Remembering Dollypop — Page 2

He never did tell us however how his date with Levi went when they saw HAIR together.

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Sadly, Dolly never did get to produce the show he'd wanted for years, "Hair-less".

Don't go gently towards that bright red light, Dolly.

Fondly recalling his giddiness when he would make fun of his "students"...their silly names, malapropisms, and just their general "blackness". This will be a true loss to all underprivileged children who will never know his cruel, shallow bigotry. Such a tragedy.

I mean WHEN it happens.

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I often thought Dollypop was using poetic license when crafting some of the names of his students, because he was first and foremost an artist, unafraid to pursue his singular vision.

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I took offense at his callous, un-compassionate, racist rants against his students. We're talking about an educator here, someone who needed to be a role model and a guiding force for those kids who were less fortunate.

He needs to be re-trained and subjected to watch a la Malcolm McDowell in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, the following films:

THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE
TO SIR, WITH LOVE
UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE
DANGEROUS MINDS
FAME
LEAN ON ME
STAND AND DELIVER
FREEDOM WRITERS
MUSIC OF THE HEART
MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS
MONA LISA SMILE
GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS (BOTH of them)
THE RON CLARK STORY
DEAD POET'S SOCIETY

and just for cautionary purposes:

TEACHING MRS. TINGLE
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE

on the lighter side of things, all available seasons of:

WELCOME BACK, KOTTER and ROOM 222

Updated On: 11/3/12 at 01:49 PM

Or, locking him in a room with JC, WS.

Carlos, I have no idea how you could leave the very fitting William Inge film Good Luck Miss Wyckoff from your list.

@ Eric: I left it off because I've never heard of it. Contrary to popular belief I don't know everything!

The movie sounds absolutely filthy. I may need to take several showers and a scrubbing down after I've viewed it:

Set in Freedom, a fictional small Kansas town, in 1956, the film focuses on Evelyn Wyckoff, a lonely and depressed 35-year-old high school Latin teacher who no longer finds any satisfaction in her work. She is undergoing therapy with Wichita psychiatrist Dr. Steiner but making little progress. One day she is accosted by Rafe Collins, an African American scholarship student who cleans classrooms at the end of the school day. When the young man makes lewd suggestions and begins to unzip his pants, Evelyn flees in a panic but decides to tell no one what transpired, hoping it was an isolated incident.

The following day, Rafe approaches Evelyn again and rapes her on her desk. Ashamed and fearful of the public disgrace she will suffer if she reports being violated by a black man, she chooses to remain silent. Rafe forces himself upon her on a daily basis, and eventually Evelyn, craving attention and mistaking their abusive relationship for true love, begins to look forward to their trysts.

Oh and Eric, you missed the point of my post. I was naming movies of teachers that made a difference in their pupils' lives, not movies of teachers who liked to get raped by their school janitors and get off on it.

Updated On: 11/3/12 at 05:37 PM

Jebus, that Miss Wyckoff movie is lurid! One of the first things we see is graffiti that says: Miss Wyckoff Fu**s Ni****s. My. I can;t wait to watch the whole shebang.

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Carolyn Jones!

Ronee Blakely!

Dorothy Malone!

WOW!

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