How'd They Get Away with THAT?

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It always amazes me to watch game shows from the 70's and to see how touchy-feely the host/contestants were. Gene Rayburn and Richard Dawson kiss every female they come in contact with, and make suggestive comments to them throughout the show. Game show/talk show hosts of todays' tv would never get away w/ that, w/ sexual harrassment and political correctness and all that. In a way, it's kinda sad that people have to be afraid to touch eachother b/c they might get slapped w/ some kind of suit.

Speaking of The Match Game, one of the questions on a rerun they showed a few days ag was, "Dumb Donald is so dumb (how dumb is he?), when he heard there was going to be grass at the party that night, he brought along his BLANK." Nothing like being blase about drug use, now. Well, it is only pot, but still.

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No, I meant that I always thought that Woody and Soon Yi's two kids together were biological. I know Mia has 14 kids, most of whom were adopted. Off topic, I know - sorry.

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When Polanski won the award for The Pianist, he was given a standing ovation, yet we could clearly see Jack Nicholson not all that happy about it and didn't participate...also, it was his house in which Polanski did that horrible deed (he was staying there at the time while Jack was away)

[fflover]

q99 said:

Roman Polanski hasn't been extradited from France(?) , arrested, or put on trial. I'm sure that to some in H-wood, that pretty much means he's innocent. I don't like it either, but until he either steps foot on American soil, or commits another crime, he's free. remember the hippie/activist from the 60's who murdered one of his followers, fled the US, and wasn't arrested and brought home to face charges until almost 30 years later? It took the US courts almost 6 months to a year to make the case in foreign courts.

That I understand, but I find no excuse for the British courts and their catering to this man for suing Vanity Fair for a story a million years ago about him flirting with a woman on the way to his wife's funeral, claiming that it "ruined his reputation. " And he won! I don't care how golden his directing is, he is a fugitive and a rapist but since this whole society thinks his movies are so great than by far he can get away with anything. He can even successfully sue publications without even stepping foot into an indicting country. It is so fucking backwards with that man and it is beyond disgusting.

[jaghetersimon]

That's really interesting, that Jack Nicholsen didn't join in on the adulation when Polanski won the Oscar. Maybe because he can't deny that his former friend is a child rapist, unlike the rest of the morons in the audience.

[pepper67]

When Polanski won the award for The Pianist, he was given a standing ovation, yet we could clearly see Jack Nicholson not all that happy about it and didn't participate

I have a heck of a lot more respect for Jack Nicholson now.

Roman Polanski is a scuzzball, regardless of what happened to Sharon Tate.

you don't get over your dead wife and baby by having sex with a child. Go get counselling or something.

Agreed, speciousreasoning.

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bagofbones said:

It always amazes me to watch game shows from the 70's and to see how touchy-feely the host/contestants were. Gene Rayburn and Richard Dawson kiss every female they come in contact with, and make suggestive comments to them throughout the show. Game show/talk show hosts of todays' tv would never get away w/ that, w/ sexual harrassment and political correctness and all that. In a way, it's kinda sad that people have to be afraid to touch eachother b/c they might get slapped w/ some kind of suit.

Damn, I dunno, I wouldn't want to be kissed by Richard Dawson. Even when I was little, I thought he was skeevy. And he looks like he smells.

Wolfwood-someone also noticed that while Ed Harris was part of the ovation for Polanski, he was one of those that refused to applaud for Eli Kazan. Because ratting out your friends to the HUAC is obviously a million times worse than drugging and raping a thirteen year old girl. THAT pissed me off.

[LurkerNan]

Damn, I dunno, I wouldn't want to be kissed by Richard Dawson. Even when I was little, I thought he was skeevy. And he looks like he smells.

I'm sure he did. I'm old enough to remember a time when everyone smoked everywhere. Everyone and Everywhere.

The smell of stale smoke was pervasive in every nook and cranny of buildings, people's clothes and hair, cars, etc. It was quite stinky, and would be even more so now since the majority of folks are non-smokers.

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Plus, he was supposed to be a real asshat. Why all the women went batshit over him, I'll never know.

[huntergrayson]

Eh, I think it was more being on a game show, being excited and having to kiss up to the host more than Dawson himself. That said, going batshit over Dawson then is much less creepy than going crazy for Bob Barker now..or ever, really. I also completely understand why women went batshit over him on Match Game -- if you picked him to be the celeb to match you in the final rounds, you'd always win.

And here I swore that my ex's game show obsession wouldn't rub off on me.

Is it wrong that I'm just sort of indifferent re: Polanski? Maybe I'm too jaded.