The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[prabe]

I'd argue that people who are famous either for doing a crime or are famous for being famous ("influencers", etc.) aren't real celebrities.

I agree. I was more considering the possibility there was some B-lister or N-lister or something. Some dude who played a recurring character for a season on a network sitcom or something.

 

[Ryujin]

I will not stand for any Angelyne slander. (Whom I mostly knew from her appearance in the Moonlighting opening credits, to be fair, before moving to Southern California.)

Not even that Earth Girls are Easy?

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

Unless, of course, you're willing to broaden your definition of "celebrity."

I wouldn't, but I think both Blake and Simpson legitimately qualified as celebrities even if their glory days were well in the past. Maybe not more than B or C list depending on how you define things, but they were famous for other things than their trials.

 

[prabe]

I wouldn't, but I think both Blake and Simpson legitimately qualified as celebrities even if their glory days were well in the past. Maybe not more than B or C list depending on how you define things, but they were famous for other things than their trials.

Oh, certainly--Simpson almost certainly more than Blake, but no argument here (and Simpson wasn't more than like a year or two removed from being on Monday Night Football, IIRC, so his peak fame wasn't too far behind him).

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

Oh, certainly--Simpson almost certainly more than Blake, but no argument here (and Simpson wasn't more than like a year or two removed from being on Monday Night Football, IIRC, so his peak fame wasn't too far behind him).

Not to mention all the luggage-jumping commercials.

Pretty sure Beretta was kind of a big deal TV show in its day - critical acclaim, solid ratings, Emmy award - and the cockatoo is memorable, of course. Blake also did a lot of other TV and films, including some standout modern noir films.

I named a 1st edition Cyberpunk character after the show's stunt cockatoo one time. Weird Harold the Netrunner, that was me. Big old white mohawk, of course.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Not even that Earth Girls are Easy?

That came out in a period where I wasn't able to see many films, so it slipped right past me.

 

[gorice]

Watching Bob World Builder's (public) Patron video about his new 5E and Shadowdark book on building and stocking dungeons.

I get the value of having a ton of YouTubers creating at least a single entry for a book -- they're his peers and it's a good bet they will mention the project on their own channels -- but boy, I'm tired of pretending some of these folks are brand name designers. I know this is the era we live in, where everyone is supposed to have a brand, but it can be exhausting.

That said, the overall book looks very good and I'm excited about it.

I have it on good authority that the more popular a thing is, the gooder it is also. It's a crime that we even let people who aren't influencers make RPGs, honestly.

 

[Ryujin]

That came out in a period where I wasn't able to see many films, so it slipped right past me.

Goldblum and Davis at their young finest, not to mention Carey when he was still doing stand-up and Wayans before he really hit big, in "In Living Color."

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

That came out in a period where I wasn't able to see many films, so it slipped right past me.

You might want to fix that. Earth Girls Are Easy is a pretty fine example of an 80s "dumb fun" flick with some solid comedic talents in the early stages of their careers. Probably won't kill too many brain cells to watch once, anyway.

 

[billd91]

I named a 1st edition Cyberpunk character after the show's stunt cockatoo one time. Weird Harold the Netrunner, that was me. Big old white mohawk, of course.

That's interesting. I suspect they may have named the stunt cockatoo after a Bill Cosby character from his stand-up routines back in the 1960s.