“I go backstage, and Gilbert Gottfried is backstage. “These beautiful Catholics were sticking their hands in the and throwing, and the ashes were going up and staying in the air - it was magical.” She’d also taken a small baggie of ashes down to Greenwich Village, where her dad’s career had started in the ‘ 60s, and ended up in the audience of a Richard Belzer set.
“We proceeded to have a pagan ash-throwing ritual,” Carlin told us. Onstage, Carlin fille recounted gathering her father’s old Catholic neighborhood friends to disperse his ashes in Riverside Park, where, at the age of 12, he’d started drinking beer and smoking weed. June marks the eighth anniversary of Carlin’s death. This setlist is for the last of George Carlin’s 11 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1971 - the final live show for the program.
There are these folders where he lists every single appearance on a late-night show - who was hosting, what bit he did - and sometimes he paper-clipped a set list to it.” It amounts to a hoarder’s trove of eight steamer trunks, including drafts of scripts, 8-track tapes, videos of appearances, clippings, photographs, memorabilia and the arrest report from his standup routine at Milwaukee’s Summerfest in 1972 (he was charged with violating obscenity laws). Kelly Carlin, who last year published a memoir about life with her father, passed up the Smithsonian to donate his archives to the National Comedy Center. The latter will resurrect George Carlin as a hologram act in an adults-only Blue Room in the museum’s basement. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.Jack Rouse Associates - the exhibit builders responsible for such varied experiences as Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi and the Crayola Experience in Easton, Penn - and interactive specialist Local Projects, which recently won a Cannes International Creativity award for its work on the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, are the creative forces on the museum. In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. In football, during the game in the stands, you can be sure that at least twenty-seven times you're capable of taking the life of a fellow human being.Īnd finally, the objectives of the two games are completely different: In baseball, during the game, in the stands, there's kind of a picnic feeling emotions may run high or low, but there's not too much unpleasantness. In baseball, if it rains, we don't go out to play.īaseball has no time limit: we don't know when it's gonna end - might have extra innings.įootball is rigidly timed, and it will end even if we've got to go to sudden death. In baseball the specialist comes in to relieve somebody.įootball has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting and unnecessary roughness.įootball is played in any kind of weather: rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog.
In football the specialist comes in to kick. And as such, it seems they ought to be able to tell us something about ourselves and our values.īaseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game.įootball is a twentieth-century technological struggle.īaseball is played on a diamond, in a park.The baseball park!įootball is played on a gridiron, in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.īaseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.įootball begins in the fall, when everything's dying.įootball is concerned with downs - what down is it?īaseball is concerned with ups - who's up? Baseball & football are the two most popular spectator sports in this country. If you'd ever seen John Madden in his Oakland Raiders uniform,you'd know the reason for this custom. And only in baseball does the manager or coach wear the same clothing the players do. In most sports the team is run by a coach in baseball the team is run by a manager.
In fact, in baseball if an offensive player touches the ball intentionally, he's out sometimes unintentionally, he's out.Īlso: in football,basketball, soccer, volleyball, and all sports played with a ball, you score with the ball and in baseball the ball prevents you from scoring. In most sports the ball, or object, is put in play by the offensive team in baseball the defensive team puts the ball in play, and only the defense is allowed to touch the ball. For instance, in most sports you score points or goals in baseball you score runs. Baseball is different from any other sport, very different.
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