dd89b263   
   XPost: rec.arts.tv   
   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:   
   > Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >> A Friend wrote:   
      
   >>> I absolutely hated Good Times, and for all the right reasons.  The   
   >>> series was supposed to be about a strong family making its way forward,   
   >>> even in Cabrini Green.  Then the dad left, and the show became a farce   
   >>> headed by a nearly talentless young actor who was armed not with a gift   
   >>> for comedy or acting but with one of those unfunny stock phrases that   
   >>> became all too common in the TV of the era.   
   >>   
   >> As I mentioned elsewhere, the Norman Lear retrospective had a comment   
   >> that Lear hated the catch phrase, but he was told by the show runner   
   >> that it would help make the show popular with audiences. Every time he   
   >> delivered it, he got enthusiastic applause by the studio audience (as   
   >> enhanced by the laff track). I guess they knew that the tv audience that   
   >> wasn't looking for actual comedy responded to it as well.   
   >>   
   >> Esther Rolle could act and she could be funny but when she had anything   
   >> to do, she was the matriarchal archetype, rarely playing a character.   
   >>   
   >> John Amos was ok but they didn't do mc   
   >   
   >And if anybody deserved MC, it was John Amos.   
      
   Hammer time!   
      
   [Kerman's incorrect formatting fixed.]   
      
   --   
   Let's go Brandon!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)