So, this morning, I notice a lot of blogs with Richard Pryor entries. I figured, "Today must be the anniversary of his death or something."
Oops. I now realize (hours later) that Pryor just died on Saturday. I honestly thought he was already dead. I don't have any opinion on Pryor one way or another. Because I'm probably too young to appreciate his importance or impact, I always kind of found him overrated.
That's it, I just found it strange that I was so thoroughly sure that somebody was dead, when that was not the case. I suppose it's a shame because it indicates that Pryor clearly faded away (at least to me) instead of being a force 'til the end, which, I imagine, would have been his preference.
Digby has a nice piece up on him.
The reason Pryor "clearly faded away" was becuase he had MS. I recently saw a special on him and it was incredibly depressing seeing the state he was in. confined to a wheelchair, he could barely speak. His wife was basically transalating what he was saying.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I can recall him being sick, I just honestly thought he had already passed. And it is clearly a shame that he became incapacitated by a disease that rendered him incapable of his greatest strength—commmunication.
ReplyDeletei just found something that brings a smile to my face.
ReplyDeletewhat is the world coming to when Mr Furious posts a link to a column that has this sentence in it:
" But there was also this undercurrent of vulnerability and melancholy running beneath the comedy that exposed a canny understanding of human foible. "
Does this mean your unnatural hatred for the term uncanny has dissipated? If i remember, your biggest problem with the word uncanny was that no one uses the term canny.
My unnatural hated is really for anyone who uses the phrase "not uncanny"—which I have actually seen. Wouldn't that be "canny?"
ReplyDeleteI confess that you must have read that post much more carefully than I did.
And do me a favor, Crow (I can only assume), just open a blogger account with a nickname and post your comments so I know who the hell they are from.
Did you post the first comment too?
I thot he was already dead too...
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