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What Is Estate Planning And Why It Is Important
What is estate planning and why it is important: Estate planning is the process you take in anticipation of your passing. It’s the steps in order to arrange your estate and assets. The purpose of an estate plan is to better provide for your heirs– children, spouse, grand children, cousins, etc. In general, an estate plan … Continued | <urn:uuid:bdf9a50f-d0e5-4f6e-9c42-597deda521bd> | https://www.thehivelaw.com/blog/tag/estate-planning-definition-suwanee-lawrenceville-alpharetta-johns-creek-roswell-marietta-smyrna-brookhaven-atlanta-duluth-stone-mountain-dunwoody-peachtree-corners-kennesaw-ga-georgia/ | en | 0.934623 | 0.944735 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |
One of a Kind Is Now None of a Kind
Oh of course I waited up for and watched Jonathan Winters whenever he was on one of the late night talk shows--first saw him on Jack Paar's weekly variety show, which is where I also first laid impressionable eyes on Woody Allen, Oscar Levant, and Bill Cosby, those were hallowed days--because that's what one did as a young American wiseacre in the Sixties. He would settle into the guest chair like a cherubic child with a slingshot in his back pocket ready to let fly. He did comic wonders with the beadiness of his eyes, the back-porch manner that concealed a chorus of crackpot voices that were like a comic version of Sherwood Anderson's Wineberg, Ohio. There was no way of knowing this at the time but Winters was the last in the small but indispensable line of homespun depressive absurdist originals whose alcoholic father was probably Ring Lardner, especially in his one-act plays for the radio of the mind. The least show-bizzy comedian around, Winters needed some air around him when he performed on talk shows, a comfort zone for his improvisations to start bouncing around and detonating in the popcorn popper of his brain. He wasn't like Robin Williams, who came later and idolized Winters, who could burst from the wings with a Jackson Pollock spray of ad libs and satirical arabesques, or a joke machine like the late great Rodney Dangerfield. Winters drew out of quieter resources, which made his comic gift a fragile thing, not something that could be rushed and goaded, and there were be long gaps in his public appearances, periods when he seemed to hibernate into himself. But unlike so many comics who suffered from drink and depression, Winters didn't acquire a bitter edge as a performer, he maintained his wonderment.
The comedian, host of the superpopular podcast WTF, and star of his own upcoming series on IFC, Marc Maron, recalls his two meetings with Winters. The first was at the Montreal Comedy Festival, where Winters deadpan pranked him.
Jonathan Winters, dead today at the age of 87, RIP. | <urn:uuid:9a1bc7b4-eef8-431b-bbf8-2b1474bc5dc6> | https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/04/one-of-a-kind-is-now-none-of-a-kind | en | 0.991329 | 0.036044 | mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0-parquet |