day 37

beach blanket babylon 4: joke, joke, no-joke, joke

Larry King came up to bat, and started with the most honest statement of the lot, "I did not prepare anything - I never prepare for speeches." It showed. King had nothing at all to contribute. He did good jokes, however. For example, he told about the good old days when he was hired to emcee a charity sponsored by the mob in Miami. Ha, ha. What about the time he went to Miami to lecture on Merchant Marines. Ha, ha. What is his fascination with Miami? Do aimless jokes go over easier in Miami? Things got worse when movie star Richard Dreyfuss took the audience down with the question, "Where is quality, energy, purpose and community?" Reading from a prepared manuscript-- after all, he is just an actor-- Dreyfuss exceeded his 30 minutes, put everyone to sleep, and nearly killed the rock concert. Aiming his left-leaning rhetoric squarely at the well-heeled SV moneymen, he tried to prod them into charity, but it didn't work. These two guests single-handedly made the third major point of the concert: a country that seeks wisdom from its entertainers will be entertained, not enlightened.

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