COSBY SHOW THEN & NOW ( NEW & THROWBACK INTERVIEWS)
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- Jan 7, 2015
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(WWETV) Phylicia Rashad says she was MISQUOTED about her comment "forget these women". Phylicia Rashad Abc News interview. Phylicia Rashad doesn't have an interest in discussing the accusations against bill cosby of sexual misconduct launched against Bill Cosby.That conversation, she said, detracts from a bigger issue surrounding the allegations, which Cosby has vehemently denied. "We are really missing what is wrong here, which is, this is the United States of America. I know it's changing, but it's still the United States of America and there are tenets that we live by," she told ABC News today. "There is the Constitution of the United States, which ensures innocence until proof of guilt and that has not happened. “But what has happened is declaration in the media of guilt, without proof. And a legacy is being destroyed because of it. It's being obliterated." Rashad, 66, worked with Cosby for more than seven years, playing his wife, Claire Huxtable, on "The Cosby Show." While she never intended to publicly speak about the allegations made against her former co-star, she said she was dismayed to see that she was falsely quoted as saying, “Forget about these women" in a recent story by Roger Friedman's Showbiz 411. "I am a woman. I would never say such a thing. I would never think such a thing," she said. "My message is, what happens to a nation in which people knowingly and willfully disavow the tenets that describe the nation? ... This is not about the women. This is about something else. This is about the obliteration of a legacy." Rashad would not speak about the women who have accused Cosby of rape, nor would she say discuss the things they said happened to them. But she did open up about the "kind" and "generous" man with whom she remains friendly. "Speaking to the character of the man that I know, this has not been easy. This has not been easy at all but he’s not a coward," she said. "I don’t know what he will do in that way but I know that he won’t be hiding. ... He likes being around people too much and he respects people."
Since November, various women have spoken to media claiming Cosby drugged and sexually abused them dating as far back as the 1960s and 1970s. He has always denied the allegations. Cosby's lawyer released a statement early on, saying, "The fact that they are being repeated does not make them true." Another attorney for Cosby, Martin D. Singer, added in late November, "The new, never-before-heard claims from women who have come forward in the past two weeks with unsubstantiated, fantastical stories about things they say occurred 30, 40, or even 50 years ago have escalated far past the point of absurdity.
(WWETV) With the current controversy surrounding Bill Cosby with allegations of raping and drugging women a new generation may not understand the legacy the man created for African Americans during the larger than life 1980's. Phylicia Rashad and Keshia Knight Pulliam have recently spoken to the media about the character of Bill Cosby and the legacy of the American classic sitcom Cosby Show being at stake. WWETV takes a look back to NBC's 1980's Thursday Night line-up which was a powerhouse for television ratings which saw The Cosby Show as king of television. In AN 80'S interview with NBC's Bryant Gumbel, Bill Cosby speaks about what his intentions were creating the show. It is then followed up by an interview with the kids of the Cosby show program. In this video you will also see classic Cosby Show commercials promoting the legendary program.
It aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York. According to TV Guide, the show "was TV's biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes".[1] Entertainment Weekly stated that The Cosby Show helped to make possible a larger variety of shows with a predominantly African-American cast, from In Living Color to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.[2] The Cosby Show was based on comedy routines in Cosby's stand-up act, which in turn were based on his family life. The show spawned the spin-off A Different World, which ran for six seasons from 1987 to 1993.
WWETV WRITER PAUL AUSTIN
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