There was much falderal during the Michael Vick/dog fighting(murdering) revelations, and much can be said about how much potential was squandered through his actions. Money, truck loads of it, if nothing else was simply flushed down the toilet.
It's hard for me to consider what Vick did as anything other than inhuman. There is a certain portion of the population that thinks of 'pets' as purely property, as opposed to members of the family, but what Vick has plead guilty to is something entirely different. I have a hard time imagining a conversion on his part. He publicly admitted to bad decisions, but what he did was hardly a bad decision. It was an act of nearly pure evil, from my point of view. Saying that you made bad decisions really doesn't even scratch the surface of contrition.
But then there is OJ Simpson. I suspect it's fairly difficult for most readers of this blog to believe that OJ didn't actual murder Denise Brown and Ron Goldman, but he was acquitted in the criminal trial. Maybe it was an unusually biased jury or some astounding lawyering, but he did get judged innocent by a jury of his 'peers'. And so he was free, a $33M civil judgment for wrongful death notwithstanding.
His actions since then have been nothing short of unbelievable (for lack of a term capable of encompassing the nonsense he's been involved in) and now we have him potentially involved in an armed robbery in Las Vegas? Oof.
I feel like I should never watch The Naked Gun ever again just so he never receives a penny of royalties. The man does disservice to the word idiot. Has anyone in the history of mankind so totally squandered the good will of so many. It would take Mother Teresa being revealed as a closet sadist, spending her private time inflicting pain on unwilling victims, to top his decline.
Ugh. Please shoot him into space.
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Where he can be subjected to the interminable and final justic of The Space Wolverines.
Also ranking up there in the squandering of a seemingly endless supply of public goodwill: The King of Pop. Though - heinous as the almost certain abuse of children is - he seems so much more a pitiable creature (and that's really the correct term for him) than OJ, who is more a villain in a classic sense.
Yes, the dreaded Space Wolverines(TM).
The centrifuge of celebrity is fascinating. Over and over, we see what happens when fortunate people are never told "no", or at the very least have lost the sense of gravity that connects them to others.
Or what happens when they're told, "No. No!!! NO!!!! Aghhh! Rrrrrg, gurgle gurgle...."
OJ is one bad mutha. And that book...did you hear about that.
Agreed about Naked Gun - it just isn't funny - watching OJ - it can't be
One could argue that starring Leslie Neilson it can't be, also.
Yes, the book...yikes.
Boy, I'm getting the sense that Dan is no longer the Naked Gun fan he once was. That would have been near the pinnacle of comedy back in the day (not including the sequels - just the TV show and the first movie). Leslie Nielsen was held in higher esteem then.
Yes, I'm a little shocked to hear this new take on Nielson. Granted, it was decades ago, and LN has since cashed in multiple times on his bumbling persona. But the first Airplane is still sorta funny, right?
His oranges are going to get squeezed plenty in jail. It is sad to see a person who can not live up to any of his choices. It is always someone else or I didn't do it. The demons that he carries on a daily basis has to be overwhelming.
Fear not, I still hold the first Airplane (and, indeed, even the 2nd) in very high regard.
I haven't seen the Naked Gun TV show for years and years. I'm guessing I would still find it funny.
As for the Naked Gun movie - I was never gaga over it. It'd really lost a lot of the magic of earlier Zucker/Abrhams/Zucker efforts. And right around that time, Nielson began the career trajectory that would lead him to such depths as "Dracula: Dead and Loving It," "Surf Ninjas," and Miller Lite commercials.
I should have said, "Police Squad," not "Naked Gun TV Show."
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