For now, Dick Clark... so long

june gloom on 19/4/2012 at 00:09

(http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/dick-clark-entertainment-icon-nicknamed-americas-oldest-teenager/story?id=16076252) Dick Clark dead at 82.

Mom grew up with him on American Bandstand. I rung in most of my new years with him.

Nothing sadder than the passing of a cultural icon, if only because it reminds us, each and every time, that time passes, eras end, and we all grow older.

demagogue on 19/4/2012 at 00:40

Well now we know why the Mayans chose 2012 as the world's last year. They're obviously going to have to cancel the next New Year's and it's just going to be 2012 from now on.

Peace out, Dick Clark. You did the world good.

Tocky on 19/4/2012 at 04:19

I remember Blandstand. He got that gig for being bland and inoffensive. Most of the music just wasn't evil enough for me as a teen. But yep, another reason for me to get nostalgic. I recall The Jackson Five tweedle deeing on it as a wee kid. I don't know if it's true or just the fog of longing but I feel as if I got the absolute best of days that ever were in all ways possible.

Nah. It's true. The rest of you got the leavings and don't even know it. Poor bastards.

PeeperStorm on 20/4/2012 at 19:14

Hey, any show that has a Barry Manilow song about it must be awesome, right?

BrokenArts on 20/4/2012 at 22:48

And on the 14th of April, we lost Jonathan Frid better know as Barnabas Colins, Dark Shadows. Good night Dark Prince.

CheriRone on 24/4/2012 at 08:04

He got that gig for being bland and inoffensive

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Queue on 24/4/2012 at 15:03

Is there an echo in here?

Bah. Has everyone forgotten what a dick and agent of evil Dick Clark was? It's like the Michael Jackson thing...hated kid toucher, one day...dead and a saint, the next.

I hope someone spits in his ashes.

... and I preferred Soul Train.

june gloom on 24/4/2012 at 15:06