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Marty Ingels. (And you thought it'd be Al Franken or Ben Affleck, didn't you? I see what you was thinkin'....)
Last month Ingels, the former Catskill comic turned multimillionaire super-agent who is probably best known for the books on how to have a successful marriage that he writes with his perpetually estranged wife (Academy Award winner Shirley Jones), used a false name, dialed into the radio program of L.A. shock jock Tom Leykis, and was hung up on when he disagreed with Leykis and mentioned that he is 67 years old. Ingels has filed a lawsuit claiming loss of dignity, public humiliation and age discrimination against s Leykis. (Say what you want about Ingels, but you watch what you say and do to his pseudonym.)
Leykis should be ashamed. Whatever happened to the old days, when shock jocks were gentlemen, tolerant to all and world renowned for their politeness and well thought statements? It's people like Leykis who make it hard for working stiffs like Howard Stern to get respect.
The scary thing is that if Ingels prevails it's a dangerous precedent that could send us hurtling backwards to bland and non-offensive programming of th...
Ah so that's it- the whole thing is the first step in Ingels' sinister plan to resurrect his 1962-63 mega-icon series I’m Dickens, He’s Fenster. Now I don't know how to react- on the one hand, I hate to see freedom of speech violated, but on the other hand I really like John Astin and would like to see him restored to his proper place on primetime.
