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Stan Lee elder abuse?
As various news outlets have reported, there have been unfortunate developments in 95-year old Stan Lee's life lately.
To start with undisputed facts, Stan has been fighting a persistent case of pneumonia, and has dropped out of public sight. He has also reported to the Beverly Hills Police that at least two massive unauthorized withdrawals - of a seven figure amount - were made - stolen - from his account.
Recently, his long-time caretaker/manager, Max Anderson, was fired by his daughter. There are now " s/he said " interpretations of the situation coming from different camps damning or defending Anderson...and, taking this into " not for the kiddies "/PG-13 territory, claims of " inappropriate behavior " both by and against Stan involving female nursing personnel. I have drawn from ComicBook.com and Bleeding Cool as well as a lengthy article in the English tabloid the Daily Mail in assembling this. TMZ and Fox News apparently put their fingers in this pie as well, but I havn't checked them out.
Stan apparently remains incommunicado at this point. Sadly, one remembers Casey Kasem and Mickey Rooney's final months:-€...
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Permalink Reply by Emerkeith Davyjack on -
...Okay, thank you!
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Permalink Reply by Emerkeith Davyjack on
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...I saw the tail end, tuning in late, of the ABC broadcast of this Stan memorial documentary (which ran on Freeform?? last night??). Anybody else seen it?
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Permalink Reply by Richard Willis on
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I recorded it but haven't watched it yet. It is called "Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee." It was on ABC, not Freeform, on December 20. A one-hour special featuring stars of Marvel movies and TV shows. They aren't reshowing it on TV but you can watch it on Hulu or ABC.COM. Without a cable company you will be able to watch it on ABC.COM in about a week for free. .
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Permalink Reply by Emerkeith Davyjack on
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.. Thank you!
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I watched it. It's pretty good.
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Permalink Reply by Emerkeith Davyjack on
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...A current commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken am in one now) feature an announcer who sounds weirdly lime Stan - Don't Jewish New York elderly male accents from Da Bronx just scream out " yummy Southern fried goodies " to you? This does, oddly enough, this ties in with the fact that I long thought that Stan and Colonel Sanders shaded a commonality - That of being elderly white guys who were living corporate symbols!
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Permalink Reply by Emerkeith Davyjack on
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Still more recently, J.C. Lee, in losing a suit against Pow! Entertainment over her father's image/likeness, has been fined a million m dollars (" Fined " wasn't the word used(.
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AARP The Magazine digs into the sordid saga.
From the October/November 2020 issue: "The Last Days of Stan Lee: A Heartbreaking Tragedy About the (Alleged) Abuse of the Marvel Comics Creator by Those Who Swear They Loved Him"
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A couple weeks ago, Stan Lee was the subject of a weekly feature in The Washington Post's Outlook section: "Five Myths About Stan Lee"
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Is this from the October issue? If so, I'll probably get it in a couple of days.
ClarkKent_DC said:AARP The Magazine digs into the sordid saga.
From the October/November 2020 issue: "The Last Days of Stan Lee: A Heartbreaking Tragedy About the (Alleged) Abuse of the Marvel Comics Creator by Those Who Swear They Loved Him"
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Pay-Wall.
ClarkKent_DC said:A couple weeks ago, Stan Lee was the subject of a weekly feature in The Washington Post's Outlook section: "Five Myths About Stan Lee"
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...A couple of journalistic/editing comments about the AARP piece (I've recently joined AARP also so I should get the hard copy also):
I see that they refer to Stan as " creator " of the Marvel stars, not " co-creator ". Comic conventions in general are older than 50 years old! I think we spoke earlier in this line about trademarking of the phrase " Comic Con " - spelled/punctuated that way? In my OP, which I re-read tonight, I mentioned slightly " icky " details of the legal wrangling about Stan when he waa still alive that I think came from the Daily Mail - IIRC, a medical/nursing caregiver (Muslim) alleged that she was pressured into giving " hand service " - intimate massage - to Stan, as part of her working shift
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