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That hurts.
His standup always amazed me. The storytelling and feeling behind everything had substance compared to the trite one-liners of peers. I always regretted not making one of his appearances.
No mention of Silver Streak in that obit. I wouldn't call all his comedy movies great but he & Wilder really seemed to enjoy working together.
R.I.P., Richard. You're already missed.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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