It doesn\'t mean anything if you can\'t accept what you know and make America a better place. --
For a while, Bill Cosby thought he would eventually become a shoe-brushing boy.
Then he did a physical therapist for a while, actually a hand.
At work, the reality of the pain of others is screened out by the pain of his early youth.
Like many poor children of his generation, he sees education as a way to get in and out of the street and goes to Temple University with track scholarships.
But as a bartender, he first realized the power to make people laugh ---
It gives awesome control to anyone who can master it ---
This is the way he went. Twenty-
About five years later, Bill Cosby seems to be everywhere in the American entertainment industry.
The Cosby Show has been at the top of the TV ratings list almost every week since it was aired in 1984, and its syndicate guarantees his personal return of $0. 25 billion-
This is more than $10 million a year.
He\'s at the front of the stand.
The Up comedy scene is so reliable that his daily life is already familiar with an ongoing comedy legend, like a series of popular movies that a gifted storyteller unites (
His three books are best-selling books that read like extended comedy routines).
His comedy album is also good.
He is one of the few equally home-based characters in the heart of America and the jazz world, and his hips invoke night reflections and deep, gentle shrewdness.
In this inevitable era of sales, Cosby\'s reputation is comparable to that of Ronald Reagan, the nation\'s top business figure.
He has made more than a dozen films, none of which is a commercial film, and none of which is an important success. -
Cosby seems to lack the ability to change rhythmic gears or find new angles on the character;
Although his role in the upcoming \"Ghost Dad\" may challenge this assessment, he has not yet determined that the Mercury of the good actor is on himself.
Cosby occupies a certain position in our cultural imagination, and few are willing to see him expelled: a comedian who is undoubtedly an adult, a father and a husband;
A black man who did not carry out a secret attack on the guilty base of the white man;
A mysterious figure whose slow story provides a humane respite for potential violent anxietyfed 24-hour news.
But his greatest attraction may come from his symbolic efforts to evoke credible personal dignity in an era of cynicism and frustration, and the idea of finding the true authority of moral authority in a culture becomes--
Often legal-suspect.
As a godfather of American culture, Cosby is well aware of this symbolism, which he strives to Polish and maintain.
But he is also an unstable person.
He likes his joy and his bonhomie, but he will not suffer from the pain of a fool, and he has a long memory of the setbacks and favors he has encountered.
He\'s a big, tireless man.
Father Raconteur, very cheerful and interesting, but you will catch him from time to time at an unguarded moment, when his eyes are heavily staring at an abstract middle distance, his face drooping in a sour, raw melancholy.
Then he looked like a man who had a lot of trouble in his head.
Cosby has recently been emotionally introspective, which is more thought-provoking than the usual fall in New York.
He spent the summer filming \"Ghost Dad\" at Universal Studios instead of spending a holiday with his wife in southern France. This means that he started the new season of The Cosby Show without rest. (
Ghost daddy is a family film directed by Sidney Potier about a father who oversees the lives of his three children from outside the grave. )
He stressed that he also began to think that the show would not continue forever, although \"I did not announce the end \".
\"I want to do more with it.
\"Of course, there are reports that his daughter, Erinn, has made public the story of her drug and alcohol abuse.
If, as Lear says, the daughter\'s ingratitude is sharper than the snake\'s teeth, this revelation brings additional shock, because it finally broke through the strong and long determination of Cosby to stop family affairs --
Restrictions on the media.
Will this affect the sanctity of the hehux family because of the first in the United States1 family?
Even if it\'s not tough, Cosby is nothing.
But the news of his daughter and his mood in the fall may be enough to stir up some of King Lear\'s emotions.
Like deliberation.
In his Manhattan townhouse and on his TV show, he spoke in an uneasy and search about jealousy, racism, the media, the scars of early poverty, his daughter\'s issues, criticism of his show and his concerns about eating a lot of moral meltdown in the United States like dry rot.
\"Man, this is the headline now,\" he reached out to get a copy of the New York Daily.
The mob attacked two Jews.
These newspapers have learned to talk on the streets. Look here.
A New York Post title is \"death at 100 miles an hour\" and the subtitle is \"two Corvette Racing cars killed pedestrians in their teens \".
\"The story has to do with a racing race on Long Island street in which a young driver cuts down a teenager --
A older girl walked into the crosswalk and then saw his car into pieces at his father\'s suggestion.
\"I think we \'d better find a good lawyer,\" Cosby said . \"
\"No, we have to get rid of the evidence.
Even if you do get rid of the evidence, how do you deal with it?
There seems to be a state of mind in some areas that is not really addressed openly.
\"Cosby is a roundabout speaker who follows an idea like walking down the street.
If his audience asked a question while he was studying at Cosby, he would say, \"Man, don\'t jump on me.
I\'m going there.
He was dressed in warm clothes in the town house.
A green Philadelphia Eagles jersey.
At the age of 52, he still had the muscular torso that the NFL ran back with strong arms and hands-
His comedy tends to distract us from our physical strength.
He sits at his big desk and sits in an oversized, sparse chair that looks like a modern skeleton variant of the throne.
Rooms are busy but not cluttered, vibrant, mostly African-colored
American painting.
The head of a little neo
The classic bronze bust behind him was covered like a tiny eagle helmet.
The space between the tall windows of this study is occupied by a large African sculpture in which several levels of a social life unfold on a giant Buddha statue
In his organization and efforts, man is the dream of God.
\"A long time ago, in my 50 s and 40 s, there were gangs near us in my area,\" he said excitedly.
\"The corner is where they gather, preferably near the corner shop. Not the bar--
These children are 13 years old and 14 years old.
They have switches-
Obviously their badge.
They even have hand guns that can fire. 22 bullet.
These children are considered bad children.
They are, in their view, displaced fighters.
They really like to fight and fight.
In fact, they will visit a group like them, and they may be nine blocks away.
They picked up the knife and gun and played a designated battle.
The poplar trees at 10 and 8 will be called No. 11 and Columbia. Over what? A girl?
The wrong Street?
They don\'t even have a piece of cement?
The city owns it.
\"This is a territorial war.
Obviously, there is a terrible mentality.
These guys may take your life and have no emotions about it.
\"After 40 years, the people in the corner have changed.
It is no longer cheap wine, but cheap wine.
This is not a switch.
Knife, it is a gun that can fire 30 bullets in one second.
Because there is so much, it has changed.
We do need more behavioral scientists in this country;
The United States needs to address its mental illness.
\"It\'s nothing new.
I hear people in their 60 s and 70 s talking about how you can\'t get through Little Italy in 1939.
What kind of behavior is this when you don\'t know anything about a person or his religious beliefs, but because he doesn\'t live in your three worlds? or-four-
Can you send him home?
Where does hatred come from?
How is our anger and absolute anti-social behavior formed?
He read the title again: \"The mob defeated two Jews,\" he repeated with disbelief.
\"I think we have overburdened our religion by forcing them to bring the ball.
But religious people do not want the interference of behavioral scientists.
There is opposition between religion and science.
It shouldn\'t be there, but you will see it, for example, not believing Eve as an African.
\"He went to the window and looked at the movement in the street.
\"It has to do with money and power, and of course, in addition to the identity of the loser, it has to do with the lower-tier economic people who do not have power.
I saw this kind of anti-social behavior. it is growing and growing.
See what\'s happening in education. You have teen-
Those who don\'t know why they are afraid of learning academically or pushing themselves forward.
It\'s easy to blame someone else or the government for not having confidence in themselves or low self-awarenessesteem.
But the performance of our massive mental illness is our anti-social behavior.
I know it\'s a wide range of shots, but when you have two kids jumping out of a brotherhood house, they don\'t even know them;
Or when a group of people rape a woman in a park, it doesn\'t even have to do with the money, which shows that there are a lot of people who condone this.
\"The government in this country thinks we still need slaves,\" he said . \"
\"In terms of capitalism itself, if you have poor people, that\'s how you make money.
You have a group of people and you want to continue working for fewer people;
The way to achieve this is not to educate them.
But what does this really achieve in the long run?
Weakening our most powerful commodity: human beings.
As long as you have a young man of a lower economic class who believes what is fashionable is not learning--
As you can see in the music-
All you want to get from life is party and \"do me\" and you may have a class of people who are not happy with what they do but they can\'t do it.
Even if we have to teach more about religion and human behavior in schools, we have to find ways to convey ourselves. strength.
We have to give this to our children.
\"The conversation turned to the media, which is usually good for Cosby, although if a question does not fit his liking, he is known for his sudden and arrogant.
\"The pen is stronger than the sword, because you don\'t have to be stabbed there,\" he quipped . \".
\"One person will come to you and you don\'t know if they are honest or not.
I have no patience with people who have not done their homework.
There are critics of what I do, that\'s fine.
But I\'m not happy with those who attribute the statement to me without checking, \"Is that what you said ? \"?
He mentioned a recent TV Guide article in which \"I Spy\"
Star Robert Culp was quoted as saying he taught an inexperienced young Cosby a lot of knowledge about acting and defended him on the show, but now Cosby ignores his
\"They didn\'t burn me.
They burned Bob. \"Cosby said.
\"I told him, \'they put you in.
He told me that his words were out of context, but I already knew.
Why does the TV Guide want to do one thing on me?
Because they sent someone in their early 70 s, he moved an axe to me.
Now, let a person come to my house twice and do me for the first time, what kind of fool would I be? (
Cosby\'s loyalty to old friends and colleagues is often cited.
A 1985 Newsweek profile on \"Cosby\" reported that when Culp asked him to help persuade NBC to buy a TV series, Cosby replied, \"Bobby, I\'m 2,000. pound elephant. Let\'s go. \").
\"One of the best people I \'ve ever seen to deal with this kind of stress is Tom sellake.
They have been pursuing this good-
The bad guy in the game against Cosby.
They said I criticized the show.
I am critical of the treatment of black people, who are either prostitutes or the object of black jokes.
Tom won\'t have it at all.
He came to the show one day and we were all surprised.
\"They can go after you.
Look at Ross Anne.
They won\'t let her stay in the sun for a while until they jump on her.
You think she\'s been on the air for 10 years.
What I am most annoyed with the media is that when they make a mistake, they will not come back to admit it.
My father always said, don\'t trust anyone who has to finish the task by the deadline.
This topic goes back to the description of black people on TV. \"African-
Americans watch a show like Saturday Night Live and they turn it off because they see that they are not doing it properly.
No integration of staff ---
It\'s the young white liberal crowd of elitism, why are you here if you don\'t let us hate you or make you a martyr?
But as a sanitized \"Cosby Show\", what is the criticism in his 50 s
White show with black face?
\"My first defense is that the show is about Americans,\" Cosby said . \".
\"We happen to be the only one who feels comfortable with the interviewer and ask, \'Are you African? \'
Is it American, black, then American?
So what do you mean?
Should I say, are you white before you become an American?
\"Cosby is begging Nadine godimer for the same issue of American identity that she pointed out in her statement about South Africa, when she wrote,\" South Africa\'s self is white.
Was the American self or white in 1989?
\"A more basic question is, do you know yourself? \' \" Cosby said.
He tilted towards the audience in an open, self-attitude.
Carefully observe the intensity usually prepared for the mirror and touch his cheek with three fingers.
\"Living in this world, with this skin color, there is no complete rest, period.
No complete comfort. Period. \" That cheek-
Stroking gestures is a gesture he uses, when he mentions the profound warnings that black people have had to use over the years in the face of flammable heat from white power.
This is an internal reference, implying a covenant with the original fear.
\"I have a word, \'Africa-
Americans are the only people who don\'t have a good life.
The Supreme Court will make people feel that 1970 is a good day.
But when you shovel a lot of people back, the shovel will also include white people.
There are a large number of Americans organized for civil rights, and the number of people marching in Washington is far more than five people who attacked two Jews or two black gangs.
There was more noise and the parade was bigger.
But they are not that strong.
\"It is difficult to judge whether Cosby\'s criticism of his show is the reaction of the star\'s eggshells self or the necessary defense of his positive image.
Clearly, he sees it as a fragile building against the universal forces in culture that undermine human values.
There are not many papers for him (
He holds a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts)
, Hoarse stories or simple jokes can do as many shows as possible.
\"This country is very complicated and difficult to understand,\" he said . \"
\"For minorities and young people, we see some negative factors being strengthened.
Five years ago, the voice of the country made these black writers use the curse ---deep four-letter stuff.
How will they move to the New York Times, The Washington Post, or the Wall Street Journal with corn clipsbread stuff?
This has strengthened the negative impact.
Another example: one of the critics of the show said it was unrealistic.
\"The problem is that they talk too much about college, which puts too much pressure on children.
What do you think this reinforces?
Is it so difficult for you to set yourself a goal or solve a math problem?
When was the last time we failed because we set goals?
\"I seem to be an authority because my skin color gives the mark to my victims.
But this is not a real label.
I will not deal with the stupidity of racial color in the show.
A lot of what I do is based on what people will like.
I want to show to a family with a good life, not to make people jealous.
\"Write down the look of the black people you saw on TV at the table in hecksus.
People say you have \"Amos\" Andy, one of the most interesting shows ever.
But who went to college?
Who works hard for better things?
In the good timesJ.
Walker played an obvious underachiever.
In Sanford and Son, you have a junk dealer who lives thousands of dollars above the welfare level.
Jefferson moved to a residential area. He owns a dry-
A cleaning shop in an integrated community.
Where is the sociological work on this?
\"What does it mean if Wilson wrote a drama about a person who abused himself in August, people say it\'s great?
I\'m not criticizing August.
One of the best things about playing Broadway is (
Melvin Van Peebles)
\"There should be no natural death.
Pure, beautiful comedy and truth.
But this is not my show.
I agree with the critics, who say it\'s not enough.
But the person watching it is playing with it. We get thank-
Your letters from all over the United StatesS.
Canada and Europe.
I know I have to take a distance from it.
It has now been reduced to dusk in the afternoon.
When he lit another Macanudo and turned to the window, a faint light was all available. In half-
His face looked heavy, respectable, Egyptian.
\"If what I say sounds negative and I still have more freedom than most people, I feel like it\'s something we can solve.
We can help each other.
\"The next day, he rehearsed a program on the set, a dream sequence of cliff hetable table, with the male of the actor pregnant (
He pointed to his dumbfounded and said, \"Wait, will women see this when they record it ? \"up big belly.
\"They will go through the roof. \")
Although he is not the director of the show, he is the director of the show.
The creator and executive producer, when he makes any contribution to a stage, will put it into action.
There\'s a well in Cosby.
Developed sense of drama (
As a comedian, an unusual face of movement and expression).
For example, he changed an entrance involving these people from a messy shuffle of the front door to an entrance that hides visible conditions until the last minute, so the audience would be surprised to see them.
He knew that the strong reaction of the audience at the scene would cause a similar reaction in the audience at home.
Later, in his locker room, he convened a production assistant to attend a brainstorming session where she wrote down his thoughts and suggestions in her notebook.
\"I\'m doing a new TV series about a 50-year-old couple breaking up after 29 years of marriage,\" he explained . \".
He stuffed a CD of Betty Carter into the boom box.
She was so distracted, free to speak
All kinds of tunes are the perfect accompaniment to his own improvisation.
\"This series will be called the \'road back \'.
I want to write a funny article about 50 years oldyear-
In order to move on, the old woman had to take on the work she did not want to do.
It will be a sitcom, not a soap opera.
I want to show it to someone who can continue to grow without pain.
\"He asked a Los Angeles writer that he might be right to study the idea with him.
\"Contact her,\" he said to the assistant . \".
\"I hope to give her a chance.
Send her to Vegas.
We work 24 hours a day.
He received some phone messages and then called another assistant to plan for the upcoming show in Augusta, and then the \"Tonight Show\" in Los Angeles \"(
He flew on a private jet and made sure that the staff of his flight had accommodation).
He then discussed another series of ideas for the \"West Virginia coal mine Community.
I would like it to include urban and community politics from a family perspective as well.
It is called the \"black collar \".
I have not yet decided whether it will be scheduled for 1949, the day of union leader John L.
Or today.
In the sitcom, we have had enough of the sofa and the railing upstairs.
I have about two tons of tapes and movies to see.
I will work with the psychiatrist again to make sure it is emotionally accurate.
At 8 the next morning, he pulled out a espresso from a sparkling large coffee machine.
An amiable, elegant, older British maid sat down with napkins, coffee utensils and a bottle of mineral water on the table in the living room.
He was undressed.
White silk lazy pajamas and black velvet slippers with the original \"C\" printed, have a light and moist freshness of a person who has just finished the bath.
In fact, he has been up since the 4: 30 morning run and still has an adrenaline glow, which means he is willing to discuss his daughter. An Oct.
National Inquirer Edition 10 reported that Erinn Cosby recently checked out from a drug rehabilitation center after receiving treatment for alcohol and cocaine abuse.
\"Looking back,\" she said in the article, \"I can\'t believe how Dad continued his show every week, when I had a daughter like me, describe how much pain America\'s favorite father will bring.
\"If she shows remorse in print, Cosby said in the same article that he gave her\" severe Love \", which means that for his part she is still alone. He was angry.
He said rudely, \"I\'ll talk now . \"
\"A lot of people call us.
We have four children.
This special daughter seems to be the only one who is very selfish.
It\'s not that we\'re going to hang our brains, nor that we\'re embarrassed about it, because we \'ve been living with this person who knows that her problem is not cocaine or alcohol.
I think she is a child who refuses to take responsibility for supporting herself.
\"One of the things I said to her is that every child in this House can be whatever he or she wants to be if they do that through college or college.
Get your undergraduate degree and hope to continue to graduate school.
When you are 27 years old, you are ready for everything that the world has to offer, and you can enter any field you want, psychology, anthropology, engineering, or artist.
You don\'t have to worry about how you will pay rent, car or food.
You can even enjoy paid holidays.
Here are five kids with an automated support system who are encouraged and loved not to make money but to get a diploma and do whatever they want.
\"But since the age of 14, Elin has been saying \'I have to be myself \'. \' Fine.
When she graduated from high school, I said, \"Obviously, you have a better understanding of what you want to do. \' She\'s 23 now.
She never got a job and never got an apartment for more than six months.
She never finished anything.
She used her boyfriend.
She wants something better, but it\'s important that she can\'t stand the dirt of others.
She is still around 11 years old in terms of development.
The problem is not alcohol or drugs. -
Her urine was negative at the rehabilitation center.
This is behavior.
She is stubborn.
It\'s not for me and Camille, it\'s painful for her.
It will touch her bottom, where she is exhausted and she can no longer fight at that time.
\"Now we are alienated.
She can\'t come here.
She\'s not someone you can trust.
You don\'t think you are a good parent because you don\'t answer the phone.
But you can\'t let the kids use you.
\"Cosby sees different generations with different experiences, which makes him reflect on his childhood in Philadelphia.
Before giving up and joining the Navy, his father studied for the seminary.
Cosby and Russell, his two brothers.
Working on Delta now)and Bob (
(Who is the school teacher)
Raised mainly by their mother, Anna, who is a disciplined person who reads to them from the Bible and from Mark Twain.
She instilled a sense of pride in them but the memory of growing up without much money was still so painful that he could not describe that period with \"poverty\" or \"poverty, instead of the \"bottom economy\" with social neutrality \".
He said slowly: \"There is a person who wants to go out . \" He spoke indirectly of the situation.
\"To get rid of what?
Owe people
Can\'t have anything.
One of the biggest differences-
The economic men and the middle class who can shovel credit cards believe that,
Economic people believe in buying things and paying for them.
It\'s embarrassing to take a lot of stuff from you, your phone, your TV.
You can\'t get credit.
One of the biggest things is layoffs.
But with advertising, you see what you can\'t have.
Because you know you will never have a time when you don\'t like it.
You see people open up things they can\'t have.
\"When I made all the mistakes, left school and didn\'t pay attention to telling the people I insisted on, I entered the service out of embarrassment.
By the age of 18 or 19, something should happen to you even in lower-cost areas.
It\'s either work, college or service.
You are very proud of not living by your parents.
I found a job as a shoe repairman.
I enjoyed it.
I wiped my shoes for a while, which means it\'s something I\'m going to do for the rest of my life.
I decided to go to night school, but it didn\'t have important decorations. \"He paused.
\"In fact, I just feel very tired of myself and think maybe I have a career in this service.
If you have lived here for 20 years, you know at least that you will get a certain amount of money for the rest of your life.
\"Within four days of joining the Navy, Cosby knew he had made a mistake.
But he insisted on his tenure as a physical therapist at the Philadelphia Navy hospital.
The job began to make him lose himself.
\"I have a guy who crashed his plane.
He lost his left arm.
One eye is missing.
He transplanted the skin on his thigh to the top of his head.
He has a beautiful wife.
From our superficial predictions about them, we want to know how long this beautiful woman will be with this ugly man.
We don\'t realize how important love is.
I bet they\'re still married.
\"I want to know what my life would be like if I had no eyes, or had my limbs paralyzed.
I exercised people, the victim of a stroke, a little girl with polio, a priest who lost her leg.
I can feel the power of healing, this is my personal journey of strength.
There\'s a guy with a broken arm.
My job is to exercise it and convince him that his brain can make it work.
I want to be a faith therapist.
When this guy started exercising and started crying and thanking me, I realized I \'d better free my personality from this.
\"Don\'t thank me,\" I said. \'Thank God. And yourself.
\"After his trip with the Navy, he registered in temple
It was his happy time.
\"I\'m reading, writing, challenging and exploring.
I knew I would graduate and perform together, and I was safe.
I am playing football and running.
\"If the financial shortage intervenes temporarily again, he knows at least that he has surpassed the German town of childhood, where his family is forced to move from place to place.
One thing he remembered when he was a child was the radio.
\"You have the Lone Ranger, the shadow, the lights out and the inner sanctuary, but I always listen to comedy: Jack Benny, burns, and Allen,
Of course, with TV, you have Colgate Comedy Hour.
When the comedy was on, I was glad I was alive.
I didn\'t realize at the time that I was working on these people and there was no place to show what I learned.
When I went to be a bartender to help with the school, I understood that people would leave a hint if they liked to talk to the bartender.
So I started collecting jokes and learning how to spread them out.
As long as you have a joke, you know that you have a sense of security that people will laugh.
Flip Wilson is a typical example of a comedian who is good at expanding story telling, and whose image and cuteness are more interesting than the bottom line.
\"Cosby started performing locally, and then moved to Greenwich Village in New York after the comedy wave formed by Lenny Bruce, Mott Sal, Dick Gregory, shirley Berman, Mike Nichols and Elaine May.
Shortly after that, Noah, who was puzzled by him, asked God that no one in the United States had heard the question: \"What is this?
\"He\'s on the road.
At the corner of his townhouse and on the street, the crowd on the Third Avenue walked briskly through a camera shop, spurred by the cold air.
A life hangs on the window --
Cosby shows the size poster of the Kodak camera, chest-high.
His mouth was drawn to the familiar Enbu Chu
Like a smile and his eyes, he has a faint conspiracy wisdom, which undoubtedly shows that we are joking, even if we do not know what the joke is.
This is the way the United States has been fascinated for 25 years, and the way he is most familiar with it, but few people will know that this is just an aspect of a complex person.