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Welcome Back,Kotter Appreciation -

batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
edited August 2007 in Strut Central
I copped the first season last night and was havin flashbacks of this shit.I didnt know the high school was in Bensonhurst. I always imagined Flatbush.Mr Woodman is one of my favorite 70's sitcom side characters. Julie the wife is a classic 70's chic.Good ole dirty NYC show.Music Versus.....Lawrence Hilton Jacobs' second album - has anyone ever heard it?And how unfunky/funky is Travolta's catalog? MOR w/ an occasional break?

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  • johnshadejohnshade 577 Posts
    i was in one play in high school: a stage version of an episode of "WELCOME BACK KOTTER."

    i played MR. KOTTER.
  • bass_feverbass_fever 974 Posts
    To early for me...My generatin was into "head of the class", "saved by the bell" =
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    i was in one play in high school: a stage version of an episode of "WELCOME BACK KOTTER."

    i played MR. KOTTER.

    What episode?
  • sabadabadasabadabada 5,966 Posts
    wha?




    who?





    wheah?
  • kalakala 3,361 Posts
    soon to be yet anothered butchered hollywood movie/lame ass remake starring BATMON's fave-o'shea jackson

    Ice cool with 'Kotter' redo
    Dimension boards 'Welcome' wagon
    By MICHAEL FLEMING
    Talk Back - post a comment
    Dimension Films has completed a deal to turn the ABC series "Welcome Back, Kotter" into a feature film, with Ice Cube producing and playing the title character.

    Tom Brady ("The Hot Chick") is finalizing a deal to write the script and direct. The hope is to shoot in the fall.

    Pic will be produced by Cube, his Cube Vision partner Matt Alvarez and Andrew Lazar.

    The rights to the series that ran from 1975-79 were controlled by the show's creators, Gabe Kaplan and Alan Sacks. Kaplan originated the role Cube will play, a teacher who returns to his tough, inner-city alma mater, where he meets a new generation of underprivileged troublemakers who are as unmotivated as he used to be.

    Aside from Kaplan, the sitcom also launched the career of John Travolta, who played head troublemaker Vinnie Barbarino.

    Cube, a product of the inner city, sparked to a project that allowed him a return to the 'hood.

    "There was no bigger fan of the original show than me, and I'm very excited to be able to put a new twist on it," Cube said. He is preparing to topline the Steve Carr-directed Revolution Studios comedy "Are We Done Yet?" That comedy began as a remake of "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" but has evolved into a sequel to the hit "Are We There Yet?"

    Dimension head of production Richard Saperstein will shepherd "Kotter" with senior veep Matthew Stein and director of development Alex Franklin. The film will be played for laughs, with a tone comparable to "School of Rock."

    Kaplan and Sacks had long resisted movie overtures, but the pair liked the package and Weinstein Co. partners Bob and Harvey Weinstein.

    "We were skeptical about selling 'Kotter' because making a great movie from a TV show can be challenging," Kaplan said. "After meeting with the Weinsteins, we knew they were the right ones to bring this project to the screen."

    Dimension's Barry Littman brokered the deal with Cube's WMA and Firm reps.
    I'mm 99% sure it will be pg13
  • pj4533pj4533 481 Posts


    ALL IN ALL IN


    Poker people, where are you.

  • sabadabadasabadabada 5,966 Posts
    soon to be yet anothered butchered hollywood movie/lame ass remake starring BATMON's fave-o'shea jackson

    Ice cool with 'Kotter' redo
    Dimension boards 'Welcome' wagon
    By MICHAEL FLEMING
    Talk Back - post a comment
    Dimension Films has completed a deal to turn the ABC series "Welcome Back, Kotter" into a feature film, with Ice Cube producing and playing the title character.

    Tom Brady ("The Hot Chick") is finalizing a deal to write the script and direct. The hope is to shoot in the fall.

    Pic will be produced by Cube, his Cube Vision partner Matt Alvarez and Andrew Lazar.

    The rights to the series that ran from 1975-79 were controlled by the show's creators, Gabe Kaplan and Alan Sacks. Kaplan originated the role Cube will play, a teacher who returns to his tough, inner-city alma mater, where he meets a new generation of underprivileged troublemakers who are as unmotivated as he used to be.

    Aside from Kaplan, the sitcom also launched the career of John Travolta, who played head troublemaker Vinnie Barbarino.

    Cube, a product of the inner city, sparked to a project that allowed him a return to the 'hood.

    "There was no bigger fan of the original show than me, and I'm very excited to be able to put a new twist on it," Cube said. He is preparing to topline the Steve Carr-directed Revolution Studios comedy "Are We Done Yet?" That comedy began as a remake of "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" but has evolved into a sequel to the hit "Are We There Yet?"

    Dimension head of production Richard Saperstein will shepherd "Kotter" with senior veep Matthew Stein and director of development Alex Franklin. The film will be played for laughs, with a tone comparable to "School of Rock."

    Kaplan and Sacks had long resisted movie overtures, but the pair liked the package and Weinstein Co. partners Bob and Harvey Weinstein.

    "We were skeptical about selling 'Kotter' because making a great movie from a TV show can be challenging," Kaplan said. "After meeting with the Weinsteins, we knew they were the right ones to bring this project to the screen."

    Dimension's Barry Littman brokered the deal with Cube's WMA and Firm reps.
    I'mm 99% sure it will be pg13


    why are you always bringing me bad news.
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    I dont see Cube going back to Bensonhurst.
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    By the third season, the ratings began to slip. In an interview years later, Kaplan attributed the decline to the age of the actors playing the Sweathogs (Palillo was 30, Hegyes was 28, Hilton-Jacobs was 27 and Travolta was 25), saying they were no longer believable as high school students. His idea was that to have Kotter join the faculty of a community college attended by the Sweathogs.[verification needed] However, this storyline never materialized. To help lure more viewers, the Kotters had twin girls, but this didn't prove to be enough to regain the show's earlier momentum.

  • sabadabadasabadabada 5,966 Posts
    i told them go with triplets, but they wouldnt listen to me.
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    I copped the first season last night and was havin flashbacks of this shit.

    So they finally released a DVD with the episodes in order? About time. The Kotter DVD I have is just a bunch of random eps strung together. This show really needs the season-by-season treatment. Even the last season (where Kotter and Barbarino were barely on the show at all) was good, in a weird way.

    Julie the wife is a classic 70's chic.

    A stone hottie is what she was.

    Music Versus.....Lawrence Hilton Jacobs' second album - has anyone ever heard it?
    And how unfunky/funky is Travolta's catalog? MOR w/ an occasional break?

    Is Travolta's catalog supposed to be funky? Somebody must be gettin' desperate for beats out there! From what little I've heard of it, it was just basic 1970's white-guy AM pop. If I was gonna go lookin' for funk, it wouldn't have dawned on me to go there! (Maybe that's the point?)
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    Ive never heard a Travolta Album, but ive read somewhere there a "break" somewhere. And im far from some break-chaser. I just wondered if he was on some Osmonds/Olivia Newton John fusion steez?
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  • DrWuDrWu 4,021 Posts
    I was never a Kotter fan. It was all about Barney Miller.

  • djkingottodjkingotto 1,704 Posts
    OOH OOH! Mr Kottair!!
  • alieNDNalieNDN 2,181 Posts
    when i first heard son doobie of funkdoobiest, i swore horshack took up rapping
  • deLYSdeLYS 388 Posts
    OH shit Epsteins myspace!!! Ladies look him up!

    http://www.myspace.com/roberthegyes
  • PABLOPABLO 1,921 Posts
    Lawrence Hilton Jacobs' second album - has anyone ever heard it?
    This one?
    IMG SRC=http://www.hhv.de/images/cover5/49566.jpg>

    1 or 2 pretty good modern soul type joints on it if I recall. I still have it somewhere.
  • johnshadejohnshade 577 Posts
    i was in one play in high school: a stage version of an episode of "WELCOME BACK KOTTER."

    i played MR. KOTTER.

    What episode?

    my director just got back to me...

    the episode was "SWEATSIDE STORY"
    based on "westside story," but with sweathogs
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    Lawrence Hilton Jacobs' second album - has anyone ever heard it?
    This one?

    IMG SRC=http://www.hhv.de/images/cover5/49566.jpg>

    1 or 2 pretty good modern soul type joints on it if I recall. I still have it somewhere.

  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    I was never a Kotter fan. It was all about Barney Miller.

    that aint just apples and oranges, thats apples and HUBCAPS
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    Julie Kotter does the DVD reunion special and she looks BANGIN!!! She has aged crazy well.
    The dvd comes w/ og screen test w/ the dude who ends up playing Epstein reading the "Barbarini" role.
    The O at the end seemed to be added for Travolta.
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