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Don Rickles was politically incorrect before it was incorrect. And at 90, he’s still going.
Washington Post ^ | May 25, 2016 | Karen Heller

Posted on 05/25/2016 5:04:55 PM PDT by lowbridge

“Sweetie,” Don Rickles says, welcoming us to his sumptuous Spanish villa near Beverly Hills. “Can I get anything for you, dear?”

This is the comedian known as the Merchant of Venom, the Insult King from Queens, Mr. Warmth (as in precisely the opposite). But not once in a convivial afternoon will he lob an insult our way, the sort he hurls at friends and fans alike, the latter paying handsomely for a dose of Rickles ridicule. At one point, he takes our left hand, bows his bullet head and, in the custom of an Old World courtier, bestows a kiss.

It’s one of Hollywood’s worst-kept secrets that Don Rickles is a mensch.

He is beloved by Morgan Freeman, Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood. “The kindest man I’ve come into contact with,” Johnny Depp gushed at a star-studded tribute two years ago.

Sinatra adored him. “Frank was the kind of guy, there was no gray area,” says Rickles. “He either loved you or fuggedaboutit.”

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To: DIRTYSECRET
Only after Archie Bunker made a name for himself in 1970.

Don Rickles had a TV show in the 60s which I watched every week. This was before Archie Bunker.

How old are you?

41 posted on 05/26/2016 7:26:16 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (HaShem first! Anything else is idolatry, a violation of the very first commandment!)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Might be the all-time charity donations raiser from his Polio TV marathon shows.

Muscular dystrophy.

42 posted on 05/26/2016 7:42:08 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (HaShem first! Anything else is idolatry, a violation of the very first commandment!)
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To: dfwgator

That was funny!!! Just to see Reagan relatively young and cracking up.


43 posted on 05/26/2016 8:11:49 PM PDT by Yaelle (Tinkerbelle glittering up the runway for Trump Force One!)
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