Thursday, February 19, 2004 I pity the fool that don’t love Mr. T.
One of our nations greatest acting treasures is Mr. T. He played part in my development as a child. I first saw him on Different Strokes. He made a guest appearance as himself and was filming part of a movie in the Drummond residence. When Ms. Garrett mistook Mr. T for a common street tough, and smashed a vase on his head, that brought me to tears. Mr. T, Gary Coleman and old white people, that’s great television. Later I saw Mr. T in the hit movie DC Cab. That movie had profanity, humor, and gratuitous nudity. Thus adding to the growth of my love for cussing, laughing, and boobies. Aaaah, boobies. You may also remember Mr. T as Clubber Lang, in Rocky III. His finest work came into being as he took the role of Sgt. Bosco Albert 'B.A./Bad Attitude' Baracus. That’s right the A-TEAM.
In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they did not commit. They promptly escaped a maximum-security stockade into the Los Angeles Underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they exist as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire...
The A-Team.
That is when he became an action hero. As the muscle and driver of that bitchin van for this force for good. He showed me that even tough guys could have weaknesses. You see B.A. was afraid of flying. On many occasions (maybe every show) the team would have to use his love of milk to drug him in order to escape. Oooh but the times he woke up and they were already in the air, LOOK OUT! That’s when B.A. meant Bad Additude. How they kept him from killing Murdock (Capt. H.M. 'Howling Mad' Murdock
), I’ll never know.
Mr. T still had a stronge career after The A-Team. For a while there was Mr. T cereal, “I pity the fool that don’t eat my cereal”. It tasted like the Gremlins cereal, which tasted like C3-PO's cereal. And who can forget the Mr. T cartoon. Only Sargent Slaughter, made as good a transition from live action to animation. But that’s another story.
