Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 7, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january 1990 Page 14 Chuck features editor plea for a break merits gift Minneapolis millionaire Percy Ross is internationally known for his philanthropic works and likes to encourage others to help solve problems for those in he has earned a Fortune and a wealth of knowl Edge during his lifetime and wants to share both before his his motto is he who gives while he lives also knows where it dear Percy my husband and i Are a lot of but there Are certain things we we Are not on we Are not Unzem we Are not my husband and i do a lot of but there Are certain things we dont we dont physically or sexually abuse our four we dont do we dont live in a Glass House and cast my husband and i could use a lot of but there Are certain things we dont we dont need credit cards we cant make payments we dont need fancy cars we cant we dont need Bill collectors Barking at our Back door because we overextended ourselves in order to keep up with the what Are we we Are your average working class who still have their Pride and dreams to what can you do for us ease the Burden of meeting expenses for just one month and award our family because need a How about Percy care to Spring for a late Christmas gift dear sprung pick your my is in the which is my Way of congratulating you for All that youre Best wishes in the new dear Ross they say Busi Ness and pleasure dont but i found myself in love with a co and she is in love with Janice not her real name is an divorced woman with two we plan to marry and have decided not to have children of our i love her children As though i had conceived them so i feel Good about our this prompted me to opt for a Vasec having discussed the possibility with my he states its elective surgery and not covered by my Janice cant take the so a Vasectomy seems to be our Best the Cost of one runs about which i truly cannot afford with our wedding just one month this is the woman for and the thought of her getting pregnant totally destroys thanks a million Percy Ross my sex you i used to classify myself As a real swinger until i got syphilis several years since then i changed my attitude toward casual in not trying to evoke your sym Pathy its just that wed like to Start the honeymoon will you lend a hand dear when you go to tie the you really mean i Admire How youve taken charge of your life and have turned it my Cheque is on the along with my personal respect for taking the responsibility of birth control into your own hands and not placing it on your future Best wishes to you and your new family to dear Ross our family needs help real we dont have food or enough i go to bed hungry and i have no can you help us Deai readers out of desperation to reach and his for whom i locate a phone i sent a Friend living in Leesburg Over to the address listed at the end of his turns out has two working parents with professional Ca who volunteered the information that their combined yearly income is in telling you this because some people adults and children try to scam me for int the first to try to fool nor will he be the but he is in the i believe most people who write Are sincere and honest in their in spite of those who would take like the new year is an Ideal time to renew my commitment to writing this column and helping As Many people As i Happy new year from me Percy Ross who vows to see just How deep his pockets Are in 1990 you May write to Percy Ross Winnipeg free Box include a Telephone num Ber if you All letters sent to Rons Are Only a few Are answered in this although others May 1c acknowledged creators Syndicate actor backs Jerk Bundy by rip Rense entertainment news service de Oneill used to be mistaken for French actor Gerard and sometimes for actor Judd these the Only identity con fusion Oneill encounters is occasionally being addressed As you everybody does that to laughed Proba Bly because Al and de Are so but Only in the number of letters in each name right he Oneill is a household if not quite a household there Are few people around who do not associate Oneill immediately with Loutish Al Bundy of Fox to rated the Bawdy married with children Sun 8 on but it int Oneill an plainspoken kind of Guy is about As similar to Bundy As he is Gerard desperation on the you do think of Al Bundy As a bit of a Oneill said reached at Home on a rare of Day from and he is a bit of a i guess its because he says things that we think of All the time and probably dont Ever have the or bad to the same run of bad Al Bundy family makes the munsters look positively this thing about All men leading lives of quiet desperation is very said and Al exhibits this quiet desperation not so Hes As desperate As any body More so than we have to be you know i really do love having sex with Al and he will say things Arent working out for and no matter what he gets screwed i think a lot of us feel that Way about you my Friend got a raise i got screwed to be 43 and sees Bundy As a kind of Downtrodden american everyman in the Hen pecked tradition of or the honeymooners Ralph overblown Hes hardly the bad influence on american youth that housewife Terry Rakolta suggested when she managed to pressure Proctor and Gamble into ceasing its married with Chil Dren the earthy pro now in its fourth picked up other sponsors with no Oneill says Bundy mirrors the feelings of Many the Rakolta controversy is still a sore Point with it was an overblown thing that became a news he its insane that one persons opinion could mean that if we looked hard we could find someone who very offended by the Bill Cosby show its just self censorship there were no adjustments or compromises in the shows Content made As a result of the Controvert in the cast and producers of married wit i children have Oneill exercised a certain amount of and some lines simply dont make it on the even before this person from Michigan came wed have something that we might even take out if we thought it was too said whose actual voice is a notch lower than and devoid of the charac ters Raspy Chicago or if we liked wed try to get it past sometimes Fox would let it sometimes they scream bloody and wed take it any toning Down of the shows risque humor would have rendered married with comparatively Ordinary just another the Bundy family without the sex jokes would be More like the Brady Compromise was out of the question on artistic our producers simply we cant change the because this is what the show said if we change Well ruin either we stay the or we that what went cynics have ascribed married with childrens Strong rating to the Media coverage of the con who is quite proud of his was particularly irked by this our ratings were going up really dramatically before this happened this show is going to be a hit on its we didst need this controversy at in not saying this did not help maybe it quickened but the show was Gong to go if there in for the Long its fortunate that the cast appears to get along so spending time together off the there have been Bowling a Whitewater rafting and lesser social events that have attracted or of the major married with children cast handball aside from attending such and an addiction to hand Ball play a lot but not in these fancy places where Guys with porsche with phones work Oneill spends a Good Deal of time at Home on the West Side of los Angeles with his actress Cathy and he does not pass his Leisure time snoozing on a Couch with one hand thrust Down the front of his trousers o la Al he watches the tube mostly sports which is no considering the Brethes Pian Oneill tried out for the Pitts Burgh Steeles football team in and is fascinated by historical just the other a documentary caught his they were investigating these underground with these Beautiful paint Ings about How they would find their Way into the great Hereof he and the thought hit me my nobody really knows none of us know what were doing we dont know what we where the hell were going nothing influences it reminded him of a line from a David Mamet play he had done years there was a Guy telling a kid about his sex which he was going to brag he was a Mill and he i reached the age of puberty at who can say a then he went and i loved that who can say Why i you theres a lot of damned Wisdom in Mamet and other playwrights provided the bulk of one ills pre married acting work during 10 years in then one evening his wife read the married script and urged him to take the part his agents had Oneill based his interpretation of Bundy principally on a couple of uncles one of whom is a supreme court Justice in his Home state of other major Oneill influences or otherwise Laurel and Jackie Phil silvers As Sid cae Sar in your show of and Steve and one More my favorite comedian in the world would have to be Jonathan As a i had Jonathan Winters and he was from my neck of the you he was from and i was from his humor was from the and his voice was a familiar 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