Talk:Red Skelton
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[edit] Circumstances of his death
According to an email I received from Don Miller (webmaster of http://www.redskelton.com and authorized by Red's widow), Red died in the hospital in Palm Springs from an undisclosed illness. His home was in Anza, not Rancho Mirage. I changed the article to reflect that. Joe 15:04, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
- When I exchanged emails with Mr. Miller to get permission to use Red's picture, he looked at the Wikipedia article and specifically requested that we change it to accurately reflect the circumstances of his death. I think we need to honor that. Joe 18:24, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] His official web site
I added an external link to Red's official web site. The Wikipedia style guide for external links discourages links to sites that have things for sale unless it's the subject's official site. So I think this is okay. But I'll accept comments. Joe 15:17, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Skelton's room in the Amargosa Hotel
There was a long paragraph praising the virtues of a certain hotel, with the only link to Red being that one of the rooms was named after him. An obvious attempt at using Wiki to advertise. I deleted it.
I was a teenager as Red's TV career was ending. I noticed a real drop off in the quality of his performances, especially a lack of discipline in terms of staying in character. I had heard that he had become an uncontrolled alcoholic, and that was the cause. Comments?
Tom H 11/1/06
- "using Wiki to advertise"...
- Tom: No, not an ad. I put the information there, but I have never been to the Amargosa Hotel. I do not know Marta Becket or anyone connected with the Amargosa Hotel in Death Valley Junction. Even the Amargosa makes only a passing reference to the Red Skelton room 22 in its website: http://www.amargosa-opera-house.com/hotel.html
- I never knew anything about Red Skelton's secret retreat at room 22 until I saw the unforgettable documentary Amargosa (2000), a film so haunting I've seen it several times. It tells the true story of Marta Becket who left her life as a New York dancer in 1967 to open her Death Valley theater in the abandoned buildings once used by the 20 Mule Team Borax workers familiar from Death Valley Days.
- In the ghost town, Becket had no audience -- so she spent years painting the audience on the walls of the theater until finally real people began coming to see her shows. It makes sense that Ray Bradbury would be one of her fans, since her life experiences read like a Bradbury story.
- Skelton was probably interested in her pantomimes and other aspects of her shows. At any rate, Marta Becket's circus paintings in tribute to Skelton seemed to me to be very relevant to Skelton's own clown paintings. When I went in search of something on the Internet about Skelton's interest in Becket and the Amargosa Hotel, I was disappointed to find nothing. So when I finally read John Mulvihill's "Lost Highway Hotel", I was elated. I inserted the quote in the Skelton entry to share it as an obscure yet fascinating bit of Skelton lore. Pepso 23:52, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Charlie Skelton
Is Charlie Skelton related to Red?
[edit] Pledge of Allegiance
" With the pledge under attack as being "religious", he suddenly regained popularity among those who opposed the lawsuit." What lawsuit?
[edit] Is Congressman Ike Skelton related to Red Skelton?
Is Congressman Ike Skelton related to Red Skelton? They look alike.MikeC4Me 03:31, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Picture
While the caricature is amusing and fitting for Skelton, I submit that an actual picture of Skelton in his heyday would be more fitting as the first picture to be seen. Both pre-existing pictures are useful, good content, but there's got to be a better picture of Red Skelton. 24.125.125.62 04:42, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Just wanted to point out that it has an uncanny resemblance to Conan O'Brien. --Gakhandal 05:19, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Performances, inconsistent ?
In the "Films" section it states that "...Red would abstain from performing for the next decade and a half..." and in the "Aftermath" section it states "Skelton returned to live performance after his television days ended, in nightclubs and casinos and resorts, as well as performing such venues as Carnegie Hall. Many of those shows yielded segments that were edited into part of the Funny Faces video series on HBO's Standing Room Only.
Those Carnigie Hall performances were in the early 1980's I believe. That isn't quite a decade and a half.
I could be wrong. I don't have official performance dates on them or the "Royal" performance either.Scott Anafas (talk) 04:17, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] his kids
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0804026/bio
this says he had 2 children and guess what the female was born first. this article said "their only child, son RICHARD, and i changed it. you would think the only gender born in the world are male. even when lising parents ONLY THE MALE IS EVER LISTED. YOU WOULD THINK THEY WERE THE ONES WHO GIVE BIRTH WOULD YOU NOT???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Moncaido (talk • contribs) 08:53, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
- Or, someone could have gotten the facts wrong. IT HAPPENS. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 09:19, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
