Prime Time
NO JOKE: The question remains, is Andy Kaufman really dead? His peculiar demise, as reported by the media (and we’ve been told by the media so many times that suspicion of the media is rampant nowadays that one feels a little out of it if one isn’t suspicious), had all the earmarks of one of his little jokes since obviously 35-year-old non-smokers don’t usually die of lung cancer.
Prime Time
Creemedia
OH SURE
by
Richard C. Walls
NO JOKE: The question remains, is Andy Kaufman really dead? His peculiar demise, as reported by the media (and we’ve been told by the media so many times that suspicion of the media is rampant nowadays that one feels a little out of it if one isn’t suspicious), had all the earmarks of one of his little jokes since obviously 35-year-old non-smokers don’t usually die of lung cancer. In fact, 35-year-old three-pack-a-day smokers don’t usually die of lung cancer—that comes later, maybe. Also, celebrities, especially celebrities of Kaufman’s generation, don’t die without leaving a hookish moral behind for the Phillistines to bat around and what kind of cosmic comeuppance is lung cancer for a non-smoker into macrobiotics, no less? Like one of Kaufman’s best concepts it foils expectations, ravages cliches, upsets...