Mitch Albom, whoops.

http://www.freep.com/article/20100131/COL01/1310476/1082/Col01/Salingers-greatest-trick-To-disappear

That's right, kids: This man actually tried NOT to be famous.

If you're in your 20s or younger, you might have studied it in English class, or maybe downloaded it to see what all the fuss was about.

Now, it's hard for the young to imagine a writer selling 60 million copies of a book and NOT wanting to do "The Catcher in the Rye, Part II" or "Catcher! The Video Game."

And hearing that he died this past week without ever giving in makes me admire him all the more. Salinger never swallowed this capitalize-on-your-fame command that Simon Cowell and YouTube have turned into an American birthright. He never even sold the movie rights to his most famous work.

On the other hand, many of us now think if you sing a song nicely, there needs to be a reality show about your life. You tell me. Who's the crazy party?

And every time I see a Paris Hilton story or an "American Idol" audition, I admire him even more.

http://cmsimg.freep.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C4&Date=99999999&Category=COL01&ArtNo=90731067&Ref=AR&Profile=1082&MaxW=320&MaxH=300&Q=50

Contact MITCH ALBOM: 313-223-4581 or mal✧✧✧@freepr✧✧✧.c✧✧. Catch "The Mitch Albom Show" 5-7 p.m. weekdays on WJR-AM (760). Also catch "Monday Sports Albom" 7-8 p.m. Mondays on WJR. To read his recent columns, go to freep.com/mitch.

http://www.freep.com/article/99999999/COL01/90731067/1082/Col01/About-Mitch-Albom

Albom is the author of 10 books, including "Tuesdays With Morrie," which spent four years atop the N.Y. Times bestsellers list and is the most successful memoir of all time. In December 1999, Oprah Winfrey produced the film version, which starred Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria. The movie garnered four Emmy Awards, including best TV film, director, actor and supporting actor. Two of Albom’s other bestsellers, “The Five People You Meet In Heaven” and “For One More Day,” also have been turned into successful TV movies.

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How does Lane Kiffin do it? Watch Mitch's parting shot.

Uh.

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/mitch-albom-is-writing-a-play-about-ernie-harwell-oy.php

I hate that fuckin' albom, it's just noise to me.

But of course.

http://www.freep.com/article/20120624/COL01/206240413/Mitch-Albom-My-Fifty-Shades-of-newfound-embarrassment

Ladies and sex, so gross amirite.

Y'know, I think he's on to something here, I too feel like TV has gotten a bit more sexualized in the last 50 years

54-year-old 'Tuesdays With Morrie' author wants world to know that sex with him is intense, meaningful, spiritual experience, bodies intertwined into something meaningful, mysterious, beyond words.

That will be his next book.

btw Mitch if you want to know when you became "out of touch" it was probably around the time you wrote that lengthy article decrying fantasy baseball that spent the whole time treating it as though it were a goddamn XBox game

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120921/METRO/209210373/1409/metro/Mitch-Albom-s-charity-sued-over-orphanage

I think I mentioned on the Amanda Palmer thread that he had wanted an insane amount of money just to speak for a Michigan library group, but at least that attempt at grifting didn't involve Haitian orphans.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CaFaKCAW0AADL__.jpg

I suggest going down to the multiplex to point and laugh at people who buy tickets for this

‘The Five People You Meet In Heaven’ Drama From Mitch Albom Based On Book Set At Fox With Big Commitment https://t.co/UIKa0W3LbF pic.twitter.com/SCb7nFSTqg

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) August 27, 2019

Even better, it's a tv series not a movie. Weekly peeks into the mind of Albom!

I mean fucken God Friended Me was somehow renewed for a second season instead of being cancelled halfway through its first episode so we're clearly living in the endtimes. Bring on those funky trumpets!

"Jesus had many followers, too. He didn't get them by twerking."

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/mitch-albom/2023/09/10/mitch-albom-criticizing-old-president-biden-mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump/70810796007/

How would he know

It's a shame there are no ice floes left to float him out to sea on.