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Aging Actor Tony Randall Fantasizes About His Funeral
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| Sep 24, 2003
| Joe Carey
Posted on 09/25/2003 3:39:36 PM PDT by GluteusMax
WASHINGTON (AP) - Actor Tony Randall has a fantasy: when he dies President Bush and Vice President Cheney show up to pay their respects but they're turned away - because his family knows he didn't like them. Feeling his own mortality while suffering a cold, Randall, 83, made his remarks as the National Funeral Directors Association announced a new code of ethics for its members, beginning in 2004.
Funerals should be planned as a celebration of life and "a touch of humor doesn't hurt a bit," Randall said.
A comedian, Randall is best known for his role as Felix Unger in the 1970s sitcom "The Odd Couple."
He said his 6-year-old daughter, Julia, is old enough to appreciate the subject of death, and actually revels in it.
"She loves to talk about death," Randall said. "She loves stories about death. If I start a story, she says 'Does anyone die in this?' and I say 'No,' she doesn't want to hear it."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: demonrat; diealready; doofus; irrelevant; irrelevantlefty; selfaggrandizement; takeahikeloser
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This man obviously has a much higher estimation of his worth than the rest of do.
To: GluteusMax
What a FOOL
To: GluteusMax
Oh, I didn't realize he was a lefty, too. I should have guessed.
I've got a better dream for you, Tony. You die, and nobody cares.
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posted on
09/25/2003 3:42:16 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: GluteusMax
We went through this with the Wellstone thing - if someone is gracious enough to show up at one's funeral despite past differences, it is the mark of total lack of decency and civility to turn him or her away. A funeral ostensibly celebrating life ought to show some respect for the living even if it has no respect for the dead.
To: GluteusMax
He is 83 & has a 6 year old daughter? In his dreams.
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posted on
09/25/2003 3:45:47 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: GluteusMax
83 years old with a six year old daughter, eh? Lovely...
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posted on
09/25/2003 3:46:06 PM PDT
by
RoughDobermann
(Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.)
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To: GluteusMax
"Tony Randall's character on 'The Odd Couple' was just as gay as the character on 'Will & Grace' but no one ever said it. Think about it: You have these two men living together, and one of them has every stereotypically gay trait you could think of.
--ROSIE O'DONNELL in USA Today, 9/24/03
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posted on
09/25/2003 3:47:57 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Great Googlymoogly!)
To: GluteusMax
Anyone else see child abuse in this story?
Of course, MJ still has his kids, what are they, Paris, Prince, and Blanket.
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posted on
09/25/2003 3:50:39 PM PDT
by
ChemistCat
(Terra Vegetable Chips. WOW they're good. But you will worry about your $800 crowns.)
To: GluteusMax
He said his 6-year-old daughter, Julia, is old enough to appreciate the subject of death, and actually revels in it. "She loves to talk about death," Randall said. Kids are morbid little creatures. What is Randall's excuse?
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posted on
09/25/2003 3:52:02 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Been there. Done that. Got the T-Shirt. Sold it on e-bay.)
To: GluteusMax
It is so weird, watching those Doris Day/Rock Hudson/Tony Randall movies and realizing that Rock was the homosexual. I would have on Tony Randall.
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posted on
09/25/2003 3:52:20 PM PDT
by
Paul Atreides
(Bringing you quality, non-unnecessarily-excerpted threads since 2002)
To: Paul Atreides
I would have on Tony Randall. = I would have bet on Tony Randall.
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posted on
09/25/2003 3:54:37 PM PDT
by
Paul Atreides
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To: ChemistCat
Anyone else see child abuse in this story?You mean beyond subjecting her to weird mind-warping Liberalism?
Yeah, I thought of that right away too. The whole "She loves death" thing is CREEPY.
To: Paul Atreides
I never watch Rock Hudson movies any more or Van Johnson movies either.
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posted on
09/25/2003 3:57:23 PM PDT
by
sgtbono2002
(I aint wrong, I aint sorry , and I am probably going to do it again.)
To: GluteusMax; Billthedrill
Actor Tony Randall has a fantasy: when he dies President Bush and Vice President Cheney show up to pay their respects but they're turned away - because his family knows he didn't like them. That is some fantasy. Unlike the Klingons and the DiMaggio family, Bush and Cheney won't be demanding to horn in on the funeral, just to cry fake tears in front of cameras. The Dimaggios where right to slough off the creepy carney folk. Tony Randall is no Joe DiMaggio. What an ego!
To: sgtbono2002
Why, is Van Johnson a poof?
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posted on
09/25/2003 3:59:01 PM PDT
by
Paul Atreides
(Bringing you quality, non-unnecessarily-excerpted threads since 2002)
To: Dog Gone
Tony Randall is a classic - this is a cheap shot by him, but I have always been a fan.
Randall is 'Mr. New York.' I've bumped into him at the opera and classical music room at the W 4th St Tower Records, on the Subway, etc.
He is an oldschool NYer - hopelessly liberal, in that NYC way. I wish he wasn't, but he clearly is.
His is a cool guy and a class act, notwithstanding this cheap shot.
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posted on
09/25/2003 4:01:15 PM PDT
by
HitmanLV
(I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
To: Paul Atreides
What if someone gave a funeral, and nobody came?
To: FastCoyote
Tony Randall falls into two categories:
1. I thought he died years ago.
2. Who?
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posted on
09/25/2003 4:04:03 PM PDT
by
Paul Atreides
(Bringing you quality, non-unnecessarily-excerpted threads since 2002)
To: Ditter
Tony was happily married to the same woman for over 30 years or so, I think, and they lived in NYC.
A few years after she passed on, he entered a relationship with a much younger woman (she was barely 30 I think, and he was past 70). She is a very pretty, buxom woman - I have bumped into Mr Randall and both alone and with his bride in Manhattan over the years. Nice folks.
I actually think they have two children. If you took a look at his bride (who dotes on him lovingly as been reported widely) I can't imagine he would have any problems rising to the challenge , if you know what I mean!
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posted on
09/25/2003 4:04:56 PM PDT
by
HitmanLV
(I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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