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The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.
Bill Cosby
Il passato è un fantasma, il futuro un sogno, tutto quello che abbiamo è il presente.
Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby is day dreaming of the women he drugged and abused. A very disturbing story ....and drawing.
Hubby and I decided at the last minute to go up to Reno this weekend. We thought we would swing by and watch the balloon races, get some photos etc. While we were on our way up we discovered that Bill Cosby was in town! My sweetheart picked up some tickets and we got to go!!
I have to say this is a big deal for me. I grew up listening to Bill Cosby. My folks had is first three albums and I listened to them over and over. I think I had every single skit memorized (and still do :P) He's a living legend as far as I'm concerned and the best comedian alive. (yes he's still alive :P) The show was outstanding - our seats were great and it made my weekend - heck my month - maybe even my year :)
Of course being on the road means no 'fancy' 365 shots.. just me, a camera and Bill ;)
Yup, that's Bill Cosby.
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Cover photo of Bill Cosby and Robert Culp. Interior art by Al McWilliams, written by Paul S. Newman.
Found at a recent estate sale.
Considering what happened later in Bill Cosby's life, this album title kind of caught my attention when I saw it.
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September 15th, 2021
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The idea for the hotel was first conceived by a man by the name of Harry Bralove, who had plans to build a combination of temporary and residential living. Bralove hired noted architect Joseph Abel to build the place. The doors of The Shoreham Hotel opened on October 30, 1930 with a building cost of $4 million. Rudy Vallee, a legendary bandleader and entertainer, was flown out to perform for the grand opening.
The Omni Shoreham has hosted a gaggle of famous entertainers over the years in the legendary Blue Room and the Marquee Bar and Lounge. Some of those entertainers include: Judy Garland, Phyllis Diller, Benny Goodman, Aretha Franklin, Peggy Lee, George Kirby, Pearl Bailey, Eartha Kitt, the New Journeyman, Smothers Brothers, Bill Cosby, Tony Bennett, Bob Hope, and countless others. The Blue Room is also the place where John Kennedy brought Jackie Kennedy when they were still courting and where Liza Minelli had her first public performance.
The opening of on Halloween night might have been a foreshadowing of the historic hotel's apparent haunting. The strange occurrences have been reported in the rooms where a maid and young girl died and thus, those rooms have been named "The Ghost Suites."
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Sketched this in a coffee shop as a warm up before I worked on some new pieces for an upcoming art exhibit I'm in next month. I actually drew a happy Bill Cosby for the show.
I used my Rotring for this sketch and it worked out quite well to depict a more somber Mr. Cosby.
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Top left clockwise; Mary Tyler Moore, Jane Fonda, Bill Cosby, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson. The article was about actors turning 50 years old. When I did this illustration 50 was so old. Now, for me, 50 is just a long lost memory. The Dustin Hoffman still cracks me up.
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Uptown Saturday Night
Uptown Saturday Night is a 1974 comedy film written by Richard Wesley, and directed by Sidney Poitier, who also stars in this film, along with Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte. Cosby and Poitier teamed up again for Let's Do It Again (1975) and A Piece of the Action (1977). Although their characters have different names in each film, the three films are considered to be a trilogy. It opened to positive reviews and helped Poitier get into other films as star and director.
Contents
1 Synopsis
2 Cast
3 Television pilot
4 References in popular culture
5 Remake
6 References
7 External links
Synopsis
Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier), a blue-collar worker at a steel mill, has just begun a two-weeks-long vacation. He is convinced by his friend Wardell Franklin (Bill Cosby) to go to a party that Saturday night at Madam Zenobia's, an uptown nightclub.
While the two are at the party, the club is robbed. The masked bandits force the patrons to strip to their underwear, then steal their money and jewelery, including Steve's wallet.
The following day, Steve is at home and reading his newspaper when he learns he has won the lottery. However, he realizes that the lottery ticket was in the wallet that was stolen from him, and Steve and Wardell spend the remainder of the film tracking down his wallet by consulting with crooked politicians, fake detectives, con-artists, and underworld crime bosses. As the ad for the film states: "They get funny when you mess with their money".
Cast
Sidney Poitier — Steve Jackson
Bill Cosby — Wardell Franklin
Harry Belafonte — Geechie Dan Beauford
Flip Wilson — The Reverend
Richard Pryor — Sharp Eye Washington
Calvin Lockhart — Silky Slim
Rosalind Cash — Sarah Jackson
Roscoe Lee Browne — Congressman Lincoln
Paula Kelly — Leggy Peggy
Lee Chamberlin — Madame Zenobia
Johnny Sekka — Geechie's Henchman
Lincoln Kilpatrick — Slim's Henchman #1
Don Marshall — Slim's Henchman #2
Harold Nicholas — Little Seymour Pettigrew
cameo appearances by:
Ketty Lester — Irma Franklin
Jophery C. Brown — Geechie Dan henchman
Gene McDaniels — Member of the Choir
Ray Parker Jr. — Ray
George Reynolds — Big Percy
Richard Warren — Driver
Television pilot
Shortly after the film's release, NBC commissioned a pilot for a sitcom version of Uptown Saturday Night,[1] starring Cleavon Little and Adam Wade, playing the respective roles played by Cosby and Poitier in the film. The pilot did not sell, though it was seen on NBC during the summer of 1979 as part of Comedy Theater, one of many showcases featuring unsold pilots.
References in popular culture
An episode of Martin spoofed the club/robbery scene at Madame Zenobia's. "Jerome" owns a club called "Club Shiznit" that Tommy and Cole go to visit one night. As armed masked women enter the club and rob everyone "down to the underwear," one of them overhear Cole murmur to Tommy about being relieved that they did not discover the diamond earrings he was holding for Martin (who had planned to surprise Gina with them upon their return from a trip). The masked woman motions to Cole to hand the earrings over; Tommy tells her to just shoot him for running his big mouth.
The rapper Nas referenced Madame Zenobia's in his 2006 track "Money Over Bullshit."
Macedonian house duo Latenta Project released their track "Only One Life" with Apollo Records in 2010 which includes vocal samples and references to Madame Zenobia's throughout the track, featuring remixes by Those Twins, Artette and Ocean Gaya.
The 1996 album Uptown Saturday Night by the rap duo Camp Lo was named after the movie, with one member (Geechie Suede) taking his stage name from the film.
Remake
In 2002, it was announced that Will Smith and his production company, Overbrook Entertainment, had secured the rights to the trilogy for remakes to star Smith and to be distributed by Warner Bros. Smith stated that he hoped to get Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and other famous African-American stars to be in the films.[2][3] In 2012, it was revealed that Adam McKay will direct the remake of Uptown Saturday Night, with Smith and Denzel Washington in the leads.[
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When Bob Dylan first arrived in New York City amid a flurry of snowflakes on Tuesday, January 24, 1961, he caught a subway down to Greenwich Village and asked Manny Roth, the owner of Café Wha? if he could peform. His short set of Woody Guthrie songs was only his second public appearance, and obviously his first in New York. Over the next few weeks, Dylan would take the stage in the coffehouse many more times playing harmonica behind Mark Spoelstra and Fred Neil.
Dylan's appearance was just one of the many historical moments for the beat club that helped launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, Kool and the Gang, Bill Cosby, and Richard Pryor among others. The namedropping doesn't stop at the performers though. Regulars included the likes of Allen Ginsberg and Abbie Hoffman. And Mary Travers used to wait tables here before meeting Peter Yarrow and Noel Stookey with whom she formed Peter, Paul and Mary.
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From a November 17, 1984 interview with Bert Kleiman conducted at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in New York. Also present was old time friend Artie Mogull who in 1962 signed Dylan up with Witmark & Sons…..
Dylan: Well, when I came to New York that's all I played - Woody Guthrie songs. Then about six months after that I'd stopped playing all Woody Guthrie songs. I used to play in a a place called Cafe Wha?, and it always used to open at noon, and closed at six in the morning. It was just a non stop flow of people, usually they were tourists who were looking for beatniks in the Village. There'd be maybe five groups that played there. I used to play with a guy called Fred Neil, who wrote the song "Everybody's Talking" that was in the film "Midnight Cowboy". Fred was from Florida I think, from Coconut Grove, Florida, and he used to make that scene, from Coconut Grove to Nashville to New York. And he had a strong powerful voice, almost a bass voice. And a powerful sense of rhythm ... And he used to play mostly these types of songs that Josh White might sing. I would play harmonica for him, and then once in a while get to sing a song. You know, when he was taking a break or something. It was his show, he would be on for about half an hour, then a conga group would get on, called Los Congeros, with twenty conga drummers and bongos and steel drums. And they would sing and play maybe half an hour. And then this girl, I think she was called Judy Rainey, used to play sweet Southern Mountain Appalachian ballads, with electric guitar and small amplifier. And then another guy named Hal Waters used to sing, he used to be a sort of crooner. Then there'd be a comedian, then an impersonator, and that'd be the whole show, and this whole unit would go around non stop. And you get fed there, which was actually the best thing about the place.
Mogull: How long a set would you do?
Dylan: I'd do ... oh, about half an hour. If they didn't like you back then, you couldn't play, you'd get hooted off. If they liked you, you played more, if they didn't like you, you didn't play at all. You'd play one or two songs and people would just boo or hiss.
From TV Guide, October 12-18, 1974. That nice, hip educator at your kids' elementary school, Bill Cosby, recommends using the telephone directory.
"Just as I tell the kids, my telephone directory is a good book. No stories, but the people inside are terrific. And when I want to find their telephone numbers I just look inside. It's easy because I keep the directory right by the phone. And it's usually faster than calling Directory Assistance or dialing the wrong number."
The ironies are numerous.
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Spanish postcard by Postal Oscar Color, Hospitalet (Barcelona). Photos: stills for the TV series I Spy (1965-1968).
In the classic American TV series I Spy (1965-1968), Bill Cosby and Robert Culp play a pair of intelligence agents who pose as a tennis pro and his coach and go on secret missions around the world. They face espionage adventures with skill, humor and some serious questions about their work.
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Octagon Houses
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Marshall, Michigan
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