Hollywood icon drops out of event after heartbreaking diagnosis as they make announcement from hospital bed. (Richard Dryfus)

Thanks -that was a very hopeful thing, realizing he may have left that life behind.

I guess I have the feeling that if you hear that one person does it, there may be many more people that we don’t know about who are coming to their senses and realizing the scam that Leftism is.

That is great to hear.

I always loved that movie too, if you’re an American, how can you not?

It warms my heart and increases my esteem of Richard Dreyfus. If what you said is true (not that I doubt it is)

I’m not in the celebrities. If I’m with friends, and they see some sports figure in the region, there’s at least always somebody who wants to go get an autograph, and other people who are interested in walking over with him to get it.

I’m really not into that at all, it just seems too rude and intrusive to me.

But that said, I am always extremely impressed with an athlete or a celebrity who handles that graciously.

I’m a big hockey fan, and I went up to Quebec to watch the 1987 NHL All-Star team play the Soviet national team. Me and three of my Hockey buddies rented a camper, and we drove up in February. Three of us in that Winnebago were named Bob, and by the end of that trip, my neck was killing me. Every time someone said “Bob“ two or three heads would twist in every direction.

Anyway, we got up there and we’re walking through the lobby of the Frontenac hotel, and we spotted Ray Bourque, and All-Star defenseman with the Bruins at that time.
Four or five of the guys walked over to talk to him, but I didn’t. I just hung back and watched from a distance, but I could hear what they were saying.

It was probably about 9 o’clock at night, and just looking at him, I could see that he was pretty beat. But what filled me with such admiration was when I heard him say “Guys, I have something I have to do right over here, but if you wait, I’ll come back.“

He walked away, and about 10 minutes later… He came back. He signed autographs and chatted very amiably ( if not sparsely) with the guys.

I’ve always admired celebrities and athletes who seem to understand that these people asking for autographs are the people who make them money.

I went out to Oshkosh Wisconsin many years ago, for the big aviation event they have out there, and I ran into Chuck Yeager. My buddy and I were both great admirers of Chuck Yeager and what he had done, and my friend just wanted to say hello, but I just thought Yeager was extremely rude.

It took me some time to think about it, but I eventually concluded that it would be right of me to be tolerant of Yeagers behavior. I thought about it, and I realized he had never asked for any of the fame that came his way. He just wanted to do the things he liked doing, and people put all kinds of weight on that, and I have heard it is something he never became comfortable with.

When I thought about it in that light, I realized I had been wrong to feel the negative feelings that I had felt initially.

Anyway, your description of Richard Dreyfus‘s behavior was a nice thing to know. Thank you for sharing it.

That’s true re pronunciation. The discussion had to do with proper grammar.

There is more to the "King's English" than just grammar. It also includes pronunciation and diction.

If I speak "King's English," using the proper grammar but with an American or Australian accent and/or pronunciation, am I really speaking the "King's English?"

WRT the phrase in question as published, it is more likely British slang than proper "King's English" grammar.

I went out to Oshkosh Wisconsin many years ago, for the big aviation event they have out there, and I ran into Chuck Yeager. My buddy and I were both great admirers of Chuck Yeager and what he had done, and my friend just wanted to say hello, but I just thought Yeager was extremely rude.

It took me some time to think about it, but I eventually concluded that it would be right of me to be tolerant of Yeager's behavior. I thought about it, and I realized he had never asked for any of the fame that came his way. He just wanted to do the things he liked doing, and people put all kinds of weight on that, and I have heard it is something he never became comfortable with.

The flip side of this is that people like Yeager feel like they've been put on public display simply for the things they've done. Paul Newman said he stopped signing autographs after an occasion when he was standing at a urinal in a public men's room and a man approached him with pen and paper in hand, asking for an autograph. He also related how people would stop him on the street and ask him to take off his sunglasses so they could see his eyes.

I've experienced this to a minor degree because I was born a twin. When some folks find out, they ask me the same, tiresome, cliched, questions about growing up with a twin brother. I won't repeat them here, but trust me that there's no "twin" question anyone can think of that I haven't been asked 10,000 times before.

But, I agree with you. Generally speaking, when I see a 'celebrity' in a public setting, I generally will leave them alone.

In a time where I am discouraged that I even see people on Free Republic succumbing to Leftist thought patterns and behaviors,
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Conditioning is real and it works.

“There is more to the ‘King’s English’ than just grammar.”

Of course, but the discussion I was involved in with another FReeper was SPECIFIC only to grammar and syntax.

That’s like saying, when the topic is power steering, “There is more to a car than power steering”.