People who should be forgiven allowing for all that they achieved.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I saw in a recent thread that MJ was hanging around in Bahrain and as usual people got on his case due to the accusations of paedophilia. Well I think the guy probably has problems due to the bad plastic surgery. When he was playing for the Bulls Michael Jordan was a strapping individual but look at him now, he looks like that black chick singer.

And people are always giving Jerry Lewis a hard time about his self serving telethon but if you watch Walk The Line you will discover that when he was shorter he was quite a rocker, although there were suspicions of paedophilia there too in the end.

Poor old George Bush is always getting it in the neck for being a pathetic president but gee he’s been in the job since 1989 and maybe he’s just past it now.

And leave Eminem alone, sure he was better when he was Vanilla Ice but let it go.

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Are you confusing the comedian Jerry Lewis with the singer Jerry Lee Lewis? How is Jerry Lewis’ Muscular Dystrophy Telethon ‘self-servving?’

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My goodness. That wooosh was the sound of an entire squadron of F-16’s flying 200 feet over my house.

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You just reminded me. Some guy at work has had my copy of Red Medicine for months now.

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“Dubya” has been president for 16 years? :confused:

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Nice topic!

I’d like to propose two people with the same problem:

Adlai Stevenson. Sure he ran twice against Ike in 1952 and 1956 and lost both times, and wore out his shoes in the process. But people forget that he was Vice President back in the 1890s. C’mon, the man must have been tired!

And then, of course, there was John Marshall Harlan, who famously dissented in Plessy v. Ferguson and then served on the Warren court that reversed it.

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I’ve always been impressed by Sir Richard Burton, who had an amazing career as an explorer/adventurer/translator/author, then rebounded to become a respected actor/serial husband.

And, while we’re in the B’s, there’s Francis Bacon – who, after a strong start to his career in Elizabethan times, managed to become a major figure in 20th-century art.

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James Bond was a famous ornithologist before becoming a womanizing, killing spy.

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I’ve always been prepared to forgive Michael Jackson’s proclivities because he writes so well about beer.

And Kylie’s talks on the radio about politics and economics belie her public image as an empty-headed singer.

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Kojack was pretty good good in the new Star Trek, but I doubt he would have been up to much without the ramps and automatic doors.

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Richard Hatch was riding high as the star of Battlestar Galactica, but by the '90s he’d been typecast to the point that the only work he could get was appearing in reality TV shows.

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You may have missed lno’s classic My rage burns with the fire of a million suns.

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I’ve always been impressed by Ed Norton. He was so great on The Honeymooners, and is still capable of playing much younger roles in movies today, like Fight Club.

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John Edwards may not have become vice president, but he is able to talk to dead people, and that ought to be worth something.

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Thomas Harris started out writing pop psychology books, then went over to the dark side and Hannibal Lechter.

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And author Tom Wolfe! What a long and productive career he’s had, from Look Homeward Angel to A Man in Full!

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The hellfire and brimstones sermons are a bit much, don’t you think?

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Loudon Wainwright was a photographer for Life and a musician!

Heather McCartney went from being Paul’s stepdaughter to being his wife (and it only cost her a leg).

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Another explorer turned actor with an even longer career was Sebastian Cabot, who searched for the Northwest Passage in the early 1500s, and then became a successful character actor over 400 years later (although he had gained a bit of weight by then). Here’s to you, “Mr. French,” (even if you were Italian)!

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Paul Revere was a silversmith, a Revolutionary War hero, and the keyboardist for a 60s rock group. How cool is that?

Well the coolest thing is that Paul Revre’s real name is Revere Dick, but that doesn’t fit the leit motif of this thread.