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    09/25/09

    In reply to LeVar Burton Did Not Write That Onion Article, Upset Fans
    Props to LeVar Burton. At least he has a sense of humor about this. And the shit was funny.
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    09/25/09

    In reply to LeVar Burton Did Not Write That Onion Article, Upset Fans
    If you really want to make LeVar Burton mad, call him Ben Vereen.
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    09/25/09

    @scroll_lock: Or ask him if things are going well since the eye surgery. (Hi Geordi!)
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    09/25/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: I always praise LeVar's role as "Chicken" George in Roots.
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    09/25/09

    @scroll_lock: Loved him in Pippin and Superstar.
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    09/25/09

    In reply to LeVar Burton Did Not Write That Onion Article, Upset Fans
    it's funny, I only knew of Levar Burton from his appearances on $25,000 Pyramid, usually following a dirty double-entendre couplet from Nipsey Russell..
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    09/25/09

    @lobstr: Pyramid was the game show equivalent of Fantasy Island or Love Boat - where hasbeens went to die.
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    09/24/09

    In reply to LeVar Burton Did Not Write That Onion Article, Upset Fans
    I am totally on board with Ellen taking the reins of Girls Gone Wild from Joe Francis.
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    Image of Tedsallis Tedsallis
    09/24/09

    In reply to LeVar Burton Did Not Write That Onion Article, Upset Fans
    Here's a bit of trivia for you on LeVar Burton. Guy's a total dousche nozzle. At an even in Atlanta a few years back he was asked for ID when trying to write a check and flipped the frak out over it. Maybe if he had put an air filter over his eyes.........
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    Image of Cunning_Linguist Cunning_Linguist
    09/24/09

    @Tedsallis: Well that's certainly enough evidence.
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    09/24/09

    In reply to LeVar Burton Did Not Write That Onion Article, Upset Fans
    Is it only lesbians who can escape prison terms for that? Fat middle-aged white guys always end up doing 3 years for that kind of stuff.
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    09/24/09

    @raincoaster: You don't understand the average age of college students, do you..
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    09/24/09

    In reply to LeVar Burton Did Not Write That Onion Article, Upset Fans
    I think we have to recognize that we failed as a society somewhere along the way in the fact that Jennifer 8 continues to call herself that.
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    09/24/09

    @soonbanned & @The Fake Santa Claus: My 82 year old mother, Dorothy Smith, has begun calling herself .smith.
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    09/24/09

    In reply to LeVar Burton Did Not Write That Onion Article, Upset Fans
    Oh I can imagine Anderson Cooper pulling anything off of me he wants.
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    09/24/09

    @ampersandparade: Anderson Cooper is yesterday's cookies. Today is all about Jon King.
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    09/24/09

    @ampersandparade: Imagining Anderson Cooper is what pulls my clothes off of me.
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    07/08/09

    In reply to What Not to Wear to Michael Jackson's Memorial Service
    How did LeVar Burton get an invite, was he one of the lucky ticket holders?
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    07/07/09

    In reply to What Not to Wear to Michael Jackson's Memorial Service
    I'm finding it slightly more offensive that Levar is Tweeting from a FUNERAL??????? granted, it's a spectacle of epic proportions, but seriously, put the fucking cell phone down, please.
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    07/08/09

    @shag_carpet_bomb: Not to rationalize on his behalf, but it's not like he did it at Forest Lawn in front of the family; he did it at a 20,000 seat arena, possibly even in the parking lot before or after.
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    07/07/09

    In reply to What Not to Wear to Michael Jackson's Memorial Service
    I wonder how many people dressed up like David Carradine at his funeral? Wig, pantyhose and noose?
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    07/07/09

    In reply to What Not to Wear to Michael Jackson's Memorial Service
    Feldman's Wikipedia page (currently) has an image of him at '89 Oscars wearing a Jackson-esque ensemble. What's the deal with this? Is Feldman wearing clothes that were gifted to him by MJ? The more I see of this, the more it confuses me.


    Also, the woman behind him and to the left seems as mystified as Burton and myself.

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    07/07/09

    @Senator Sully: I believe during Feldman's "music career" he not only aped the dress but musical style of Jackson. Since Jackson's death he's been spotted wearing Jacko inspired clothes, today being hopefully the end.
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    07/07/09

    @jorel845:

    I get that it's fame-whoring to a large extent, but how close were the two in actuality? Did Jackson groom Feldman with regards to music and styling? Feldman must have felt he had some sort of entitlement or permission to get away with that.

    Or chutzpah.

    Yeah, on second thought... it's chutzpah.
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    07/07/09

    @Senator Sully: I thought the Coreys (or maybe just Feldman) were sort of the precursors to Macauley Culkin, no? I mean, as far as young people MJ spent an unusual amount of time with.
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    07/09/09

    @Senator Sully: Corey has admitted that he had self esteem problems as a kid and latched onto MJ as a role model, which explains the imitation. Then they had a falling out after 9/11 because apparently MJ wouldn't offer him a ride out of the city or something. Corey defended MJ on Larry King during the 2005 trial but still seemed bitter about the falling out. Yeah, I know way too much about that.


    Given all that, the MJ garb here is kind of oddly touching to me.

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    Image of TheMac TheMac
    07/07/09

    In reply to What Not to Wear to Michael Jackson's Memorial Service
    LeVar's been pretty uptight since he was forced to wear that futuristic interactive eyewear.
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