I've been waiting for Jackson and Sharpton to step into the fray.....Richards is about to get taken to the cleaners.
Richards better get funny real fast, his pockets gonna need it.
Stick it Al.
Sinatra and Elvis were more connected to my generation than Oprah or Sienfeld, but extortion, inc. definitely came from our era. It is, in a sick kind of way, a tribute to capitalism that opportunists with quick minds and unlimited energy were able to amass huge fortunes and great followings from the downtrodden and ignorant.
Jackson and Sharpton will likely forgive him if he donates his royalties from the Seinfeld series to them. Then it's all all right
Memo to Richards: leave your wallet on the desk on your way out.
No kidding. The hecklers who started the whole thing have hired Gloria Allred to represent them. They stated on H&C tonight that they want money.
Nothing will ever be enough. Richards should just shut up and wait for the papers to be served.
Yes, they know that everyone on Seinfeld wound up as multimillionaires: I doubt there will be an attempt to extort money, though, as it would make Sharpton and/or Jackson look like the brazen shakedown artists they of course are.
Probably the worst downside to Richards' behavior is that it gives people like Sharpton a new lease on life, and they will always find things like this to latch onto.I'd be way more interested in hearing , say, Bill Cosby's reaction to it, or anyone else's for that matter.
It has been laughable and oh-so-predictable to see this Richards thing run the Mel Gibson course, where the dominant concern seemed to be to get an answer to the question "Do you think Mel Gibson is an anti-Semite?" The Richards question of course is if Richards is indeed a racial bigot. I would like to propose the possibility that it doesn't matter who is an anti-Semite or an anti-black bigot: those concerns are legitimate for their agents, they themselves, and the audiences who have patronized these two, but there is no further significance for the workings of American culture whether they are or not. Personally, I think Richards has developed some form of Tourette's Syndrome. That's what his rant and the accompanying meltdown looked like to me.