Talk:Jerry Rubin

Yuppie
I left the comment that "yuppie" was coined because of Jerry Rubins's "betrayal" - as far as I know, "yuppie" came from "Young Urban Professional", but I am far from sure of the etymology. Espen

Is he dead
Jerry Rubin is not dead. He faked his death and still frequents The Promenade Mall at Santa Monica. I have spoken with him personally, the last time in 2002. His business card reads "Jerry Rubin - Peace Activist. Have no gun, will travel." 63.116.189.82 02:13, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't expect anyone here to believe you. Then again, maybe you met a Jerry Rubin impersonator.
 * The guy in Santa Monica is another guy named Jerry Rubin.  Randall Bart    Talk   16:54, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

The real Jerry Rubin is long gone. Sad, but true for his family. T.E. Goodwin 13:45, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

The Jerry Rubin you're thinking of is a different person. The Jerry Rubin in Santa Monica is a peace activist and sets up a table with literature on Third Street Promenade. --MichaelApproved (talk) 07:35, 21 September 2012 (UTC)


 * There is a Jerry Rubin peace activist in Santa Monica, but this link won't take you to a webpage about him.
 * Santa Monica's Jerry Rubin is having a celebration of some sort on Sunday, where I have been invited to meet him for the first time. If I meet him, I will ask him if he was the Weatherman and a member of the Chicago 7. I bet the one I may meet gets that all the time. From what I can find, they are two different guys. The more famous one is dead. The less famous one is still a peace activist.
 * The link to "Jerry Rubin in Santa Monica" won't clear things up. It takes you to Chinese language site. If you open up the page source and translate the Chinese description into English, you find that it has nothing to do with a peace activist in Santa Monica, California. It's seems to be a site for Chinese on line gaming, or gambling, laundering money, or worse."
 * Translations of a couple of the first lines of the HTML source:
 * "杏悦2-杏悦2平台-进入官方指定注册网站
 * Xìng yuè 2-xìng yuè 2 píngtái-jìnrù guānfāng zhǐdìng zhùcè wǎngzhàn
 * 20 / 5,000
 * Translation results
 * Xingyue 2-Xingyue 2 platform-Enter the official designated registration website"
 * and
 * "杏悦2平台【tb778.vip】倾力打造的刺激火爆体育娱乐游戏,每天为您提供千场精彩体育赛事,多种娱乐方式选择,让您拥有完美游戏体验
 * Xìng yuè 2 píngtái [tb778.Vip] qīng lì dǎzào de cìjī huǒbào tǐyù yúlè yóuxì, měitiān wèi nín tígōng qiān chǎng jīngcǎi tǐyù sàishì, duō zhǒng yúlè fāngshì xuǎnzé, ràng nín yǒngyǒu wánměi yóuxì tǐyàn
 * 66 / 5,000
 * Translation results
 * Xingyue 2 platform [tb778.vip] is dedicated to creating exciting and popular sports entertainment games, providing you with thousands of exciting sports events every day, and a variety of entertainment options, allowing you to have a perfect gaming experience." 76.232.200.154 (talk) 20:18, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

David Frost
Many Brits - myself included - first heard of Jerry Rubin when they saw him and a group of supporters 'take over' David Frost's ITV chat-show, some time in the early 1970's, if I remember right. I recall the taking-over amounted to lots of people occupying the interview area, though I think Frost rather relished the spectacle. The other main guest was the physical anthropologist Robert Ardrey who drew a rather snooty analogy between the behaviour of his fellow guests and that of young chimpanzees! I see there's a rambling but quite detailed account of the events at http://www.arsydd.btinternet.co.uk/frostbenn.html Bhasi23 18:03, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I second that this (rather old) post is recalling a notorious incident in the UK, covered by all the UK papers. Some discussion of it is here.Pincrete (talk) 15:29, 29 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Well very good this sounds possibly reasonably notable, but of course we'd need refs, are there any? Herostratus (talk) 16:02, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

Date of Death?
I think something needs to be stated about how he died in the 1980s or at least his beliefs did. A sad thing indeed, someone selling out their beliefs for money.

His date of death is given as November 28th, 1994 at the start of the article. Under the "DEATH" section the statement is that he died several days after being hit jaywalking on Wilshire Bl. One or the other is incorrect. I am surprised nobody else here has recognized such a glaring discrepancy. T.E. Goodwin 13:37, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I dunno if it was for money, exactly. He was just kind of weird guy, and even tho he got famous for a while with his antics and stuff, he was never that together mentally -- the antics point to a possible bipolar situation. I think he was just easily suggestible and got turned from one enthusiasm to another. It could have been Guru Maraha Ji (as happened to David Dellinger) or some other cult. Some capitalists got his ear first tho. Herostratus (talk) 01:07, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Category: Personal development
Unless I am missing something I cannot see why this article is in category:Personal development so I have removed it. --Vince 17:48, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced material
The following material doesn't have a source: If this information is important, please provide a source and incorporate it into the main article. - Tbsdy lives (talk) 22:33, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
 * When he was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee, Rubin turned up one day dressed as a bare-chested guerilla armed with a plastic rifle, and the next day as Santa Claus. Finally he cut his hair and shaved his beard to appear as a soldier of the American Revolutionary War, while reminding the legislators that George Washington grew and smoked pot.
 * Jerry Rubin appeared on TV in Cleveland in an infamous interview by veteran broadcaster Dorothy Fuldheim about his book Do It!. He started to purposefully antagonize the no-nonsense Fuldheim, who threw him off the set when he repeatedly used profanity.
 * It's been years, but I believe those incidents were recounted in his autobiography. Perhaps someone has a copy to source?--Chimino (talk) 06:19, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

I have searched Rubin's autobiography and there is no mention there of this event at Saturday Night Live'​s episode. I really would like to clean up the "Other appearances" section, but there seems to be no reference to be found online or printed that allows us to do that with out just deleting the mention of "Saturday Night Live'​s episode" or the "fake commercial was later played". --Typewolf (talk) 17:49, 12 February 2015 (GMT)
 * The SNL transcripts website documents the advertisement here. Whether or not that is a reliable source I don't know. Helpsome (talk) 17:59, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I actually found another reference to this, in part at least; "New York Magazine’s Original 1975 Review of Saturday Night Live" by Jeff Greenfield October 27, 1975 issue of New York. Typewolf (talk) 18:55, 12 February 2015 (GMT)

I have taken out the sentence "The fake commercial was later played in a few other first season episodes, including the episode featuring Ron Nessen, President Gerald Ford's press secretary", since no citations have been added to confirm this since March 2008. I have also taken out the "Refimprove section" that was dated in March 2008 since additional citations for verification have now been added to all the statements made in "Other appearances" section. --Typewolf (talk) 12:56, 17 February 2015 (GMT)

Extensive sarcastic reference to Jerry Rubin in Christopher Lasch's 'The Culture of Narcissism.'
The bio of Rubin should include a reference to this. Perhaps even an excerpt. Lasch used Rubin's supermarket sweepstakes-style indulgence of big bucks New-Age healing hustles as something that was symbolic of the self-absorbed and politically fraudulent character of the late 1960's - early 1970's United States counterculture.

Miasnikov —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.172.12.36 (talk) 18:27, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Early Life
The chronology is confusing, as the article reads that he took Gil to Israel and then met Che Guevara. 76.175.97.243 (talk) 23:13, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

specifics of turncoating many articles on jerry * including wikipedia * describe his later "success" as a businessman * to my meager knowledge all he really did was run a new york city high class dating service * i'll check later * but the reference for this is a book called *where are they now* * but there are many such and i must travel for an hour to its bookshelf * he is also quoted as saying approximately *i was always a conservative undeneath*  66.65.244.67 (talk) 20:15, 26 September 2010 (UTC) grumpy

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