By Grand Rapids Anonymous
sunday, june 11, 2023 at 11:36:00 p.m. edt
“(zh) leftist firebrand Cornel West launched a third-party presidential campaign last week, and some democrats are uneasy over his potential to sow democrat discontent with Joe Biden and potentially play the spoiler in 2024, politico reports.
“West is running as the first-ever presidential candidate of the people’s party, a progressive group formed in 2017 by a former campaign staffer for Bernie Sanders. in a video announcing his candidacy, West said he was running under the people’s party banner because ‘neither political party wants to tell the truth about wall street, about the ukraine, about the pentagon, about big tech.”
“I am running for truth and justice as a presidential candidate for the people’s party to reintroduce America to the best of itself - fighting to end poverty, mass incarceration, ending wars and ecological collapse, guaranteeing housing, health care, education and living wages for…”
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— Cornel West (@CornelWest) June 5, 2023
GRA: We’re exposing the truth to this particular story—that it is NOT Cornel West, but veteran actor Whitman Mayo again taking on the persona of West—as he did years ago.
Redd Foxx, who played Fred Sanford—Grady’s best friend on the 70s’ sitcom, Sanford and Son—called Mayo “a good guy—and he was a great Grady—but now, he’s taken this Cornel West thing too damn far.”
In 2021, Mayo received kudos for his impersonation of West on such shows as Tucker Carlson Tonight and cnn primetime, where, for three years, he fooled the networks and viewers into thinking he WAS West. Mayo never admitted that fact publicly, just smiling broadly, when asked.
Demond Wilson(Lamont Sanford) was quoted as saying, “If you liked him as Grady, you’ll love him as the White-hating West. They could be twins. It’s performance art at its best.”
The whereabouts of the actual Cornel West are unknown.
--GRA
4 comments:
So is Grady an imitation of the West boy or is it the other way around? Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
Great question--chicken and the egg.Without a West,Whitman Mayo would have no one to imitate(for art's sake of course).
--GRA
"WHEEL OF FORTUNE" HOST,PAT SAJAK WILL RETIRE AFTER 2023-2024 SEASON.
GRA:A throwback to when people had some wit and adlibbing ability.His hero was Jack Paar.They were a lot alike,humorwise.
(Dailymail.com)Pat Sajak says he is retiring from Wheel of Fortune after more than four decades.
'Well, the time has come,' the popular host, 76, said in a tweet Monday. 'I’ve decided that our 41st season, which begins in September, will be my last.
He continued: 'It’s been a wonderful ride, and I’ll have more to say in the coming months. Many thanks to you all. (If nothing else, it’ll keep the clickbait sites busy!)'
A tweet from the long-running game show read: 'Thank you to the best host in the biz. Wheel of Fortune would not be what it is today without you, Pat. Looking forward to Season 41 being better than ever!'
According to iMDb Monday, Sajak has hosted 7748 episodes of the nighttime edition of the series to date from 1983–2023.
Sajak's longtime costar on the popular game show, Vanna White, 66, had not yet addressed his departure from the series on her Instagram or Twitter accounts as of Monday afternoon.
Suzanne Prete, the executive vice president of game shows for Sony Pictures Television, issued a statement saying, 'As the host of Wheel of Fortune, Pat has entertained millions of viewers across America for 40 amazing years.
'We are incredibly grateful and proud to have had Pat as our host for all these years and we look forward to celebrating his outstanding career throughout the upcoming season.'
Prete said that Sajak 'has agreed to continue as a consultant on the show for three years following his last year hosting,' adding, 'We're thrilled to have him remaining close to the Wheel of Fortune family!'
Sajak has hosted the nighttime edition of the show with White since 1983. He got his start as host of the daytime series beginning in 1981, exiting that edition to host his own late night series in 1989. The daytime edition was canceled in 1991.
He has been been nominated for Daytime Emmys 22 times for his hosting efforts on the series and its spinoffs, winning three times. In 2011, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on the TV staple.
Sajak has been a consistent presence on the long-running series over the duration of his four decades at the helm, rarely missing a show.
In an instance in November of 1996 when he was battling laryngitis, he and White swapped duties for the episode.
--GRA
ACTOR TREAT WILLIAMS--VERY FAMOUS IN THE 70S AND 80S--TAKES ONE MOTORCYCLE RIDE TOO MANY;FATALLY HIT WHILE DRIVING IT NEAR HIS HOME
(Deadline)
Treat Williams, the actor best known for playing Dr. Andy Brown on the Greg Berlanti-produced Everwood, has died, Deadline has confirmed. The actor was killed in a motorcycle accident in Dorset, Vermont. He was 71.
Jack Gribble, the fire chief for Dorset, told People that the accident happened around 5 p.m. ET and involved Williams’ motorcycle and a single car, the driver of which apparently didn’t see Williams. He was the only person hurt in the crash. A helicopter was called to airlift him to a hospital.
His first big break came when he auditioned for a road company for Grease.
“I came back and they put me on Broadway as the understudy to four of the male leads, including John Travolta and Jeff Conaway,” Williams told Vermont magazine. “I covered Teen Angel, Doody, Danny Zuko, and Roger. Within two weeks, I was on Broadway performing. It was a baptism by fire, but it was great.”
He made his film debut in the 1975 thriller Deadly Hero. The following year he played a supporting role in The Ritz and also appeared in John Sturges’ The Eagle Has Landed. His big-screen breakthrough came in 1979, when he starred as George Berger in Miloš Forman’s Hair, based on the 1967 Broadway musical. Williams was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the film.
The actor’s other big-screen work includes Steven Spielberg’s 1941 (1979), Sidney Lumet’s Prince of the City (1981), Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time In America (1984), Dead Heat (1988), Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead (1995) and Deep Rising (1998).
Williams posted online about life in Vermont often, sharing photos on social media of his farm and appreciation for the area.
On TV, Williams’ career stretched back 40 years to a starring role in the 1983 TV movie Dempsey about the former heavyweight champ to whom the actor bore more than a passing resemblance. He followed up with two more TV movies: A Streetcar Named Desire (1984), in which he played Stanley Kowalski and J. Edgar Hoover (1987), in which he played the titular G-man. Dozens more TV movies followed, with a few series interspersed, before Everwood came along. Most notably there was Good Advice with Shelly Long, which ran on CBS for two seasons from 1993-1994.
More-recently Williams appeared in a six-episode arc on Blue Bloods as Lenny Ross and in the Hallmark Channel’s Chesapeake Shores from 2016-2022.
--GRA
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