Monday, June 23, 2008
The Incredible Hulk wasn't exactly Hulk, which was good. The Love Guru was vaguely Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, which wasn't.
And Get Smart, which was absolutely not The Nude Bomb, was No. 1.
The weekend box office did not lack for storylines or dollars, with the Steve Carell spy comedy leading the way with $39.2 million, according to Exhibitor Relations estimates today.
Get Smart's three-day take was nearly three times what the first big-screen crack at the sitcom classic grossed during its entire run. Not that taking out the bomb that was the 1980s The Nude Bomb, which starred original Agent 86 Don Adams, was either the plan or an accomplishment.
More to the point, Get Smart goes down as the biggest opener of Carell's still fledgling leading-man career, and helps mitigate the disappointment of his last live-action comedy, Evan Almighty.
Elsewhere, The Incredible Hulk, last weekend's No. 1, fell to third with $21.6 million. But it retained bragging rights over Ang Lee's Hulk by falling "only" 61 percent in its second weekend, rather than the 70 percent plunge suffered by the 2003 film.
As for The Love Guru: It settled for fourth place and $14 million, two stats unbecoming a film that was promoted far and wide—and uncomfortably on the season finale of American Idol.
For star Mike Myers, the debut wasn't far off from the modest $9 million that his first Austin Powers grossed in its opening weekend. Eleven years ago. Before the spoof franchise took off on home video. Before Myers took off as a comedy brand name.
Here's a recap of the top-grossing weekend films, based on Friday-Sunday estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
And Get Smart, which was absolutely not The Nude Bomb, was No. 1.
The weekend box office did not lack for storylines or dollars, with the Steve Carell spy comedy leading the way with $39.2 million, according to Exhibitor Relations estimates today.
Get Smart's three-day take was nearly three times what the first big-screen crack at the sitcom classic grossed during its entire run. Not that taking out the bomb that was the 1980s The Nude Bomb, which starred original Agent 86 Don Adams, was either the plan or an accomplishment.
More to the point, Get Smart goes down as the biggest opener of Carell's still fledgling leading-man career, and helps mitigate the disappointment of his last live-action comedy, Evan Almighty.
Elsewhere, The Incredible Hulk, last weekend's No. 1, fell to third with $21.6 million. But it retained bragging rights over Ang Lee's Hulk by falling "only" 61 percent in its second weekend, rather than the 70 percent plunge suffered by the 2003 film.
As for The Love Guru: It settled for fourth place and $14 million, two stats unbecoming a film that was promoted far and wide—and uncomfortably on the season finale of American Idol.
For star Mike Myers, the debut wasn't far off from the modest $9 million that his first Austin Powers grossed in its opening weekend. Eleven years ago. Before the spoof franchise took off on home video. Before Myers took off as a comedy brand name.
Here's a recap of the top-grossing weekend films, based on Friday-Sunday estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
Get Smart, $39.2 million
Kung Fu Panda, $21.7 million
The Incredible Hulk, $21.6 million
The Love Guru, $14 million
The Happening, $10 million
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, $8.4 million
You Don't Mess With the Zohan, $7.2 million
Sex and the City, $6.5 million
Iron Man, $4 million
The Strangers, $1.9 million
Timbaland and Monique Idlett wed in a formal ceremony on a private island in Aruba Sunday evening, Usmagazine.com has confirmed.
Guests included Missy Elliott, Omarion, rapper Magoo, singer Keri Hilson, Ginuwine, producer Nate "Danja" Hills and Interscope/Geffen Chairman Jimmy Iovine. In all, approximately 300 people were invited.
The couple had tied the knot – in their sweats! – with a family pastor in Virginia earlier this month.
Timbland and Idlett, who are based in Miami, welcomed a baby girl named Reign in November. Timbaland, 37, also has two sons, Demetrius and Frankie, from a previous relationship.
Demetrius gave the bride away and Frankie was the ring bearer.
Reign was carried down the aisle by their longtime friend Fredrick Fraser, the vice president of Mosely Music.
Timbaland proposed during Idlett's baby shower in October. They had been dating for two years and this is the first marriage for both.
US Weekly
Guests included Missy Elliott, Omarion, rapper Magoo, singer Keri Hilson, Ginuwine, producer Nate "Danja" Hills and Interscope/Geffen Chairman Jimmy Iovine. In all, approximately 300 people were invited.
The couple had tied the knot – in their sweats! – with a family pastor in Virginia earlier this month.
Timbland and Idlett, who are based in Miami, welcomed a baby girl named Reign in November. Timbaland, 37, also has two sons, Demetrius and Frankie, from a previous relationship.
Demetrius gave the bride away and Frankie was the ring bearer.
Reign was carried down the aisle by their longtime friend Fredrick Fraser, the vice president of Mosely Music.
Timbaland proposed during Idlett's baby shower in October. They had been dating for two years and this is the first marriage for both.
US Weekly
"Soulja boy is fresh ass hell and is actually the true meaning of what hip hop is sposed to be."
KANYE WEST explains in a blog post over the weekend. Now this earth-shattering response, was prompted by ICE-T's rant last week about how Hurricane Chris & Soulja Boy are ruining Hip Hop.
Now of course I ignored it because here we were once again with one of raps pioneers, ragging on the next generation, (which bugs the ish outta me). But then it's got kinda interesting when Kanye took to his site to rally for "Team Souja Boy."
Ye goes on to write:
He came from the hood, made his own beats, made up a new saying, new sound and a new dance with one song. He had all of America rapping this summer. If that ain't Hip Hop then what is? A bunch of wannabe keep it real rappers that ain't even relevant, recycling samples trying to act like it's 96 again and all they do is hate on new shit? Niggas always talk about the golden age but for a 13 year old kid, this is the golden age!!! That song was so dope cause everything he said had a hidden meaning... that's Nas level shit... he just put it over some steel drums which is also some Nas shit if you had the 2nd album cassette with the bonus track "Silent Murder" on it. In closing... new niggas get ya money$$$$$$$$$$ Keep this shit fresh and original.... ain't no fuckin' rules to this shit and that's what real hip hop is to me.
KANYE WEST explains in a blog post over the weekend. Now this earth-shattering response, was prompted by ICE-T's rant last week about how Hurricane Chris & Soulja Boy are ruining Hip Hop.
Now of course I ignored it because here we were once again with one of raps pioneers, ragging on the next generation, (which bugs the ish outta me). But then it's got kinda interesting when Kanye took to his site to rally for "Team Souja Boy."
Ye goes on to write:
He came from the hood, made his own beats, made up a new saying, new sound and a new dance with one song. He had all of America rapping this summer. If that ain't Hip Hop then what is? A bunch of wannabe keep it real rappers that ain't even relevant, recycling samples trying to act like it's 96 again and all they do is hate on new shit? Niggas always talk about the golden age but for a 13 year old kid, this is the golden age!!! That song was so dope cause everything he said had a hidden meaning... that's Nas level shit... he just put it over some steel drums which is also some Nas shit if you had the 2nd album cassette with the bonus track "Silent Murder" on it. In closing... new niggas get ya money$$$$$$$$$$ Keep this shit fresh and original.... ain't no fuckin' rules to this shit and that's what real hip hop is to me.
Buffalo Bills running back Marshawn Lynch will plead guilty to unspecified charges after a not-so mysterious hit-and-run that occurred last month, according to Erie County District Attorney Frank Clark.
A woman was struck by an SUV registered to Lynch in a Buffalo, NY intersection on May 31 -- and since then Lynch and his lawyers have been avoiding authorities.
The woman was left with a bruised hip and a cut that needed seven stitches.
A woman was struck by an SUV registered to Lynch in a Buffalo, NY intersection on May 31 -- and since then Lynch and his lawyers have been avoiding authorities.
The woman was left with a bruised hip and a cut that needed seven stitches.
NFL superstar defensive end Jevon "The Freak" Kearse was arrested and charged with a DUI near the Vanderbilt University campus in Nashville, Tenn. early this morning.We're told Vandy police pulled over Jevon's Escalade at 4:42 AM CT after it was spotted "swerving at a high rate of speed." After Jevon failed field sobriety tests, he refused to take a breathalyzer.
Cops immediately booked the six-foot-four, 265 lb. Tennessee Titans star into the Criminal Justice Center in downtown Nashville.
He was released on $1,000 bond.
Calls to both teams went unreturned.
TMZ
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) -- A Macedonian journalist jailed on suspicion of murdering at least two women in crimes he wrote about for his newspaper has been found dead in his cell, police said Monday.
Vlado Taneski, 56, had been charged with two murders and was being investigated for the death of another woman and the disappearance of a fourth. He was jailed Sunday after a court ordered him held for 30 days pending the conclusion of the investigation.
Police became suspicious after Taneski published articles about the crimes in a national daily newspaper that contained details police had not released to the public.
Police spokesman Ivo Kotevski said the journalist is believed to have committed suicide early Monday, but an investigation was being conducted.
"He was found dead with his head in a bucket of water," Kotevski told The Associated Press.
Kotevski said two other prisoners were in the same cell. He said police were expected to announce more details later Monday.
Taneski was arrested Friday at home in the town of Kicevo, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Skopje. Police were searching his house and his cottage in a nearby village.
All the victims were elderly women who worked as cleaners and lived in the same neighborhood of Kicevo, police said.
The three women's bodies were found naked and stuffed into nylon bags hidden in different locations, police said. They had been sexually and physically abused, strangled and wrapped with telephone cables, they said.
The body of 65-year-old Zivana Temelkoska was found this year; 56-year-old Ljubica Licoska was found dead in 2007, and Mitra Simjanoska, 64, in 2005.
Police are also searching for a 78-year-old woman who went missing in 2003, and suspect she also may have been a victim, Kotevski said.
Some of the victims' relatives said they had met Taneski when he was working on his articles about the crimes.
"He came to our home, we talked, he asked for details," Temelkoska's son Zoran Temelkoski told local television. "Who could imagine that it would be our neighbor at the end?"
Licoska's sister, Cvetanka, said she was shocked that police had named the journalist as the main suspect.
"I'm very surprised with this outcome. He came to me and asked for some details about my sister," she said.
Vlado Taneski, 56, had been charged with two murders and was being investigated for the death of another woman and the disappearance of a fourth. He was jailed Sunday after a court ordered him held for 30 days pending the conclusion of the investigation.
Police became suspicious after Taneski published articles about the crimes in a national daily newspaper that contained details police had not released to the public.
Police spokesman Ivo Kotevski said the journalist is believed to have committed suicide early Monday, but an investigation was being conducted.
"He was found dead with his head in a bucket of water," Kotevski told The Associated Press.
Kotevski said two other prisoners were in the same cell. He said police were expected to announce more details later Monday.
Taneski was arrested Friday at home in the town of Kicevo, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Skopje. Police were searching his house and his cottage in a nearby village.
All the victims were elderly women who worked as cleaners and lived in the same neighborhood of Kicevo, police said.
The three women's bodies were found naked and stuffed into nylon bags hidden in different locations, police said. They had been sexually and physically abused, strangled and wrapped with telephone cables, they said.
The body of 65-year-old Zivana Temelkoska was found this year; 56-year-old Ljubica Licoska was found dead in 2007, and Mitra Simjanoska, 64, in 2005.
Police are also searching for a 78-year-old woman who went missing in 2003, and suspect she also may have been a victim, Kotevski said.
Some of the victims' relatives said they had met Taneski when he was working on his articles about the crimes.
"He came to our home, we talked, he asked for details," Temelkoska's son Zoran Temelkoski told local television. "Who could imagine that it would be our neighbor at the end?"
Licoska's sister, Cvetanka, said she was shocked that police had named the journalist as the main suspect.
"I'm very surprised with this outcome. He came to me and asked for some details about my sister," she said.
AP
So who remembers this? After being photographed all over LA at a (faux gasp) 180 lbs. JANET JACKSON did some damage control and while she went underground, her pubs claimed her weight gain was for a Rueben Cannon produced flick that never came to fruition.Then Ms. Jackson surface some three months later, a svelte belly baring 120 lbs. just in time for the release of a new album. She talked about diet, excercise and how discipline was key.
And then there was this cover...Remember? Chick was still at it, letting the world know she still looked fly, complete with her wash-board abs.
And now there's this...Ms. Jackson is in Italy for Fashion Week, and she is noticably thicker. 
Now, don't get me wrong. I AM IN NO WAY SAYING there is a damn thing wrong with how she looks, chick is still fly. However, and I've said this for years, you gotta be careful about what you let the press in on, especially when it comes to weight.
The average yo-yo dieter will ride that wave their entire life. And while I'm sure it's tough to take that ride under public scrutiny (just ask Kirstie Alley), it's also kinda dumb to go talkin' to the press about weight loss. Why?
Cause then you got a whole lot more folks in your business when you inevitably gain some, if not all of it back.
The NAOMI CAMPBELL took a break from beatin' the ish outta people to finally take her ass back to work.
NA NA strutted in Dolce & Gabbana's show for this years Italian Fashion Week. Also check out this month's Italian Vogue where's she's one of several black models featured in the ground-breaking "Black Issue."
So according to TMZ, the dude in the red, the one putting air in the tires of the $200 Rolls Royce Phantom, is none other than the cars owner, BUSTA RHYMES. Now I guess my question is, who is the dude in the suit that looks like he might just be the driver?
CHRISETTE MICHELLE hosted a party to celebrate her tour.
It took a while but that haircut is growing on me. 
SKINNY 50 & LLOYD BANKS stopped by Canada's MuchOnDemand for an on set interview. So Lloyd couldn't get a chair?
And of course what post would be complete without RIH RIH? The chick stays fly with those black rubber leggings while hitting up a LA resturant. But I gotta say the new camo LV bag is kinda not wassup.
So according to TMZ, the dude in the red, the one putting air in the tires of the $200 Rolls Royce Phantom, is none other than the cars owner, BUSTA RHYMES. Now I guess my question is, who is the dude in the suit that looks like he might just be the driver?
CHRISETTE MICHELLE hosted a party to celebrate her tour.
It took a while but that haircut is growing on me. SKINNY 50 & LLOYD BANKS stopped by Canada's MuchOnDemand for an on set interview. So Lloyd couldn't get a chair?
And of course what post would be complete without RIH RIH? The chick stays fly with those black rubber leggings while hitting up a LA resturant. But I gotta say the new camo LV bag is kinda not wassup.
I really don't know which is more disturbing - the fact that they gave TYRA BANKS a Daytime Emmy OR that usually beyond fly chick attended the awards show in all one shade of washed-out blonde.
I mean really, from head to toe, ya girl is different shades of the same color.
This is not a good look T, I expect way more from you.
You better be glad you're gorgeous.
And I thought I would NEVER say this but - SHERRI SHEPARD, the evening's host lokks kinda fly!
Even her understated make-up and wig are very flattering.
Oh NIECY NASH...SIGH.
Is EVA PIGFORD actually on Daytime TV?
No, I'm being serious...Is she?
If I was you, I'd be REAL cautious with dude behind you. (Seen here at this weekends AARP Celebrates it's 50th Anniversary with "Songs of Soul and Inspiration" in the ATL)
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A LEGEND LOST: COMEDIAN GEORGE CARLIN DIES OF HEART FAILURE
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Acerbic standup comedian and satirist George Carlin, whose staunch defense of free speech in his most famous routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television" led to a key Supreme Court ruling on obscenity, has died.
Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. He was 71.
"He was a genius and I will miss him dearly," Jack Burns, who was the other half of a comedy duo with Carlin in the early 1960s, told The Associated Press.
Carlin's jokes constantly breached the accepted boundaries of comedy and language, particularly with his routine on the "Seven Words" - all of which are taboo on broadcast TV and radio to this day.
When he uttered all seven at a show in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace, freed on $150 bail and exonerated when a Wisconsin judge dismissed the case, saying it was indecent but citing free speech and the lack of any disturbance.
When the words were later played on a New York radio station, they resulted in a 1978 Supreme Court ruling upholding the government's authority to sanction stations for broadcasting offensive language during hours when children might be listening.
"So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I'm perversely kind of proud of," he told The Associated Press earlier this year.
Despite his reputation as unapologetically irreverent, Carlin was a television staple through the decades, serving as host of the "Saturday Night Live" debut in 1975 - noting on his Web site that he was "loaded on cocaine all week long" - and appearing some 130 times on "The Tonight Show."
He produced 23 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, three books, a couple of TV shows and appeared in several movies, from his own comedy specials to "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" in 1989 - a testament to his range from cerebral satire and cultural commentary to downright silliness (and sometimes hitting all points in one stroke).
"Why do they lock gas station bathrooms?" he once mused. "Are they afraid someone will clean them?"
He won four Grammy Awards, each for best spoken comedy album, and was nominated for five Emmy awards. On Tuesday, it was announced that Carlin was being awarded the 11th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which will be presented Nov. 10 in Washington and broadcast on PBS.
Carlin started his career on the traditional nightclub circuit in a coat and tie, pairing with Burns to spoof TV game shows, news and movies. Perhaps in spite of the outlaw soul, "George was fairly conservative when I met him," said Burns, describing himself as the more left-leaning of the two. It was a degree of separation that would reverse when they came upon Lenny Bruce, the original shock comic, in the early '60s.
"We were working in Chicago, and we went to see Lenny, and we were both blown away," Burns said, recalling the moment as the beginning of the end for their collaboration if not their close friendship. "It was an epiphany for George. The comedy we were doing at the time wasn't exactly groundbreaking, and George knew then that he wanted to go in a different direction."
That direction would make Carlin as much a social commentator and philosopher as comedian, a position he would relish through the years.
"The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition," Carlin told the AP in a 2004 interview. "There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. ... It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have."
Carlin was born on May 12, 1937, and grew up in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan, raised by a single mother. After dropping out of high school in the ninth grade, he joined the Air Force in 1954. He received three court-martials and numerous disciplinary punishments, according to his official Web site.
While in the Air Force he started working as an off-base disc jockey at a radio station in Shreveport, La., and after receiving a general discharge in 1957, took an announcing job at WEZE in Boston.
"Fired after three months for driving mobile news van to New York to buy pot," his Web site says.
From there he went on to a job on the night shift as a deejay at a radio station in Fort Worth, Texas. Carlin also worked variety of temporary jobs including a carnival organist and a marketing director for a peanut brittle.
In 1960, he left with Burns, a Texas radio buddy, for Hollywood to pursue a nightclub career as comedy team Burns & Carlin. He left with $300, but his first break came just months later when the duo appeared on Jack Paar's "Tonight Show."
Carlin said he hoped to would emulate his childhood hero, Danny Kaye, the kindly, rubber-faced comedian who ruled over the decade that Carlin grew up in - the 1950s - with a clever but gentle humor reflective of its times.
Only problem was, it didn't work for him, and they broke up by 1962.
"I was doing superficial comedy entertaining people who didn't really care: Businessmen, people in nightclubs, conservative people. And I had been doing that for the better part of 10 years when it finally dawned on me that I was in the wrong place doing the wrong things for the wrong people," Carlin reflected recently as he prepared for his 14th HBO special, "It's Bad For Ya."
Eventually Carlin lost the buttoned-up look, favoring the beard, ponytail and all-black attire for which he came to be known.
But even with his decidedly adult-comedy bent, Carlin never lost his childlike sense of mischief, even voicing kid-friendly projects like episodes of the TV show "Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends" and the spacey Volkswagen bus Fillmore in the 2006 Pixar hit "Cars."
Carlin's first wife, Brenda, died in 1997. He is survived by wife Sally Wade; daughter Kelly Carlin McCall; son-in-law Bob McCall; brother Patrick Carlin; and sister-in-law Marlene Carlin.
Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. He was 71.
"He was a genius and I will miss him dearly," Jack Burns, who was the other half of a comedy duo with Carlin in the early 1960s, told The Associated Press.
Carlin's jokes constantly breached the accepted boundaries of comedy and language, particularly with his routine on the "Seven Words" - all of which are taboo on broadcast TV and radio to this day.
When he uttered all seven at a show in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace, freed on $150 bail and exonerated when a Wisconsin judge dismissed the case, saying it was indecent but citing free speech and the lack of any disturbance.
When the words were later played on a New York radio station, they resulted in a 1978 Supreme Court ruling upholding the government's authority to sanction stations for broadcasting offensive language during hours when children might be listening.
"So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I'm perversely kind of proud of," he told The Associated Press earlier this year.
Despite his reputation as unapologetically irreverent, Carlin was a television staple through the decades, serving as host of the "Saturday Night Live" debut in 1975 - noting on his Web site that he was "loaded on cocaine all week long" - and appearing some 130 times on "The Tonight Show."
He produced 23 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, three books, a couple of TV shows and appeared in several movies, from his own comedy specials to "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" in 1989 - a testament to his range from cerebral satire and cultural commentary to downright silliness (and sometimes hitting all points in one stroke).
"Why do they lock gas station bathrooms?" he once mused. "Are they afraid someone will clean them?"
He won four Grammy Awards, each for best spoken comedy album, and was nominated for five Emmy awards. On Tuesday, it was announced that Carlin was being awarded the 11th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which will be presented Nov. 10 in Washington and broadcast on PBS.
Carlin started his career on the traditional nightclub circuit in a coat and tie, pairing with Burns to spoof TV game shows, news and movies. Perhaps in spite of the outlaw soul, "George was fairly conservative when I met him," said Burns, describing himself as the more left-leaning of the two. It was a degree of separation that would reverse when they came upon Lenny Bruce, the original shock comic, in the early '60s.
"We were working in Chicago, and we went to see Lenny, and we were both blown away," Burns said, recalling the moment as the beginning of the end for their collaboration if not their close friendship. "It was an epiphany for George. The comedy we were doing at the time wasn't exactly groundbreaking, and George knew then that he wanted to go in a different direction."
That direction would make Carlin as much a social commentator and philosopher as comedian, a position he would relish through the years.
"The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition," Carlin told the AP in a 2004 interview. "There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. ... It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have."
Carlin was born on May 12, 1937, and grew up in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan, raised by a single mother. After dropping out of high school in the ninth grade, he joined the Air Force in 1954. He received three court-martials and numerous disciplinary punishments, according to his official Web site.
While in the Air Force he started working as an off-base disc jockey at a radio station in Shreveport, La., and after receiving a general discharge in 1957, took an announcing job at WEZE in Boston.
"Fired after three months for driving mobile news van to New York to buy pot," his Web site says.
From there he went on to a job on the night shift as a deejay at a radio station in Fort Worth, Texas. Carlin also worked variety of temporary jobs including a carnival organist and a marketing director for a peanut brittle.
In 1960, he left with Burns, a Texas radio buddy, for Hollywood to pursue a nightclub career as comedy team Burns & Carlin. He left with $300, but his first break came just months later when the duo appeared on Jack Paar's "Tonight Show."
Carlin said he hoped to would emulate his childhood hero, Danny Kaye, the kindly, rubber-faced comedian who ruled over the decade that Carlin grew up in - the 1950s - with a clever but gentle humor reflective of its times.
Only problem was, it didn't work for him, and they broke up by 1962.
"I was doing superficial comedy entertaining people who didn't really care: Businessmen, people in nightclubs, conservative people. And I had been doing that for the better part of 10 years when it finally dawned on me that I was in the wrong place doing the wrong things for the wrong people," Carlin reflected recently as he prepared for his 14th HBO special, "It's Bad For Ya."
Eventually Carlin lost the buttoned-up look, favoring the beard, ponytail and all-black attire for which he came to be known.
But even with his decidedly adult-comedy bent, Carlin never lost his childlike sense of mischief, even voicing kid-friendly projects like episodes of the TV show "Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends" and the spacey Volkswagen bus Fillmore in the 2006 Pixar hit "Cars."
Carlin's first wife, Brenda, died in 1997. He is survived by wife Sally Wade; daughter Kelly Carlin McCall; son-in-law Bob McCall; brother Patrick Carlin; and sister-in-law Marlene Carlin.
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