Well, this longed-for event will likely be as popular as the despised Columbia Studio’s Harry Cohn’s was: "Cohn’s well-attended funeral on stage 12 of the Columbia lot was the subject of the famous (perhaps apocryphal) quote attributed to Red Skelton: “It proves what Harry always said: Give the public what they want and they’ll come out for it.” He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood."
I seem to recall that at some point in the 1980s Bernie broke through the 4th dimension; I note that since then he has leaned to the Establishment/Moderate Republican side. Does he maybe know something that he’s not telling us?!
Not ALL all of his time. Powell was flawed; but he was a giant. Toward the end of his career in the House, he was convicted in a New York court of slander—he had called a crook a crook, but then offered no proof in court to back his assertions when it came time for trial. He paid no damages when they were assessed and wouldn’t set foot in the New York City borders to avoid arrest. Due to the charges and a lot of ill will he’d engendered from other legislative fights(pro integration and increasing educational money for poor & disadvantaged people), Congress moved to deny him his seat and stop his pay. He went to the Supreme Court—who sided with him—but stayed in the caribbean in the meantime. Then, he got into tax & alimony trouble; Congress again tried to censure him; and, in a close election, lost his seat to Charley Rangel, who really picked up where Powell left off as a progressive legislator, without Powell’s colorful private life. Powell was fighting cancer by that time, and died shortly after losing his seat.
Enough of these half-baked comments….