Bill Cosby Welcomes You to the Weekend with Glorious Dubstep
Celebrated TV and film actor Bill Cosby (loved him in Ghost Dad) once had a program called The Cosby Show with seriously fabulous opening credits. Those credits have been remixed to an electronic dance beat, and I'm telling you Sabrina La Beauf has never been funkier. Mysteriously, Lisa Bonet is the worst. Anyway: Have a glorious weekend and let Phylicia Rashad's sashaying lead the way! [YouTube]
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Haa ha ha hama time! LOL. Awesome.
Laugh at Ghost Dad (or Leonard 6 for that matter), but Cosby had a number of legit comic roles, including Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again with Sidney Poitier (good roles in good movies); and Mother Jugs and Speed (Harvey Keitel and Raquel Welch - good role in a so-so picture); and The Devil and Max Devlin (with Elliot Gould, so-so role in a movie not that good). There are a couple more examples like this, including one reteaming him with Robert Culp from the pioneering (if only okay) TV series I Spy. There are many many actors with far more checkered roles.
When you speak of Cosby and film, you're not doing him justice (and probably not doing your homework) if you leave out that his $50,000 loan was the only thing that allowed Melvin Van Peebles to complete Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, certainly the most important film in early black cinema, and, I'd argue, undeniably one of the most important in film history.
Now then, if you want to check out a truly sassy show opening, go to YouTube and search for "The Bill Cosby Show Opening 1970." The show actually ran from 1969-1971, with Cosby playing the coolest PE teacher of all time, appropriate for a man who went to Temple on a track scholarship.
It was also the first time that a black actor starred in an eponymous show -- once again, Cosby paving the way. And children, I'm telling you, it had The Funkiest, Funkiest TV Theme EVER. It was edited from a monster live jam with Quincy Jones and one his all-time baddest bands in 1969. Look that one up under "Hikky Burr" -- a reference to one of the many nonsense noises Cosby made during the vamp, sprinkled with "HOOO Lord." I promise, you've never heard anything like it. In a good way.
Let's see if I can post some links in this thing. If not, look 'em up. And will you kids do some dang homework?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyyXeyww854
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Rppe_MyM8
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