So I was watching Soul Man this evening on the MOJO Network*. It's really one of the best movies ever: a kid from LA gets into Harvard Law but needs to find money in order to attend. He decides to take lots of tanning pills and gets a scholarship intended for African-Americans. Then he goes off to Harvard and learns about racism. Hijinks ensue. It is really one of the best movies made in the mid '80s.
Anyways, I spent some time on IMDB looking up the cast when I came across an incredible discovery: Jan from the Office is the crazy white girl who wants to sleep with a black guy (and later, an American Indian) in Soul Man. Turns out that she (Melora Hardin) was also supposed to be the girl in Back to the Future, but when they cast Michael J. Fox she got canned because she was too tall for him. This pretty much cements Jan as my favorite minor celebrity... Soul Man and The Office is a combo that few people can match.
(Her website is also priceless.)
* If you don't get the MOJO network, you should figure out how to get the MOJO network. Among the awesomeness it contains: Wall Street Warriors, a show about d-bags on the Street; The Game, a show about baseball; Three Sheets, a show about global drinking habits; and various other great shows in HD (like Soul Man).
2 comments:
It was the Cosby decade.
Three Sheets rocks. That dude is funny. I want that job.
Hope your doing well out there, Tyler. Love the blog.
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