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<font size=3>At 09:01 PM 10/6/2004, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">NO RESPECT<br><br>
In the late 1960s, I saw my first live television show--the Ed Sullivan
show.<br>
The guest was Rodney Dangerfield. My mother had told me about his
"no<br>
respect" theme. I'm sure Rodney used "no respect" on the
Ed Sullivan show that I saw,<br>
and probably several times before Sullivan's show went off the air in
1971.<br><br>
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The Ed Sullivan Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia... The Ed
Sullivan<br>
Show was a television variety show that ran from June 20, 1948, to June
6, 1971,<br>
and was hosted by Ed Sullivan. ...<br>
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Two only vaguely related comments. I just finished performing in a
local theatre production of Bye Bye Birdie (orig. 1960). The cast
had a dozen young high school kids--listening to the director explain who
Ed Sullivan was (there's a hymn to Ed Sullivan in the show) was
frightening. We're all old, folks.<br><br>
Second point--the father in the show (Harry Macaffee) spends much time
complaining that he gets no respect. In one scene he repeats the
phrase three times. When his prepubescent son exclaims 'I respect
you, Pop', Harry replies: 'I don't need your respect. What
good is respect from a child?'<br><br>
Geoff</font></body>
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