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     2003xb9r |
Batman to the end. | ||
| Aesquire |
A pretty good actor who got stuck with being, not type cast, but no cast, like many of the Star Trek actors. Shows how stupid "Hollywood" really is. Batman was a timeless performance, that is actually funnier with the distance of time. Camp holds up, unlike the "serious" tv of the day. A lot of it seems "off" today, as do many of the sitcoms we look back on and remember fondly. I'm not sure if it is that we are less inclined to laugh at stereotypes, ( hah! ) or just feel more guilt when we do, but I'm sure you can think of shows that you liked as a kid, but find uncomfortable today. ( yet, Oddly, over the top stereotype stuff like "Green Acres" is still popular, and still funny ) It's funny, I think of the original Batman TV series, and Andy Warhol & Pogo comes to mind. The joke is us and on us, and it's funny. Adam West did a great job of mocking the genre he was doing with earnest seriousness. His later job as "himself" on Family Guy was both brilliant casting, and a multilevel joke on.... so much. He will be missed. I wish we'd had more of his work to watch. | ||
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| Ltbuell |
...another good one heading upstairs.Loved tv back then than the stupid reality garbage now.I agree with ya,Aesquire, about Green Acres...that was a funny show....if you watch it they sometimes"messed around" with the opening credits and Eddie Albert would interact with it....funny."To the Bat Cave, Robin"....and many other quotes to remember ...always loved the pop up words in the fight scene of an episode...The Batmobile.....before its time,just like the Munster's two cars....great era for custom car builders...do remember building models of all of them as a teenager...was big into that area......LT | ||
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| 86129squids |
...pretty sure the Batmobile is on display up here in Gatlinburg, TN. RIP, Mr. West. | ||
| Etennuly |
My brother and I really enjoyed the Batman show as a kid. Mom always told me if you had nothing good to say about someone, say something really good about someone else. In fairness, meeting a man one time is not the way to base your views on his character. Of the duo Burt Ward, in spite of his ambiguous costume, did some really good things for Adam West. At the World of Wheels car show in Tampa many many years ago, I stood in line with my then teen age kids for an autograph session by both of them as they were there with the Batmobile on a tour. My teen daughter made me stand in line for 'New Kids On The Block' autographs too. Just before signing was to begin, they were both to take a turn addressing the crowd by standing at the podium and speak through a PA system to the crowd of a few hundred who had gathered around them. Less than a third of the crowd for MKOTB. Adam West kind of fell up to the podium and started slurring some jibberish nonsense. Everyone around was stunned and thought his meds were off or something. Burt Ward stepped right up and helped him off the stage to someone behind a curtain. He then got up and made some excuses for Adam's condition. He spoke very well of Adam and of their rolls in the Batman show. Very impressive guy. He signed pictures and autographs in Adam's absents. A little while later I was looking at some outside show cars near the end of the line at the back corner of the building, where the entrance to the stage was. There was several of those actor type dressing room trailer/campers parked there. Poor old Adam with a whiskey bottle in one hand was puking, and Burt was holding him up scolding him for being this way at a speaking event. This was during that time period that after being the super star Batman lead, Adam could not get but some really lame acting jobs. I enjoyed his acting later in his life and always looked for him in movies and TV shows. He may have been a hell of a good guy going through a low period. Having been through some low periods and having been intoxicated a few times myself I can understand. I don't know but what I saw. Burt Ward was a champion. and I have his autograph somewhere. RIP Adam West.  | ||
| Ratbuell |
RIP, Batman. Losing a lot of great ones these days. And I think we feel "guilt" about these older shows, and their "stereotypes", because we've been bludgeoned to death with PC lately. Stereotypes are "mean", and they make people need their safe spaces... | ||
| Court |
Turns out that Adam West wasn't Bat Man . . . he was SUPERMAN. Good for him. | ||
| 86129squids |
Dang, Court, that story was kinda depressing. Sure, I'd like to have done that many hot chicks, but whomever wrote that seemed to have no empathy for the dead. Oh well. Hey Vern- I always knew you were a storyteller, that was a good but kinda sad one. Thanks I guess. Now, we gotta watch Bill Cosby get his. Heck, I grew up on Fat Albert and all that stuff, can't anybody do right?!?! OK then. Glad I have a 55 gallon fishtank, I'm beginning to appreciate it more than the TV and stuff. Windows (REAL ONES) are pretty cool too. | ||
| Midknyte |
http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-importance-of-adam-west -s-bright-knight-batman-1795996797 | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Great documentary on Adam West on Netflix. "To the Bat-poles Robin..." |
