I actually feel sorry for Nolte, truly. I first saw him in the "Rich Man, Poor Man" miniseries way back in the early seventies. He was a promising young actor and he's played a lot of great roles.

I don't care whether it's a rich actor like Nolte, or some poor bastard in downtown Portland who hasn't ever had two dimes to rub together, people in the grip of alcohol addiction who are
unwilling or unable to get help are tragic figures. I know. I spent about ten years picking my father off the floor and putting him into his bed. Praise the Lord, he got help and had twenty more good, sober years.

amen.

I'm going to re-visit some of the best work of WC Fields, who was slobbering drunk the entire time he did it, starting with "It's a Gift."

What a sad, uptight, Puritan society we have become. Human beings have brewed alcoholic beverages for as long as we have built civilizations. There is substantial evidence that the first signs of civilization among our ancestors were a direct result of brewing.

The only human society to have never brewed alcohol or grown drugs was the Eskimos, and that was only because they had very limited access to vegetation.

The guy worked very hard, was in some great films, and made millions, and in my opinion, he has earned the right to get drunk and pass out in an airport.

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