Showing posts with label The Cosby Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Cosby Show. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Lisa Bonet Boycotts Barack's Most Popular Supporter, Next On The Oprah Winfrey Show

Is Lisa Bonet A Hillary Clinton Supporter?

Minus Denise and Claire Huxtable, everyone else from the popular Black 80's sensation, The Cosby Show, was all up on Oprah's stage today.

Lisa Bonet and Phylicia Rashad were MIA, with the official word that Bonet wasn’t able to make the reunion because she just had a baby. That didn't stop Raven Simone, Tempest Bledsoe, Malcom Jamal Warner and the big sister no one remembers (her name was Sandra, right?), everyone looks like they are doing well for themselves.

Bill Cosby joins his TV children, including Sabrina Le Beauf sans husband Alvin, via satellite so he can put “Dad’s” two cents in. When critics would tell him that black families didn’t really live like the Huxtables, Bill was glad to have the support of his cast. “The pleasure of all of this is not one of those people that you’re sitting with has ever been at a loss to straighten people out about what the intention was of the show,” he says. “And that makes me very, very proud.”

For Bill, his response to critics who said they had never seen a black family like the Huxtables was simple. “My answer’s always been, ‘Well, you need to get out more often."

Saturday, January 19, 2008

HUSBAND FOR HIRE'S TEMPEST BLEDSOE: VANESSA, WHERE YOU BEEN HIDING GIRLFRIEND?


Sure the plot was week, but did you check out all the familiar tv faces in tonight's Oxygen Channel Movie "Husband For Hire."

Nadine Velazquez (My Name Is Earl) played a young woman whose late mom forced her to have a husband by age 25 or lose her share of the family fortune. Kelly Ripa's man Mark Consuelos (All My Children) played the blue-collar hombre up for the job.

Sure we caught Dancing With The Star's Mario Lopez and fellow Latino actor Erik Estrada from "Chips," but we were really surprise to see Tempest, aka Vanessa from "The Cosby Show", up in this romantic comedy piece.

Do people still call you Vanessa Huxtable?

Yeah all the time. Even on the phone, ordering anything like plane tickets. Apparently my voice is very distinctive, so before I even give my name, people know ho I am. I get called out all the time. But you have to embrace that. There are a lot of actors who fight against it as they are struggling for an identity of their own, it kind of irks them. I totally embrace it. Its love and respect for what you did and the show had such a profound effect on so many people, so it’s never a negative thing. People usually say, hey Vanessa, and I let them know that I’m Tempest, but it’s always love.

Get the full interview over at Black Voices