if etv78 does, at least wrt “the R word,” I don’t have any cause to begrudge him his (actually quite measured) “FYI.” And IMO, neither do you.
<Homer Simpson> 50 YEARS!!?? But I want it NOW!!! </HS>
My apologies. I broke my own rule and posted as I was reading, instead of finishing the thread and coming back.
It won’t happen again.
I can’t get the Futuramadepiction out of my head.
That’s the thing. Diane Rehm is still 100% lucid, and her voice seems a lot better than it was a few years ago. NPR is also (in)famous for its on-air talent with odd voices. Dick Clark, though, well … you know. I know it’s tradition and all, the “world’s oldest teenager” counting down the seconds until the New Year, but still, how far can it go? This? Where do they draw the line?
That’s bs, nobody is offended by his disability he simply can’t do the job anymore. If Lebron James lost his right arm in an accident he wouldn’t have a job anymore, and it wouldn’t be because it offended anyone it would be because he’d just be making a fool of himself if he stepped on a basketball court.
Dick Clark looked and sounded a whole lot better than last year. He seemed to be in good spirits instead of the zombie-like shell he had been the past few years. I don’t know, it cheered me up to see him improve so much.
I understood that comment last year, when he got the numbers out of order. But when he says them in order, what proof do you have that he can’t handle it? You guys make it sound like he did horribly, but I listened to the clip, and he was perfectly fine.
And, anyways, the basketball reference is silly. Basketball is a team competition. Keeping a handicapped player on the court would hurt other people. I’m not evne sure anyone is competing for Dick’s job, but, even if they are, no one is being hurt by letting the old man have his sentimental moment.
It would be more like if they wouldn’t let the handicapped James make a ceremonial shot.
Ironically, that’s how Dick Clark got the job in the first place - in 1972 the big draw was Guy Lombardo. The young generation didn’t want any of that, they wanted to see contemporary stars on NYE. Enter Dick Clark (well, not exactly “hip” even for 1972 youth, but a hell of a lot better than Guy Lombardo). I wonder if now the kids say “Dick who? He’s old! We want to see Ryan Seacrest and Lady Gaga and anyone else whose IQ is under 35!”
Well they certainly undercut the IQ age by about 30 years.
It would be more like James producing the game and making himself the center of attention.
Tell that to Rick Allen.
Sad, maybe, but I didn’t think it was nearly as painful watching Dick Clark as it was watching that vapid bitch Jenny McCarthy. My favorite part was when she asked the Marine who he was celebrating with and he replies with the names of the couple next to him, then she proceeds to ask them nothing but…their names. Brilliant!
And Ke$ha? Bleeech!
Next year, give me Dick Clark and a computer-generated voice, if necessary, but please take those two twats and dump them in the East River.