Kotter's comeback
Submitted by debritz on September 24, 2008 - 00:27.
| The 1970s TV series Welcome Back Kotter - which I remember chiefly as a celebration of the Afro hairdo and for the bad joke that ended each episode - is being made into a film, due for release next year, with Ice Cube in the title role. The orignal Kotter, Gabe Kaplan, has been a mainstay of "celebrity" specials on US TV in the past decade or so and is a professional poker player - but he never quite had the career that his co-star, John Travolta, enjoyed. Interestingly, according to imdb.com, Kaplan and Travolta only appeared in 66 of the 95 episodes made. Marcia Strassman, who played Kotter's wife and went on to star in the ungrammatically titled Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, was in 71 of them. While Kaplan was in the last show, Strassman was not, and the set piece where Kotter tells a joke to his wife in bed substitutes her with a teddy bear. |  |
Quick ! Someone sign up
Quick ! Someone sign up Nicole Kidman to play the Marcia Strassman role ! Can you imagine..."Our Nic", who can't act....playing the part of another woman who could not act ?
But seriously, the world was not ready for the first Kotter incantation on TV. Is the world ready for Kotter on the "Silver Screen"? NO !
Of course, the only
I think that I actually
I think that I actually meant "incarnation" rather than "Incantation". Did anyone notice my little stuff-up ?
Not me, obviously. I let
Not me, obviously. I let you drop the magic word.
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