Talk:Fred Allen
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[edit] Recordings
- Do there exist any recordings of Fred Allen's radio shows? If so, where would one find them?
Try here: http://www.otrcat.com/fredallen.htm Pepso 02:44, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Fandom vs. encyclopedia
I hate to be a grump, but there is an anonymous IP who keeps expanding this article to make it sound like a biography written by a fan, with loads of stuff like this:
- Fred Allen was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988, but his truest epitaph may have come in the final entry in Fred Allen's Letters---by a one-time member of his radio writing staff. "He was without peer and without a successful imitator," wrote novelist Herman Wouk (The Caine Mutiny), in a letter to The New York Times the day after Allen died. " . . . In Fred Allen, the voice of sanity spoke out for all Americans to hear, during a trying period of our history, in the classic and penetrating tones of comic satire. Because he lived and wrote and acted here, this land will always be a saner place to live in. That fact is his true monument."
That doesn't belong in an encyclopedia article. A tribute Web site, yes; a magazine article, probably; a biography, perhaps. But not an encyclopedia article. Please keep out the hyperbole, the excess laudatory adjective, the casual chat. - DavidWBrooks 21:14, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
