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[ceebeegee]

Chris came over tonight and hung out while I baked a pecan pie for Thanksgiving. We were watching the news and the whole Michael Richards story was being discussed. CNN had obtained camera phone video of the incident--man, it is just...ugly. It's really ugly. The worst part isn't even the N-bomb, which he just throws out so many times. It's when he says "50 years ago..."--when he makes the reference to something that should never ever be remembered fondly or reminisced about...as in, there are some things worse than the N-word.

Like--where did this come from? We all saw the Mel Gibson meltdown a mile away. But this? Not that I've been following Michael Richard's career all that closely, but that kind of viciousness out of nowhere? I just don't understand.

I'm so sorry those people at the Laugh Factory had to sit through that. Nobody should have to hear that kind of filth flung at them.

His apology (on Letterman) seems very insincere, I'm sorry to say. It just seems mechanical.

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[minstrel70.livejournal.com]

I'm curious what you mean by "we all saw the Mel Gibson meltdown coming..."

I, for one, was pretty damn shocked by that one.

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

Really? The Passion of the Christ gave me a heads up--when you combine a movie that what I've heard has all the "good" Jews looking white-er, and the "bad" Jews looking darker (note--I haven't seen TPotX, just going on th reviws and articles I've read about it), plus his dismissive denials that his dad's anti-Semitic beliefs might've influenced him in way, plus his professed belief that all non-pre-Vatican II Roman Catholics are going to hell plus (although this has nothing to do with Judaism) his on the record homophobia...after awhile a pattern begins to emerge.

I wasn't too surprised. It's a shame, I used to love the guy and I think he's a genuine talent. :-(