| BILL COSBY PREVENTS RAPPER FROM TAKING FAT AL NAME | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:29:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | Funnyman BILL COSBY has upset rapper FAT AL by insisting he changes his moniker - because people may confuse him with the comic's FAT ALBERT cartoon character. The teenage rap star has been forced to change his name to AL FATZ after Cosby's protests. The rapper tells Billboard.com, "I guess he doesn't like rappers. I'm just trying to come up and Bill Cosby was hating." .... | |
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| | | Bill Cosby Settles Lawsuit | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 7:34:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | Comedian Bill Cosby has settled a civil lawsuit filed by a woman who said the entertainer drugged and sexually assaulted her at his home outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Terms of the settlement will remain confidential, according to a statement issued on Wednesday by the woman's law firm. Cosby's publicist David Brokaw confirmed the settlement and said there would be no further comment. The woman claimed that Cosby, 69, assaulted her at his mansion in Cheltenham in early 2004, after giving her pills. Attorneys for Cosby say he gave the woman the over-the-counter sleeping medication Benadryl, after she complained of stress and sleeping problems. The federal judge presiding over the case earlier denied Cosby's request for a gag order and the plaintiff's request to shield the names of a dozen other women who say Cosby assaulted them.... | |
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| | | ROCHELLE RILEY: Cosby's challenge to poor: Climb up | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:11:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | Why does Bill Cosby keep coming back to Detroit? Because Detroit needs him, and many Detroiters know it. They need someone to ask the questions he has been asking for two years now about why anyone would use poverty as an excuse to be irresponsible. They need someone to start that conversation instead of continuing the one about how racism and discrimination put poor black folks in poverty so it is only just that something else get them out. America may never pay that debt. Why does Bill Cosby keep coming back to Detroit? Because Detroit is Ground Zero for every problem facing black Americans and poor Americans anywhere: failing public education, improper health care and nutrition, teen pregnancies, rising unemployment and attacks on affirmative action programs that have helped to level the playing field (don't forget to reject Proposal 2 next month on Election Day), and a lack of self-esteem.... | |
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| | | Cook tries hand at movies | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:11:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | When Dane Cook was in junior high, he and his friends would walk the halls of the school singing, "Dad is great! Gave us the chocolate cake!" from Bill Cosby's comedy special, "Himself." "[Cosby] impacted me, to be able to be so truthful with your humor," said Cook. Now, after a 16-year career in stand-up, Dane Cook is the comic people are quoting. "To think that you can put something out there that people want to walk around and take part in is a bit surreal," said Cook. "I've had a lot of those great moments in my career where somebody wants to quote me, or SU-FI catches on, and people are doing it, and I just enjoy it. I don't think too much more of it than what it is, there's no master plan." SU-FI, in case you didn't know, stands for SuperFinger, an invention of Cook's for when the regular obscene gesture just isn't enough.... | |
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| | | Cosby: Donate $8 to Slavery Museum | | Posted Saturday, September 23, 2006 3:06:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | Bill Cosby called Friday on each American to contribute $8 to help build a national slavery museum amid the battlefields of the Civil War. Cosby, who already has committed $1 million to the project, joined Richmond Mayor L. Douglas Wilder on Friday in launching a new campaign to raise $100 million toward the Fredericksburg museum's $200 million price tag. .... | |
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| | | Actor Bill Cosby Calls for Increased Spending on Veterans Health ... | | Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 5:16:45 AM by Blog57 Team | | Actor and comedian Bill Cosby on Wednesday at rally in Newark, New Jersey, said that the federal government should spend more on health care for veterans, the Newark Star-Ledger reports. Operation Firing for Effect, which sponsored the rally, said that the federal government will spend about $27 billion this year on health care for an estimated 26 million veterans. Some higher-income veterans are denied health care, and others often must wait weeks for appointments at Department of Veterans Administration hospitals, according to the group. Cosby, a Navy veteran, said, "I can't believe they bring home our warriors and then turn out the light on them," adding, "People coming home sick and not allowed to be. This is a cause no one can deny." In addition, he said, "When we were attacked, all the politicians sang 'God Bless America.' Then they went into a back room and said 'Let's make some cutbacks (to veterans programs).'" A VA spokesperson declined to address specific criticisms of the department budget but cited a recent speech in which President Bush said that spending on health care for veterans has increased by 75% since he took office.... | |
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| | | Cosby and me: Why we don't see eye-to-eye | | Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 7:17:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | For more than a year, I've been embroiled in a public debate with Bill Cosby about poor blacks. Cosby has been harshly critical of the poor, blaming them for their plight and arguing that personal responsibility is the key to their success. Cosby has dismissed both social forces and the legacy of racism in berating the poor for their many failures--bad parenting, bad language and bad behavior. I have acknowledged that personal responsibility is an important element in all people's flourishing. I have also argued that it is naive and irresponsible to ignore the negative impact of low wages, poor health care, persistent prejudice and conservative public policies on the lives of the black poor. .... | |
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| | | DVD Info: The Bill Cosby Show: Season One | | Posted Sunday, August 27, 2006 5:22:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | Shout! Factory have sent in the following announcement for THE BILL COSBY SHOW: SEASON ONE, which arrives on DVD on August 22nd. The Bill Cosby Show: Season One, Cosby's Emmy®-nominated first situation comedy (featuring 26 fully restored uncut episodes from the 1969-70 season), is a fresh mix of intelligent character studies and real-life situations, seamlessly infused with his trademark sense of humor and positive outlook. Chet Kincaid (Cosby) is a gym teacher at an urban high school in Los Angeles, an all-around good guy and an inspiration to his friends, family and students. Chet's good heart gets him into tons of funny and unusual predicaments. Here's a couple of classic clips from the show, which are take from the release. THE BILL COSBY SHOW: SEASON ONE Windows Media: Clip 1 Windows Media: Clip 2 Windows Media: Clip 3 Here's a look at the box-srt for the release.... | |
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| | | New DVD releases | | Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:12:21 AM by Blog57 Team | | The new year gets off to a bad start for a boat load of passengers on a doomed luxury liner, but at least the pain's over quicker for them than for the castaways stuck watching this bilge-filled remake of 1972's The Poseidon Adventure. Director Wolfgang Petersen emphasizes repetitive action and special effects over character, making it hard to care much for the little knot of survivors struggling upward deck by deck after a 45-metre wave overturns their vessel. Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfuss and Josh Lucas lead the cast. The movie comes as a bare-bones single DVD or in a two-disc set with featurettes on the upside-down set design and the rigours of shooting an ocean flick in a studio soundstage, plus a History Channel documentary on giant rogue waves. (Warner Bros.) And what's a bad remake without a bad sequel? Also debuting on DVD is Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, a laughable 1979 followup starring Michael Caine, Sally Field and Telly Savalas in the story of salvagers trying to loot treasures from the overturned ship before it sinks.... | |
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| | | The Bill Cosby Show - Season One | | Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:25:34 AM by Blog57 Team | | For decades Bill Cosby has been a comedian of legendary status, and deservedly so. Not only did he manage to attain a high degree of fame plying his standup act trade in the 60's, he did so as an African-American, paving the way for so many others that have come after. His acts always dealt in large part with heaping portions of his family life- his childhood, his parents, and in turn his own marriage and children, and rarely did Cos veer into adults only material. He was also a pioneer for African-Americans in sitcom television, co-starring with Robert Culp in the sitcom "I Spy". Before the breakaway hit series "The Cosby Show" came along in the '90's, Cosby tried to find success on the small screen on a number of occasions over the years. The Bill Cosby Show was his first attempt at doing so after "I Spy" left the air; Cosby had signed a sweetheart contract deal with NBC, guaranteeing him a two year run on his next program following "I Spy", regardless of what the ratings were.... | |
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