Posted on 08/26/2018 5:25:44 PM PDT by TBP
I realize that John McCain was a long-time public servant who spent five years at the "Hanoi Hilton", was tortured, came back, was a longtime senator and two-time presidential candidate. And I realize that the shooting in Jacksonville at the gamer convention is an important story.
But we also lost one of the American cultural icons today when Neil Simon passed at 91. (See below.) Can we not find a minute or two for this major figure in contemporary American culture? Are we THAT wrapped up in politics?
Are you so young you have never seen the Odd Couple?
The Odd Couple
When people are trying to kill you, things like art and culture are secondary concerns.
“McShamey was not tortured.”
Not even close. He was brutally tortured. He was NOT held in nice surroundings. When he wasn’t in solitary, he was with Bud Day. Bud Day made it clear McCain WAS very brutally tortured. He disagreed with McCain for years about politics but admired his courage as a prisoner.
“Man you must be young...or living under a rock.”
My interests just don’t go in that direction.
I am going golfing for 17 hours to mourn.
He's looking for fun and feeling groovy.
JERRY: (reading note) Oh my god!
GEORGE: What?
JERRY: This is amazing, you can’t believe this!
GEORGE: What’s it say?
JERRY: Listen to this: “I don’t know what you expect to find out there,
Jerry, you know what you want better than me. But there’s one thing I do know. I know I can stand here watching you destroy everything I’ve ever wanted in my life, wanting to smash your face with my fists, because you won’t make even the slightest effort to offer happiness and still know that I love you. You mean so much to me that I’m willing to take all your abuse and insults and insensitivity.”
GEORGE: WOW!
KRAMER: (emotionally) She’s deep.
JERRY: (reading on) “...’cause that’s what you need to do to prove I’m not going to leave you. I’m sick and tired of running from places and people and relationships. You want me, that fight for me, becau-”
(Kramer blows his noes loudly) “...because I’m sure as hell fighting for you!”
KRAMER: You know Jerry, she sounds like a poet!
JERRY: No one’s ever written me a letter like this. Maybe I was wrong about her!
KRAMER: (pushing Jerry towards the phone) Yeah! Get in there and give her a call. Pick up the phone and call her!
JERRY: Should I?
KRAMER: (screaming) YES! YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT YOU SHOULD! (hysterically) Fight for her, Jerry, she’s sure as hell fighting for you!
JERRY: ALL RIGHT, all right! I’ll call her.
********
(George starts clicking, the first station he lands on is playing Neil Simon’s Chapter 2. After a few seconds, George gets bored, and changes the station)
JERRY: Wait, wait a second! Go back, go back to that. (they watch it a little longer)
ELAINE: It’s Chapter 2, it’s Neil Simon.
JERRY: (on to something) Wait a second... wait a second!! (he watches the TV for another minute) The letter, that’s the letter!
ELAINE: What letter?
JERRY: This is the letter she wrote to me, she stole it right from the movie!
(Jerry get up to go find the letter. A second later, he returns, and starts reading in unison with movie on TV.)
JERRY: “...’cause you don’t even make the slightest effort to offer happiness still know that I love you!!”
GEORGE: This is incredible!
JERRY: I always thought there was something funny about this letter! She copied it right out of Chapter 2! She a thief, a bunko-artist!
GEORGE: Maybe I won’t send her that check.
ELAINE: You know, it’s not really that terrible.
JERRY: What are you talking about? She completely misrepresented herself! (mimicking the letter) I don’t offer happiness. I offer happiness! James Caan doesn’t offer happiness!
And what direction is that? Odd Couple was one of the funniest shows ever
Here is a link to a list of his best known works
https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/neil-simon/credits/260381/
If you haven’t seen at least one your life is the poorer for it
This McCain thing is idolatry by the elitists though and, it's will get putrid, even more than Wellstone memorial putrid.
Hope he came to believe the Lord Jesus before he went.
To wish otherwise would not be pleasing to God.
I prayed for him and our church did too, even though he was not popular in our congregation.
I know who he is/was. He’s no more important to me than my plumber, hence the sarcasm.
You claim to be interested in movies. Check the list at the link I posted
Neil Simon was a classic writer for the old Broadway genres.
That is, clever farces, sweet romantic comedies, and ultimately nostalgic melodramas.
Unfortunately his audiences died off before he did.
That whole world is gone. Simon outlived it.
Luckily Juan McCain wasn’t a black drug addicted entertainer or we would have to endure an agonizing two weeks listing to the Marxist State Media’s drivel.
Your understanding of what happened to McShamey does not match anything his fellowmcShamey was there with Jetemiah Denton and his men. Their story is different.
Since I believe nothing that McShamey has ever said I’ll take the others word captives reported.
Sorry Nifster, I have not seen one of those movies listed at the link. I’ve seen many others.
From National People’s Radio?
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