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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 11:17 am
You would think it would but it doesn't seem that way. Aside, from it being appalling, I can't believe that he would do something so stupid like that. When something like this occurs, it's very difficult for me to watch a character and separate that character from the real life actor.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 11:20 am
Jimmer... I completely agree with you....I was listening to a local radio station (Los Angeles, Ca) and a caller called in and said that he is a cameraman who has worked with Michael Richards previously, and he often loses his temper and shouts, had happened to this particular caller...said he said racial hateful things, all because he thought the camera angle was too low.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 11:36 am
He's pretty well known for his method acting, and he would often get angry on the Seinfeld set, when people would waste takes with giggling or not finishing the take. The video was sent to me, but I am afraid to watch it. I don't want to hear it. After Seinfeld, he doesn't really have that great of a career, IMO.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 11:36 am
Classes divided by race Dallas Morning News For years, it was an open secret at North Dallas' Preston Hollow Elementary School: Even though the school was overwhelmingly Hispanic and black, white parents could get their children into all-white classes. And once placed, the students would have little interaction with the rest of the students. The result, a federal judge has ruled, was that principal Teresa Parker "was, in effect, operating, at taxpayer's expense, a private school for Anglo children within a public school that was predominantly minority." Judge Sam Lindsay's opinion paints an unflattering picture of the elementary school and a principal who was so desperate to appease the school's affluent white parents that she turned back the clock on school desegregation 50 years. In April, Hispanic parents sued, claiming illegal segregation. The three-week trial concluded in late August. On Thursday, Judge Lindsay declared that the school's principal violated the rights of minority children by assigning them to classrooms based on race. [...]
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 12:00 pm
Are we regressing or what?
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 12:01 pm
Tish, I saw that on the news the other night. That area is, for the most part, very upper class.
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 3:17 pm
I think both of those things are the most digusting things I have seen in a long long while. Richards should be so ashamed and I hope he never has a career again. That principal should be fired and never allowed to run any kind of school again. When people are allowed to do that kind of thing and not face repercussions(sp) then it just opens the door for someone else to do the same. Makes me sick.
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 4:59 pm
i was shocked to hear about Richards. his comments couldn't be more hateful. also shocked that the laugh factory allowed him back the next day. the LF said he was allowed back because he said he would apologize. he did not apologize. either way, why would the LF allow him back the next day? now the LF is saying he is banned until he apologizes. apology or not, who would want to go see him perform after that? seinfeld will be on letterman tonight. kramer will be on too. he apologizes tonight on letterman.(kramer is at the CBS studio/Television City). eta: seinfeld has issued a statement. basically he feels terrible about it.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 5:05 pm
Is he apologizing for saying those things or for it being filmed.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 5:09 pm
my thoughts exactly, Mocha. He's apologizing for the fuss, not the actions.
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 5:10 pm
http://cbs2.com/topstories/topstories_story_324192351.html mocha, i think he is apologizing because he knows he has to since it was filmed on stage, and shown on the internet.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 5:11 pm
Well I certainly do not accept his apology.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 5:28 pm
he still tried to justify it, in his freaking half baked apology ... for pete's sake ...
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 5:30 pm
Mocha I think you'll be at the front of a very long line. This whole thing is just repulsive.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 5:31 pm
quote:Richards retorted: "Shut up! Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a f------ fork up your a--."

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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 5:33 pm
And he says he's not a racist. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 6:16 pm
i just called the laugh factory. i asked why richards was allowed back the next night. why, after he didn't apologize, he wasn't escorted off stage. i was told the LF thought he would apologize before he finished. i was told he's now banned from the LF , whether he apologizes or not. (tonight is latin night at the club, i wonder what paul rodriguez will have to say.)
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 6:42 pm
I just saw the utube...I am shocked!!!! but I gotta say when we went to Seinfeld taping he was kinda an ass, he wouldnt talk to anyone and in between takes the others joked and talked but he went backstage..he is very method. He just threw what little career he had left down the drain...he will never recover from this, it was appaling.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 6:55 pm
I heard Richards will be on Leno and Seinfeld is on Letterman(pre scheduled apperance) but I read up above they are both on Letterman, does anyone know for sure I agree I am just as shocked the LF let him back next nite, I think they are only saying he is banned now cuz this has made news. I thought Paul Rodriguez owns the LF
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 6:57 pm
Mojo, those pics tear my heart apart and to think they happened not all that long ago
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Chewpito
Member
01-04-2004
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 7:00 pm
What the heck...This is just messed up...It will be almost imposible for me to ever watch the sienfeld show again.....Sick, Sick, Sick...
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 7:35 pm
Mocha, those pictures.. well, I'm supposed to be packing and instead found myself googling one of the shameful events in my parents' (and aunts, uncles, etc.,) hometown of Marion, Indiana where a huge lynch mob dragged three young men out of jail and two were hung (the third was saved when a voice cried out that he hadn't DONE the rape, it hadn't happened). This has been widely publicized because it was filmed (and photographed) and it happened in 1930. My parents would have been around 16 at that time. I also was told by my mom that no one talked about it, but my great uncle was a KKK member AND the mayor of his town of Peru, Indiana. Indiana was a real hotbed of the KKK, for those who think it was only in the south. Anyway... just bowing my head and shedding a tear, here. As for this incident last night, hopefully it will open up some dialog, no, not with the guy who caused it, but with others who will speak with their feet and their pocketbooks and be careful of who they support.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 8:28 pm
just saw Paul Rodriquez say that he would no longer be welcome at laugh factory. that people came to see mark richards and saw mark furman ...
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 8:29 pm
then why did he let him come back next day?
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, November 20, 2006 - 8:30 pm
supposedly because he said he'd apologize on stage
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