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Randall Rudy Quaid (born October 1, 1950) is an actor and the elder brother of fellow actor
Dennis Quaid. In a career that spans over thirty years, he has appeared in over ninety movies. He was discovered by
Peter Bogdanovich while a student at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas, and got his first exposure (in more ways than one) in The Last Picture Show, when escorting Jacy Farrow (played by
Cybill Shepherd) to late-night indoor skinny dipping at a swimming pool. It was the first of several roles he has had which were directed by Bogdanovich and/or based on the writings of
Larry McMurtry.
Randy has appeared in several of the National Lampoon's Vacation movies, was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in The Last Detail (1973), won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Presidenty Lyndon Johnson in LBJ: The Early Years (1987), and was featured (with
Margaret Colin) in two science fiction movies, the unsuccessful
Martians Go Home and very successful Independence Day.
His television appearances include a season as an SNL cast member (1985-1986), the role of real-life gunslinger John Wesley Hardin in the mini-series
Streets of Laredo, and a starring role in the awkwardly-titled The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire (2003).
He also provided the voice of an animated Colonel Sanders character in a series of commercials for fried chicken restaurant chain KFC.
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IssuesMorning Joe panel panned Gibson's "awful joke of an apology" after his "anti-gay tirade" about Ledger's death
On the January 25 edition of
MSNBC's Morning Joe,
co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski and guest co-host David Shuster
discussed John Gibson's statement on the January 24 edition of
Fox News' The Big Story responding
to the firestorm over remarks he made concerning the death of
actor Heath Ledger during the January 22 edition of his nationally syndicated
Fox News Radio show. Teasing the Morning Joe
segment, Brzezinski described Gibson's January 24 statement as
"an awful, awful joke of an apology," and later asserted that it
was "not an apology." After airing the statement, Scarborough
said, "What he said was, 'I'm sorry if you were offended.
... I'm sorry if you were offended that I mocked the death of a young
man.' "
On the January 24 edition of The Big Story, Gibson said:
GIBSON: Now it's time
for "My Word." I have received comments regarding remarks I made on
my radio show the other night after the shocking death of Heath Ledger. I'm
sorry that some took my comments as anti-gay and insensitive. I'm aware that
Ledger has a family and many fans who were grief-stricken by his sudden death.
As I
speak, a crowd is gathering at the funeral home where Ledger's services will be
held. Those who knew him say he was a good actor and a loving dad. And what
happened to him was terrible, but was evidently an accident. Once again, to
anyone offended by my comments, I'm sorry. But I'm also sorry that Heath Ledger
is no longer alive and with us.
That is
"My Word."
Gibson issued a similar statement on the
January 24 broadcast of Fox News Radio's The
John Gibson Show.
Regarding the controversy over Gibson's
comments, Shuster asserted that he is "sorry that John Gibson appears to
have lost his mind," adding, "He is usually fairly rational,
I've exchanged emails with him about issues that I've had, and he
can usually come around. This time, he has completely lost his mind."
Brzezinski said that she was "surprised that he could say something like
that and still be on the air." Scarborough also asserted that Gibson
"got caught in an anti-gay tirade" about Ledger, who played a gay cowboy in the film Brokeback Mountain:
SCARBOROUGH: Well
listen, but here's the deal, though. John Gibson got caught in an
anti-gay tirade. Why don't we just call it what it is, I'm not
politically correct, God knows. Anybody that has followed my career for years
knows I'm not politically correct. So I'm not waving the GLAAD flag
or anything like that. I am telling you though, he got caught --
BRZEZINSKI:
It was ugly.
SCARBOROUGH: --
going on an anti-gay tirade, mocking the death of this young father, because
this young father had just happened to play a gay man in a movie. That is --
talk about being homophobic. I want to play you the original clip.
At the end of the segment, Scarborough and Brzezinski gave their opinion of what to
do "when you do something like that, that is that harsh and that
insensitive":
SCARBOROUGH:
Again, when you do something like that, that is that harsh and that
insensitive, you know what you do? You turn and you say, "I am very sorry
for what I did, I was" --
BRZEZINSKI:
"I was out of line, I was wrong."
SCARBOROUGH:
"I was extraordinarily out of line, I was wrong, I was not only
insensitive, I said something which was repugnant" --"
BRZEZINSKI:
"My apologies to his friends and his family."
SCARBOROUGH:
"I've embarrassed myself, I've embarrassed my family, please forgive
me." That's what you do.
BRZEZINSKI:
That was a joke of an apology that he had there.
Later during the January 25 Morning Joe, co-host Willie Geist
interviewed MSNBC's Courtney Hazlett regarding Gibson's January 22 comments
about Ledger and Gibson's subsequent January 24 statement. Hazlett
asserted that she was "glad that he apologized, I think that was the
right thing to do," but added that she had "contacted John Gibson
shortly after these comments were made as well, and he had no apology at that
time." Indeed, on the January 23 edition of his radio show, after
Gibson's producer, known on-air as "Angry Rich," pointed out that
Gibson had mocked Ledger's death, Gibson replied, laughing, "Oh, that.
Well." Gibson later added, "There's no point in passing up a good
joke." Geist, addressing Gibson's original comments, asserted:
"We have to be careful in our business. There's a fine line between
being shocking and irreverent and just being stupid, and he clearly crossed it
there."
Scarborough, Brzezinski, and Geist
previously discussed
Gibson's January 22 comments about Ledger on the January 24 edition of Morning Joe, characterizing Gibson and
others who appeared on his show, as well as their comments, as
"unbelievable," "grossly inappropriate,"
"hateful," "callous," "very insensitive,"
"not funny," "sick," "absolutely, totally out of
line," "stunning," "mean-spirited,"
"disgusting," and "incomprehensible."
From the January 25 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe:
SCARBOROUGH: A couple
of things. When we come back --
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah?
SCARBOROUGH: -- we're going to talk
about John Gibson.
BRZEZINSKI: Oh, do we have to?
SCARBOROUGH: Well, he
tried to apologize, he didn't really apologize. He kind of apologized --
BRZEZINSKI: No, he didn't.
SCARBOROUGH: Well, no,
he did.
BRZEZINSKI: I think we should talk about
him when he actually apologizes.
SCARBOROUGH: It was one, you know -- it was actually
one of those --
BRZEZINSKI: It was an awful, awful joke of an apology.
SCARBOROUGH: "Well, if you're weak enough to be
offended by that" apology
"then I'm sorry for you."
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
[...]
SCARBOROUGH: Now, and
John Gibson --
BRZEZINSKI: Oh, the follow-up to
John Gibson.
SCARBOROUGH: Our
friends, our friends over at NewsBusters
said that Mika said,
"Bring me the head of John Gibson."
BRZEZINSKI: No.
SCARBOROUGH: You never said that, you were
not asking for anybody
to be fired.
BRZEZINSKI: No, I never said that. But I actually am surprised that he could say
something like that and still be on the air.
SHUSTER: This is again for making a
joke about Heath Ledger's death, right?
BRZEZINSKI: Exactly, Shuster.
SCARBOROUGH: Right,
right.
BRZEZINSKI: Not only making a joke,
but kind of scoffing at it and laughing at it.
SCARBOROUGH: Well, he
was actually laughing. Heath Ledger's death, this young father's
death, was a punch-line, which, of
course, as I suggested yesterday, what was so sad about that is,
that this isn't a Matthew
Shepard thing where somebody is ridiculed or hated because
they're gay. Actually
Gibson, apparently, if you listen to the clips, it sounds like he had contempt
for Heath Ledger because he played a gay man in the movie. So --
BRZEZINSKI: Whatever, he was just so
callous.
SCARBOROUGH: He really
was. He really was, and it all goes back to the fact that he starred in a movie
as a gay man. And really, I'm just
wondering what type of mindset, what type of worldview somebody has to have to say something that
hateful.
BRZEZINSKI: Well, apparently we
weren't the only ones who were upset about it. And he did apologize, sort of.
SCARBOROUGH: Kind of.
BRZEZINSKI: I don't know.
SCARBOROUGH:
Let's watch.
BRZEZINSKI: You decide.
[begin video
clip]
GIBSON: I have received comments regarding remarks I
made on my radio show the other night after the shocking death of Heath Ledger.
I'm sorry that some took my comments as anti-gay and insensitive. I'm aware
that Ledger has a family and many fans who were grief-stricken by his sudden
death.
As I speak, a crowd is gathering at the funeral home
where Ledger's services will be held. Those who knew him say he was a good
actor and a loving dad. And what happened to him was terrible, but was
evidently an accident. Once again, to anyone offended by my comments, I'm
sorry. But I'm also sorry that Heath Ledger is no longer alive and with us.
[end video
clip]
SCARBOROUGH: OK, that was one of --
BRZEZINSKI: What the heck was that?
SCARBOROUGH: Well,
it's one of those apologies where you don't just say --
BRZEZINSKI: No, it's not an apology.
SCARBOROUGH: -- "I'm
sorry," you say --
BRZEZINSKI: You don't care.
SCARBOROUGH: What he said was, "I'm sorry if you were
offended."
BRZEZINSKI: Exactly.
SCARBOROUGH: "I'm sorry if you were offended that I
mocked the death of a young man."
SHUSTER: You know what I'm
sorry about? I'm sorry that John Gibson
appears to have lost his mind.
BRZEZINSKI: He really has.
SHUSTER: He is usually fairly rational, I've exchanged emails with him about issues that I've
had, and he can usually come around. This time, he has completely lost his
mind.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. We should show -- I mean, I don't
really want to belabor this, but --
SCARBOROUGH: Well
listen, but here's the deal, though. John
Gibson got caught in an anti-gay tirade. Why don't we just call it what
it is, I'm not politically correct, God knows. Anybody that has followed
my career for years knows I'm not
politically correct. So I'm not waving the GLAAD flag or anything like
that. I am telling you though, he got caught --
BRZEZINSKI: It was ugly.
SCARBOROUGH: -- going
on an anti-gay tirade, mocking the death of this young father, because this
young father had just happened to play a gay man in a movie. That is -- talk about
being homophobic. I want to play you the original clip.
BRZEZINSKI: All right.
SCARBOROUGH: And let
you to see what he said.
[begin audio
clip from January 22 John Gibson Show]
[begin audio clip from Brokeback Mountain]
JACK TWIST (by Jake Gyllenhaal): Well, since we're
going to be working together, I reckon it's time we start drinking together.
ALMA BEERS DEL MAR (by Michelle Williams): If you
don't go out there and finish her.
ENNIS DEL MAR (by Heath Ledger): You don't
know nothing about her.
JOE AGUIRRE (by Randy Quaid): You boys sure found a
way to make the time pass up there.
DEL MAR: We was
fishing buddies.
TWIST: I wish I knew how to quit you.
[end audio clip]
GIBSON: Well, he found out how to quit you.
[...]
GIBSON: Heath Ledger died, and I'm sure people will
be upset. All you Brokeback
Mountain fans, you want to give Christine a call, she'll
be happy to talk to you.
DEL MAR [audio
clip from film]: We're dead.
GIBSON: "We're dead."
DEL MAR [audio clip
from film]: We're dead.
[end audio
clip]
BRZEZINSKI: That's
enough.
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, and
of course, it goes on and he jokes about it.
BRZEZINSKI: I mean, I just cannot
get over it.
SCARBOROUGH: Again,
when you do something like that, that is that harsh and that insensitive, you
know what you do? You turn and you say,
"I am very sorry for what I did, I was" --
BRZEZINSKI: "I was out of line, I was wrong."
SCARBOROUGH: "I was extraordinarily out of line, I was wrong,
I was not only insensitive, I said something which was repugnant" --"
BRZEZINSKI: "My apologies to his friends and his family."
SCARBOROUGH: "I've embarrassed myself,
I've embarrassed my family, please forgive me." That's what
you do.
BRZEZINSKI: That was a joke of an apology that he had there.
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, it
was.
BRZEZINSKI: Whatever.
SCARBOROUGH: Anyway.
BRZEZINSKI: OK. Some people just get away with anything.
SCARBOROUGH: So anyway,
a sad, sad moment.
[...]
GEIST: Welcome back to Morning Joe, we're not at Hawaiian
Tropic Zone any more. We're here with Courtney Hazlett, she has literally
been on television for three straight days talking about the Heath Ledger story
and doing a great job of it. And one
of the unfortunate side stories to the death of Heath Ledger has been the John
Gibson controversy. Let me play for you what he said on his radio show two days
ago.
[begin audio
clip from January 22 John Gibson Show]
[begin audio clip -- from Brokeback Mountain]
TWIST: Well, since we're going to be working
together, I reckon it's time we start drinking together.
DEL MAR: If you
don't go out there and finish her.
DEL MAR: You
don't know nothing about her.
AGUIRRE (by Randy Quaid): You boys sure found a way
to make the time pass up there.
DEL MAR: We was
fishing buddies.
TWIST: I wish I knew how to quit you.
[end film audio clip]
GIBSON: Well, he found out how to quit you.
[...]
GIBSON: Heath Ledger died, and I'm sure people will
be upset. All you Brokeback
Mountain fans, you want to give Christine a call, she'll
be happy to talk to you.
DEL MAR [audio
clip from film]: We're dead.
GIBSON: "We're dead."
DEL MAR [audio clip
from film]: We're dead.
[end audio
clip]
GEIST: So shockingly enough, that
didn't go over so well, that shtick.
HAZLETT: Not so much.
GEIST: That hilarious shtick
didn't go over so well. So John Gibson finally, after coming under fire
from a lot of different sides, apologized on television yesterday.
[begin video
clip]
GIBSON: I have received comments regarding remarks I
made on my radio show the other night after the shocking death of Heath Ledger.
I'm sorry that some took my comments as anti-gay and insensitive. I'm aware
that Ledger has a family and many fans who were grief-stricken by his sudden
death.
As I speak, a crowd is gathering at the funeral home
where Ledger's services will be held. Those who knew him say he was a good
actor and a loving dad. And what happened to him was terrible, but was
evidently an accident. Once again, to anyone offended by my comments, I'm
sorry. But I'm also sorry that Heath Ledger is no longer alive and with us.
[end video
clip]
GEIST: Courtney Hazlett,
you've covered this story.
HAZLETT: Correct.
GEIST: Are you satisfied with this
apology?
HAZLETT: I'm glad that he apologized, I think that was the right thing to do.
I contacted John Gibson shortly after these comments were made as well, and he
had no apology at that time, so I'm glad that he sort of found it
appropriate to do so, but I think a lot of people might be critical of it. I
mean, quite honestly, to say,
"I'm sorry if you took it that way," well, you know what,
there's no other way to take it.
GEIST: Right.
HAZLETT: And so, I think for those
who were most hurt by these
comments, they might feel that that apology
might be of the too-little, too-late
category, I'm not sure. But again, I think he did the right thing in
apologizing, and you know, move forward.
GEIST: We have to be careful in our business. There's a fine line between
being shocking and irreverent and just
being stupid, and he clearly crossed it there.
Published: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:16:19 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the article
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