European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes thursday. Apfell 2.1987 columns & comments no More being or. Nice Guy Brand Rooney ii was exactly 2 29 . Sunday when i pulled up in front of die nursing Home where i had promised to speak in the residents at 2 30.1 do not arrive Early at nursing Homo to hang around enjoying myself. I had said 1 would come because i feel desperately sad about All the used up people in nursing Homes i was introduced by a woman who met me at the front door and found myself standing in front of a group of elderly and infirm people waiting for me to speak it had been difficult to prepare anything to say because i did t know in Advance the mental or phys ical condition of the audience. As i started to speak with what i thought was Little joke i heard the vague and uncontrolled voice of someone babbling in he Back of he room. The Loudspeaker drowned me out for a few seconds us someone asked mrs. Cunningham to come to the front desk. There was no reaction whatsoever to my Little joke except from two or three of the staff people who were trying to encourage me some of the elderly people in the audience seemed10 be nodding others stared vacantly at the podium behind which i was shifting nervously from foot to foot i got no sense whatsoever thai anyone was hear ing or understanding what 1 said but i plugged on doggedly for a Long 35 minutes. During the course of my talk i mentioned the takeover of the three television networks by Money interests because that is Only mind these Days. 1 finished without any real ending and lamely suggested that if anyone had any questions they should come up and i d be glad to try to answer them. Any coun As i said goodbye to the hostess one of the women volunteers said please say hello to or. Forscy. He s coming Down the aisle. He98." or. Forsley was indeed making his Way toward me slowly and plan full with a Cane that was giving him More trouble than help. He was Bent almost double his face Ashen Gray his eyes Rhumy i Shook hands expecting nothing. Television s the whole trouble he said abruptly. Worst invention there Ever but or. Forsley i began but he did t want to hear from me everyone aits around just Watchorn not Dorn thing. Worst thing that Ever happened to this c try r but sir i think you have to Don t have to admit anything. People Don t read anymore. They Don t do anything after supper but sit there. Half of them sit there watching All Day Long. Kids Don t go out and play they stay inside just watching. They Don t do anything. They watch some one else do something All the but or. Forsley television nothing wrong with the newspapers before there was television. Country d be belter off if there was no such thing As television. Tel pm that next Lime with that or Forsley turned and started Oft so much for being or. Nice Guy who goes to talk to a Bunch of old people who Don i know what the think. Whin Mufu so Vecei blame to for bedtime Power ploy by Art Buch Wald the big question is who holds the Power in the average american Home. Up until recently the answer was up for grabs. Now this has chanced. Or. Jung Freud a visiting psychiatrist at Pancu University told me the Power in America rests with the person who controls the to Remote Zap i said. Studies show the Man or woman who has the ability to change a to Channel from bed is the on who will gel the respect in the but All one is doing is selecting programs that does t make you a god it s not just controlling a to set. The person who has his Finger on the Clicker is making a powerful is saying in no Uncertain terms you mess with me again " i said i personally Don t care who holds the re Mote in our family can you Tell me How often you be let your wife More than a lot of husbands know but How Many women in this country do you know who Are unto operating a Remote Button on a 19-Inch Sony on the other hand they have come a Long Way since the line tuner was invented or. Jun Freud said. Frankly i think you Are in a Power struggle with your wife every time she grabs the Clicker and goes by the a team you feel emasculated maybe you re right but what do 1 do you both have to gain equal control of the Chan Nels. This can be done either with a Remote to Mari Tal agreement specifying How much time a person will have to bom the Clicker or if that does t work by purchasing a second Remote so each of you will have your own in i like the second idea better than the first. 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