Feb 28, 2014 Black History Month

Feb 28  Black History Month


Yesterday's Answer:
Movie: Superfly
Doll:  Victor James- Integrity Toys


Today's Question:

Name the movie and doll appearing in the remake


Teresa Graves stars in the 1974 Television Show.  It was about  "a beautiful policewoman who goes undercover to break up a drug ring."*



*info from IMDB

Feb 27, 2014 Black History Month

Feb 27    Black History Month


Yesterday's Answers:

Movie: Black Samurai
Action Figure: G.I. Joe



Today's Question:

Name the movie and the doll appearing in the remake


In this 1972 movie Ron O' Neal is the star. "He is a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that his life will soon end with either prison or his death. He decides to build an escape from the life by making his biggest deal yet, converting the coke to cash and running off to start a new life. The problem is that the Mob does not have a retirement plan and will give him a choice of staying and selling for them or dying if they find out his intentions."*



*info from IMDB


           

Feb 26, 2014 Black History Month

Feb 26   Black History Month


Yesterday's Answers:
Movie: Fastbreak
Dolls:    Nakia, Billy Dee Williams, Kobe Bryant, Jordan, Rodman & Ken



Today's Question:

Name the movie and dolls in appearing in the remake.

Jim Kelly stars in this 1977 movie.  "Robert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations, is playing tennis on his vacation with a beautiful black girl, when his commanding officers ask him to save a Chinese girl named Toki who happens to be Sand's girlfriend, and the daughter of a top Eastern Ambassador. The ransom for the abduction was the secret for a terrific new weapon - the freeze bomb - but the 'Warlock' behind the deed is also into the business of drug dealing and Voodoo ritual murders. The search takes him from Hong Kong to California through Miami, and plenty of action, against bad men, bad girl, and bad animals. "*

* info from IMDB

Feb 25, 2014 Black History Month

Feb 25 Black History Month

Yesterday's Answers:
Movie: The Fish that Saved Pittsburg
Dolls:  Allen Iverson and Simone- Modern Circle


Today's Question:

Name the movie and the dolls appearing in the remake


This 1979 movie stars Gabe Kaplan, Harold Sylvester, Bernard King, Mavis Washington and Michael Warren.  "  David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who are a bit odd but good. Like Swish who unknown to the rest of the team is a girl. Preacher, who's being sought by some nefarious characters. And D.C., who's a fugitive. And along with some of the students at the college, he turns them into a contender. In order to give the team the respect they deserve and some exposure, Greene schemes to try and get the number 1 team led by Bo Winnegar, to play them."*


*info from IMDB

               

Feb 24, 2014 Black History Month

Feb 24  Black History Month


Yesterday's Answer:

Movie: Coffy
Action Figure:  Vietnam Nurse from G.I. Joe

Today's Question :

Name the movie and the dolls in the remake.

Dr. J  and Stockard Channing starred in this 1979 movie.  The story is about a "Pittsburgh basketball team that ishopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners."*

*infor from IMDB

Feb 23, 2014- Black History Month

Feb 23 Black History Month

Yesterday's Answers:
Movie: A Piece of the Action
Dolls:  Brad, Grandpa-Mattel, Menelik-Olmec

Today's Question:

Name the movie and the doll apearing in the remake.

Pam Grier starred as this title character in this 1973 movie.  She "is a nurse whose younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin. Coffy sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path."*

*info from IMDB

Feb 22, 2014- Black History Month

Feb 22- Black History Month

Yesterday's Question:
Movie:  Three the Hard Way
Dolls:  Tyr, Storm and Blade

Today's Question:

Name the movie and dolls  appearing in the remake

Bill Cosby, Sidney Poiter and James Earl Jones star in the 1977 movie.  In this movie, "Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke is a retired detective who has enough evidence on the both of them to put them behind bars. Instead, he offers to maintain his silence if the crooks will go straight and do work at a youth center for delinquents. At first, the crooks are reluctant and unwilling (and so are the kids). As time goes by they gain the trust and admiration of the kids and they start to enjoy the job. All goes well until someone out of the past tells them they have to do one last heist...or else... "*

*info from IMDB


              

Feb 21, 2014 Black History Month

Feb 21- Black History Month

Yesterday's Answers:
Movie:  Cornbread, Earl, and Me
Dolls:  Julian, Grant Hill, and Dylan- Bratz


Today's Question:

Name the movie and dolls in the remake.

In this 1974 movie, it stars  Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly and Jim Brown.  I decided in the remake I would have a female in the movie. "The story involves a group plotting to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to their group but lethal to others. The only obstacles that stand in the way of this dastardly plan are Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly, who shoot, kick and karate chop their way to final victory."*

*info from IMDB

Feb 20, 2014 Black History Month

Feb 20-  Black History Month

Yesterday's Answers"

Television Show:  The Jeffersons
Dolls:  Clone doll, I thought it was Amber from Avon,  Allan, and Ortese


Today's Question:
Name the movie and the dolls in the remake

This movie takes place in 1975.  It is about "Nathaniel "Cornbread" Hamilton who was the  dream and a hero to youngsters Wilford Robinson and Earl Carter. Shortly before he would have become the first man from his community to go to college, he demonstrates his scholarship-winning basketball ability to his friends and admirers in the neighborhood. At the same time, the police are on a manhunt for an armed rapist. They mistake Cornbread for the rapist and shoot him dead in the street. In the aftermath of the community's shattered dream, and in the face of an intimidating police cover-up, Wilford is determined not to betray the memory of his hero."*


* info from IMDB

Feb 19, 2014- Black History Month

Feb 19- Black History Month

Yesterday's Answer:
Movie:  Let's Do It Again
Dolls:  No. 17- Mattel, Shaq and Charlie- Father to be


Today's Question:

Name the television show and dolls appearing in the remake.

This television show debut in 1975 and lasted for several years. Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley starred in this sitcom.The story was George Jefferson owned a dry cleaner business and by 1975, Jefferson's fledging dry-cleaning business, Jefferson Cleaners, had successfully grown into a small chain; his newfound wealth led to moving his family to a "deluxe apartment in the sky" in Manhattan. His family included his wife, Louise, a level-headed and open-minded woman who often had to scold George when his mouth got him into trouble; and Lionel, an engineering major at a local college. He especially disliked Tom and Helen Willis, a mixed couple whose daughter, Jenny, was dating and later married Lionel; Florence, his sharp-tongued maid; and Harry Bentley, the esoteric Englishman who lived next door."*

 

 

*info from IMDB

Feb 18, 2014- Black History Month

Feb 18, Black History Month


Yesterday's Answer:
Movie: Cotton Comes to Harlem
Dolls:   Will Smith and Martin Lawrence (on the right) from Bad Boys


Today's Question

Name the movie and the figures appearing in the remake

This movie came  out in 1977 with Bill Cosby and Sidney Poiter.  It is about "Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match. Using hypnotism, they turn the scrawny underdog into a super-confident fighting machine. They bet heavily on him, he wins easily, and they return to Atlanta with their money. All is fine until the gangsters conned by these two figure out what happened show up in Atlanta with a grudge. Now Williams and Foster have to rig the fight again so the gangsters can get their money back or they'll be killed. Can they do it again...?"* 

 

 

*info from IMDB             

Feb 17, 2014 Black History Month

Feb 17- Black History Month

Yesterday Answer's:

 

Television Show:  Good Times

Dolls:  Dasia, World Peacekeeper, Hal, Steven, Nichelle, Malibu Christie

 

Today's Question"

 

Name the movie and the dolls appearing in the remake

 

  

In this 1970 movie, Raymond St. Jacques and Godfrey Cambridge starred as the lead characters.  "Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are two black cops with a reputation for breaking the odd head. Both are annoyed at the success of the Reverend Deke O'Mailey who is selling trips back to Africa to the poor on the installment plan. When his truck is hijacked and a bale of cotton stuffed with money is lost in the chase, Harlem is turned upside down by Gravedigger and Coffin Ed, the Reverend, and the hijackers."*

 

* info from IMDB

 

Note: The dolls starred in another movie together.

 

Feb 16, 2014- Black History Month

Feb 16- Black History Month


Yesterday's Answer:
Movie: Cooley High
Dolls:  Chad and Benjamin

Today's Question:
Name the television show and dolls appearing in the remake

Ester Rolle, Jimmy Walker, Berndatte Stanis, Ralph Carter and John Amos starred in this 1975 television show.  The show was about "life in the Chicago projects is never easy, However, the Evans family never gives up trying to make the best of things. While Florida and James struggle to provide for their family, their sons J.J., an aspiring painter, Micheal, the undying political crusader, causing trouble while their sister, Thelma, stands between them as the voice of reason. Living in the same building were Willona Woods, Florida's best friend from High School who provided support, love and gossip and joke about Nathan Bookman, the overweight janitor who gave them grief. Life, at least, is never boring while they fight to keep their heads above water and one day leave the projects, which they did in the series finale."*


*info from IMDB

Feb 15, 2014- Black History Month

Feb 15- Black History Month

Yesterday's Answer

Movie: Aaron loves Angela

Dolls: Marisa and Tre

Today's Question:
Name the movie and the dolls in the remake.

Glynn Turman and Lawrence Hilton Jacob starred in this 1975 movie.   The movie is about a"group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they meet a pair of career criminals and get falsely arrested in connection with stealing a Cadillac. We follow their lives through the end of high school and the dramatic end to their school year. "*
* info from IMDB
 

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day

Have a wonderful day

 

 

Feb 14, 2014- Black History Month

Feb 14,- Black History Month

Yesterday's Answer

TV Show: Welcome Back Kotter
Dolls: Jamal, Tre, Danny, Graffiti, Sutton

Today's Question:  Name the movie and dolls in the remake,

In this 1975 movie two teenagers fall in love.  In the movie "Kevin Hooks) and Irene Cara, two young adults living in the Harlem ghetto of New York City, are deeply in love with each other. The only thing standing in the way of their love is their families. Aaron is black, while Angela is Puerto Rican, and neither family wants one of their own to associate with the others. As the pair rebel against the prejudices of their families, they soon find the conflict spreading out to their friends and neighbors."*
* info from IMDB
 

Feb 13, 2014- Black History Month

Feb 13- Black History Month

Yesterday's Answer:
Movie:  Black Belt Jones
Dolls:  Tariq and Christie- Beyond Pink


Today's Question.
Name the movie and dolls in the remake.

This TV show started in 1975.  It was about " a compassionate teacher who returns to his inner city high school of his yourth to teach a new generation of trouble making kids (The Sweat hogs)." *  The stars of the show were Gabe Kaplan, John Travolta, Ron Palilo,   Lawrence Hilton Jacob, Robert Hegyes.

* info from IMDB

Feb. 12, 2014- Black History Month

Feb. 12- Black History Month

Yesterday's Answer:
Movie: Foxy Brown
Doll:  Destiny from Cy Girls  BBI Toys

Today's Question.  Name the dolls in the remake and the movie.

In this 1974 movie starring Jim Kelly and Gloria Hendry (James Bond Girl) a " Mafia's Don learns that the City is planning a new civic center, and is buying the land where it will be, to make easy money when the city council will buy it. The one piece the Don doesn't have yet, is the old African-American karate school owned by Papa Byrd. Big Tuna, the Mafia Don's right hand man, goes to Pinky, their representative in that area and they tell him that he owes them $250,000 but instead of paying, they want him to get Papa Byrd's school. Pinky tries to muscle the karate master into handing out the property title, but he throws him out. A teacher calls Black Belt Jones, a friend of Papa Byrd, to talk to him about this, but before he does Pinky and his thugs accidentally kills Papa Byrd in a second visit. Before dying in friends' arms, Byrd says that the school belongs to Sydney - whom nobody knows. Black Belt Jones knows that Sydney is Byrd's daughter, whom he hasn't seen since she was a child. With Sidney wanting to take revenge on her father's killers all by herself, and Jones wanting her out of the deadly battle about to start, things get ugly, fast, and furious."*


* info  from IMDB

Feb. 11, 2014- Black History Month

Feb 11- Black History Month

Yesterday's Answer: 
Movie: Blacula
Action Figure: Kobe Bryant


Today's Question: Name the doll and movie

In this 1974 movie, Pam Grier plays the title character, who "seeks revenge when her government agent boyfriend Michael is shot down by gangsters led by the couple of Steve Elias and Miss Katherine."*

Name the movie and action figure .

*info from IMDB

Feb 10, 2014- Black History Month

Feb 10- Black History Month


Yesterday's Answer:
Movie: Claudine
Dolls:  Black Barbie, World Peacekeeper  from MC Toy, Sasha, Brandon, doll from frenzy toys, doll from kid kore, Madison, and Anthoney


Today's Question:  Name the movie and action figure

This 1972 movie starred William Marshall.  This action figure will star in the remake of this movie about "an ancient African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula himself, and finds himself in modern Los Angeles."*

*info from IMDB

Feb 9, 2014- Black History Month

Feb 9- Black History Month

Yesterday's Answer:
Movie:  Mahogany
Actress:  Janay- Integrity toys

Today's Question: Name the movie and dolls that appear in the remake.

Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones started in this movie from 1974. "The title character tries to provide for her 6 children while on welfare. She has a romance with Roop a cheerful garbage man she meets while working on the side as a maid."*  Name the dolls shown below that will star in the remake of this movie.

*info from IMDB

Feb 8, 2014

Feb 8.

Yesterday's Answer:

Movie: Sparkle
Actors:  Raven Symone- Cheetah Girls, Beyonce, Scary Spice- Mel B

Today's Question:  Name the movie and doll that will be in the remake

  Diana Ross starred in this 1975  movie.  "Tracy, an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her newfound success."* 

This doll will replace Ross as thevleadvin the remake.

*info from IMDB

Feb 7, 2014- Black History Month

Feb 7

Yesterday's Answer:
Tv Show:  Sandford and Son
Actors:  Redd Foxx and Desmond Wilson


Today's Question:
Name the movie and the dolls that will star in the remake.

Lonette McKee, Irene Cara and Mary Alice starred in  this 1976 version of this movie.   The movie is about "three sisters (Sister and the Sisters) from Harlem that become singers. Sister becomes involved with drugs, while the title character ends up being the one who gets famous.  This film tells of how drugs ruin Sister's relationships and eventually end her life. It is also about the relationship between the title character and Stix."*  In 2014, a new version will star the dolls below.

*info from IMDB

Feb 6, 2014- Black History Month

Feb 6.

Yesterday's Answer:
TV Show:  Mod Squad
Doll: Remi- Integrity Toys


Today's Question:

Name the television show and dolls.

   Redd Foxx and Desmond Wilson started  in this 1972 Television Show.  Fred and Lamont are the characters in this tv show about a junk dealer and his  son.

Feb 4, 2014- Black History Month

Feb. 4

Yesterday's Answer:
Movie:  The Hammer
Actress: Fred Williamson


I have changed the question.  Please name the movie, and the doll that is starring in the remake.

Today's Question:

Billy Dee Williams starred in this  1973 movie as  Nick Allen, "a federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down and destroy the ring." *

What movie?
Who is the doll?

*info from IMDB























clue:  He was the colt 45 man.

Feb 3, 2014- Black History

February 3-

Yesterday's Answers:
Movie: Cleopatra Jones
Actress:  Tamara Dobson

Name the movie and actor/actress:

 The Rock  will star in the remake of this movie from 1972.  The movie is  about a "dock worker named B.J  H-----. ( The last name is the title of the movie) who becomes a prizefighter, but gets mixed up with a crooked manager. A sympathetic L.A. detective tries to set him straight, but he won't listen. His manager, who is also a drug dealer, tells him that he has to take a dive during an important fight, and to ensure his cooperation, his girlfriend is kidnapped."*





*info from IMDB

 

clue: The original star was an ex-football player.

 

Feb. 5, 2014- Black History Month

Feb  5

Yesterday's Answer:
Movie: The Hit
Actor:  Darius Reid from Integrity Toys


Today's Question:

Name the television show and doll.


Clarence Williams III starred in this television show from 1968-1973.   Linc Hayes, was one of "three young outsiders that would fight crime as undercover agents for the police."* 

*info from IMDB

February 2, 2014- Black History

February 2, 2014

Yesterday's Answer:
Movie: Shaft
Actor:  Richard Roundtree

Can you name the movie and actress

Neve from the "Off the Hook" series by Integrity Toys has decided to take on this role.  "She is a United States Special Agent assigned to crack down on drug-trafficking in the U.S. and abroad. After she burns a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug-lord Mommy is furious at the loss of her supply and vows to destroy her. Mommy uses her connections with bad cops on the force to cause trouble for her friends and set her up for an attack."*



      

*info from IMDB

Black History Month 2014- Feb 1

February 1, 2014

I will be celebrating Black History Month with a tribute to the movies and tv shows of the 1970's.  Instead of the original people, I am using dolls and action figures that will appear in the the remake. Can you name the Movie or TV show they will be appearing in.


Can you Name the Movie and Original Actor

In this remake, one of the Peacekeepers has decided to take on the role of  "the ultimate in suave black detectives. He first finds himself up against Bumpy, the leader of the  Black crime mob, then against Black nationals, and finally working with both against the Mafia who are trying to blackmail Bumpy by kidnapping his daughter."