I'm Sorry
Nov. 30, 2006
You've got to be kidding: Now Danny DeVito, Asbury Park's favorite son, needs to apologize for "inebriated'' verbiage! On Barbara Walters' talk show, Danny slammed President Bush and said he and wife Rhea Perlman got full usage of the Lincoln Bedroom.
Danny admitted on the show he was still feeling the effects of drinking the night (and morning) before with pals. His manager, Stan Rosenfeld, says Danny is calling Barbara to apologize.
Danny has led an impeccable life and career; I can't ever remember he being involved in controversy or nutty behavior. What is it, something weird in the SoCal air?
Here's an idea: Mel Gibson, Michael Richards, Danny (and Hugh Grant, from a few years back) can form the Apologizers Club. And Borat can be their mascot!
You've got to be kidding: Now Danny DeVito, Asbury Park's favorite son, needs to apologize for "inebriated'' verbiage! On Barbara Walters' talk show, Danny slammed President Bush and said he and wife Rhea Perlman got full usage of the Lincoln Bedroom.
Danny admitted on the show he was still feeling the effects of drinking the night (and morning) before with pals. His manager, Stan Rosenfeld, says Danny is calling Barbara to apologize.
Danny has led an impeccable life and career; I can't ever remember he being involved in controversy or nutty behavior. What is it, something weird in the SoCal air?
Here's an idea: Mel Gibson, Michael Richards, Danny (and Hugh Grant, from a few years back) can form the Apologizers Club. And Borat can be their mascot!
posted by Eleanor's blog at 10:13 AM
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Margaret, I remember a LOT of blotto celebs on air. Drinking and smoking was what everyone did a few decades ago, and no one apologized.
Lee Marvin didn't apologize for trying to sing, badly, "I Was Born Under a Wandering Star," three sheets to the wind on, I think, Ed Sullivan, and stumbling just trying to stand upright in front of the host.
Ed McMahon had the reputation of being drunk almost every night on the Tonight Show, didn't he? I think he wasn't in later years, but I suspect that reputation came from somewhere.
I'm not more recalling names off the top of my head, but I recall guests trying to talk to Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin drunk or stoned. Sometimes it was funny; mostly it was pitiful.
I don't get it. Was this a joke he apologized for, or did they really stay in the Lincoln room?
He apologized for the joke, or just for being drunk?
Margaret, yes, I agree re no repercussions. I remember my family laughing at Lee Marvin's pitiful display and marveling why the producers let him go on.
But back then, it was common in even middle-class homes for the bread-winner to come home and have cocktails with his wife -- sometimes more than one cocktail, on an empty stomach and with deep drags on cigarettes. I think we were inured to drunkenness more than we are now.
My parents didn't drink, and I don't often drink, but still, DeVito's being drunk didn't faze me in the least. I don't see why he felt he needed to apologize.
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