Worth a few minutes

[SpamKing]

www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/magazine/what-the-world-got-wrong-about-kareem-abdul-jabbar.html

 

[Denny Crane]

Great read.

 

[craigehlo]

Excellent read.

 

[crandc]

agree

 

[Rastapopoulos]

He is so obviously an aspie.

 

[riverman]

Excellent article! I hung out on a beach in Hawaii one day and he was by himself getting stoned ...I thought about approaching him but decided to leave him in peace.

 

[jlprk]

That was me.

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

Was Annette Funicello there?

 

[jlprk]

He spoke more lines than she did in the movie "Troop Beverly Hills."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098519/fullcredits

 

[Duckhook]

Wow this article actually made me think even less of Kareem. I've never lived in the public eye but for someone who's always battled it but wanted to be seen differently, you'd think he would have appreciated a fan coming up to him with his toddler son to be introduced as one of the best to play the game. Yet he was inconvienced and turned his back on them and let his publicist handle it. And his comment that Magic Johnson was always smiling and wasn't really affected by "the white man", I'd argue that Magic didn't let anyone get in his way to be great and successful. Kareem feels whites were comfortable with Magic because he smiled borders on inherent ignorance/racism. People's perception of you comes from the way you allow yourself to be portrayed. Fans and teammates hated Kareem because he alienated himself from everyone... something he's still doing today. I say, #uck him!!!

 

[jlprk]

There are about 18,000 ways to watch the full movie online. I must have missed this smash hit.

http://www.bing.com/search?q=troop ...=-1&sk=&cvid=796DD59F7C284D23BDAD61DECBF33DA1

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

I'm not sure if I could ever be that desperate for something to watch.

 

[riverman]

Was Annette Funicello there?

I always thought Funicello was a fretless bowed instrument from Japan

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

I always thought Funicello was a fretless bowed instrument from Japan

You're thinking of a yokoono, which makes shrill, screeching sounds.

 

[riverman]

You're thinking of a yokoono, which makes shrill, screeching sounds.

Which is why the expression OH NO! came to be romanized in English

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Thanks for the link.
Actually, he reminds me a bit of Einstein who loved mankind but didn't really like people.

 

[BlazerWookee]

No, it isn't.

 

[jlprk]

Yes it is.