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Posted by Will Kutler (Member # 770) on 11-20-2001, 07:29 PM:
Thats right--In AOL Top Entertainment News there is a story that
Bill Cosby has completed a script for a Fat Albert Movie! YEA!But I am looking forward to the Scooby Doo Movie! 
Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 11-20-2001, 07:34 PM:
hey-b Will-b!That-b sounds great-b!
-b
Posted by Joe Beres (Member # 678) on 11-20-2001, 07:53 PM:
Was there a director attached to it yet? Last year, David Gordon Green (Director of George Washington, great film) had mentioned a Fat Albert movie as something he might be doing.
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-20-2001, 10:28 PM:
I will only see it if it has updated ebonics. It absolutely requires words like "mad tight", "Phiggidy phat", "yo", "word" and the like. And of course "b" must be changed to "g". Ahhhh, updated for the 00's.
Posted by Ken Lackner (Member # 1002) on 11-20-2001, 11:55 PM:
Joe, what is your obsession with the expressions "mad tight" and "phiggiddy phat"? 
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-21-2001, 01:10 AM:
That's the way a lot of people talk nowadays. It sounds so incredibly stupid that I can't help making fun of it! Kind of like Regal Cinemas!
Posted by Christopher Duvall (Member # 284) on 11-21-2001, 01:51 AM:
Hey...easy with the low blows.
Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 11-21-2001, 07:08 AM:
Fat who? 
Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 11-21-2001, 07:13 AM:
Hey Chris I think you were actually saying with your retort (deep down) "Loews Blows"...so bashing on Regal is fair game! Steve
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Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 11-22-2001, 08:43 AM:
To echo Michael,"Fat Who?" Must be a culture thang The only Fat Albert I heard of is a smart looking blue and yellow C130 the Blue Angels use for support.
Not that i wouldn't mind seeing a few shots of it's JATO demonstration on the big screen.
Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 11-22-2001, 10:58 AM:
Fat Albert is an american Saturday morning TV show from the early '70's. It starred Bill Cosby, and I watched it weekly... considering I was around 16 at the time...Filmation Studios did the animation.
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-22-2001, 12:34 PM:
Filmation kicks all ass. They were the kings of 5 frames per second animation (if that). Anyone remember their cheesy "Ghostbusters" cartoon that had that big ape? It had nothing to do with the real Ghostbusters, which later became it's own (and much better) cartoon done by the same people who did the GI Joe and Transformers cartoons. Can't remember their name right now. I suck. They were based in Japan, though. Much better artwork.
Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 11-22-2001, 05:15 PM:
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids a la Yesterdayland.and then there's the
Filmation Fan Page
Shazam!
Posted by Ken Lackner (Member # 1002) on 11-22-2001, 08:23 PM:
I used to watch both the Ghostbusters and The Real Ghostbusters. The first one didn't even come close. It was pretty dumb. Real Ghostbusters kicked ass! And your problem with Regal is??
Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 11-22-2001, 11:38 PM:
uh-oh....i see a fight brewing. 
i better get my popcorn
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 11-23-2001, 01:11 AM:
Will Fat Albert the movie be animated or real life?
Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 02-19-2002, 07:05 PM:
It's all the way live. Not only that, Fox wants it coming out this coming Xmas.
Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 02-19-2002, 07:38 PM:
How exciting. Especially now that Josie & the Pussycats translated soooo well. An I'm gonna sing a song for you ou
An Bill's gonna make another buck or 2
Na na na hope it don't suck, bad
HEY HEY HEY
Posted by Jesse Skeen (Member # 586) on 02-19-2002, 11:49 PM:
That "Ghostbusters" cartoon with the ape was actually based on a live-action TV show made sometime in the 70's. I never saw the original show but did see a videotape on a shelf once saying something like "The ORIGINAL Ghostbusters!" I watched the cartoon often just cause it was in stereo.
Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 03-19-2002, 01:24 AM:
* After a nationwide search, newcomer Omar Benson Miller has been tapped to star as famed '70s cartoon character Fat Albert in 20th Century Fox/Davis Entertainment's live-action feature of the same name. Production is slated to begin next month in Los Angeles and Philadelphia with Forest Whitaker directing. The project follows Fat Albert and his posse of friends, who come to life when they walk out of the cartoon and into the real world, resulting in havoc and high jinks. Bill Cosby and Charles Kipps wrote the original draft of the screenplay, which is inspired by Cosby's long-running CBS cartoon "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids."
Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 04-06-2002, 10:04 AM:
Fuhgeddaboutit for this Xmas. Filming has shut down and the original director quit because of the ever-famous "creative differences".
Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 04-06-2002, 02:41 PM:
Those creative differences you speak of is that Forrest Whitiker wanted to take the picture in an entirely different direction than bill cosby did. Whittaker has been let go by cosby, and unless the studio can calm these hotheads down, they will be searching for a new director.After all, cosby may be funny, but he hasnt always been a hit maker. He had fat albert and the cosby show, but then there were other shows such as...
COSBY - funny but no real bite, cancelled quickly
THE BILL COSBY SHOW - his first show fresh off of the vegas strip, once again funny, but no real bite, lasted a short while
LEONARD PART SIX - Aparrently the first five parts were even more dumb than this film
THE COSBY MYSTERIES - all they did in this is try to figure out the mystery of why no one was watching this program
I SPY - now this was a good series, but the reunion bits that cosby and robert culp did were nothing more than watching matlock hang around with barney fife. BOOOORING....
GHOST DAD - it was a cute film, a perfect jello commercial...
JELLO - living in utah, you get tired of this crap, You know that Bill Cosby came to utah to recieve a plaque from our governor because our state of utah proclaimed JELLO as our official state food. Forget that fact that JELLO IS NOT A FOOD PRODUCT...
I see a fat albert movie bieng as good at josie or even charlies angels. I say let it drop forever and leave the show where it belongs, in our history.
Dave
Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-08-2002, 01:17 PM:
JELLO actually was invented in LeRoy NY, a small town just southwest of Rochester:
http://www.jellomuseum.com/ But Salt Lake City consumes the most Jello:
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,77%257E367729,00.html
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