This blogger has a lot to say...

[Doc]

amishthrasher.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_amishthrasher_archive.html

Check it out. If you don't want to read the MIchael Jackson stuff, skip on down to the payola discussions. Whoah. Interesting reading. Its a blog--I don't know how much of his facts are correct, but if they are------well, very eye opening to say the least. He talks about American Idol, Simon, the Spice Girls, radio stations demamding money to play hits, bad record deal budgets, etc etc on and on.

Check it out if you're game.

He also likens the MJ alleged-paedophile disaster to the Oscar Wilde situation of the last century.

[xpt626]

there's a lot there, and I've saved the link to go back and read at my leisure. The radio part is very true, and gets my hackles up....one of the greatest injustices in this world is how Dick Clark is "respected" in the industry , and a millionaire many times over, while Alan Freed died with nothing --- Dick Clark is one of the biggest liars on the face of the earth --- I'll cut my rant short, else I'll have a post as long as that blog...

[JoJo]

Well... don't forget that video clip I talked about a while back. Dick Cark talking with members of the audience on his AB show, and continually asking the kids what they think about the Beatles new "look". (this was 1967) He seemed really really anxious about it! So like along the lines of what you said Xpt, who knows if he had his fingers in that dirty little pie as well?

[xpt626]

JoJo said:

...So like along the lines of what you said Xpt, who knows if he had his fingers in that dirty little pie as well?

he had them in plenty of pies, that's for sure I wouldn't put anything past him.

[JoJo]

Xpt626, can you explain to me why they always said he was an "eternal teenager"? He always looked his age, IMO. ;D

[Doc]

Well, I had a friend that passed away several years ago from complicatins of his overweight. He was a huge man at 400 pounds. (I say this to draw the picture, not criticize him. He was a dear friend, and frankly I'm a hefty dude these days meself....) Anyway, he told me a story of how Dick Clark was in New Orleans, and I believe this was in the late 70s, early 80's doing a hour special on someone and was doing many life, on location outdoor shoots. MY friend was living in NO at the time. He was a newspaper guy back then, a reviewer. Out of curiousity, he went down to watch some of the shooting at a known location. Somehow, in some confusion, my friend ambled onto the line of sites of the camera set-ups. Mr. Clark was most unhappy. With his loud speaker, he began shouting, angrily, harshly, "Get that )(*@#*&^(*@&^ BLIMP out the shot!! Get that obese monster out of my camera shot!!!!! Someone now!!!!
Get him outta there!! I can't have a ugly hippo like that drifting through my camera shot!!! Hurry, now!! Get him! Get him!!! Get out of there, you Mxxxxxxxx-Fxxxxxxxxxx!! You're a dead man, you fatso!!!" Anyway, my friend was asked to relocate himself and the day went on as planned. My friend, who was admittedly quite obese, was a little rankled. He didn't mean to get in the way--the shot was suddenly altered by Clark and voilå, there he was in the wrong place.

He said it just seemed like all the screaming, the visceral defaming, and yes, the obscenities (his best friend was there with him then and there to witness to me that this happened as he said) were a bit unnessasary.

"It was like, I wasn't really a human being to him. I was an unsightly invader; it was totally unintended, and I'll never have any more curiosity about his work."(close paraphrase)

He did say that Dick in the daylight was a little telling on his chronology.

I would say that that little episode was a little telling on his demeanor. Blimp? Monster?Fatso? I guess the candid streets of New Orleans should only belong to the beautiful..........

[FlamingPie]

I guess his first name discribes him very well.





(That was kinda corny, sorry.)

[Doc]

Ah, shucks, no it wasn't. Well, I guess you could say that it was kind of a "maize" zing.

But, I see your Drift. Corn itself can become an internet "stalker." From a single "kernel", we learn to cut our teeth on the tasty cob:

Canola, Mazola, Loyola, Corolla,
E bolla, Payola, Viola, Ricolla,
Mattolla, Coke-Cola, Victrola, Angola,
Gricola, La Jolla, La Cinnerentolla,
Oy, Yola!, Parola, Nicola, and Lola,
Mink Stola, Mongola, the AAAAAy-yah-tollah,
Mit grolle, sie brolle, at Zdunska-Wolla,
Carol Wajtyla, Pope-pola å Pole-ah,
Miss Prowla, Zagola, Controlla La Vola...........

This is the problem we have with genetically re-engineered grains.

[xpt626]

I'm sure everyone heard about him locking himself away in a "special" room to do "New Year's Rockin' Eve" ever since 2001, "in case of a terrorist attack"....the mayor of NYC can stand in Times Square on New Year's Eve, but not "Dick Dick" (I've called him that for years, FP, so your comment was right on the money ;D) What a weasel.

[xpt626]

JoJo said:

Xpt626, can you explain to me why they always said he was an "eternal teenager"? He always looked his age, IMO. ;D

and then some

[LarryC]

Although I am a bit flabbergasted by this story, Doc, somehow I'm not so surprised. Some people just don't know how to handle being a television icon and this just goes to show that Big Dick's act is just that...an act. He's so amiable on camera on the $10,000 pyramid and AB, but there will always be something to eventually happen that will expose people for who they really are. Biggus Dickus isn't the great humanitarian he would like us all to believe after all.