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Lately all I read about is death and dying or illness and new diseases, and it seems the young and completely healthy are the ones more vulnerable. I was listening to beautiful song online from a black Panamanian singer who had such lovely, smooth voice and made the song a hit in early 1980's. I only recently found out he'd died 4 years ago and looked him up to see cause of death. He was 61 yrs of age, had had a stroke and less than a year later died of pneumonia in his home while eating breakfast. Last week I was also surprised to see many other singers from same period who have already passed away, none a day over 62 or 63. All having had normal, non-drug, non bizarre type lives.
As I'm reading about the Panamanian singer I read news on same online paper, saying that the young and beautiful Peruvian former Miss Universe contestant has said she too (like Angelina Jolie) has had double mastectomy because her mom died of breast cancer and her sister is battling cancer as well.
Beautiful and healthy-looking Christina Applegate has had mastectomy couple of years ago. Now, in less than two weeks we learn actress Bonnie Franklin died of cancer, Valerie Harper and Karen Black also have terminal cancer. Funny and beautiful Sophia Vergara says she gets panic attacks in which filming of her show has to stop, all because of her previous thyroid cancer operation and feeling that the cancer will come back. Dancing w/ the Stars' Brooke Burke has just been operated for thyroid cancer also.
I've posted similar question over a year ago and people with scientific knowledge tell me, "No way. People used to have more disease and died younger centuries back!" Granted that is the case, but isn't science supposed to have advanced so much? If so, why are there many more new diseases (not counting viruses and bacterias which science discovers often); I refer ONLY to people simply developing either an unusual or unknown disease or simply getting cancer, parkinson, lupus, muscular dystrophy, Lou Gherig's, leukemia, alzheimers', multiple sclerosis, etc., etc.
P.S. Only 10 or 15 years ago we kept pointing to Africa and underdeveloped nations and saying "We need to help find cure for disease in third world countries."
It seems where disease is concerned we're ALL third world countries now?
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What do you mean: "Life is so fragile!". You really have a skewed outlook. In days of old 3 or 4 out of 5 births were dead on arrival. That's why life expectancy was less back then. In case you haven't noticed there are 7 BILLION people on the planet. They find life at underwater volcanoes. Under Antarctic ice. Hardly fragile. How about Harry Morgan who lived to 98 or something. Betty White is 98 or 99. George Burns almost made a 100. There will be disease and death always. And this focus on celebrities is strange in itself, they are hardly representative of the population and they are not superhuman or anything. I mean how much coke can you snort till it catches up to you.
What do you mean: "Life is so fragile!". You really have a skewed outlook. In days of old 3 or 4 out of 5 births were dead on arrival. That's why life expectancy was less back then. In case you haven't noticed there are 7 BILLION people on the planet. They find life at underwater volcanoes. Under Antarctic ice. Hardly fragile. How about Harry Morgan who lived to 98 or something. Betty White is 98 or 99. George Burns almost made a 100. There will be disease and death always. And this focus on celebrities is strange in itself, they are hardly representative of the population and they are not superhuman or anything. I mean how much coke can you snort till it catches up to you.
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Q. Comedy over the past decades
Comedy shows are really popular among today generation. People have been watching comedy shows since the beginning of television. There are a few comedy shows that have become legends along with the actors who starred in them. âThe Mary Tyler Moore Showâ, was popular in the 1970âs, âCheersâ, in 1980âs, and âSeinfeldâ, in the late 1990âand into the new century. The main characters from âCheersâ were Sam Malone (Ted Damson), Norm Peterson (George Wendt), Carla Tortelli (Rhea Perlman), Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson), and Diane Chambers (Shelly Long). The characters from âThe Mary Tyler Moore Showâ, were Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore), Ted Knight (Ted Baxter), Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie Harper), Lou Grant (Ed Asner), and, Murray Slaughter (Gavin McLeod). The âSeinfeldâ characters are Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld), George Costanza (Jason Alexander), Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards). All these shows express some kind of humor. Although broadcast in different time periods, these shows all express similarities.
Sarcasm is an important characteristic in comedy. It is primarily used in humorous manner to insult another person. This has held true no matter what era the comedy show originally aired. For example, Murray is the mocking character in âThe Mary Tyler Moore Show.â His main work in the news station seems to be to make fun of people in cynical way. When a female of Spanish descent is hired on the show Ted, another regular character, remarks to her that he is fluent in Spanish. Murray overhears the remark and asks, âHow could you be fluent in Spanish? Youâre not fluent in English!â Norm is a regular sardonic character from the show âCheersâ, who made fun of a girl named Gretchen that was brought by Diana as a date for Sam the bartender. At the bar when she caustically asks Norm (who is looking at her), âWhat are you looking at you endomorph?â Norm replies very politely, âNothing sir.â Jerry, the main character in âSeinfeldâ displays his wit in a conversation with a clerk at a car rental agency. After a long drawn out conversation the woman states with heavy emphasis that not everyone can take a reservation implying that she has some special capabilities. Jerry one ups her when he replies, âAnybody can take reservations, and you just donât know how to hold a reservation!â
Dumb characters that are sometimes actually quite clever are another characteristic of comedy. They do or say stupid things to get attention. Carla, who is waitress on the show âCheersâ, is one example of the dumb yet vulnerable character. This is shown in an exchange with Norm when he asks he how are her kids are doing? She replies, âTwo of them are ugly, ones is obnoxious and ones just stupid. He is my favorite.â Then there is just plain dumb. In the âMary Tyler Moore Showâ, Mary and Rhoda are talking to Steveâs roommate. After learning that Mary works at a news station, the roommate asks, âOh! You work in news station; do you watch a lot of TV?â Today many television shows rely heavily on sex for comedic content. On âSeinfeldâ, for instance, the dumb character is sitting in the restaurant with his friends. He sees a guy and describes him as a hot guy. He expresses this by saying, âThere is a guy in my sexual fantasy!â
Mistaken identity is always good for a laugh. Coach, a bartender on âCheersâ was used in a episode in this manner. One day he overhears a woman at the bar to tell Carla, waiters at Cheers that Brandee, with two âeâsâ is there. Coach looks at a bottle of brandy and states, âHuh, theyâve been spelling it wrong all these years.â Comparisons can be made funny as in âSeinfeldâ when Jerry told George to approach a beautiful woman at parking lot. He tells George, âShe is like an expensive car with one of those motion sensor force field alarms. Any sudden movement in area could set her off. Same kind of characteristics takes place in the Mary Tyler Moore show too when Lou met his brother in law. During conversation with his brother- in âlaw bill described Lou to his girlfriend by sayingâ âhe is my wonderful guyâ.
These shows have many similarities in characters that are in the shows. Time has not caused any affect on all these shows. They show same kind of humor including sarcasm, dumbness and identity. Comedy is still the same and only difference is that the modern shows are more superior now.
Mistaken identity is always good for a laugh. Coach, a bartender on âCheersâ was used in an episode in this manner. One day he overhears a woman at the bar to tell Carla, waiters at Cheers that Brandee, with two âeâsâ is there. Coach looks at a bottle of brandy and states, âHuh, theyâve been spelling it wrong all these years.â
Comparisons can be made funny as in âSeinfeldâ when Jerry told George to approach a beautiful woman at parking lot. He tells George, âShe is like an expensive car with one of those motion sensor force field alarms. Any sudden movement in area could set her off.â
Same kind of characteristics takes place in âThe Mary Tyler Moore Showâ too such as when Lou met his brother in law. During conversation with his brother- in âlaw bill described Lou to his girlfriend by saying, âhe is my wonderful guyâ.
These shows have many character similarities. They show same kind of humor including sarcasm, dumbness and identity. Comedy has remained the same since the beginning of television until now. The jokes might change in content, but the characteristics remain the same because people remain the same. Only our environment has changed. As the unbroken broadcasting of âI Love Lucyâ worldwide has shown, time does not change the fact that we can all understand and laugh at comedy because we are actually laughing at ourselves.
Comedy shows are really popular among today generation. People have been watching comedy shows since the beginning of television. There are a few comedy shows that have become legends along with the actors who starred in them. âThe Mary Tyler Moore Showâ, was popular in the 1970âs, âCheersâ, in 1980âs, and âSeinfeldâ, in the late 1990âand into the new century. The main characters from âCheersâ were Sam Malone (Ted Damson), Norm Peterson (George Wendt), Carla Tortelli (Rhea Perlman), Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson), and Diane Chambers (Shelly Long). The characters from âThe Mary Tyler Moore Showâ, were Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore), Ted Knight (Ted Baxter), Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie Harper), Lou Grant (Ed Asner), and, Murray Slaughter (Gavin McLeod). The âSeinfeldâ characters are Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld), George Costanza (Jason Alexander), Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards). All these shows express some kind of humor. Although broadcast in different time periods, these shows all express similarities.
Sarcasm is an important characteristic in comedy. It is primarily used in humorous manner to insult another person. This has held true no matter what era the comedy show originally aired. For example, Murray is the mocking character in âThe Mary Tyler Moore Show.â His main work in the news station seems to be to make fun of people in cynical way. When a female of Spanish descent is hired on the show Ted, another regular character, remarks to her that he is fluent in Spanish. Murray overhears the remark and asks, âHow could you be fluent in Spanish? Youâre not fluent in English!â Norm is a regular sardonic character from the show âCheersâ, who made fun of a girl named Gretchen that was brought by Diana as a date for Sam the bartender. At the bar when she caustically asks Norm (who is looking at her), âWhat are you looking at you endomorph?â Norm replies very politely, âNothing sir.â Jerry, the main character in âSeinfeldâ displays his wit in a conversation with a clerk at a car rental agency. After a long drawn out conversation the woman states with heavy emphasis that not everyone can take a reservation implying that she has some special capabilities. Jerry one ups her when he replies, âAnybody can take reservations, and you just donât know how to hold a reservation!â
Dumb characters that are sometimes actually quite clever are another characteristic of comedy. They do or say stupid things to get attention. Carla, who is waitress on the show âCheersâ, is one example of the dumb yet vulnerable character. This is shown in an exchange with Norm when he asks he how are her kids are doing? She replies, âTwo of them are ugly, ones is obnoxious and ones just stupid. He is my favorite.â Then there is just plain dumb. In the âMary Tyler Moore Showâ, Mary and Rhoda are talking to Steveâs roommate. After learning that Mary works at a news station, the roommate asks, âOh! You work in news station; do you watch a lot of TV?â Today many television shows rely heavily on sex for comedic content. On âSeinfeldâ, for instance, the dumb character is sitting in the restaurant with his friends. He sees a guy and describes him as a hot guy. He expresses this by saying, âThere is a guy in my sexual fantasy!â
Mistaken identity is always good for a laugh. Coach, a bartender on âCheersâ was used in a episode in this manner. One day he overhears a woman at the bar to tell Carla, waiters at Cheers that Brandee, with two âeâsâ is there. Coach looks at a bottle of brandy and states, âHuh, theyâve been spelling it wrong all these years.â Comparisons can be made funny as in âSeinfeldâ when Jerry told George to approach a beautiful woman at parking lot. He tells George, âShe is like an expensive car with one of those motion sensor force field alarms. Any sudden movement in area could set her off. Same kind of characteristics takes place in the Mary Tyler Moore show too when Lou met his brother in law. During conversation with his brother- in âlaw bill described Lou to his girlfriend by sayingâ âhe is my wonderful guyâ.
These shows have many similarities in characters that are in the shows. Time has not caused any affect on all these shows. They show same kind of humor including sarcasm, dumbness and identity. Comedy is still the same and only difference is that the modern shows are more superior now.
Mistaken identity is always good for a laugh. Coach, a bartender on âCheersâ was used in an episode in this manner. One day he overhears a woman at the bar to tell Carla, waiters at Cheers that Brandee, with two âeâsâ is there. Coach looks at a bottle of brandy and states, âHuh, theyâve been spelling it wrong all these years.â
Comparisons can be made funny as in âSeinfeldâ when Jerry told George to approach a beautiful woman at parking lot. He tells George, âShe is like an expensive car with one of those motion sensor force field alarms. Any sudden movement in area could set her off.â
Same kind of characteristics takes place in âThe Mary Tyler Moore Showâ too such as when Lou met his brother in law. During conversation with his brother- in âlaw bill described Lou to his girlfriend by saying, âhe is my wonderful guyâ.
These shows have many character similarities. They show same kind of humor including sarcasm, dumbness and identity. Comedy has remained the same since the beginning of television until now. The jokes might change in content, but the characteristics remain the same because people remain the same. Only our environment has changed. As the unbroken broadcasting of âI Love Lucyâ worldwide has shown, time does not change the fact that we can all understand and laugh at comedy because we are actually laughing at ourselves.
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