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 Post subject: Jimmy Breslin
PostPosted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 11:54 am 
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Columnists NY Daily New a curmudgeon who David Berkowitz corresponded with.A real character which this county is losing :(

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 Post subject: Re: Jimmy Breslin
PostPosted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 12:31 pm 
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Chicago bias aside Walt, Breslin or Royko? Who tickled your fancy more?


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 Post subject: Re: Jimmy Breslin
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Royko seemed more real even though he had many columns with made up characters in them.

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 Post subject: Re: Jimmy Breslin
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beni hanna wrote:
Chicago bias aside Walt, Breslin or Royko? Who tickled your fancy more?

That's really tough...Royko on the writing Breslin on telling a story...used to love Royko writing Cub players throwing their jocks at Skippy when he was a bat boy :lol:Also I read Mike every day

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 Post subject: Re: Jimmy Breslin
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Royko seemed more real even though he had many columns with made up characters in them.

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 Post subject: Re: Jimmy Breslin
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Royko seemed more real even though he had many columns with made up characters in them.

I liked Royko as well and really enjoy John Kass these days.

Jimmy, working at a newspaper back in the day, I can tell you some columnists will take liberties with characters they interject into their work... not all but some. I knew a columnist whose funniest buddy was a composite of three different guys and it worked very well for him.

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 Post subject: Re: Jimmy Breslin
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jimmypasta wrote:
Royko seemed more real even though he had many columns with made up characters in them.

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 Post subject: Re: Jimmy Breslin
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Godfella wrote:
jimmypasta wrote:
Royko seemed more real even though he had many columns with made up characters in them.

I liked Royko as well and really enjoy John Kass these days.


Kass rarely seemed to enjoy anything, nor take anything but whatever the current populist opinion is. And I wanted to like him

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 Post subject: Re: Jimmy Breslin
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Godfella wrote:
jimmypasta wrote:
Royko seemed more real even though he had many columns with made up characters in them.

I liked Royko as well and really enjoy John Kass these days.


Kass rarely seemed to enjoy anything, nor take anything but whatever the current populist opinion is. And I wanted to like him


Kass is a talented writer, but he's pretty conservative. He lost me when he became a soccer fan. :lol:

Royko liked to brag about how he ran Breslin out of Chicago when they syndicated his column here.

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 Post subject: Re: Jimmy Breslin
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John Kass isn't really a human being. In reality, he is a human-shaped balloon filled with sour stomach gas. Every morning, the Tribune pokes him with a long needle and sprays some of the hot stinky gas onto a page, and a new column appears.


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 Post subject: Re: Jimmy Breslin
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Godfella wrote:
jimmypasta wrote:
Royko seemed more real even though he had many columns with made up characters in them.

I knew a columnist whose funniest buddy was a composite of three different guys and it worked very well for him.


Spot on with the JORR reference.

This is why Nas and I are trying to develop a lifestyle site with JORR as the lead columnist. :wink:

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