::There’s consequently something innately melancholy and a little bit sad about a man that age without children::
I'm 66, in the middle of a divorce, and have no children.
My ex-wife is two years older than me and has no children.
My best friend is a woman my age who has never been married and has no children.
Another close friend is a woman a decade younger than me (we all came as a set for decades before my then-wife decided she wanted a house and a yard six hours away from New York City), divorced, and has no children.
There are a lot of people in the world, married, unmarried and once-married, straight as well as gay or anyplace else on that spectrum, who have no children.
Still, there are nearly eight billion people on this planet, two of which you brought into the world, that was considered incapable of sustaining three billion over fifty years ago. Overpopulation and the scramble for diminishing resources is one of the core causes of inequality, poverty, land and water pollution, climate change, and war.
While I'd hardly suggest Pauly Shore was a great thinker or moralist, at least he's not scattering his seed and leaving more tabloid fodder like Nicole Richie or the Kardashians in his wake.
I think I've expressed this in some other post, but I wanted Pauly to be a great interview, but I've chatted with him twice, and it was like pulling teeth both times to get even halfway-decent answers out of him, no matter how much I demonstrated that I knew about his career. So to hear that there are moments when he's "deeply personal and shockingly candid" is slightly surprising, and yet I guess he's one of those guys who feels like he can't open up to the press because he's been fucked over by the tabloids so many times over the years. And fair enough, I reckon.
I did a Random Roles with him that was more sad than revealing. What I remember about it the most was him saying that he went to a studio for the first time in a long time to film his cameo for Dickie Roberts and a guard telling him that everybody missed him and wished he was still making movies there.
he said similar things in his stand up and it was kind of sad in that context as well.
Fascinating article about someone whose hay day was passing as I was becoming aware of culture, so I knew him more as a joke than a comedian.
But, really have to say disappointed in the line about it being sad when a man is a certain age without kids. I won’t ever have children and that doesn’t make me sad, or disappointing.
I didn't mean anything by it. I got the sense that he was melancholy about it. There's nothing wrong with not having children and I'm sorry if I suggested otherwise.
No problem! I can't afford to alienate the folks who support me and being human I sometimes write stuff without fully thinking out its possible interpretations or consequences.
I got to see him perform during his heyday back in 91 or 92. He performed at my college and the Spin Doctors opened for him. This was before Pocket Full of Kryptonite, otherwise I think the order of performance would've been different.
Pauly was actually a pretty good performer back then. The set was pretty tight and funny, and I was not a big fan at the time. It was a good show.
I find it crazy that he's only a few years older than me and was headlining. Didn't realize he had gotten such an early start. Over the years, he grew on me more or less because his life story is pretty compelling. There was a fairly recent documentary about him and he was dealing with his mother in her final days that really shed some perspective about how his life went past the prime of his fame.
What timing. I watched Encino Man last night. My husband had never seen it, which blew my mind because back in the day it felt like a rite of passage. Downside is I’ve now spent 24 hours once again ending my sentences with “Bud-dy”.
I spent months thinking Brendan Fraser was a grunting halfwit, so I know what you mean! He played a spate of handsome but dumb young men about that time, so it was a shock to realize he's actually an intelligent and articulate person...who suddenly vanished for years at the height of his fame.
You're right, for having such an uncanny Hollywwod life - he has always possessed quite a lot of self-awareness. Pauly Shore is Dead is no JCVD, but it does help you sympathize with a man who was born in to the party but then the party suddenly stopped when he was 25 and he had to come to terms with the fact that he had a lot more life to live.
Love this kind of piece, Nathan. Pauly Shore is an easy punchline but you found something interesting, even poignant, to say about him. A little reminder of our shared humanity, corny as it may sound for me to say it like that.
Great work, Rabin
::There’s consequently something innately melancholy and a little bit sad about a man that age without children::
I'm 66, in the middle of a divorce, and have no children.
My ex-wife is two years older than me and has no children.
My best friend is a woman my age who has never been married and has no children.
Another close friend is a woman a decade younger than me (we all came as a set for decades before my then-wife decided she wanted a house and a yard six hours away from New York City), divorced, and has no children.
There are a lot of people in the world, married, unmarried and once-married, straight as well as gay or anyplace else on that spectrum, who have no children.
Still, there are nearly eight billion people on this planet, two of which you brought into the world, that was considered incapable of sustaining three billion over fifty years ago. Overpopulation and the scramble for diminishing resources is one of the core causes of inequality, poverty, land and water pollution, climate change, and war.
While I'd hardly suggest Pauly Shore was a great thinker or moralist, at least he's not scattering his seed and leaving more tabloid fodder like Nicole Richie or the Kardashians in his wake.
Ha ha.
"women trying to get pregnant so that they could get half of his Encino Man royalties"
Reminded me of the line in Seed of Chucky where Redman [playing himself] notes that he got a vasectomy as soon as he moved to LA.
But yeah, I knew very early on in my life that I never wanted children, and No Regerts.
*sigh*
"that his mother had, in fact, made sweet passionate love to the Superman III star." -
Almost had a "drink shooting out my nose" moment when i read that. Thanks for writing this
I think I've expressed this in some other post, but I wanted Pauly to be a great interview, but I've chatted with him twice, and it was like pulling teeth both times to get even halfway-decent answers out of him, no matter how much I demonstrated that I knew about his career. So to hear that there are moments when he's "deeply personal and shockingly candid" is slightly surprising, and yet I guess he's one of those guys who feels like he can't open up to the press because he's been fucked over by the tabloids so many times over the years. And fair enough, I reckon.
I did a Random Roles with him that was more sad than revealing. What I remember about it the most was him saying that he went to a studio for the first time in a long time to film his cameo for Dickie Roberts and a guard telling him that everybody missed him and wished he was still making movies there.
he said similar things in his stand up and it was kind of sad in that context as well.
Fascinating article about someone whose hay day was passing as I was becoming aware of culture, so I knew him more as a joke than a comedian.
But, really have to say disappointed in the line about it being sad when a man is a certain age without kids. I won’t ever have children and that doesn’t make me sad, or disappointing.
I didn't mean anything by it. I got the sense that he was melancholy about it. There's nothing wrong with not having children and I'm sorry if I suggested otherwise.
Thanks for clarifying , and listening to the feedback. ☺️
No problem! I can't afford to alienate the folks who support me and being human I sometimes write stuff without fully thinking out its possible interpretations or consequences.
I got to see him perform during his heyday back in 91 or 92. He performed at my college and the Spin Doctors opened for him. This was before Pocket Full of Kryptonite, otherwise I think the order of performance would've been different.
Pauly was actually a pretty good performer back then. The set was pretty tight and funny, and I was not a big fan at the time. It was a good show.
I find it crazy that he's only a few years older than me and was headlining. Didn't realize he had gotten such an early start. Over the years, he grew on me more or less because his life story is pretty compelling. There was a fairly recent documentary about him and he was dealing with his mother in her final days that really shed some perspective about how his life went past the prime of his fame.
What timing. I watched Encino Man last night. My husband had never seen it, which blew my mind because back in the day it felt like a rite of passage. Downside is I’ve now spent 24 hours once again ending my sentences with “Bud-dy”.
Great piece.
I spent months thinking Brendan Fraser was a grunting halfwit, so I know what you mean! He played a spate of handsome but dumb young men about that time, so it was a shock to realize he's actually an intelligent and articulate person...who suddenly vanished for years at the height of his fame.
I've been researching his "himbo" era for my next post -- it is fascinating.
You're right, for having such an uncanny Hollywwod life - he has always possessed quite a lot of self-awareness. Pauly Shore is Dead is no JCVD, but it does help you sympathize with a man who was born in to the party but then the party suddenly stopped when he was 25 and he had to come to terms with the fact that he had a lot more life to live.
Love this kind of piece, Nathan. Pauly Shore is an easy punchline but you found something interesting, even poignant, to say about him. A little reminder of our shared humanity, corny as it may sound for me to say it like that.