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"Seeing an article about Demond Wilson’s death yesterday reminded me of how well he played his character on Sanford and Son. Thinking about it, he was a great straight man. He was the only straight man on a series filled with funny characters, not…"
"I actually remember The New Odd Couple. It was an interesting experiment, but I think it would have been a LOT better if they had leaned into what made it different with two Black men as the leads. They did not. They even went so far as to recycle…"
"RIP Demond Wilson Of course, I remember him as Lamont Sanford in Sanford and Son. I also remember him as Oscar Madison in The New Odd Couple with Ron Glass."
"For some people I can, for some people I can't. I can with, say, Michael Jackson and Bill Cosby, although with Cosby it gets more difficult to do so every single day. I can't with Ted Nugent."
"I don't know why Chariots of the Gods was such a big deal when I was a kid. The notion that aliens were the builders of such things as the Mayan pyramids -- and not actual Mayans -- is fundamentally racist. But instead of being laughed off the stage…"
"I remember Catherine O'Hara best from SCTV, and never saw Beetlejuice. But there's a generation that would remember her best from the first and second Home Alone movies (which I have seen) and another generation that would know her best…"
"RIP Catherine O'Hara I mostly remember her from her days on SCTV, and from the movie Beetlejuice, although I know she was in many other things."
"I've said as much about Steve Ditko. His beliefs were his beliefs, and unlike a lot of people today, he never hurt anyone."
"Woo doggie!"
"Ah, he was just a dick toward Nancy Kulp. I took him off the list."
"You made me look up Buddy Ebsen but I didn't find anything scandalous!"
"I try but I don't always succeed."
"I always try to maintain a clear differentiation between creators (such as Scott Adams, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller) and their creations. The same holds true with actors (Charlton Heston, Clint Eastwood, Bill Cosby) and their roles."
"In a weird coincidence, I began rereading my Dilbert collections last week. I don't believe in erasing characters because of their creators (bob Kane, anyone?). Perhaps someone else can bring Dilbert, Dogbert, Wally, the PHB and the rest back in a…"
"Yeah, it's too bad he was revealed to be such a horse's neck later in life. In addition to a slipcased set of his Dilbert work, I also have his three books, The Dilbert Principle*, The Dilbert Future** and The Joy of Work***.
*(A Cubicle's-Eye View…"
*(A Cubicle's-Eye View…"
"Scott Adams is dead. The sad thing is, at one point I was a huge Dilbert fan - both of the comic strip and the animated series - and I hate to speak ill of the dead, but then he got hateful towards the end of his life (Or maybe just became more…"
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Hi, Emerkeith. You may not be aware of it but I'm one of the moderators for this site. I denied your submitted blog post because it wasn't an essay but merely a topic starter. If you had discussed the subject then it might have been approved. With the exception of the weekly shipping lists, our blogs are essays where the author discusses the topic they wish to examine.
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