George Carlin: 20 career milestones

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Published 6/24/2008 by slashfilm.com at /Film
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GEORGE CARLIN: 20 CAREER MILESTONES
Published 6/24/2008 by Miranda Wilding at CINEMATIC PASSIONS BY MIRANDA WILDING
... had long suspected that fact. It came as no surprise to me. George enjoyed illuminating the absurdities of modern life. He didn’t hesitate to skewer institutions that made him angry. But I never saw him be deliberately hurtful or willfully mean to anyone. This EW photo gallery has pictures from the numerous highlights of his wide ranging career. George was one of a kind and he will be missed greatly. To find the gallery, please go here ...

Final thoughts on George Carlin (please stop calling him 'counterculture')
Published 6/25/2008 by Gary Susman at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... This is exactly the sort of phrasing that would have set off Carlin's own highly sensitive BS detector. First, the word's association with the hippie era implies that Carlin and the battles he fought are safely relegated to the distant past, that he was not an artist who was still relevant and vital, and that the issues he raised years ago weren't still in play today. Second, the word implies that he was some kind of fringe radical standing outside the mainstream. A look at the highlights of his career shows that to be false. He appeared numerous times on Ed Sullivan's and ...