We are all talking about what we are giving up for Lent and ndspinelli tells us he is giving up ball busting.
I had a suggestion for a better move. He should stop dressing like Frank Cannon. I know he bases his "look" and his career after him but it is time to change it up.
I think he needs to channel Dom Deluise.
AllenS can lend him his parrot.
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I saw Dom Deluise perform in Atlantic City back in the early 80's. He was hilarious
I only wear a coat and tie to court, funerals and weddings. I dress more like The Dude than any tv PI. Magnum would be my closest clothing guy, except my only baseball hat is a Phillies.
I thought he gave that up for Thanksgiving!
Personally I like ND's straight shooter role the best. He was one of the few who nailed it in the "Resiliance" post about the boy who survived the bunker killing. Clear simple truth, cleanly stated. With a parroting of similar appreciation for AllenS.
MamaM, We are quite similar in many respects.
I wonder what Dom Deluise really thought of Dean Martin? I mean he used to dance around Dean and play the frantic clown and there was a pretty penny in it but was there a part of him that resented having to play the clown in order to be tolerated by the cool guy? No wonder I'm an insomniac.
Maybe both, depending on what DeLise's personal experience with alcohol and drugs involved. Life with an alcoholic/addict can beget a mixed response, part empathy and caretaking, part resentment, with humor often serving as the buffer that ameliorates and keeps the pain at bay.
The wiki doesn't say if he had his own battles with addiction. What shows up is the fact that he was married for 44 years (until his death)to the same woman, which can't have been easy in the world he frequented. So he may have experienced some kind of support from her or had a solid foundation of his own from which to operate. Maybe both there too. He was a friend to Burt Reynolds, another alcoholic with a difficult past, so I wouldn't be surprised if he knew or loved someone like that in his early years. Could also be that he had an innate gift for inviting laughter in others and loved sharing it.
I like what Mel Brooks said:
Mel Brooks also made a statement to the same paper, telling them that Dom "created so much joy and laughter on the set that you couldn’t get your work done. So every time I made a movie with Dom, I would plan another two days on the schedule just for laughter. It's a sad day. It's hard to think of this life and this world without him."
Mr. DeLuise was a occasional resident at the Rice Diet Center in Durham. Many locals talked about him, gossiped the way people do, but all of that is hearsay as far as I am concerned.
What we do know is that he liked to cook and eat and while obesity probably shortened his life, all I can say is there are certainly worse ways to die. And he lived to be 75 - that's an impressive run. Maybe he used food to self-medicate. Who knows?
He did seem to have a lot of fun, and that has to count for something.
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