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Bill Cosby: Cosby Kids
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In 1984, Bill Cosby was again thrown into the limelight with the resounding success of his show ‘The Cosby Show’ which was a sit-com. It showed a set of college educated parents with five kids and had lots of parallels to his own family life. The family in the show was intelligent and affluent and an absolutely non-stereotypical African American family.
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Bill Cosby is absolutely right. All you have to do is look at the success of the children of immigrants who are people of color. Most came with little or nothing, but the emphasis on education, hard work and personal responsibility has made their children and grandchildren successful, contributing members of society. When you look at African-American families that place the same emphasis on education and responsibility, you see the same success. When you look at white kids who aren't taught that personal responsibility, education and hard work is the way to success, you see kids on the road to failure. Bill Cosby's message is a truth that transcends color and needs to be heeded by all.
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In the mid-1970s, Cosby teamed with actor-director Sidney Poitier for two successful movie comedies, 1974's Uptown Saturday Night, and 1975's Let's Do It Again. In Uptown Saturday Night he portrayed Wardell Franklin, a taxi driver trying to recover a stolen lottery ticket from the mob, in a performance the New Yorker praised as "very funny." Though Let's Do It Again was less successful, critics hailed Cosby as a major comedic talent. Still, the comedian struggled to find consistent success. Mother, Jugs & Speed, a 1976 film co-starring Raquel Welch and Harvey Keitel, flopped, as did Cos, a variety show for kids, and the 1977 film A Piece of the Action, which reunited him with Poitier.
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Bill Cosby has been on television for so long, usually in rather silly sitcoms or commercials for Jello, it's easy to forget that he used to be funny -- and hip. In the 1960s and early 70s, school kids of any color could recite material they had heard on Cosby's best-selling comedy albums.
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After signing to Uni, he issued a self-titled 1969 effort, followed by the sitcom The Bill Cosby Show. With the program, Cosby suffered his first major artistic setback; although NBC committed to two seasons of the show, ratings were weak, and at the end of the two-year period NBC pulled the plug. Although albums like 1970's "Live" Madison Square Garden Center and When I Was a Kid were successful, the period following the series' cancellation marked a crossroads for Cosby; his well of childhood reminiscences was running dry, and he clearly needed to explore new ground.
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Frustrated by these numbers, Bill gave an unexpected, uncensored speech in 2004: "In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on," he said. "They're buying things for the kid—$500 sneakers. For what? They won't buy or spend $250 on Hooked on Phonics.
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