As with just about everything that some people want to classify as an absolute black and white (no racial pun intended) issue, these things are weighed in context: who was the person that did something stupid? how many brownie points did they have banked? what was the situation where it happened? was there a sincere apology? yadda yadda yadda (Seinfeldese definitely intentional).
Yes, Richards did something stupid and offensive, but does that mean he has to work at McDonald's for the rest of his life? It's not as if his career has been going great guns since the incident; the very few roles he's had have been lampooning the racist rant on Curb Your Enthusiasm and a role in the previously mentioned Allie/Perlman waste of network time.
I'd say we haven't forgotten, and he's still paying the price. The same as Jerry Lewis is. What exactly would change if he were let off the hook (assuming he's still "on the hook" in the first place)? He'd work a room at Vegas for 8 shows a week? He'd go back to making lame comedy farces? He'd get to host his telethon again? The guy's like 140 years old now. What's he missing out on, because everybody's being so mean to him?
Doug Fields
Tampa, FL
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Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Seinfeld hints at something...
From: "Kevin M." <drunkbastar...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, January 31, 2014 1:10 am
To: "tvornottv@googlegroups.com" <tvornottv@googlegroups.com>
I'm curious, and I think I expressed this curiosity when I commented on the abysmal Kirstie Alley/Rhea Perlman sitcom, but are we all just forgetting/ignoring the Michael Richards n-word fiasco? Because I'd consider it as offensive as anything said by Alec Baldwin. Are we just accepting that people of a certain generation are going to say racist or homophobic or sexist things, because it would seem nobody has let Jerry Lewis off the hook for saying women aren't funny, so maybe our contempt as a people skips generations or only works if we really want to believe that deep down the person is basically a nice guy, personal prejudices not withstanding? Do we just get to choose who is allowed to say or do offensive things based on how they look or whether they can make us laugh?Just curious. Clearly wherever the line has been drawn, I'm not seeing it.On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Bob Jersey <bob.in.jer...@juno.com> wrote:
...to NY morning hosts Boomer and Carton following the tweeting by a bystander of a shot of Jerry and Jason Alexander walking toward Tom's... what went down inside the coffee shop will be shown someplace soon, I imagine:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/01/30/on-wfan-jerry-seinfeld-reveals-new-details-about-mysterious-project/
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Kevin M. (RPCV)
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