#1 2010-01-01 01:04:21
Should Dick Clark's body be cryogenically frozen and thawed out one day a year so he can slobber and grunt on camera for our entertainment? Or should he try to salvage his last shreds of dignity and quietly ride off into the sunset? Choose!
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#3 2010-01-01 02:27:51
I've often felt someone known for their looks or their voice should ride off into the sunset so people will remember them the way they were. I saw Peggy Lee on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson shortly before she died. She was elderly, using a cane and wearing huge dark glasses to obscure her face. Joan Rivers had to help her walk to the stage and step up onto it. She sang or lip-synched a version of "Fever" that was a pale reflection of her in her prime. To add insult to injury, Joan aired a tape of her when she was a stunningly beautiful young woman doing voice work for "Lady And The Tramp" in the early 1950s. I notice Elizabeth Taylor is keeping a low profile these days; at one time she was touted as "The Most Beautiful Woman In The World" and I suppose she wants people to remember her as a beauty and not as the old woman she has become.
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#4 2010-01-01 02:46:00
All I can say is that I remember Dick Clark on American Bandstand when I was in day care.
And it's not like that was yesterday, I can tell you.
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#5 2010-01-01 11:20:27
I think it's kind of nice that the networks didn't just discard him. He's still an institution, stroke or no.
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#6 2010-01-01 14:15:20
Can't they just plasticize him?
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#7 2010-01-01 14:47:28
Toss him and put Jerry Lewis in charge!
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#8 2010-01-01 15:45:46
You'd think that since ABC is a Disney company, they'd put the Magic Kingdom's audioanimatronics division to work on the problem while there's still time to do a life cast of Clark's face.
Once a year, you wheel out the dummy, turn it on, and an American tradition is preserved.
Last edited by Montecore (2010-01-01 15:46:14)
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#9 2010-01-01 16:01:38
I will never forgive him for giving my cousin his start in show business... which allowed him to fund his becoming the biggest dirtbag in the world.
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