tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post113441491547525945..comments2023-11-03T04:39:50.760-05:00Comments on Galley Slaves: Just a few thoughts...Jonathan V. Lasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17426165197358366129noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1134449191116095042005-12-12T23:46:00.000-05:002005-12-12T23:46:00.000-05:00Homnick makes a good point about Pryor - for all h...Homnick makes a good point about Pryor - for all his bluster, he was a fundamentally decent guy, though plagued by demons.<BR/><BR/>Look to his stand-up material, admirably compiled in "And It's Too Deep: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings," for the gut-busting stuff. The movies don't come close.<BR/><BR/>That it's still funny is an achievement. Stand-up ages faster than bread.Brian Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15555974621474285613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1134442342859653432005-12-12T21:52:00.000-05:002005-12-12T21:52:00.000-05:00The best write-up of a campaign event ever in huma...The best write-up of a campaign event ever in human history is James Jackson Kilpatrick's 500-word description of a fundraising dinner for McCarthy in 1968. If you have that National Review anthology of the first twenty-five years, it's in there. <BR/><BR/>One line, from memory, read approximately thus: "All the men wore bowties and all the women were 36."<BR/><BR/>As for Pryor, my favorite is See No Evil, Hear No Evil, and one of the great movie scenes of all time is Gene Wilder facing down Joan Severance.<BR/><BR/>The thing about Pryor is that he was first and foremost a nice guy. He managed to do a whole white-man-black-man rap without evincing hostility.Jay D. Homnickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14714671338316275833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871003.post-1134432236729853962005-12-12T19:03:00.000-05:002005-12-12T19:03:00.000-05:00Clean Gene actually belived America was a nation, ...Clean Gene actually belived America was a nation, not an economy, and that people were not commodities in service of that economy. He also had the balls to speak against mass third-world immigration, something most people in D.C. are terrified to do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com