Of his panel, two, including Clarence PAIGE, who once got sL-IMUS to swear on the air he would not use racist jokes and who never got invited back on the circus, were tepidly O.K. with the return. One took a tepid non-confrontational way out, saying sL-IMUS's departure was an opportunity to find somebody younger, funnier, who would not do the dirty sL-IMUS things. Then Pope Howie issued an encyclical, saying that sL-IMUS could return because his failing(s) did not deserve "a life sentence" now that "the spring storm" of media flap over his last (now, "latest") crap "is over."
From "A Face in the Crowd" (by wingnut tool Elia KAZAN) with Andy GRIFFITH as a sL-IMUS type sleezeball, whose career is busted by an on-air exposure of his cynicism and despicable character.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050371/Lonesome Rhodes: Listen, I'm not through yet. You know what's gonna to happen to me?
Mel Miller: Suppose I tell you exactly what's gonna happen to you.
You're gonna be back in television. Only it won't be quite the same as it was before.
There'll be a reasonable cooling-off period and then somebody will say: "Why don't we try him again in a inexpensive format. People's memories aren't too long." And you know, in a way, he'll be right.
Some of the people will forget, and some of them won't. Oh, you'll have a show. Maybe not the best hour or, you know, top 10. Maybe not even in the top 35. But you'll have a show.
It just won't be quite the same as it was before.
Then a couple of new fellas will come along. And pretty soon, a lot of
your fans will be flocking around them. And then one day, somebody'll ask: "
Whatever happened to, a, whatshisname? You know, the one who was so big. The number-one fella a couple of years ago. He was famous. How can we forget a name like that?
Oh by the way, have you seen, a, Barry Mills? I think
he's the greatest thing since Will Rogers."
(Mel turns and starts to leave. Then, he turns back towards Lonesome)
Mel Miller: Beanie!
(Beanie, who is manning
the automatic appalause machine, instinctively pulls the switch,
unleashing a massive abundance of cheers. The machanical jubilation continues as Mel joins Marcia in the waiting elevator, leaving Lonesome alone in the empty penthouse with his broken dreams)
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