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Does his walking off the show during filming because he got tired of people making jokes about his name qualify for inclusion or not? Badbilltucker 19:42, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
I can find no mention of Ric having been involved with any of The Killers' music. The only mention of any relation at all between them is an interview where the Killers' frontman mentions The Cars as having been a huge influence on his music. None of their albums mention Ric as having produced any of their work. I suspect that they are mentioned in error. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.84.39.125 ( talk) 12:49, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
"Ocasek was also an editor and major contributor to the magazine Fangoria, a cult horror b-movie fanzine." This is vandalism. The Cars were releasing records well before Fangoria first appeared in 1979, so if Ocasek was editimg or even contributing to the magazine, there'd be some documentation of it somewhere.
There is none. Bustter ( talk) 22:20, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
I tried to track it back to the original vandal and found that until a few mnths ago the name of the magazine was "fantagoria" which does not even exist. Someone "corrected" the spelling without verifying Bustter ( talk) 22:39, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
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It predates Wikipedia, predates the Internet as we know it today: Cars fanatics who read books like Frozen Fire or just about any old "rock encyclopedia", as used to be published frequently . . . It was Richard and the Rabbits, a name suggested by Jonathan Richman. Not "Rick and the Rabbits".
If I understand correctly, on the Milkwood album credits he went by "Richard Otcasek", and never "Rick" with a k.
The Wikipedia article for The Cars already reads "After Milkwood, Ocasek and Orr formed the group Richard and the Rabbits, whose name was suggested by Jonathan Richman."
So, I'm putting that in here.
At the moment, the only online source I've found is a LinkedIn page for . . . Oh, what was that guy's name . . . You know who I'm-- GREG HAWKES. Greg Hawkes lists his tenure in Richard and the Rabbits on his LinkedIn Page.
I suppose somebody's going to tell me that isn't really Greg's LinkedIn page, but for the moment, I'm going to believe in it, use it, and change the article.
Changing it to "Rick", in the first place, was the sort of thing that required a source, and a word or two here explaining it.
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50.11.49.92 (
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02:58, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, this was me. --
Ben Culture (
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03:07, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
All references to Ric Ocasek as a bisexual man have been purged from the article by one user (I see no discussion of it on this Talk page), who said in his edit summary,
(ric ocasek has never publicly said to any news organization or anybody else that he is bisexual. nndb.com is a gossip site and not to be trusted as actual facts.)
First of all, even publications like TIME and Entertainment Weekly have their utterly-untrustworthy moments. See here and here. I'm no stranger to seeing journalists put words in people's mouths and extract factoids from them. And that makes me angry.
However, it looks to me like this nndb.com is getting its facts right, and trying to reassure its readers of it. They DO have a quotation and a source, you know. The article's only footnote reads:
[1] Profile '86 radio interview, broadcast 1986 on NBC Radio: "I like beautiful women. Tall, thin, beautiful women. Fat little ugly women. I like all kinds of women. I'm always attracted to the opposite sex. I'm attracted to both sexes, actually. But not only beautiful men -- I think I like weird men."
I don't know about anyone else, but I am inclined to believe that. Why make up a quotation out of whole cloth? And an actual source? And HOW were they able to make one up that sounds just like something Ric Ocasek WOULD say? At some point, you have to ask yourself, what's more believable: That nndb.com would make up such a thing, in SUCH a perfunctory, NON-malicious tone, and cite a false source -- OR that a beautiful-weirdo poet/artist/rock star who has incredible wealth and fame would fuck around with a few guys for the sheer hell of it?
I mean, if it's good enough for John Lennon (OH! I'm sorry, you didn't know?) it's surely good enough for Ric. Actually, I should probably have said "Lou Reed" instead of "John Lennon", who allegedly only had the gay sex once (yes, of course it was with Brian Epstein), whereas Reed spent whole years living with a transgender, and declared himself "a gay man head to foot" (right up until he married Sylvia, and the two of them attempted to sanitize his sexual history). It's certaintly a known fact that Ocasek's a Velvet Underground/Lou Reed fan. Anyway.
I think they're telling the truth. They're quoting a radio show. I'm going to look into this, and if I find what I think I'll find, the article will be changing again.
For those who feel Ric has been "accused" of something, has been "insulted" -- you need to look at yourself and work on your perhaps-unconscious-and-unintended bigotry. -- Ben Culture ( talk) 03:50, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Ric Ocasek has put out a book titled Lyrics and Prose. I don't know where or how to put this information into the article. Perhaps there was a press release or something?
-- Ben Culture ( talk) 15:22, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
I understand that there has been some confusion recently, especially with a number of edits, about Ric's heritage. The article currently lists his father as being of Polish descent, when in fact, Ocasek is of Czech origins. Here are a number of sources which point to this being true:
I believe these sources should serve as sufficient evidence. The source currently cited (People Magazine, http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20074338,00.html While Much of the New Wave Goes Dry, Studio Whiz Ric Ocasek Has His Band, the Cars, Running on Full) could have easily simply made a mistake when researching him. In any case, I believe the repeated attempts to clarify this were not acts of vandalism or ethnically motivated, but rather repeated attempts to correct an error and going about it using the wrong methods. Hopefully, this will serve to finally resolve the issue. 67.244.15.134 ( talk) 03:49, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Let me repeat Centerone's point from above: What people are failing to take into account here is that our article does not claim that Ocasek is of Polish ethnicity, merely that is father was born in Poland. Since there are ethnic Czechs in Poland, it is not impossible for both claims -- that Ocasek is of Czech ethnicity and that his father was born in Poiland -- to be correct. The problem is, of course, that we only have citations from reliable sources for the one claim. (The sources listed above are not reliable.) To add the claim of Czech ethnicity to the article, all that is needed is a citation from a reliable source. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 16:53, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
In several videos, he appears to dwarf the other members of the band. Please add to the bio sidebar his height. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.1.137.242 ( talk) 06:22, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
This link says he is 6' 4" http://celebriot.com/ric-ocasek-weight-height-ethnicity-hair-color-net-worth — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.1.137.242 ( talk) 06:25, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
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Given this friendship between Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr, mentioned in the article, is it a pure coincidence that in Episode 4 of TV series "Mindhunter" there is a local police officer Mark Ocasek befriended with a suspect called Benjamin "Benji" Barnwright? Just asking myself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.192.222.127 ( talk) 09:47, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
For some reason I was under the impression Ocasek was Jewish, and if you Google he is listed as such on a few websites (albeit mostly Nazi ones). Was I conflating him with Geddy Lee or is there legit basis behind this idea? Rqe1 ( talk) 16:59, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
Here is a YouTube video [5] of the bandmembers of The Cars introducing themselves. Can someone familiar with IPA add a pronunciation note to the main page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lambdacalculator ( talk • contribs) 19:34, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Done. But someone just reverted my edit without stating a reason. Aikclaes ( talk) 14:37, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
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Does his walking off the show during filming because he got tired of people making jokes about his name qualify for inclusion or not? Badbilltucker 19:42, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
I can find no mention of Ric having been involved with any of The Killers' music. The only mention of any relation at all between them is an interview where the Killers' frontman mentions The Cars as having been a huge influence on his music. None of their albums mention Ric as having produced any of their work. I suspect that they are mentioned in error. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.84.39.125 ( talk) 12:49, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
"Ocasek was also an editor and major contributor to the magazine Fangoria, a cult horror b-movie fanzine." This is vandalism. The Cars were releasing records well before Fangoria first appeared in 1979, so if Ocasek was editimg or even contributing to the magazine, there'd be some documentation of it somewhere.
There is none. Bustter ( talk) 22:20, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
I tried to track it back to the original vandal and found that until a few mnths ago the name of the magazine was "fantagoria" which does not even exist. Someone "corrected" the spelling without verifying Bustter ( talk) 22:39, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
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It predates Wikipedia, predates the Internet as we know it today: Cars fanatics who read books like Frozen Fire or just about any old "rock encyclopedia", as used to be published frequently . . . It was Richard and the Rabbits, a name suggested by Jonathan Richman. Not "Rick and the Rabbits".
If I understand correctly, on the Milkwood album credits he went by "Richard Otcasek", and never "Rick" with a k.
The Wikipedia article for The Cars already reads "After Milkwood, Ocasek and Orr formed the group Richard and the Rabbits, whose name was suggested by Jonathan Richman."
So, I'm putting that in here.
At the moment, the only online source I've found is a LinkedIn page for . . . Oh, what was that guy's name . . . You know who I'm-- GREG HAWKES. Greg Hawkes lists his tenure in Richard and the Rabbits on his LinkedIn Page.
I suppose somebody's going to tell me that isn't really Greg's LinkedIn page, but for the moment, I'm going to believe in it, use it, and change the article.
Changing it to "Rick", in the first place, was the sort of thing that required a source, and a word or two here explaining it.
--
50.11.49.92 (
talk)
02:58, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, this was me. --
Ben Culture (
talk)
03:07, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
All references to Ric Ocasek as a bisexual man have been purged from the article by one user (I see no discussion of it on this Talk page), who said in his edit summary,
(ric ocasek has never publicly said to any news organization or anybody else that he is bisexual. nndb.com is a gossip site and not to be trusted as actual facts.)
First of all, even publications like TIME and Entertainment Weekly have their utterly-untrustworthy moments. See here and here. I'm no stranger to seeing journalists put words in people's mouths and extract factoids from them. And that makes me angry.
However, it looks to me like this nndb.com is getting its facts right, and trying to reassure its readers of it. They DO have a quotation and a source, you know. The article's only footnote reads:
[1] Profile '86 radio interview, broadcast 1986 on NBC Radio: "I like beautiful women. Tall, thin, beautiful women. Fat little ugly women. I like all kinds of women. I'm always attracted to the opposite sex. I'm attracted to both sexes, actually. But not only beautiful men -- I think I like weird men."
I don't know about anyone else, but I am inclined to believe that. Why make up a quotation out of whole cloth? And an actual source? And HOW were they able to make one up that sounds just like something Ric Ocasek WOULD say? At some point, you have to ask yourself, what's more believable: That nndb.com would make up such a thing, in SUCH a perfunctory, NON-malicious tone, and cite a false source -- OR that a beautiful-weirdo poet/artist/rock star who has incredible wealth and fame would fuck around with a few guys for the sheer hell of it?
I mean, if it's good enough for John Lennon (OH! I'm sorry, you didn't know?) it's surely good enough for Ric. Actually, I should probably have said "Lou Reed" instead of "John Lennon", who allegedly only had the gay sex once (yes, of course it was with Brian Epstein), whereas Reed spent whole years living with a transgender, and declared himself "a gay man head to foot" (right up until he married Sylvia, and the two of them attempted to sanitize his sexual history). It's certaintly a known fact that Ocasek's a Velvet Underground/Lou Reed fan. Anyway.
I think they're telling the truth. They're quoting a radio show. I'm going to look into this, and if I find what I think I'll find, the article will be changing again.
For those who feel Ric has been "accused" of something, has been "insulted" -- you need to look at yourself and work on your perhaps-unconscious-and-unintended bigotry. -- Ben Culture ( talk) 03:50, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Ric Ocasek has put out a book titled Lyrics and Prose. I don't know where or how to put this information into the article. Perhaps there was a press release or something?
-- Ben Culture ( talk) 15:22, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
I understand that there has been some confusion recently, especially with a number of edits, about Ric's heritage. The article currently lists his father as being of Polish descent, when in fact, Ocasek is of Czech origins. Here are a number of sources which point to this being true:
I believe these sources should serve as sufficient evidence. The source currently cited (People Magazine, http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20074338,00.html While Much of the New Wave Goes Dry, Studio Whiz Ric Ocasek Has His Band, the Cars, Running on Full) could have easily simply made a mistake when researching him. In any case, I believe the repeated attempts to clarify this were not acts of vandalism or ethnically motivated, but rather repeated attempts to correct an error and going about it using the wrong methods. Hopefully, this will serve to finally resolve the issue. 67.244.15.134 ( talk) 03:49, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Let me repeat Centerone's point from above: What people are failing to take into account here is that our article does not claim that Ocasek is of Polish ethnicity, merely that is father was born in Poland. Since there are ethnic Czechs in Poland, it is not impossible for both claims -- that Ocasek is of Czech ethnicity and that his father was born in Poiland -- to be correct. The problem is, of course, that we only have citations from reliable sources for the one claim. (The sources listed above are not reliable.) To add the claim of Czech ethnicity to the article, all that is needed is a citation from a reliable source. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 16:53, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
In several videos, he appears to dwarf the other members of the band. Please add to the bio sidebar his height. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.1.137.242 ( talk) 06:22, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
This link says he is 6' 4" http://celebriot.com/ric-ocasek-weight-height-ethnicity-hair-color-net-worth — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.1.137.242 ( talk) 06:25, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
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Given this friendship between Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr, mentioned in the article, is it a pure coincidence that in Episode 4 of TV series "Mindhunter" there is a local police officer Mark Ocasek befriended with a suspect called Benjamin "Benji" Barnwright? Just asking myself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.192.222.127 ( talk) 09:47, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
For some reason I was under the impression Ocasek was Jewish, and if you Google he is listed as such on a few websites (albeit mostly Nazi ones). Was I conflating him with Geddy Lee or is there legit basis behind this idea? Rqe1 ( talk) 16:59, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
Here is a YouTube video [5] of the bandmembers of The Cars introducing themselves. Can someone familiar with IPA add a pronunciation note to the main page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lambdacalculator ( talk • contribs) 19:34, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Done. But someone just reverted my edit without stating a reason. Aikclaes ( talk) 14:37, 17 April 2017 (UTC)