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CONAN 's INTERESTING CHOICE . . .

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OmSigDAVID
 
Reply Sat 27 Jun, 2009 02:23 am
Last show, Conan chose not to acknowledge the loss to the entertainment
industry of either Farrah Fawcett or Michael Jackson.

He referred to this indirectly (as I remember) by saying that we got
bad news in the last 24 hours, but he had to "keep it light to entertain you."

Very clearly, he is within his rights to make this choice.
Silence is part of freedom of speech.
(I suspect that Johnny Carson woud have chosen differently.)

How does it stack up in terms of customary social etiquette ?

Does anyone know whether Letterman respectfully acknowledged either of the decedents ?
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contrex
 
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Reply Sat 27 Jun, 2009 02:38 am
@OmSigDAVID,
I don't think that outpourings of grief should be compulsory. If they were it would be like Stalin's USSR. Anyway, does it matter? A (once) mega rich singer with a train wreck of a personality, who took 12 yr old boys to bed with him, gave himself one shot too many of Demerol. He croaked. Get over it. In the words of the 1990s, "get a life".
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sat 27 Jun, 2009 02:48 am
@contrex,
contrex wrote:

I don't think that outpourings of grief should be compulsory. If they were it would be like Stalin's USSR. Anyway, does it matter? A (once) mega rich singer with a train wreck of a personality, who took 12 yr old boys to bed with him, gave himself one shot too many of Demerol. He croaked. Get over it. In the words of the 1990s, "get a life".


WHO shoud get a life ?
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Mame
 
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Reply Sat 27 Jun, 2009 06:05 am
@OmSigDAVID,
You make good points, OSD... Johnny would more than likely have said something touching about both of them but Conan does have the right to avoid the issue. Maybe he thought it'd be just one more drop in the ocean of news about them, MJ in particular, and he didn't want or need to add to it. At least he didn't tell any tasteless jokes.
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sat 27 Jun, 2009 07:12 am
@Mame,
Mame wrote:

You make good points, OSD... Johnny would more than likely have said something touching about both of them but Conan does have the right to avoid the issue. Maybe he thought it'd be just one more drop in the ocean of news about them, MJ in particular, and he didn't want or need to add to it.

At least he didn't tell any tasteless jokes.

Yes, Mame; at least he had the decency not to tell any tasteless jokes.

I think that it has been customary to offer a salute to a decedent
of the entertainment world. I think at least Farrah had been a guest
on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson; maybe both of them were.

Does anyone know if Letterman said anything ?
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