Aging Actor Tony Randall Fantasizes About His Funeral

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA1QFTLZKD.html ^ | Sep 24, 2003 | Joe Carey

[GluteusMax]

This man obviously has a much higher estimation of his worth than the rest of do.

[joyce11111]

What a FOOL

[Dog Gone]

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.

[Billthedrill]

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.

[Ditter]

He is 83 & has a 6 year old daughter? In his dreams.

[RoughDobermann]

83 years old with a six year old daughter, eh? Lovely...

[martin_fierro]

"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

[ChemistCat]

Anyone else see child abuse in this story?

Of course, MJ still has his kids, what are they, Paris, Prince, and Blanket.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

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?

[Paul Atreides]

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.

[Paul Atreides]

I would have on Tony Randall. = I would have bet on Tony Randall.

[GluteusMax]

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.

[sgtbono2002]

I never watch Rock Hudson movies any more or Van Johnson movies either.

[Thinkin' Gal]

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!

[Paul Atreides]

Why, is Van Johnson a poof?

[HitmanLV]

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.

[FastCoyote]

What if someone gave a funeral, and nobody came?

[Paul Atreides]

Tony Randall falls into two categories:

1. I thought he died years ago.

2. Who?

[HitmanLV]

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!