Bob Hope "Miserable Human Being"

“He was an asshole that made a living off of the troops. Plus he got plenty of ass doing it. A miserable human being. Not from me. I was Miss Palm Springs here and just turned 17…He wasn’t funny at all. He had to have a comic writer with him all the time. He treated girls like whores.”

https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/03/30/mamie-van-doren-91-the-original-pamela-anderson-has-no-kind-memories-of-superstar-comedian-bob-hope

“And he always had his hands in his pockets.”
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{It's unclear to me if the following remarks are from Van Doren, or from the writer of the article, Roger Friedman...}

"Hope was a huge movie star in the 40s and 50s, particularly with singer Bing Crosby in his “Road” movies. Genuinely funny, Hope is revered for those movies by many comics who followed. But in the 60s — doing USO shows for US troops at the height of the Vietnam War– he turned into a Nixon Republican, and all his “cool” went out the window. People my age derided him as he became an emblem for conservative, wealthy warmongers. All his outlier wisecracking disappeared, which was too bad, He could have been a subversive hero in the time of Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor but his success did him in."

I'm thinking that's Roger Friedman talking - as if anyone cares about his opinion...