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	Bill Cosby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the mid-1980s, his sitcom The Cosby Show was a runaway hit (rescuing NBC from possible bankruptcy), and notable for being one of the first television programs to star a well-to-do middle-class Black family.
		Cosby was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Northwest Philadelphia's Germantown Hospital at 3:00 A.M to William Henry Cosby and Anna Pearl Hite.
		Cosby then appeared in a series of shows named after himself: The Bill Cosby Show, The New Bill Cosby Show, the animated Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Cos, The Cosby Show, The Cosby Mysteries, and Cosby (based upon the British series One Foot In The Grave).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Cosby (1890 words)

	Bill Cosby -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cosby was born in (additional info and facts about Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Northwest Philadelphia's Germantown Hospital at 3:00 A.M. He joined the (The navy of the United States of America; maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces) United States Navy in tenth grade and completed high school through correspondence courses.
		Cosby won two (additional info and facts about Emmy Award) Emmy Awards for his portrayal of an undercover (An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the) CIA agent.
		Cosby earned a doctorate in education from the (additional info and facts about University of Massachusetts) University of Massachusetts in 1977: his (An unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument) thesis concerned the use of the Fat Albert series as a teaching aid.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/bill_cosby.htm (1429 words)

	Bill Cosby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cosby won two Emmy Awards for his portrayal of an undercover CIA agent; it was also the first time an African-American actor starred in a weekly dramatic television series.
		Cosby became the center of controversy in May 2004 when he made public remarks critical of low-income African Americans whom he believed to be deprioritizing education in favor of sports and fashion.
		While Cosby received a sharp backlash, he was largely unapologetic for the remarks and continued his criticism during a speech on July 1 at a Rainbow Coalition meeting commemorating the anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/bill_cosby.html (522 words)

	The Bill Cosby Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bill Cosby Show was a sitcom that aired for two seasons on NBC from 1969 until 1971.
		In this lighthearted comedy, Bill Cosby played the role of Chet Kincaid, physical education teacher at a Los Angeles high school.
		The Bill Cosby Show was not your average, laugh-out-loud type of sitcom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Bill_Cosby_Show (304 words)

	Nick at Nite: The Cosby Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This gentle show, concentrating on the day to day lives of the upper-middle-class Huxtable family, was both a throwback to earlier sitcoms and a fresh new perspective on family life.
		THE COSBY SHOW was the brainchild of popular actor/comedian Bill Cosby, who had originally envisioned the show as a blue-collar comedy.
		THE COSBY SHOW's popularity was due to a variety of factors, including its gentle humor and portrayal of an ideally close-knit family.
	www.tvland.com /nickatnite/cosby_show (473 words)

	The New Bill Cosby Show
		Bill Cosby was a popular personality with the male audience, but lost them to 'Monday Night Football' on ABC - and 'The Doris Day Show' that preceeded Cosby was on it's last legs and no match for the 'Monday Night Movie' on NBC.
		To appeal to a younger audience, another new Bill Cosby was presented on September 19, 1976.
		Gone were the long form jokes, this was a new 'hip' Bill Cosby, and the backdrop for the show was a yellow smiley face with an afro.
	www.tvparty.com /cosby.html (909 words)

	Online NewsHour: Bill Cosby criticizes parenting in the African American community -- July 15, 2004
		BILL COSBY: When you put on a record and that record is yelling - (bleep) this- and (bleep) that, and you've got your six- or seven- year-old sitting in the backseat of the car, those children hear that.
		But in terms of Bill Cosby and the remarks he made on both occasions, I think this is really a case of perception first as reality.
		And when Bill Cosby points us out because of the way we talk, the way we name our kids as opposed to sticking with the reality, have you to wonder how much of this is actually about reality and how much of it is actually about appearance.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec04/cosby_7-15.html (2171 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Bill Cosby
		Bill Cosby is one of the most influential performers of the second half of the 20th century.
		Word of Cosby's talent spread north to New York, he left school to perform in Greenwich Village clubs, and within a year landed a guest spot on "The Tonight Show." The year was 1963 and Cosby revolutionized American comedy.
		On the evolution of his own style of comedy, Bill Cosby states that he was drawn at an early age to the masters of jazz, learning to emulate in comedy their ability to take an idea and continually find new and innovative ways of expressing the same theme.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3713&source_type=A (837 words)

	The My Hero Project - Bill Cosby
		Shows included "The Bill Cosby Show" in 1971, “Cos” in 1976, "The Cosby Mysteries" in 1994, and "Cosby".
		One of the many things I admire about Bill Cosby is his devotion to helping children all over the country and bringing smiles to their faces.
		Cosby is also one of very few comedians who does not use race as one of his themes for comedy.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=cosby_fredericksburg_04 (1259 words)

	Cosby, Bill
		Born in a poor section of Philadelphia, Bill Cosby left home for a stint in the U.S. Navy that lasted from 1956 to 1960.
		In the 1980s, Cosby combined his paternal interests with the sophisticated humor of his prime-time career on the hit program The Cosby Show (1984-1992).
		Cosby's vision of Dr. Cliff Huxtable, his beautiful lawyer wife, and their five handsome, successful children included jokes and conflicts that transcended race.
	archive.blackvoices.com /research/encarta/tt_074.asp (637 words)

	Cosby, Bill
		Cosby began his career as a stand?up comedian and in that arena developed his trademark of using raceless humor to capture audience appeal.
		Cosby's most notable success in series television, The Cosby Show (1984?92), discontinued familiar sitcom formulas filled with disrespectful children and generational conflict and presented instead a two-parent fl family in which both partners worked as professionals.
		Cosby's personal style is stamped on all his products, and his creative technique and signature are reflected in each book he writes or series he produces.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/C/htmlC/cosbybill/cosbybill.htm (1460 words)

	Bill Cosby
		Cosby has been on television for so long, usually in rather silly sitcoms or commercials for Jello, it's easy to forget that he used to be funny -- and hip.
		Cosby has given many millions of dollars to everything from political candidates (Cosby likes 'em progressive and fl) to underwriting Spike Lee's film Malcolm X when the studio balked at cost overages.
		Cosby's son, Ennis, was a 27-year-old doctoral student at Columbia University when he was shot and killed while changing the tire on his Mercedes.
	www.nndb.com /people/674/000022608 (1160 words)

	Nick at Nite: The Cosby Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By 1965, Cosby made the jump from stand-up comedy to television when he snagged one of the leading roles in I SPY opposite Robert Culp.
		Cosby was highly active in television throughout the 1970s, with a stint on THE ELECTRIC COMPANY, the animated FAT ALBERT AND THE COSBY KIDS, THE NEW BILL COSBY SHOW, and COS.
		Cosby also developed and composed the theme music for the successful COSBY SHOW spin-off A DIFFERENT WORLD, which ran from 1987 to 1993.
	www.tvland.com /nickatnite/cosby_show/actors (691 words)

	The Bill Cosby Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bill Cosby was our hero back in the '60's with his comedy records and his role on I Spy, so we all tuned in to see this sitcom where he played a high school basketball coach.
		This is "Bill Cosby" and thankfully, not "Dr. William H. Cosby, Jr., PH.D." Chet Kincaid was a cool guy who coached sports and taught physical education in a Los Angeles high school.
		Portrayed Cosby as an everyman, not the stuffed shirt he became on "The Cosby Show" or the grouch he was on "Cosby".
	www.jumptheshark.com /b/billcosby.htm (1143 words)

	The American Spectator
		Published 5/27/2004 12:05:48 AM Bill Cosby caught a lot of ink lambasting the fl youth and under-class during a dinner at Constitution Hall in Washington marking the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision.
		Cosby is so clearly disconnected I wouldn't doubt he spends days just walking around his brownstone in those old $500 sweaters ranting incredulously about kids and poor fls to no one in particular.
		Cosby's words are that of a frustrated father-figure, and he can be forgiven for scorching the earth with ire and disappointment.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=6619 (869 words)

	CNN.com - The outspoken Bill Cosby - Nov 11, 2004
		Bill Cosby with CNN's Paula Zahn: "This is about little children," he says of his recent speeches and activities.
		Cosby's ire is focused at the African-American community: its rates of juvenile delinquency, its parenting, the coarse language of its youth.
		The show didn't talk down to its audience and simply assumed the success of its fl characters: Cosby's obstetrician, Dr. Cliff Huxtable; his lawyer wife, Clair; their five children and, later, grandchild; and their comfortable life in the upscale New York City neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights.
	www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/11/cosby (1239 words)

	Bill Cosby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bill's father was a Steward in the navy and was seldom around.
		Tragedy struck the Cosby family on January 16, 1997, when their son Ennis was murdered in an apparent robbery attempt.
		The Cosby Show is still entertaining audiences around the world in network reruns and despite their tragic loss, Bill and Camille remain involved with supporting charity and civil rights organizations, supporting educational opportunities for African Americans, and other social organizations.
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	The Cosby Show
		However, despite Cosby's widespread popularity-- he had registered one of the highest audience appeal ratings in history as a commercial pitchman--programmers initially viewed his star potential with suspicion.
		In many respects, The Cosby Show and its "classy" aura were designed to address a long history of fl negative portrayals on television.
		One audience study suggests that the show "strikes a deal" with white viewers, that it absolves them of responsibility for racial inequality in the United States in exchange for inviting the Huxtables into their living room.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/C/htmlC/cosbyshowt/cosbyshowt.htm (1364 words)

	The New Bill Cosby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cosby rode out the Sixties with two series, 'I-Spy' (1965 - 1968), which won him three best dramatic actor Emmys three years in a row, followed by the excellent 'Bill Cosby Show' (1969 - 1971), a sitcom featuring Cosby as a high school gym teacher.
		In the Eighties, 'The Cosby Show' dominated prime-time, and even the Nineties have brought the actor/comedian acceptance with his new series "Cosby' currently running on CBS.
		Bill Cosby was very popular with the male audience, but lost them to the second half of 'Monday Night Football' on ABC, and 'The Doris Day Show' that preceeded Cosby was on it's last legs and no match for the 'Monday Night Movie' on NBC.
	www.tvparty.com /newcosby1.html (531 words)

	Cosby Show, The - Cosby Show inspiration, 'Bill Cosby - Himself', heads to DVD UPDATED
		The comedy routines of Bill Cosby were the inspiration for his hugely successful 1984 series, The Cosby Show.
		The precursor to the series was Bill Cosby: Himself, an on-stage performance filmed in front of a live audience, with the best of Cosby's stand-up act done solo by the master.
		The property-owners of that show are currently shopping around for a distributor of their various TV Series on DVD, so they can bring them to retail in North America.
	www.tvshowsondvd.com /newsitem.cfm?NewsID=1564 (360 words)

	Relationships with Bill Cosby
		The Cosby Show was very successful, and notable for being one of the first to star a well-to-do middle-class African-American family.
		Cosby was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Northwest Philadelphia's Germantown Hospital at 3:00 A.M. He joined the United States Navy in tenth grade and completed high school through correspondence courses.
		Bill Cosby was a regular on the Captain Kangaroo show in the 1980s, presenting the "Picture Pages" segment which was later syndicated on its own.
	www.topsynergy.com /famous/Bill_Cosby.asp (1617 words)

	"The Bill Cosby Show" (1969) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cosby play a role that was not that same old "Run of the mill" Stereo-typical Black Man.
		This show came at at a time when African-American Actors were trying to get more meaningful roles that would send a much more powerful and positive image to the viewers.
		This show was able to accomplish that and for that reason, It should be commended.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0063871 (296 words)

	The Bill Cosby Show Episode Guide - The Bill Cosby Show Season Episodes - TV.com
		Live action bumpers featuring Bill Cosby were set around animated episodes of Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids, a series about a group of urban adolescents growing up in a Philadelphia neighborhood....
		After being one of the ten-thousand people who were downsized at the airport, Hilton Lucas (Bill Cosby) is forced to retire and stay home with his wife Ruth (Phylicia Rashad) and his daughter Erica...
		After the cancellation of The Bill Cosby Show, Bill Cosby tried his hands at a variety show.
	www.tv.com /bill-cosby-show/show/649/episode_guide.html (1194 words)

	Bill Cosby
		Bill Cosby was born William Henry Cosby, Jr He was born in Gernmantown, Pennsylvania on July 12, 1937 to Anna and William Cosby.
		Bill dropped out of high school in the tenth grade to join the Navy in the early 1950's.
		Bill and Camille were married in 1964, and had four daughters and one boy, Ennis, who was murdered at the age of twenty-seven(World Biographies)
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /00_01/BH/bc/bc1.htm (543 words)

	Tavis Smiley . Archive . Wednesday May 26th \| PBS
		The legendary Bill Cosby addresses the controversy over his recent comments that were intended to be a call to action to "turn the mirror around on ourselves."
		Comedian Bill Cosby touches people’s lives, not only with his humor, but also with his activism.
		Cosby attended the city's public schools, has a bachelor's degree from Temple University and a doctorate in education.
	www.pbs.org /kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200405/20040526.html (232 words)

	Bill Cosby Show : What's his name?
		Those two shows are easily confused since they both have similiar titles and the main characters are played by the same actors and one of the main characters is similiarly named to the main character of the other show - THE COSBY SHOW: Heathcliff
		On 'The Cosby Show', his name was Heathcliff Huxtable.
		On the CBS show 'Cosby' his name was Hilton Lucas.
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	AllRefer.com - Bill Cosby (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bill Cosby (William Henry Cosby, Jr.)[koz´bE] Pronunciation Key, 1937–, American actor, b.
		He became known as a comedian and was subsequently the first African-American actor to star in a dramatic series on television (I Spy, 1965–68).
		He has since starred in several television series, most notably the situation comedy The Cosby Show (1984–92), the most popular program on American television during the late 1980s.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Cosby-Bi.html (207 words)

	Bill Cosby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bill Cosby: Himself (1983) (executive producer) (as William H. Cosby Jr.)
		Bill Cosby: 49 (1987) (V) "The Cosby Show" (1984)
		Bill Cosby: Himself (1983) (written by) (as William H. Cosby Jr.)
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0001070 (738 words)

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