Posted on 12/15/2004 7:07:43 PM PST by Roberts
Even Hollywood liberals were left reeling after Chevy Chase's potty-mouthed Bush-bashing Tuesday night at the Kennedy Center, where the actor hosted an awards ceremony staged by People for the American Way.
The WASHINGTON POST on Thursday claims Chase unleashed a rant against President Bush that stunned the crowd.
He deployed the four-letter word that got Vice President Dick Cheney in hot water, using it as a noun. Chase called the prez a "dumb (expletive)." He also used it as an adjective, assuring the audience, "I'm no (expletive) clown either. ... This guy started a jihad."
Chase also said: "This guy in office is an uneducated, real lying schmuck ... and we still couldn't beat him with a bore like Kerry."
People for the American Way distanced itself Wednesday from the actor's rant.
Founder Norman Lear tells the paper: "I thought it was utterly untoward, obviously unexpected and unscripted and all that stuff. And, uh _ it was Chevy Chase. He'll live with it, I won't."
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Sen. Tom Daschle, the former minority leader, looked taken aback when he went on directly after Chase. His opening line: "I've had to follow a lot of speakers, but _ " The movie star didn't return for a curtain call or to savor dessert at the reception after the event. We were told he hurt his back and needed to call it a night by 9. Chase's PR rep told us Wednesday she was unable to reach him. Meanwhile, the other host of the evening, the newly blond Cynthia Nixon, told us she had a more gracious message for Bush: "Don't just listen to people who are telling you yes, listen to the people who are telling you no!"
Maybe he can team up with Whoopi and Linda Ronstadt for his next project.
There are lots of actors who I like who never receive an Oscar. However, when an actor is not easy to deal with by the dirrectors, then you have an actor who is in self-destruction mode.
I wonder what really is eating Chevy Chase
He's a notorious a-hole. His fellow cast members from SNL couldn't stand him. John Belushi HATED him. He's pissed off so many people in Hollywood that he can't get good work anymore. This thing at the Kennedy Center is a cry for help more than anything else, IMO.
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Right you are. I read a piece in Entertainment Weekly that said when Chevy came to guest host in 2001 or 2002, he was zonked out on drugs and made revolting comments to all the current SNL crew- I think he told Tina Faye he wanted to eat her P__sy, and insulted everyone so much that he is banned from the studio for life. The guy is not just an a-hole, he is mentally ill, a drug addict, and a washed-up old fart.
I wonder what really is eating Chevy Chase
He's a notorious a-hole. His fellow cast members from SNL couldn't stand him. John Belushi HATED him. He's pissed off so many people in Hollywood that he can't get good work anymore. This thing at the Kennedy Center is a cry for help more than anything else, IMO.
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Right you are. I read a piece in Entertainment Weekly that said when Chevy came to guest host in 2001 or 2002, he was zonked out on drugs and made revolting comments to all the current SNL crew- I think he told Tina Faye he wanted to eat her P__sy, and insulted everyone so much that he is banned from the studio for life. The guy is not just an a-hole, he is mentally ill, a drug addict, and a washed-up old fart.
Norman Lear made a fortune potraying Middle America as a bunch of dumb, racist, ignorant sadists. He reached an all time low in the 1980s with Silver Spoons. There was an episode where Ricky Scroder and his grandpa go deer hunting and Little Ricky chickens out when its time to pull the trigger. Ricky comes crying home to his liberal doormat of a dad, who tells him how its OK not to hurt animals, etc. If that happened on a hunting trip with my grandpa, he would have cut a fresh hickory switch and beat me with it for being such a wuss.
Can you imagine Andy Griffith and Opie out fishing and Opie not having the b@lls to bait the hook? Of course not. TV in the 1950s-early 1960s still cared about and respected middle Americans, while Norman Lear ushered in the era of "wimp TV" that derides, laughs at, and emasculates male characters. He and his ilk Chevy Chase can both go to hell!
I saw that also and it's true, he has very few friends. He has lots of back pain and a recurring drug problem I believe.
Mr. Chase was quite happy with the the lying schmuck who preceded Bush.
Having your head up your butt must put a lot of stress on the vertebrae.
Do you think Chevy Chase is gay? If it is true, it would explain that chip on his shoulder that is bigger than a gorilla.
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