A Yakov Smirnoff performance at Dangerfield's (late 70s-early 80s?)
That guy is SOOO cute!
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  A trivial, semi-ranty, insignificant post addressing yet another instance of grossly taking liberties with the lovely classic entertainment embedded in our hearts ~ yeah, add this one to our fear of the potential Disney/Yellow Sub remake disaster:
What eppylover calls
The Rape Rap of Mister Kotter(Original source here)
By a Heeb Magazine columnist who calls himself JEWDAR
To a certain type of Jew (fine, to Jewdar), Welcome Back, Kotter represents a high point in Jewish TV.
It’s not just that Kotter and (Juan) Epstein were both Jews, but with all the Jewish jokes and Jewish references (like the episode where Kotter helps Epstein quit smoking by recounting the story of his own knish addiction), it has perhaps the highest JQ (that’s “Jew Quotient”) of any show on TV.
So when we hear there’s a cinematic remake in the works, we’re angry. When we hear they are de-Judaizing the character, we’re enraged.
And when we hear that Kotter will now be played by anti-Semitic rapper and Nationalist of Islam Ice Cube, we are ready to take back all the snide remarks we just made about Steven Seagal, if only he’d take every single human being involved with this monstrosity for an express ride on the pain train.
http://www.heebmagazine.com/articles/view/117 |
Counterpoint: Gabe Kaplan (also see gabekaplan.com), the original Mr.Kotter, apparently has the opposite viewpoint.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/entertainment/431720/original_kotter_ice_cube_great_pick/
( LJ-cut here, containing text copied from the redOrbit website )
Besides, according to RottenTomatoes.com, we should have no worries for several reasons ~
~ just one example among those reasons,
~*~*~ (attention Allison!) ~*~*~
is that the very lovely John Sebastian (see also JohnBSebastian.com) seems to have eagerly jumped on board with a new urban remix of his original theme song for the show.
( LJ-cut here, containing text copied from Rotten Tomatoes website )
You may have noticed some of these links are to articles dating back a couple of years.
However, according to IMDB, the new Welcome Back, Kotter movie is still a work in development, aiming for a 2012 release.
A movie taking many years to make? ( Wow, that does feel familiar ~ )
~*~*~
Notwithstanding.
Re this new conception of Kotter, the eppylover cannot help cringing and shuddering at the idea of converting the cuddly-yiddishness into hiphop-rappiness.
Just as she cringes and shudders at the high probability possibility of an unforgivably tragic Disney eff-up of Yellow Sub.
 How daaare they mess with our vintage memories.
Dagnabbit! Get off my lawn, whippersnappers! *shakes fist*
A Cellarful of...: *facepalm* *headdesk*
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November/December 2008
 Meet Jonathan Stuart Liebowitz (aka) Jon Stewart
The wildly zeitgeisty Daily Show host
By Jeremy Gillick and Nonna Gorilovskaya
On January 11, 1999, a nervous 37-year-old comedian who could have passed for a college student settled into a host’s chair that was too high, wearing a gray suit that looked too large. “Honestly, I feel like this is my bar mitzvah,” he told actor Michael J. Fox, the guest sitting opposite him. “I’ve never worn something like this, and I have a rash like you wouldn’t believe.”
( The rookie was Jon Stewart... )
Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Eppylover sooo loves her subscription to Moment Magazine!!!
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IMAGE NICKED FROM
CELEBRITY MII CONTEST *THIS*, on Ed Sullivan
(in .mov [quicktime] format)
is the Woody Allen I fell in love
with in my teen years!
( more vintage Woody )
It's probably just me, but I'm not fond of the way his comedy, and he, changed over the years. I prefer the nebbish he played in the very beginning of his career. Take The Money And Run is my favorite Woody movie, and it all went downhill from there for me ~~ I'm really a Mel Brooks lover ~~ although Woody's movies STILL are better than most of the other drek being flung upon us now. Ah well. *snerk*snerk*snerk*
...she said "woody"....
and "vintage woody"...?
that's courtesy of Viagra!
*snerk*snerk*snerk*
A Cellarful of...: irritable |
When taken as a whole, the 2008 Emmy Awards Show actually stunk in some ways ~ especially during the opening, when the reality show hosts were cluelessly hemming and hawing, that certainly sucked ~ but for me, the show became lovely and priceless beyond words because of the treasures I describe below:
( George Carlin! Tommy Smothers! Laugh-In! Ferguson, Stewart, Colbert, Rickles, Carell, Gervais... )
It would have been a perfect night, except that in the middle of the show Og returned home and abruptly turned the channel ~ so I had to cook dinner while running back and forth between my bedroom and the kitchen. Thankfully I don't think I missed anything, because I was able to do that during commercials and during award presentations that didn't interest me.
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Found George Carlin's latest special on *YouTube*
~ for the time being, that is
~ who knows how long it will be up!!!
*sigh* Seems the time got away from me today.
That's what happens when you wake up after noon! LOL
This way of life won't last too much longer, unfortunately... 
O: I was reading your web site [georgecarlin.com], and you
referred to George W. Bush as a fascist. But you don't vote.
Why not vote against someone you think is a fascist?
GC: Well, because it wouldn't make any difference. When
fascism comes to this country, it won't be wearing jackboots;
it'll be wearing sneakers with lights in them, and it'll have a
smiley face and a Michael Jordan T-shirt on. They learned the
mistake of overt control. They've learned how to be much
subtler.
No, I don't think my vote would mean anything, and at
the same time, it would make me very untrue to myself to
participate in what I really think is a charade.
O: A lot of people like you seem to be running for president
under the Reform Party.
GC: [Laughs] I know. Well, you see, there's another thing:
The Reform Party should be a serious reform party. This
culture won't allow that ...
Read the whole interview HERE
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As most of my flisters should know by now, I don't do memes/questionnaires. It's perfectly lovely if you enjoy that sort of thing (and please don't defriend me for ignoring you), but it's a waste of time to "tag" me.
The following, however, I cannot consider a meme, even though we want to try our best to "virus" it throughout the innertubes. So if you want to go along with it, please do!
#==#==#==#==#==#
 This is a real hoot:
( Recently, a member of the weirdjews community requested that everyone sign a petition... )
~ AND NOW ~
I say all the above to show you this whimsically bright brainstorm from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) soleklypse ~ Ahhh, I do heart comedians! Click this link to read his post on his LJ ~ Jew.
( Or, click this cut to read his post on my LJ )
So it should look something like this: jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew, jew.
Get it?
~ ~ ~
Now, y'know I can NOT resist
adding my own little eppylinkers,
even though my sweet fehgeleh fella
wasn't a comedian
(in the PUBLIC eye, that is) ~ jew, jew
...and how about Mel Brooks, Super-Jew ?  ♥
Oct. 5th, 2007 @ 09:29 pm
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...and totally unrelated to the above:
Oh my goodness. Even though I love the character of Mr Monk, I have never really sat down and made myself watch most of the episodes (but, that's true of me and all TV shows since approximately 1980).
I was not aware that Sarah Silverman played Monk's stalker on that show.
So when I came across the following promo, I was all WTF:
( Read more... )
Jul. 15th, 2007 @ 12:31 am
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