More scandal rocking Sesame Street: Roscoe Orman leaves ex

[minor muppetz]

I don't really want to talk about this too much, but I wonder why an actor leaving his ex would be considered a "scandal". Also, I think one of the reports had the ex saying that Roscoe lives a "double life". I think all actors live "double lives", the life of their characters and the life away from the set.

 

[D'Snowth]

First of all, it's considered a "scandal" basically because it's been treated like a scandal.

Secondly, "double life" refers to someone who does things in secret from other people for a continual period of time, to the point that it pretty much is a "double life" for them. It has nothing to do with the characters they play or anything like that... it's like back in the day with Bob Crane, not too many people knew that this guy, who was an actor, drummer, disc jockey, and supposedly a family man was secretly a sex addict who slept around with countless women and had a fascination with porn. Even what happened with Kevin Clash recently, what we've learned about his personal activities could be labeled a "double life", because these actions were done in secrecy and privacy from just about everybody.

 

[Animal31]

First of all, it's considered a "scandal" basically because it's been treated like a scandal.

Secondly, "double life" refers to someone who does things in secret from other people for a continual period of time, to the point that it pretty much is a "double life" for them. It has nothing to do with the characters they play or anything like that... it's like back in the day with Bob Crane, not too many people knew that this guy, who was an actor, drummer, disc jockey, and supposedly a family man was secretly a sex addict who slept around with countless women and had a fascination with porn. Even what happened with Kevin Clash recently, what we've learned about his personal activities could be labeled a "double life", because these actions were done in secrecy and privacy from just about everybody.

Bob Crane, Kevin Clash, Charlie Sheen, the neighbor three house down............all none of our business

 

[D'Snowth]

I was explaining what "double life" actually means.

 

[Animal31]

HaHaHa, I was just more impressed that someone knew who Bob Crane was....

 

[D'Snowth]

Well, I watch HOGAN'S HEROES, so yeah. Getting off topic, I'm aware that they did a biopic about him with Greg Kinnear, to which his family contested saying the film basically sugar coated his life to make it seem like he was a, "Saint who was corrupted by the evils of Hollywood".

But I digress, true, personal lives are called "personal" for a reason, and what they choose to do in private isn't supposed to be any business of ours... but that's actually the downfall of living in the information age: all it takes is ONE little leak to get out, and boom, the internet, the news, social media, etc. is buzzing over these people's moments of argueably poor judgement.

Grover even played this for laughs when he was on Jimmy Kimmel, where they started discussing his alter-ego, Super Grover. "Yes, the tabloids blew the cover off me and my story a long time ago..."

 

[Animal31]

Haha, that is funny. I remember Pee Wee Herman doing something similar at the MTV Awards (?) after that scandal broke when he started his monologue with, "hear any good jokes lately"?

 

[D'Snowth]

I think Fred Willard tried that one on Letterman after he got into a similar incident last year.

 

[SpinneyBigBird1]

A man leaves his longtime partner and gets re-married.


I'm sorry but THIS IS NOT A SCANDAL. It's not even news. This, I'm sorry, is garbage. The fact that this woman is approaching the press now (coincidentally as she is packing up boxes THREE YEARS after he "left her") during a year of Sesame troubles with Kevin and everything just proves to be her crying out for attention. She was with a TV legend and he left her; this makes her think that she is a celebrity and deserves the spotlight. If he had left her and the day after got re-married, that would have been something else. But he left her THREE YEARS AGO. This makes me so mad. Poor Roscoe is happily married now and he has to deal with this trash. UGH.

 

[Drtooth]

Like I said, one sided. While whatever went on with them is private, who's to say she wasn't the one who drove him to leave? "Victems" in some of these situations distort the facts, not just to be manipulative, but also because they remember it from a different stand point. Not to mention the obvious "everyone's their own hero in the story of their lives" bit. That distorts reality in a way that isn't so much lying because that person believes that it is true.