[lbo-talk] Saddam Died Beautiful (The eXile getsall misty-eyedover Saddam)

[Carl Remick]

>From: joanna <123hop at comcast.net>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>All this yadda-yadda about beautiful death by hanging reminds me of the 
>>memorable eulogy for the suicide-by-hanging character Francis Hinsely, a 
>>Hollywood has-been, in Evelyn Waugh's "The Loved One":
>
>Yes, one of the best black comedies ever: a send off of American-style 
>life, death, and self improvement: Milton Berle, Anjeanette Comer, Rod 
>Steiger, Jonathan Winters, and Robert Morse.

One of the best indeed.  Rod Steiger never topped his performance as Mr. 
Joyboy, and Jonathan Winters --- playing the uber-entrepreneurial Blessed 
Reverend, owner/proprietor of the Forest Lawnish cemetery "Whispering 
Glades" -- never had a better line than when he discovers that Whispering 
Glades -- with its promise of luxurious eternal repose -- is worth far more 
for real estate development than use as a graveyard:  "How do I get these 
stiffs off my property?"

Carl

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