Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Ya know, if this guy for some reason wanted to get in the spotlight again and get a post-"Seinfeld" 15 minutes of fame, he sure got it. This is all over every news and tabloid show here at work, not to mention having been immortalized on YouTube and tmz.com. Enjoy the 15 now Richards, cause people are sayin' it's the last taste of fame you'll see.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling Wow. I hadn't had a chance to watch this before and I just saw it for the first time right now. .... Wow. I just don't see how you recover from that.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan <a href="http://mb.laughingplace.com/default.asp?WCI=MsgBoard&WCE=T-81933-P-1&Refresh=1121230654" target="_blank">http://mb.laughingplace.com/de fault.asp?WCI=MsgBoard&WCE=T-81933-P-1&Refresh=1121230654</a>
Originally Posted By Pirate Mickey It all depends on who is looking for that 15 minutes of fame: >>How do you know it was not a setup? Anyone can go to a comedy club or a concert and heckle a celebrity and push their buttons and provoke them until they flip out. Then a friend can video tape the whole thing and sell it to the nearest tabloid or website like TMZ or whoever is willing to pay the most for the video. Regular people like you and I have been yelled at and provoked until we can't take it any longer and we say things we shouldn't have. Maybe this is what happened to "Kramer". Maybe he could have been set up. I can believe that happening. What Richards said was stupid and wrong and he should apologize and make ammends. But this can and will happen again. A lot of people have video cams or cell phone cameras now. If people wan't to make a quick buck and get their 15 minutes of fame they will go to where the celebrities are, like the paparazzi, and try to provoke an incident and get it on tape. Sadly, for some, it is the in thing to do. To take down a celebrity, watch him or her meltdown, then sell the video, get interviewed on tv and get associated with someone famous so that in a strange way they feel famous too. And TMZ.com more often then not will be the first ones there with their cameras and reporters to cash in on it. (Mel Gibson) Don't be surprised if in a few weeks or months we see another celebrity meltdown which was provoked and it gets all over the news. This wasn't the first time a celibrity was humiliated and then went too far and made it worse and it won't be the last.<<
Originally Posted By debtee They showed it on our news last night as well, the full coverage with subtitles just in case we missed what he said verbally! They also subtitled the hecklers and what they were saying too! World News!
Originally Posted By Rsey103 On her website blog Margaret Cho writes that she doesn't know Richards but that she has twice seen him out at events in the past, and both times she remembers him angry and yelling at somebody...
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Tall... that is OLD news. When was the last time you read a newspaper or watched Entertainment Tonight?
Originally Posted By ewenome TDLFAN... I agree that it is "OLD news," which is probably why Tall started this topic November 21 when the story first broke. Rsey103 brought this topic back to the top with her recent post. But gotta love your condescending reply anyway!
Originally Posted By TDLFAN HAHAHA!!! I concede I wasn't looking at that since all posts here showed as "NEW" on my PC! My Bad. But then again, I am so good at being bad...
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 Have any of us actually seen Michael Richards and TDLFAN in the same room together? Just askin'...
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Yeah, yeah...you didn't even know who Kelly Ripa or Clay Aiken were. ;-)
Originally Posted By JohnS1 In this case, however, it was a humorous attempt to imply that he is now a nobody and box-office poison. Not that he did too much after Seinfeld anyway. Although, I did rather like that movie where he was the ditzy relative of some kid. Can't recall the name of the flick.
Originally Posted By SuperDry For those of you not fans of Curb Your Enthusiasm, they addressed this incident in a recent episode. The plot line for this season is that the Seinfeld cast is getting together to make a "reunion" show, so you have all the various Seinfeld actors playing themselves as actors on the set of Seinfeld (kind of confusing at first). In the scene linked to below, Michael Richards interacts with a black man (who incidentally is dressed as he is because he's pretending to be a Jewish CPA - which in of itself is a long story and not really relevant - but it's the basis for the first misunderstanding in the scene). Keep in mind as you watch that although Richards is dressed as Kramer and has Kramer's hairstyle, he's actually playing himself, Michael Richards, on the studio backlot and not Kramer. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktZde2tEK1Y" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...de2tEK1Y</a>
