I think the media where a lot more hands off with the old stars. I'm sure a lot of them had habits we didn't hear about. Sex and drugs aren't a particularly new invention.

Nick Mason

>>The greatest commedian of all time passed today... Bob Hope.. 100 years old...
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>>May he rest in peace....
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>Very sad indeed. Too bad our generation does not have the class entertainers that our parents and grandparents had ... Bob, Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, Mathau, Sinatra, Davis, etc. Who do we have? So many are too foul-mouthed and/or doped-up for my tastes. :(