Morgan Freeman, deflate your head a little bit...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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OK, there’s a radio ad that plays on college radio stations for Teach For America. In this one, Morgan Freeman is speaking, and he says something along this lines of:

Then he goes on to provide info on TFA. Now, normally, I would think when someone is posited the question, “How would you make yourself immortal?” they’d say I’d invent something that benefits all of mankind, I’d bring about world peace, I’d find a cure for cancer, etc. But would the first thing that jumped to anybody’s mind seriously be [john lovitz] ACTING! [/john lovitz]???

OK Morgan get the pit crew to lower the PSI on your head.

[sub]So will this get moved to IMHO, Cafe Society or Great Debates? Place yer bets, place yer bets.[/sub]

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Hey, there are some who think they make themselves immortal by having children. At least acting is something that takes skill to do.

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I bet he didn’t write that copy; it sounds like someone’s idea of a joke. A lame one.

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Hmmm…I see the point, but I still have a hard time picking on the man who brought Easy Reader into every child’s living room. :smiley:

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Or, could he mean that an actor’s material is saved for future generations, thus making him “immortal”?

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Acting is a skill in the same sense that flushing a toilet properly is a skill.

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"Have you ever considered making yourself immortal?

No, I don’t mean singing songs about the letter C on The Electric Company…"

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Yeah, but acting is easier, and as cable has proven, even the most mediocre performances can long outlast an actor’s physical time on this earth.

I’d go with what h.sapiens said, too.

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Christ is everyone who posts on the SDMB as cynical and jaded as you guys?

Reagrdless of whether it was something Freeman wrote himself or had written for him, what he said is true. The Honeymooners will live forever, as will Hogans Heros, I Dream Of Jeanie, Gilligan’s Island, My Mother The Car, My Favorite Martian, The Gong Show, The $1.98 Beauty Contest, Springer, etc. Not just because these shows are preserved on video/dvd, but because they have been transmitted into outer space where distant civilizations, if they are unlucky enough, may get to see the antics of Gilligan, The Skipper etall.

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So we can expect to see you collecting your Oscar any day now, right? If it’s so easy?