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Summary: THE RODNEY DANGERFIELD ELEGY
Review: THE RODNEY DANGERFIELD ELEGY:
ROOTS SOMBER TO THE COMEDIAN
Copyright(C)2004 Amy Spanel (Thurs 10/07/04 written)
To Be Read With: A Yiddish Inflection!! :) :)
For "Respect!" Your schtik, the hook, the net, the internet.
We fret: cold and absent parents, our regret.
The Vaudeville father, your VaudeVILLAIN--
My doctor dad, his heart-- total chillin'.
Be glad, my heart, not I amongst your women!
Similar themes to my brazen generation:
Rodney-- you seemed an older version--
Sex...Drugs..DUH! Recreation.
We may infer a bastard blend:
From that devastating, durable neglect.
Perhaps BEING a bastard-- with dad the villain--
Only faith in "Abba!" could make us content.
Our faith in Daddy-God is so much harda--
Here on-earth without godly Fatha--
Where is that Love And Approval?
Rodney, you did fine-- for decades doing aluminum.
The '60s found you getting your applause: again
Doing stand-up-- like a vagabond boy in daddy's shoes.
Absent as a hobo he was-- then, the groupies and "ho's"--
Soon showed-up-- your terrain from Success' train.
With all that, whence The Applause-- from Daddy, again?
IT ISN'T EASY BEIN' ME-- perhaps easier a bastard to be.
The book came out-- its release-- your autobiography.
Sometime we shall also see the movie/ or TV release.
The Jewish religion enabled the name of JACOB COHEN.
"Whacky" early-on became the name
For behavior odd, odder, and odden--
From a boy so lonesome and downtrodden.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD-- a name not forgotten--
For the boy treated so shabby and shodden.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD!-- became the man, the comedian--
With huge, dilated pupils-- his demeana.
Pop Goes The Weasel! Pop Goes The Champagne Bottle!
Rodney, your mean life--went without--the love of POP! nor Fatha.
Green, blue, and cute-- how could anyone not know you?
Pop went those eyes-- your release to The Father.
Whether in Hell or Heaven, take this Jewish son, this leaven--
JACOB COHEN-- and show him what Earth has not shown:
The love of Father, thy rod, thy staff-- not cruel--
Thy discipline to be His favored tool.
--By AMY SPANEL--
Thurs 10/07/04 written
Copyright(c) 2004 Amy Spanel
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Summary: Rodney Jr.
Review: This book gives me a whole new outlook on a guy who truly deserves respect. It's is amazing he lived as long as he did wit hall the booze ,broads,drugs and smoking. Hey I'll tell ya, if I don't have a drink and a broad soon i am gonna go out of my mind... ;-) You Rock!!
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Summary: Final Respects
Review: This book is a great monument to Rodney Dangerfield's memory. It is honest, earthy, filled with stories of his pain and the jokes he told that relieved everyone else's pain. The book is a goldmine of one-liners. I mean it as a tribute to say I wish there had been more material about some of the movies.
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Summary: nothing like dangerfield's humor
Review: This man takes pain and tragedy and turns it into artistic humor. Dangerfield's personality resonates throughout this book, and while you are laughing, you are reading his autobiography.
Hilarious.
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Summary: Rodney Gives Readers "One of These..."
Review: Very dear Jacob, Jack, Rodney, 35-year friend,You always had your audiences' respect. Now with the writing of IT'S NOT EASY BEIN' ME (Harper 2004), I return this dedication to you for your brilliant reasoning ability, deep sensitivity of the human condition, and schoolteacher jokes. You've kept this Chicago professor in performance speaking laughing and very happy for years. What a loving couple you and Joan make.
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Summary: God gives Rodney "One of these..." October 5, 2004
Review: Very dear Jacob, Jack, Rodney, life-long guide,
You live among your five stars now.
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