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When I look at the Hollywood rag tags and how they "feel" towards our troops, I'm just wondering, is Bob Hope just rolling in his grave??

I had a friend that use to work emmigration, and she said Bob Hope never ever "got the proper documents" for going to sing and entertain the troops, but for "some reason" nobody dared say a word. He sat with the servicemen and ate with them and yucked it up. He was proud of our boyz and girlz, and he worked tiredlessly, and I think Hollywood basically has defiled even that.

Even the gangsters are different now in Hollywood. You use to have the rat pack, at least they had class... Now you have people like Puff Daddy, and Sug Night etc...

Oh what a rat infested place hollywood has become...

The quotes from Sean Penn, Julia Roberts, the Westwing et al...etc... make me :barf:

[Blackhawk]

When I look at the Hollywood rag tags and how they "feel" towards our troops, I'm just wondering, is Bob Hope just rolling in his grave??
Nope. That's Bob "Not Dead Yet" Hope. :neener:

[JoeSF]

Long Live Bob!

[Frohickey]

Bob Hope is still alive.... old, but still alive.

[Kcustom45]

Bob Hope is still alive.... old, but still alive.
Good. I thought I had missed something.

[Mike Irwin]

Bob Hope was born in Britain as Leslie Townes Hope, and came to the United States in 1907.

On May 29 of this year, a little over 2 months from now, he will be 100 years old.

He married his wife, Dolores, on February 19, 1934.

Wow. That's going on SEVENTY years with the same wife!

He became the entertainment coordinator for the USO in 1941, and finally retired from that post in 1998.

Another neat thing? One of his golfing buddies was Prescott Bush, grandfather of the current president!

[sm]

He came to town many years ago. A class act, shared many stories of the USO,and very Patriotic.
His eyes were going, his age showing even then, the man could entertain. One could sense Hope's displeasure with the changing attitudes of modern society.

I'm glad I got to see him perform.

[twoblink]

Then why did BBC news here in Taiwan say "Bob Hope use to entertain the American troops and has for many decades.. he WOULD have been 100..."

??

Or BBC just wishes he was dead? That's what prompted this thread!

If he's still alive... Go Bob Go!!

[Mike Irwin]

Beats me, but there is NOTHING on any of the news websites that I can find that is indicating that Bob Hope has died.

Not even the BBC is saying that he's died on their web site.

[Col. Mustard]

I think that when Bob Hope dies (may that day not come anytime soon), there will be such a national observance that we will not - indeed, could not - overlook it. Flags at half-mast, the works.

He probably wants to outlast George Burns' longevity... :rolleyes:

[twoblink]

Great! I thought for a minute there, that one of our national treasures died, and nobody reported it except BBC!

Of course, if Bob Hope is watching what is going on in Hollywood right now, he'd probably wish he was dead or at least not associated...

[4570Rick]

I have no idea what Bob Hopes politics are but I know he has allways had a deep abiding respect and admeration for the men and women of The United States Armed Forces. He truly is a national treasure and though he is not dead, when he dies, there should be a National Day of Mourning.

[El Tejon]

[Jesse voice] Keep Hope alive!

[SemperFi83]

Bob Hope came out with Lee Greenwood (Proud to be an American) to the Persian Gulf. Watched them on Christmas day 1988 with thousands of other guys on the flight deck of the Iwo Jima.

That guy gave up lots of holidays with his family to be wherever the troops were. I thank him for it.

[Blackhawk]

Read his autobiography in the '50s, and he's since been one of my heroes.

Sorry I missed his USO tours in Vietnam, but those things never came near where I was.

[DonP]

My grandfather saw him in 1944 in the UK.

My Dad saw him in 1945 at Norfolk Naval base.

I saw him in 1970 on Christmas Day in Long Binh, RVN.

That man has been around a long time and has earned his stripes in more ways than I can say.

He is still alive and confined to a wheelchair. His wife Dolores was interviewed a couple of weeks ago and she said he has good days and bad, but he's still with us.

Don P.

[seeker_two]

When I look at the Hollywood rag tags and how they "feel" towards our troops, I'm just wondering, is Bob Hope just rolling in his grave??

Probably. But, when you bury people alive, they tend to do that...:evil:

HE AIN'T DEAD YET! :banghead:

[Gmac]

Saw him in Cu Chi, RVN Christmas '69.A class act and a patriotic American

[Monkeyleg]

Mike Irwin: "Wow. That's going on SEVENTY years with the same wife!"

This July will be my folks' 66th anniversary.

Back OT: years back my co-workers and I used to go to a bar across the street that was run by Jim, your archetypical ex-boxer: barrel chest, gravelly voice, crude language.

Anyway, on the TV was a Bob Hope special aboard a carrier, and one of the guest groups was The Village People. Jim said, "look at those guys! Cops, cowboys, hardhats. Those are real men!"

"Jim," I said, "they're gay."

Well, Jim got right in my face and bellowed "there's no %%()&*# way Bob Hope would have *%(#)@#*%*)#%* on his show!"

[Mastrogiacomo]

I think Bob Hope would be rolling in his bed if he read he had died. He's still living as far as I know. We certainly would have heard if he passed given his contribution to this country. Look's like all Jesse Jackson's work helped to "keep Hope alive!":D

[T.Stahl]

Is it a ship or a C-17 that has been named after Bob Hope? I checked my books but couldn't find the answer.

[Mike Irwin]

Don't think it's a ship. The Hope is, or was, a hospital ship, along with the Comfort, Solace, and at least one other.

Comfort was activated for the First Gulf War, and is once again active.

God grant that she treat as many combat casualties in the coming war as she did in the First Gulf War -- ZERO.

[Double Naught Spy]

http://www.bobhope.com/bob.htm

If Hope is dead, then his web site does not know it. The site says you can still email him, even.

Oh, and he isn't 100 yet. He won't be until 29 May. He has outlived Burns already.

[Blackhawk]

He has outlived Burns already.
Fantastic dry humor, DNS! :D :D