Posted on 06/19/2015 2:01:25 PM PDT by Borges
Jack Rollins, a producer and a sharp-eyed talent manager who saw more than a shy gag-writer in Woody Allen and believed that the manic improvisations of Robin Williams would crack up audiences, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 100.
His daughter Susan Rollins confirmed his death.
Mr. Rollins did not just boost fragile young egos. To his clients — who also included Billy Crystal, David Letterman, Lenny Bruce and the team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May, an American pantheon of hilarity — he was a father-confessor, real estate agent, psychiatrist, marriage counselor and financial guru.
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People used to marry much younger?
I don’t recall the characters being married.
You are becoming incoherent.
Unfortunately looking back at what happened in our country, we can see things we liked at the time, or even participated in, things we still have fond memories of or feelings for, things that may have had artistic merit, did contribute to our cultural decay.
The point is that sexual relationships used to begin at much younger ages and with public sanction. Manhattan had no effect at all on this matter. Look at all those Hollywood golden age films with teenage girls paired up with much older men. You’re barking up the wrong argument.
“The point is that sexual relationships used to begin at much younger ages and with public sanction. “
Yes, that was obvious.
It is not relevant except in that it does illustrate the degeneration of morality in that the earlier relationship would be marriage.
You are not making sense, Borges.
I don’t know why it is so hard for you to acknowledge 70’s mass media had a huge affect on changing the values of our nation to liberal non-Christian values.
Allen was very popular and contributed.
Most of the deceased agent’s clients contributed, Lenny Bruce explicitly and purposely, and ironically probably had the least amount of effect on the culture.
Lenny Bruce had a big influence in the 50s and 60s but indirectly - through other comics (but not Allen who never liked Bruce). If you’re arguing that depicting unmarried sex is the issue then Allen is just about the least culpable major filmmaker of that time. His films were devoid of sexual content...except abstractly.
I just noticed that Siegfried Wagner, the son of the composer, met his wife when she was 17 and he was 45. That sort of thing was common back then.
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