What's wrong with Dick Clark?

Yes, he is still recovering from the stroke he suffered last year. That was so uncomfortable listening to him. I was cringing the entire time.

You would thing that if that's the best he can do, he would rather have the world remember him for the way he was.

That was the equivilent of Babe Ruth playing for the Boston Braves at the end of his career, but without the home runs.

 

Yes, a sad, but brave performance. Yes, he did suffer a stroke. That, and he's one hundred and forty-seven years old.

 

Seems like he's Accomplished so much, and he should have plenty of money,why doesn't he go out on a higer note.
Heck w/ the way he's aged, you'd think he has the picture of Dorian Grey.

 

Yea it was sad to hear him struggling like that. I do agree that it would have been better for us to just remember him as he was. Maybe do a tribute or something instead.

 

I got stuck watching CSI all night we switched to him as the ball was landing....

my first thought was "OMG, he's actually there and mumbling away" it was sad, but I guess it's good he got to do it the last year of the ball (I heard they are auctioning it off).

my second thought was Mariah must have the same physician as Anna Smith... she seemed a little artificially happy & smug.

I'm glad I only had to suffer about 5 minutes of it

 

They're not doing the ball anymore, or not using THAT ball anymore?

I agree about Mariah. She goes away for how many years and now that she's back we're all supposed to ooh and aaah and over her?

Yea she's hot, but still...

 

Did anyone else notice he was a second off on the countdown?

Maybe it was the clock he was watching, but when he shouted down from 10 he was a second early for each one.

 

They are not using the ball anymore?


I never heard about Dick Clarks' stroke. I just thought he was extremly drunk.

 

i for one am glad to see the tough guy back in the saddle..

nothing can stop the man! a true inspiration.

 

Yep

 

he still did better than regis. I watch him an hour later on another channel an hour later.
It went something like this. Keep in mind that at no time did his countdown actually match the real countdown,

10! 9! 8! 7! 6! 5!......4-3-2! 5! 4!

Happy new year!

 

There's always next year!

 

I didn't watch much of any of the New Year's Eve programs, but it was just too sad to watch Dick Clark. I felt so bad for him, though in the 20 minutes or so that I watched, I think he might've been pre-recorded. I didn't hear anything he said that couldn't have been prerecorded - mostly just statements of happy new year and passing off to the other correspondants. Just a guess, though. That might explain being off by a second, too. Who knows. Regardless, I just felt so bad watching him on TV - I remember him from years past being so full of energy and excited.

 

For those questioning if/why he was off by a second or so, he had a STROKE

 

So what was regis's excuse? seriously, the montor they were watching was probably not in sync with the broadcast image. It's probably that simple.

 

Dick Clark's voice is just a side effect of the unfreezing process.

 

now that this question is answered, can someone tell me why paul mccartney wasnt shot instead of john lennon?