Rare Bob Hope blooper unearthed after visit to Holy Land
February 18th, 2010 by Scott Marks
DATELINE BURBANK: Being this close to the epicenter of Hope necessitated a pilgrimage to The Toluca Lake Earth Station to see if dear Dolores needed anything at the Von’s. The gate was closed and the shades drawn. It would have been easier to catch a glimpse up one of her fabulous floor-length gowns. The only sign of movement was flapping on the end of a flagpole. Today Mrs. Hope lives alone in Bob’s never-finished, already decaying Toluca Lake pleasure palace, aloof, seldom visited, never photographed.
It’s been an overwhelming week. Normally a positive inaugural visit to “Shutter Island” would have been enough. I spiked the punch by exposing myself to the greatest narcotic known to man. As if ordained, the second I arrived back at my Burbank suite the computer was on my lap and this blooper from the 1970 Miss World Pageant on my screen.
Bob knew of my presence on consecrated ground and planned this assault on my thought patterns.
His will be done!
Were I to live three lifetimes I could never expose myself to every on camera morsel the man force fed us. Not until “this” night was I aware of the existence of this Hope-filled tirade. Mixing his signature “satirical” schick with indignant outrage, Bob lets those feminist dames know exactly where he stands, right here.
Allow Wikipedia to set the scene: “During the evening there were protests by Women’s Liberation activists. They held up placards, shouted, blew whistles, and threw smoke bombs, stink bombs, ink bombs and leaflets onto the stage. The comedian, Bob Hope, was also heckled and scarcely raised a laugh.”
Scarcely raised a laugh? I’m still shaking. This is one of the most hilariously uncomfortable Bob Hope bloopers on record! It must be studied in every classroom in America. They should have run this on a double feature with Obama’s controversial (?) address to the nation’s school children.
Bob “Cattle Market” Hope kicks off his set with a few well placed zingers to let these broads know who is boss. Bob would have made a great pitchman for PETA. He doesn’t give a rat’s ass about protecting animals. As President Nixon foretold in his infamous ”Checkers speech,” Republican cloth coats are so much cheaper!
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Bob Hope for the Holidays! Part 3
December 25th, 2009 by Scott Marks
The Bob Hope Family Taliban celebrates Christmas, 1963. It was a low point in Bob’s career. Even he knew that “Call Me Bwana” was his celluloid nadir and the top brass at NBC was bemoaning the rock bottom numbers Bob’s recent specials had been drawing.
Bob and the family made a quick promotional stop in Africa before flying to Saudi Arabia to visit King Faisal. In 1963, Faisal established the country’s first television station. Upon his ascension just one year later on November 2, 1964, Faisal vowed the restoration of the country’s finances to be his main priority. When he looked at Hope and all he saw was a dollar sign.
Bob explained that he had just met with Lyndon Johnson who assured him that the war in Vietnam would go on for at least another decade. That meant ten more years worth of lucrative NBC Christmas specials and plenty of easy money to be made.
Over the Christmas shawarma, Bob assured the King that Chrysler, Amway and Texaco would pay handsomely for commercial time. (The latter went so far as offering King Faisal stock options.) Faisal would also get an executive producer’s credit and back-end money. In exchange, Bob would retain sole ownership of the specials and right to first refusal when it came to female cast members. There was also talk of Bob’s future involvement on a Saudi spectacular scheduled to go off September 11, 2001.
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