Sunday, September 23, 2007

Mime Marcel Marceau Dies

I have conflicting thoughts on the topic at hand.

On one hand, it sounds like Marcel Mangel (the French Jew who worked with the French resistance during WWII) was a really great person. He worked altering IDs so that children would be "too young" for the Nazis to deport. He lost his father in a concentration camp during WWII. Marcel changed his name to hide his Jewish origins.

On the other hand, Marcel Marceau is probably single-handedly responsible for the "art form" of "Mime" becoming popular, thereby earning an unending amount of scorn from me and, most likely, the rest of the world.

So, instead of making this simple, it will be a little more complex.

I mourn the loss of Marcel Mangel, the resistance member who bravely acted against the Nazis. I rejoice that there is one less mime in the world and long for the day when there are no more mimes.

Aloha.

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