The clout of Bruce Bradley

[SteveOrdinetz]

  Donna Halper wrote:
>Bud wrote--
>
>>  So if he thinks he's getting some sort of revenge by refusing to
>>discuss or acknowledge time in Boston he's wrong, because nobody seems to
>>know why he seems bitter.  It's kind of sad, in a pathetic sort of way.
>
>Some people in the biz are just bitter, angry people and that's how 
>it is for them.  At some point, Bruce's life began to turn 
>unpleasant, and today he would prefer to move forward rather than 
>look back. Maybe Boston has bad memories for him-- divorce, 
>alcoholism, whatever.


I'm tending to believe the former.  Several years ago I came across a 
link to an article on (containing some interview segments with) Bruce 
after he lost his last St. Louis market gig.  Apparently, he'd made 
some politically incorrect remark that was taken as racist and he was 
toast.  The article and interview made him come across as an 
extremely bitter man who took every setback in his life as a personal 
insult.  The article went on to say that he was estranged from his 
children, and that his wife had left him.  What a sad way to spend 
one's golden years, though as the saying goes, that crotchety 80 year 
old was probably a crochety 30 year old too.
I though't I'd saved the article, but it must be on some long-crashed 
hard drive.