Rich Little: 'Back in the 70s everyone (in Hollywood) was Republican'

Fox News ^ | Jan 5 2017 | By Nicki Gostin

[SaveFerris]

[Back in the 70\s]

And we had “The Rockford Files” and “Kolchak: The Night Stalker”. Good times.

[Ciaphas Cain]

And we had “The Rockford Files” and “Kolchak: The Night Stalker”. Good times.

"Ain't we lucky we got 'em?"

[Gene Eric]

And a few Log Cabin Republicans too.

[wally_bert]

Two greats no doubt.

Rockford is probably my #1 70s show.

Kojak probably tied for first.

[lee martell]

If Rich is still performing, he would need to update his impressions a bit. Even by 1980, I had seen him do Richard Nixon enough times. Today, Rich may even have to do rappers in order to really establish a connection with those under 40. That’s always risky. He would be accused of ‘misappropriating’ a black man’s mannerisms! That’s supposed to be a bad thing today.

[OttawaFreeper]

“Back in the 70s everyone was Republican. John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Jack Benny, Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, they were all conservative back then.”

So were Ginger Rogers, Betty Grable, Dinah Shore, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Walter Pidgeon, Frank Sinatra, etc. I bet a number of them have been reliably voting Democrat in recent years though, eh?

[OttawaFreeper]

Agreed with your choices. I’d like to see the dumb nostalgia channels bring back ones like Police Woman, Vega$, Barnaby Jones, and a few other titles like that that I was not allowed to stay up late and watch because my parents would have deemed them past my bedtime and too violent and adult oriented for me.

[Steely Tom]

I find it hard to believe that Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Barbra Streisand, Sally Kellerman, Roman Polanski, Peter Bogdanovich, William Friedkin, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Lemon, Walter Matthau, Alan Alda, Ellen Burstyn, Elliot Gould, Donald Sutherland, etc., were Republicans.

[Ezekiel]

I bet a number of them have been reliably voting Democrat in recent years though, eh?

Makes sense. Only the dead vote democrat.

[TexasGator]

Senile?

Hollywood was NEVER republican.

[bigdaddy45]

And you do of course realize that James Garner was a flaming liberal, correct?

[Ticonderoga34]

If Rich is still performing, he would need to update his impressions a bit. Even by 1980, I had seen him do Richard Nixon enough times. Today, Rich may even have to do rappers in order to really establish a connection with those under 40. That’s always risky. He would be accused of ‘misappropriating’ a black man’s mannerisms! That’s supposed to be a bad thing today.

Are they any comedians who do impressions nowadays?

I don't keep up with showbiz but I can't recall any current comedians who do impressions. Billy Crystal is the only one I can think of but he has been around awhile.

[tennmountainman]

That was before the liberal and Mexican invasion.

[SMGFan]

Not Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner , Norman Lear, Dick van Dyke as well.

But there was Michael Landon.

[GOP Poet]

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[lee martell]

That’s a very good question. Stage impressions may be less frequent these days because we don’t all look at the same three TV stations or read the same papers anymore.
Another reason is a lot of people have forgotten or never learned to take a joke. So they get offended very easily.

[sam_whiskey]

I believe he still performs in Vegas.

[smokingfrog]

He’s more of a lukewarm, FDR liberal.

[itsahoot]

And we had “The Rockford Files” and “Kolchak: The Night Stalker”. Good times.

James Garner who played Jim Rockford was a fine Oklahoma Gentleman who supported Hillary and Bill till his dying day. A fact that my knowing, saddens me to this day.