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CousinDave

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  1. Beings that I am a guy, I'm not going to comment on Bo's hotness, but no matter who you are, you gotta admit the man has aged well. Wasn't it nice to hear a fresh YEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAA!!! tonight on CMT?? I still say the original cast would have been best for that new movie.
  2. Jim's performance on the CMT awards tonight was a hoot! You could tell the fans really took to him doing the Rosco character. I laughed my posterior off!!!
  3. Anyone who says that Ben Jones is just in it for the money is so grossly misinformed and off base that I am surprised that they even know about this website. I have met Ben and talked to him extensively about the show on more than one occasion, and I find his knowledge on the subject second to none. He will sit there and talk to you about it for hours on end, whether you are buying something or not. Try that with one of the overhyped undertalented "actors" of today. Jim Best, Sonny Schroyer, Cathy Bach and Rick Hurst are the same way. It's not at all about being stuck in the 80's for any of them. They are simply proud of their work on The Dukes and don't want anything to tarnish the memory of the show. Talk to any one of them and the first thing you realize is that for them The Dukes wasn't work, it was a fun outing with their extended families every day. Fun being the key word. They all say they had fun doing the show. The difference between the cast of the upcoming movie and the cast of the original TV Show is that the original cast takes pride in their work. The cast of the movie is only worried about how much money it takes in at the Box Office and what other big paydays it will lead to for them. In the end not one of the people doing the movie will say "that's my movie" instead they will say "that's a movie I was in that paid me $10,000,000". Most people don't realize what a talented ensemble cast The Dukes TV Show was. Denver Pyle, Sorell Booke and James Best were all accomplished character actors long before they starred in The Dukes. Hell, James Best taught Burt Reynolds, Gary Busey, Lindsay Wagner (just to name a few) how to act. He had is own acting school. They never got the credit they deserved for that show because to all of the critics and Network people it was a "hayseed show with a hayseed cast". The problem is that most critics and Network bigwigs are city dwellers that don't get anything country. They get anyplace that has more than three trees in a 50 foot area and they are homesick. If it isn't cement, asphalt or a multi story building, they start getting nervous. Now, 25 years after the show went on the air, Hollywood says hey lets cash in on The Dukes again. So they put together a cast of celebrities, and write some stupid penis jokes (how Howard Stern of them) and add a General Lee. Notice I said celebrities, NOT actors. The only actor I've seen listed to be in that movie is Burt Reynolds. There are maybe one or two others, but the rest are celebrities. Johnny Knoxville's most notable accomplishment in Hollywood is a movie accurately entitled Jackass, in which he and some other slackers do stunts such as putting a Matchbox Car in a condom and sticking up their rear ends and then going to the Doctor to get an X Ray. The other guy in the movie, (the one who was in American Wedding) his biggest claim to fame would be playing a slacker who says the F Word after everyone's name and pretending to eat doggie doo doo. Gee, is anyone still wondering why Ben Jones as well as other original cast members are pissed off? If you put some talented character actors in the movie, and then told some funny dirty jokes that would be one thing, but what they are going to do in this movie is garbage. That is what the originals are complaining about. Don't think for one second that bringing in the remaining original cast for cameos in this movie would stop their complaints, because it wouldn't. It's not the fact that they aren't IN the movie, it's what they are doing to the concept of the TV Show. Anyone who thinks that they are complaining because they didn't get to be in the movie is fooling themselves. Fact is, they wouldn't even do the movie with the script the way it is now. The sad fact of it all is this is today's Hollywood. 75 to 85 % of today's "A List" actors are nothing more than hyped up B or C list celebrities with virtually no serious acting training. I've never seen so many "Stars" with such little personality. They have umpteen "Entertainment Magazines" on TV telling us about every time they use the john. They have Entertainment Networks doing the same basic thing. It's all hype and no talent or imagination. There is absolutely no creativity at all out of Hollywood anymore. A network gets one hit show that is kind of new and original, and four months later there are five others just like it on the other networks. Then you have the "Reality" shows, which are living proof that character actors and imagination no longer exist in today's Hollywood. I've always said that if I want reality I'll go sit on my front porch and look out into the world, but when I turn on my TV I want to be entertained. I don't want to see people having cockroaches poured over them or people eating worms or worse. I don't want to see people eating dog poop. I want a story that is funny and entertaining put on by character actors who know how to deliver a line without breaking their johnson to make the line funny. I've got no problem with dirty jokes, but using them without talent and imagination gets one result: people laugh not because it is funny, but because it is stupid. I won't go to the new DOH movie, and I won't buy the DVD either. I am a fan of the TV Show and it's cast, and if they have a problem with this movie (which it's obvious that they do) then I will support them by not seeing the movie. Something tells me I won't be missing much.
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