"Goomba38" > wrote

> Nancy Young wrote:

>> I can definitely understand that. Jitters before a speaking performance,
>> who can't imagine that? I think I'd be Just get me some water and
>> go away and leave me alone. But in this instance, he's not speaking
>> before
>> a crowd, he's signing books and he'd been doing it for a while before
>> Margaret got to him. I guess he was just getting tired, but there was no
>> reason to throw a tantrum like that.

> But I can also imagine that these chefs and authors get tired of the book
> signing circuits and might feel as if the public is just sucking them
> dry...always expecting them to be witty, outgoing and friendly to the last
> person in line as the first and it was a line of a thousand. Perhaps some
> just arne't that way naturally and it is a struggle? I'm not excusing it,
> mind you... just speculating on why it might have happened?

Suck it up, man, we all have to do stuff we don't want to. He didn't
have to be particularly nice. Just Hi, sign the books, next. No excuse
to be actively hostile towards someone. You can have a tantrum later,
after work.

If he was acting nasty to some uninvited paparazzi, I'd say Good for
him.

nancy

"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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>
> "Goomba38" > wrote
>
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>> I can definitely understand that. Jitters before a speaking
>>> performance,
>>> who can't imagine that? I think I'd be Just get me some water and
>>> go away and leave me alone. But in this instance, he's not speaking
>>> before
>>> a crowd, he's signing books and he'd been doing it for a while before
>>> Margaret got to him. I guess he was just getting tired, but there was
>>> no
>>> reason to throw a tantrum like that.
>
>> But I can also imagine that these chefs and authors get tired of the book
>> signing circuits and might feel as if the public is just sucking them
>> dry...always expecting them to be witty, outgoing and friendly to the
>> last person in line as the first and it was a line of a thousand. Perhaps
>> some just arne't that way naturally and it is a struggle? I'm not
>> excusing it, mind you... just speculating on why it might have happened?
>
> Suck it up, man, we all have to do stuff we don't want to. He didn't
> have to be particularly nice. Just Hi, sign the books, next. No excuse
> to be actively hostile towards someone. You can have a tantrum later,
> after work.

Couldn't agree more, Nancy. The public made him what he is; hold off on
being nasty until after the book-signing.

There are worse jobs/tasks he could be doing than greeting people and
signing a bunch of books. I'm sure there are lots of cooks/cookbook authors
just dying to trade places with him.

Mary

In article >,
Goomba38 > wrote:


> But I can also imagine that these chefs and authors get tired of the
> book signing circuits and might feel as if the public is just sucking
> them dry

Yeah, I got tired of my job also. So I quit. Nobody is holding a gun
to the head of these folks, making them take millions of dollars a year
for being a celebrity. I understand that RR makes 4 million a year.

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:28:19 -0800, Dan Abel > wrote:

>In article >,
> Goomba38 > wrote:
>
>
>> But I can also imagine that these chefs and authors get tired of the
>> book signing circuits and might feel as if the public is just sucking
>> them dry
>
>Yeah, I got tired of my job also. So I quit. Nobody is holding a gun
>to the head of these folks, making them take millions of dollars a year
>for being a celebrity. I understand that RR makes 4 million a year.

Last I heard it was 6 million. That was before she was on network TV.

Lou

In article >,
"MareCat" > wrote:


> There are worse jobs/tasks he could be doing than greeting people and
> signing a bunch of books. I'm sure there are lots of cooks/cookbook authors
> just dying to trade places with him.


I've cleaned toilets for US$2.10 an hour. I am having a particular lack
of sympathy.


I had a job involving a lot of travel. I quit that one, too.

Dan Abel wrote:
> In article >,
> Goomba38 > wrote:
>
>
>> But I can also imagine that these chefs and authors get tired of the
>> book signing circuits and might feel as if the public is just sucking
>> them dry
>
> Yeah, I got tired of my job also. So I quit. Nobody is holding a gun
> to the head of these folks, making them take millions of dollars a year
> for being a celebrity. I understand that RR makes 4 million a year.

I didn't say I excused it...I was just speculating on how it might
happen that someone gets cranky?

On Nov 7, 4:30 pm, Lou Decruss > wrote:
> Last I heard it was 6 million. That was before she was on network TV.

Noticed on the cover of a tabloid magazine while in line at the
grocery store that she's getting a divorce.

And maybe that he hit her, too, or was that another celebrity?

Karen