Da Capo Press | ISBN:0306820838 | File Type: PDF, 265 pages | File size: 77.Mb | Jun. 26th, 2012
Humorous Essays: Good Times Bad Times Our Times A Memoir Jimmie Walker was raised in a violent and abusive home in the Bronx Starting in small clubs and eventually opening for Black anther rallies he timately became an icon playing J J Evans on Good Times Walker was the first successf young black sitcom star and his catchphrase Dyn o mite remains an indicator of the era He saw sudden and enormous fame in everything from comic books and a talking doll to pajamas trading cards a bestselling album and TV Guide covers In Dyn o mite Walker candidly talks about his rise and the considerable tensions on the set of Good Times that contradicted the show s image of a close knit blue collar family struggling to survive in the projects Walker made Dyn o mite a catchword for the Baby Boomer generation Today Dyn o mite will inspire that same generation to rediscover what once made America great the freedom of thought the freedom of speech and the belief in the individual
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