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Post by Ninja Bunny on Oct 31, 2014 0:58:24 GMT -4
I grew up with Picture Pages ( time to get your crayons and your pencils) and Fat Albert and the thought of Bill Cosby being a rapist is just too much for my brain to handle. I'm not even being funny - I really can't wrap my brain around it. If something bad ever comes out about Mister Rogers I will probably need to go into therapy for a while. There was a recent documentary on Mr. Rogers where people who knew him, even in passing, told stories about their experiences knowing him. I basically bawled the entire time I watched. He was such a kind, gentle, tolerant, thoughtful person. I've been seeking out stories about him since I was little. He really was an amazing person. Bill Cosy though? Yeah. I'm amazed this is coming up again and sticking. I remember as far back as the '80s that there were pretty strong rumors that date rape was his MO. (I even think some victims tried to come forward from his standup days and were hushed/ignored.) People have been looking the other way for a long time with this dude. There were a couple of college guys who decided to spend their spring vacation driving cross country to go to Mr. Rogers' house. When they got there, they bravely decided to knock on the door to see what would happen. Mr. Rogers opened the door, heard their story and invited them to come in and have dinner with him. How nice! Cosby? Yeah, I'd heard about the harassment, affairs, and a possible lovechild for ages. He's a hypocrite.
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Post by dorothyzbornak on Oct 31, 2014 7:23:30 GMT -4
And here was I afraid to click cos I thought you were dead. You sir are a piece of self righteous shit. Fat Albert and the Cosby kids made my childhood. I hate Bill Cosby.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 8:15:27 GMT -4
It really IS sad. And, frankly, fascinating that we have basically decided as a whole that HE's allowed to get away with it. HE is special. Can people really not separate his beloved works from who he is as a person? I remember this story popping up again a few years ago when he was receiving the Kennedy Center honors. It just never sticks. It is most bizarre.
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Post by eclair on Oct 31, 2014 8:41:15 GMT -4
Mr. Rogers was my friend too, when I was a small child (through the t.v., I didn't know him). I heard he was a former marine, and the wardrobe of exclusively long sleeve sweaters was to cover up some tattoos from his time in the marines, but that's the worst thing I've heard, and that isn't very bad. The tattoos might be harmless, maybe he just didn't want kids to see any ink.
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Post by chonies on Oct 31, 2014 9:22:34 GMT -4
The cultural mind-wipe is very evident on the first few pages of this thread.
My sister was at Hannibal Burress's show where he made the statement that churned this back into public discussion. She thought it was just part of his act (she doesn't follow celebrity/social stuff the same way I do), and she said that a lot of people laughed but a lot of people booed really loudly. She wasn't sure if people were booing Burress or Cosby.
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Post by discoprincess on Oct 31, 2014 9:30:04 GMT -4
And here was I afraid to click cos I thought you were dead. You sir are a piece of self righteous shit. Fat Albert and the Cosby kids made my childhood. CPoG really is the place where crushes (and/or reverence of celebrities) go to die. Could you imagine if any of these allegations were to stick and charges were brought against him? You saw how quickly 7th Heaven reruns were pulled when the Stephen Collins allegations came out and how quickly Here Comes Honey Boo Boo was canceled once it came out that Mama June was dating a child molester. Possibly pulling the Cosby Show would be huge. ETA: zivvie - This is the version of the Lisa Bonet story that I heard: The real reason she left The Cosby Show wasn't because of the fallout over her risque role in the movie with Mickey Rourke but because she was being sexually harassed on the set by Cosby. The bad blood is why she apparently won't appear in Cosby reunions. I thought Lisa Bonet was choosing to cut back on her acting career because she is a bohemian who isn't all caught up in the Hollywood lifestyle. Damn. ETA2: Cosby's scheduled appearance on The Queen Latifah Show has been canceled due to this recent round of controversy.
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Post by zivvie on Oct 31, 2014 10:14:38 GMT -4
I read somewhere (not here, at least I don't think it was here) that part of the reason why Lisa Bonet cut way back on her acting career wasn't just to be a more hands-on mom to her kids. It was because some shizz went down with Bill while she was on The Cosby Show and A Different World, and it soured her on show business. I really hope this isn't true - the Bill part, not the more-time-with-her-kids part (that's fabulous). I like her as an actress, and I think she could do a lot more projects with a lot more range.
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Post by Wol on Oct 31, 2014 11:34:33 GMT -4
I read somewhere (not here, at least I don't think it was here) that part of the reason why Lisa Bonet cut way back on her acting career wasn't just to be a more hands-on mom to her kids. It was because some shizz went down with Bill while she was on The Cosby Show and A Different World, and it soured her on show business. I really hope this isn't true - the Bill part, not the more-time-with-her-kids part (that's fabulous). I like her as an actress, and I think she could do a lot more projects with a lot more range. Slightly OT but Lisa Bonet is batshit crazy in a pleasantly hippie dippy way, so I wouldn't read too much into why she does anything. IIRC the official spin was that she didn't want to be boxed in by the Cosby image. Remember all that flack when she did "Angel Heart"? I wish she would work more, too. I'll watch "High Fidelity" on cable just to see her - she's so beautiful in that it's just ridiculous.
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Post by FotoStoreSheila on Oct 31, 2014 12:12:35 GMT -4
ETA: zivvie - This is the version of the Lisa Bonet story that I heard: The real reason she left The Cosby Show wasn't because of the fallout over her risque role in the movie with Mickey Rourke but because she was being sexually harassed on the set by Cosby. The bad blood is why she apparently won't appear in Cosby reunions. That's the version I heard, too. That he was smitten to the point of sexual harassment, and she wasn't having it. Every time the cast would assemble for a reunion, I would cringe a little, knowing why LB wasn't there.
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Post by tortuga on Oct 31, 2014 12:40:47 GMT -4
Mr. Rogers was my friend too, when I was a small child (through the t.v., I didn't know him). I heard he was a former marine, and the wardrobe of exclusively long sleeve sweaters was to cover up some tattoos from his time in the marines, but that's the worst thing I've heard, and that isn't very bad. The tattoos might be harmless, maybe he just didn't want kids to see any ink. O/T That is awesome, but I seem to remember a swimming episode and he had no ink. He did, however, wear a speedo, which was disturbing enough.
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