I thought he was even funnier to hear than read, but certainly RIP for his participation in Tati's
Play Time plus everything else (incl his gracious, prolonged exit from life).
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)
x-post -- Yeah, I was about to say -- kept 'em guessing to the end.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)
Washington Post story.
"I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies," Buchwald told his friends, Bradlee said.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)
no, maria, he was in washington. with styron and buchwald gone, only one blues brother remains: mike wallace.
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)
Oh, goodness. I hope this means he died where he wanted to - on his island.
That picture is beautiful.
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)
His columns about Paris nightlife and jet-setting celebrities were carried in New York by the Herald Tribune under the name "Europe's Lighter Side." Well jeez, no wonder Tati hired him.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)
There was little in young Arthur Buchwald's situation that seemed very funny. His father went broke in the Depression. His mother was institutionalized shortly after his birth. And Art and his sisters were shuttled between an orphanage and separate foster homes.
It was an often wretchedly unhappy — and hugless — childhood. But in this 1994 interview with NPR, Buchwald said he had no idea: "While I was living it, I don't think I said, 'This is rotten.' I did discover early in life I could make people laugh. That's what's changed my life, because as long as I could make 'em laugh, I could get a lot of love."
Buchwald didn't finish high school. Instead, he dropped out at 17 to join the Marines during World War II and served in the Pacific. After the war, he went to the University of Southern California on the G.I. bill and wrote columns for student newspapers — but dropped out again to head to Europe.
He forced his way onto the Herald-Tribune there, recounting anecdotes about restaurateurs, celebrities, and the occasional monarch. A true believer in the value of a good stunt for a column, he once marched in a May Day parade in East Berlin and headed to Turkey, ostensibly to write about Turkish bathhouses but finding none.
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)