Posted on 08/03/2017 6:47:17 PM PDT by Signalman
Former "Good Times" star Jimmie Walker is supporting President Trump.
At least most of the time, said the veteran comedian, who considers himself "a logical Independent."
Of Trump he said, "I'm for probably 90 percent of the things he does."
He clarified, "That means I'm not against Trump, but he makes mistakes, too."
Walker, who shot to fame with his "Good Times" sitcom catch phrase "Dynomite!" in the 1970s, said he differs greatly from his fellow Hollywood comedians when it comes to politics.
“There's not one positive Trump joke out here,” he explained. “No President has been attacked in recent years — because you couldn't attack [Barack] Obama because he was black… but Trump, they have come out guns blazing against him, but even though I don't like everything he does, why, heck, darn it, I think he deserves some sort of praise… but you can't say that in Hollywood."
Walker, who was shooting an upcoming episode of ABC’s “Battle of the Network Stars when he spoke with Fox News,” added: "I think… anything that anybody says really is scrutinized. It's nothing personal! Everybody takes everything so hard! I think that's really what the problem is. Everybody is too sensitive."
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He will probably get blowback for this stand.
Good Times is one of my favorite shows watch reruns of it everyday JJ was always my favorite..KID DYNOMITE!!!
Me too it was so sad the got rid of big john amos cant have an intact black family
Good Man! Conservative!
I suspect he’s already on Hollywood’s
‘Don’t call’ list. I never see him in any current films.
Of course, aside from his politics, he is 70 y/o now, and not terribly photogenic.
That’s how they think in movie world.
Yeah it sucked when they killed James Evans Sr off..really..who even knew he got a job in Mississippi that came out of no where. Good Times to me was a pretty Conservative show..they never wanted to be on welfare, in fact the episode “Getting Up The Rent” Florida said that being on welfare was embarrassing..the only episode that trended left was the one where James bought a gun and Florida said that they should be banned
Jimmy used to show up on Ray Appleton’s show. Not only is he funny but he is very thoughtful as well. Always enjoy him
Ahh yes the “Battle of the Network Stars from the 1970’s....
Thin wet see thru bathing suits that the ladies wore.
Buy the remastered set of that show.
http://www.ioffer.com/i/exclusive-battle-of-the-network-stars-remasters-best-603505038
The new version the ladies will be wearing thicker material...
!!!! BTW the new show has many of the same people from the old show so 30 to 40 year older looking celebs. Good they are wearing that thicker material and using spandex to hold in the extra er age.
http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/12/battle-of-the-network-stars-vivica-a-fox-baywatch-abc/
One of the commenters “The Grinch” says this “I hope the checks are good and the hips stayed unbroken”
Very nice...
HOORAY Jimmie Walker
Love it!!
It was John Amos’s decision to leave the show. He didn’t like that Walker was becoming the “star” and thought it was too much clowning. You might remember that even Esther Rolle left the show for a year (her character married Moses Gunn and they moved to Phoenix) and Ja’net DuBois had top billing during the 4th season. Rolle only agreeing to come back for the final season if they agreed to tone down J.J. a bit.
By today’s standards, it’s a remarkably Conservative, pro-family and pro-Christian show with a strong father figure. It’s held up better than the other Norman Lear show, “One Day At A Time”, whose premise would never have happened in reality (meaning no way the two teenage daughters would’ve left their comfortable middle class home where their life was and uproot it to move with their flaky, confused feminist mother to a cramped apartment in a seedy part of a city).
“One Day At A Time”, whose premise would never have happened in reality (meaning no way the two teenage daughters would’ve left their comfortable middle class home where their life was and uproot it to move with their flaky, confused feminist mother to a cramped apartment in a seedy part of a city).”
According to the premise of the show, she just got divorced (the ex-husband would make a few appearances) which is why she moved and obviously the teenaged daughters moved with her because being underaged teens, they had no choice in the matter.
They weren’t toddlers, though. They were old enough (I believe 15 and 16) that a judge would’ve taken into consideration their wishes. Normal teen girls, as they were, would never have left a middle-class home where they had lived all their life, with an emotionally and financially stable father, to go off with the nutty and shockingly irresponsible and immature mother, whose only real reason for divorcing the dad was to “find herself” and her lost 20s. Even a left-leaning judge at the time would’ve awarded full custody to the dad.
I watched the show as a kid and didn’t think much of it, but watching it later on as an adult, I realized how flawed and absurd the premise was. A responsible mother would’ve had the girls stay with the dad in a safer environment. Teen girls ripped away from their home would’ve become viscerally resentful of the mother, run away, gotten into drugs/drinking, underage sex, et al. They ignored those likely realities as long-term problems, or barely touched upon them. Hell, the eldest girl in reality had enormous problems with drugs due to her personal dysfunctional family life, now THAT was a realistic end result of how someone would’ve ended up in the environment the tv show portrayed.
I used to love “Good Times” when I was a kid.
As a matter of fact, the first time a movie/TV show ever got me to tear up was when James Sr. died and Florida broke down at the end.
And on “The Jeffersons”, George Jefferson was identified as a Republican, and he was a businessman.
Yeah, I remember they had that episode of “All In The Family” where George was trying to run for a Republican office and trying to get Archie to sign his petition (of course, the ulterior motive was that he was wanting to be able to buy up surrounding properties and expand his dry cleaning business). Poor George got hung out to dry when it was discovered he was running in the wrong district to make the zoning change.
I also remember Sgt. Ron Harris (Ron Glass) declared he was a Republican on “Barney Miller.”
LOL -- is that a line from Good Times?
I’ve never seen “One Day” but maybe the dad didn’t want the kids.
He was a good father and gentleman and did want the girls. It was utterly baffling why the mother would leave a safe and loving middle-class home in a small town and drag off her two teen girls to a seedy apartment building in a run-down area of Indianapolis. I found Bonnie Franklin’s character to be selfish and childish, your typical ‘60s/’70s women’s libber. If she wanted to live “for herself”, she should’ve stayed in the marriage just 2-3 more years until the youngest was off to college and then moved out, or just left by herself.
The whole premise for the show should’ve been altered considerably. Made the husband abusive or a cheater (he was neither), or made her a widow, but discovered that he had pissed away the family’s savings, forcing her to move away. That would’ve made the situation more believable and sympathetic.
I think of my cousin, now while her parents didn’t divorce, when she was about the age of Valerie Bertinelli’s Barbara at the beginning of the show (14-15), her parents uprooted her from her home in South Carolina where her friends and life were and moved to a small town in Mississippi. She was utterly miserable and depressed, and it had a negative impact on her relationship with her parents, especially her mother. She didn’t have a sister to turn to, just two brothers, which didn’t help matters.
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