...died last week at age 88. Like a lot of people my generation, Eddie Murphy's satire on Saturday Night Live was the best take on the 1960s icon:
Murphy played him as a cigar-chomping vulgarian — “I’m Gumby, dammit!” (Sorry, I couldn't find a YouTube clip.)
But what really caught my eye in Clokey's obit was:
“The Gumby Show” had an undercurrent of tender, if slightly surreal, spirituality. (A lifelong seeker of enlightenment, Mr. Clokey tried LSD — but only once, under medical supervision and not till long after he created Gumby, his son said in a telephone interview on Sunday.)
Yeah, right; only once, and under medical supervision. It all makes sense now.
No comments:
Post a Comment