Kicking against the pricks for over 70 years. Civil rights activist, anti-apartheid crusader, folk singer, actor, Rest in Power, Mr. Belafonte.

Harry Belafonte giving Inger Stevens the business about being "free, white, and 21" in The World, The Flesh and The Devil at about 3:40 into this white medley of being beholden to no one.

Jerry Springer

agiant wrote: Tue Apr 25, 2023 4:46 pm

jfv wrote: Tue Apr 25, 2023 10:45 am Harry Belafonte... at 96 years old. Holy shit.

RIP

Harmonic Percolator pioneer

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rsmurphy wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 1:49 pm Jerry Springer

No huge loss there for the world, maybe for his family.

enframed wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:35 pm

rsmurphy wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 1:49 pm Jerry Springer

No huge loss there for the world, maybe for his family.

Debatable.

Teacher's Pet wrote: Tue Apr 25, 2023 4:08 pm Believe it. I saw this too and it was amazing. >>

JFV got it. It used to make me happy to know that Harry Belafonte was still alive. I remember him performing Turn The World Around on The Muppet Show.

Wood Goblin wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:49 pm

enframed wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:35 pm

rsmurphy wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 1:49 pm Jerry Springer

No huge loss there for the world, maybe for his family.

Debatable.

There were precursors (Donahue? Oprah?), and contemporaries (Montel? Maury?), but if nothing else, there's a case to be made that if Springer hadn't gotten into television this entertaining music video would have never existed:



I attended the MKE stop of the 1996 Warped tour, and though I wasn't a big fan of most of the bands, it was amusing to see CIV perform this.

Anyway, I guess Springer owned a home not that far from where I'm sitting. Would be tempted to view him less favorably if he hadn't admitted to being a purveyor of "trashy" entertainment. Springer didn't have delusions of grandeur. He didn't think he was doing "important work." This is the sign of a healthy ego for someone in his position, or really, any number of people operating in the more frivolous corners of the entertainment industry.

At least he wasn't a right-winger. He was a liberal Democrat and I imagine he had a fairly sizeable working class audience.

DaveA wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 6:38 pm

Wood Goblin wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:49 pm

enframed wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:35 pm
No huge loss there for the world, maybe for his family.

Debatable.

There were precursors (Donahue? Oprah?), and contemporaries (Montel? Maury?), but if nothing else, there's a case to be made that if Springer hadn't gotten into television this entertaining music video would have never existed:

Nothing wrong with Donahue, IMO; if anything he was the *only* truly empathetic host of this kind. Oprah may have started that way but ended in true trashy fashion, passing it off as a service to the world.

DaveA wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 6:38 pm
Anyway, I guess Springer owned a home not that far from where I'm sitting. Would be tempted to view him less favorably if he hadn't admitted to being a purveyor of "trashy" entertainment. Springer didn't have delusions of grandeur. He didn't think he was doing "important work." This is the sign of a healthy ego for someone in his position, or really, any number of people operating in the more frivolous corners of the entertainment industry.

Sounds like a stand-up guy, at least. Horrible show though.

I like the Curb Your Enthusiasm scene wherein Larry's watching one of these shows (Maury, I believe) and just lounging about eating a bag of Baked Lays, not a care in the world.

Cheryl comes into the room, disgusted that he's wasting his life, and he goes, "You don't KNOW ME!"