Posted on 04/27/2015 1:19:14 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Good times are coming to the big screen. "Black-ish" creator Kenya Barris has been set to write the screenplay for a "Good Times" film based on the hit '70s sitcom, his manager confirmed to The Associated Press.
"Good Times," which aired on CBS from 1974 to 1979, was about an African-American family living in a poor neighborhood in Chicago.
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Any time you meet a payment!!!
younger son’s a fruit now. older is republican. pops is worm food.
Another failure of creativity and imagination from Hollweird.
I like John Amos!! good news.
I just remember what a hottie Willona was.
She was sassy and brassy.
Can people still say Dyn-o-mite!?
Cabrini Green has literally been dyn-o-mited, so obviously they can’t go with the original story.
I understand that Jimmie Walker is actually a Republican.
>>Another failure of creativity and imagination from Hollweird.
Except this time, it won’t be a show about people making a good life for themselves despite their poverty. The 70’s sitcom was a show that people of every race could watch and enjoy and cheer for the family.
I’m sure that the new version will be all “hands up don’t shoot”, Trayvon, “white man stole my happiness”, and all the other black victim themes of today.
And there will be a homo or two.
John Amos is 75 and looks fantastic for his age.
Curiously that only makes him eight years older than Jimmie Walker who played his son.
Esther Rolle has passed away. I remember she showed up on my college campus to campaign for Jesse Jackson for President.
Of the dead, speak no evil.
And “Buffalo Butt” I last saw as Wallace “Suitcase” Jefferson in the hillarious parody of the Old Negro Space Program.
I like John Amos too, and upon looking his name up found that he’s still with us and at age 75 still fairly active. But he was the only reason I would have watched what was otherwise a typical Norman Lear guilty white liberal fantasy of black American family life sitcom. The old Amos and Andy show from the fifties was kinder (and much funnier).
I was six. lol. didn’t know any better then. wouldn’t watch it now. but at least it had a hard working father who cared, and a mother at the same time lol.
As for white liberal guilt, it did not work on me, even as a kid. The one impression I still have of the show was their apartment. I was told they lived in the ghetto, but the apartment they lived in did not seem that bad to me. It looked pretty roomy. Maybe the show was a catalyst for our illegal immigration problem. Poor foreigners saw the show and were told this was the typical poor persons abode. They saw this and determined they had to get here as soon as possible, by hook or crook.
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