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Dick Clark Returns to Television to Mark Another New Year
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| 12/31/05
| David Bauder
Posted on 12/31/2005 9:15:55 PM PST by beyond the sea
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To: motzman
< It was a really quick cut, then cut-away... >
I'm thinking that showing the kiss was not really planned. They did seem to cut away awkwardly. However, like you said , it was a slurpy smacker and was a bit embarassing IMHO. I'm thinking they just thought maybe it should have been more private and cut away to something else as filler. I was assuming, due to the "passionate" look of it, that the woman was his wife. If not, then the awkwardness may have been stroke related.
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posted on
01/01/2006 5:20:06 AM PST
by
GOP_Proud
("smooth as butt-ahh"... Toolbelt Diva)
To: ditto h
The callous promotion probably succeeded in making it the most watched New Years celebration of the 'flipping of the calender' in recent history.
I would like to propose "New Days Eve" and on "New Day" we can look back on the important events of the day and celebrate with getting fall down drunk and start the next "New Days Eve" with absolutely no idea what you did... but on the plus side, you could make a "New Day Resolution" EVERY day...No, that's no good..Failing 365 days in a row might be too depressing.
Aw, never mind, Happy New Day, Week, Month AND Year, FReepsters.
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posted on
01/01/2006 6:05:44 AM PST
by
RetSignman
(( HELP...I'm trapped between these curved things))
To: x
It was painful and a bad idea. I grew up near Philly and remember when Dick was pressed into service at Bandstand after Bob Horn gat caught with some underage girls. Then Dick was young and boyish. At 76 he's too old for this duty even without the stroke. Celebrities just can't seem to quit. They start believing their publicists.
ABC just wanted the ratings. Next year, if he's around, he won't be seen I bet when they add up all the negative reactions.
I gave my step-father credit for his courage after his stroke, but that was private. A performer needs to meet the performance standard. Dick can't and didn't.
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posted on
01/01/2006 6:47:16 AM PST
by
JeanLM
((my give-a-damn is broken))
To: LZ_Bayonet
Then why couldn't I find a channel with "Guy Lombaro and the Royal Canadians at the Waldorf Astoria"?That was tradition !!
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posted on
01/01/2006 6:51:50 AM PST
by
Dustbunny
(Socialist/Liberal/Progressive/Communist/Marxist are todays Democrats)
To: beyond the sea
Clark IS "retarded", that is, handicapped. God willing he can recover from the effect so his stroke , at least to the extent that Kirk Douglas did. Ironic that the man who "never aged." must now suffer in such a way.
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posted on
01/01/2006 8:23:56 AM PST
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: LZ_Bayonet
The closest I found was the live concert by the New York Symphoney. "Purdy" darned good job was done by all. Happy New Year.
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posted on
01/01/2006 8:25:57 AM PST
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
LOL for the posting AND the tagline. :)
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posted on
01/01/2006 8:32:52 AM PST
by
solitas
(So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
To: Williams
People can have different takes on it, but your report is basically accurate. He was doing good for a guy who had a stroke, but under normal conditions his speech was so slurred you would not pick him to do the show. There was a nostalgic factor here, but it was also sad.
If I watched the whole show, I might have had a different reaction. But I just flipped over to watch the ball drop, and was surprised by Dick Clark. It was somewhat uncomfortable---and the pre-show promo's did not even hint that Dick had a speech problem.
It was sad; Dick Clark's a good guy and IMHO, should have not done the show.
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posted on
01/01/2006 8:36:51 AM PST
by
motzman
(God helps those who help themselves - B. Franklin)
To: RobbyS
Ironic that the man who "never aged." must now suffer in such a way.Yes it is.
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posted on
01/01/2006 8:38:06 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(If you need a really new idea ..................... read a really old book.)
To: motzman
Happy Kwaanzaa Why are you wishing somebody a plant?
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posted on
01/01/2006 8:44:25 AM PST
by
solitas
(So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
To: beyond the sea
I don't think some people realize how much courage and will it takes one to make a come back and how sad it must have been for him to have life cut in an instance...
But this is the butral fact that some in media (get off on faultfinding, guess to fill a void in their world!)
Those who undermind or feed off of tearing down others used to be labled as dig a hole for themselves...but today we live in a world where right is wrong and wrong is right!
There 95% of the people who don't sanction this kind of behavior but some how it seems these kinds of people get hired and the rest of us have to endure their presents!
Until prayer and character is part of our shcools curriculum this Babylon ignorances will continue!
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posted on
01/01/2006 10:23:07 AM PST
by
restornu
(Everyone has a photographic memory some just don't have film!:)
To: beyond the sea
I watched part of the telecast and after getting over the shock of how he sounded, he sounded quite well for a man who had a stroke. He looked like his old self, also.
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posted on
01/01/2006 10:31:29 AM PST
by
rabidralph
(The plowman's here! The plowman's here!)
To: FreedomCalls; motzman
It just shows you how some folks feel uncomfortable with those who don't meet their standards of who should be allowed to be a part of a universal event...
Its not like he was doing tonight Special it was New Years eve where we wish each other continued good health
motzman did you already return your Christmas gift of Goodwill towards man?
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posted on
01/01/2006 10:35:28 AM PST
by
restornu
(Everyone has a photographic memory some just don't have film!:)
To: restornu; rabidralph
He looks pretty good, if you ask me:
Singer Mariah Carey (L) and television personality Dick Clark pose in this publicity photo released by ABC January 1, 2006 at the network's broadcast of New Year's Eve festivities in Times Square in New York City. Clark returned to the celebration one year after suffering a stroke in late 2004. REUTERS/Heidi Gutman/ABC/Handout
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posted on
01/01/2006 10:40:14 AM PST
by
Howlin
(Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. - GWB, 12/18/05)
To: BigSkyFreeper
I was at a New Year's Evev dinner, so I missed it all. But I can't believe they foist all these aging rock stars on middle America. Duran Duran? They stunk way back when. Sounds like Dick Clark was a freak show. Probably helped the ratings. Sad...
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posted on
01/01/2006 10:45:10 AM PST
by
veronica
(....."send Congressman Murtha a message: that cowards cut and run, Marines never do.")
To: Howlin
I can't figure out why Mariah Carey, who makes millions, always looks like a cheap hooker. Can't she hire a good stylist?
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posted on
01/01/2006 10:47:07 AM PST
by
veronica
(....."send Congressman Murtha a message: that cowards cut and run, Marines never do.")
To: justche
I think it is very telling how this thread has gone. There is little respect for human dignity in all its phases these days. I don't care if Dick Clark has a big ego, if that's what people want to think of him, then so be it. I see a good man who has done so much for his industry, and I'm glad to see that some still see value in that. I wish Dick Clark well in his continued recovery.
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posted on
01/01/2006 11:06:05 AM PST
by
Ohioan from Florida
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)
To: veronica
cheap hookers need love too
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posted on
01/01/2006 11:14:15 AM PST
by
woofie
To: Ohioan from Florida
I think it is very telling how this thread has gone. It's been ugly on FR for quite a while now. It's embarassing.
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posted on
01/01/2006 11:16:48 AM PST
by
Howlin
(Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. - GWB, 12/18/05)
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