Hulk Hogan on Larry King tonight

Just as an after thought ...
Speaking of sad old men who don't realize their fifteen minutes are up ...

Hulk Hogan was on Larry King tonight, discussing his son's incarceration, and the recent breakdown of his marriage.

I can say it was a good move I guess, from a PR standpoint - it made ME feel for the guy anyway, when I've been mad at the wealthy, detached, insulated nonsense of his family for a long time. I think he is a musclehead with a good heart whom money and fame corrupted - or at least blinded - and I think he's realizing some of the consequences of his opulence and his lifestyle now, as his trashy wife has taken up with a 19-year-old former classmate of her children, as his son is in jail due to Mommy and Daddy's encouragement to be adventurous and daring (especially behind the wheel), as his daughter is mad at all of them by turns, and he's being sued by the family of a boy he's taken care of for years, a family he's helped financially for years ...

I can get - especially for a Christian - that this is a time where those life choices have finally caught up with him, and perhaps I'm getting sucked in by the greatest carny con man of all time, but if he's ever going to just reassess, figure out who 'Terry' is again (as opposed to 'Hulk') and go back to being the entertainer in his family, while letting his children grow up into intelligent, socially responsible adults, it's now. The reality is, the Hogans are humans - as much as they don't always act it, for all their showbiz veneer, this is a tough time for them, and it is certainly a tough time for the Grazianos. But perhaps in the midst of all the senselessness, this tragedy can lead to Nick's growing up and maturity, to Hulk's understanding how the life he chose to live has affected his children going forward, and so on ... maybe that is the 'will of God' Hogan spoke of to King tonight.

I will never feel the sympathy for the Hogans I feel for the Grazianos - their choices led to this tragedy, and unfortunately the Graziano family is along for the ride - but tonight was as close as I've seen in a long time to 'Hulk Hogan' cracking and showing us 'Terry Bollea' in public ... and THAT man, I feel for too.