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...breaks, no how, no way. His father worked in a bank and got caught stealing pens. Research reveals that Rodney Dangerfield is the sap in his own family tree. The line has never been broken. Elevator operators eye him and always say the same thing: "Basement?" On a night out in a Chinese restaurant, he opens his fortune cookie and gets the check from the next table. The trauma reaches into the intimate parts of his life. He has become such a maladroit lover that he caught a peeping Tom booing him. His wife "cut me down to once...
...weeks of his life are run-on reminders of his inferiority. No luck. No chance. And of course-as a connoisseur of the hairsbreadth art of stand-up comedy will tell you-no respect. These components of Rodney Dangerfield's fractured comic mask form one of the unlikeliest success stories around. Dangerfield was a has-been even before he was anyone at all. "I dropped out of show business once," he often confesses in his act. "But nobody noticed...
...time most businessmen are playing chicken with their first heart attack, Rodney was planning his comeback from nowhere. At 45, he made his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. He was 47 when he went on Carson for the first of 63 appearances. Now, at 58, Dangerfield has a rambunctious new comedy album out and his first starring role in a Hollywood movie...
Soviet dissident and writer Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, conductor Sir Georg Solti, novelist Gunter Grass and undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau are among past recipients of honorary degrees. Cronkite follows Rodney Dangerfield and Theodore H. White '38 as Class Day speaker...
Last year, Theodore H. White '38, historian and author, spoke on Class Day. Two years ago, seniors heard comedian Rodney Dangerfield...