Today is actor/comedian Phil Hartman's birthday. I liked Hartman a lot, finding him to be a highly original personality, as well as a multi-faceted talent. His work on Saturday Night Live and the sitcom News Radio was exceptionally funny. He had an everyman quality about him, and he came off kind of like a guy you'd get to know through consistently riding a commuter train from Westchester with him. That he would say some of the most outrageous, racous things whilst maintaining that type of facade made him that much more funny. His murder by his own wife was shocking, but it just goes to show that one never knows what goes on behind people's closed doors.
(I'm back from my business trip, btw. I'm posting in NYC.)
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