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Bill Fenner's avatar

Firstly, when you said Eric Braeden had been on The Young and the Restless since 1980 I thought you were joking. However, I looked it up and sure enough he has! That's incredible. These pretentious actors always talk about challenging themselves in the lofty artistic pursuit of the exploration of the human condition, but Braeden seems quite content to just job it playing the same character for forty-fucking-five years! Wow. And secondly, he looks amazing for 83. I just watched a clip of him near tears, lamenting his lost home and I swear you just need to dye his hair black and he'd easily pass for 60.

Anyway, to the point of your article, I love that Braeden campaigned against leaf blowers then the whole thing blew up (pun, sorry) in his face. We do always find those delicious, don't we?

Meanwhile, Mel Gibson lost his house last week that had, in his words, "lots of cool stuff" in it, and he couldn't stop smiling. In fact he was filming the Joe Rogan podcast when the Palisades was on fire last week and even said to Rogan at the time, "My house is probably gone." And he just shrugged -- and I believe him. Of course he had more money and won't be homeless, but I tend to think Gibson for all his faults wouldn't shed a single tear if he lost all his money and worldly possessions. Perhaps that has to do with his strict Catholic beliefs, I don't know.

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Grand Mal Twerkin's avatar

Herr Herman Bing was one of the NICE, roly-poly Germans, and it cost him his life. Maybe there’s a lesson in that, maybe not

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