This is Norman Whitefield's 'fuck you' to Motown after they let him go.

Like Claudine, the music of Norman flow nicely with the movie's storyline.

As far as the movie, its my FAVE from the 70's. It was semi-independent, its cost was VERY cheap(comparing to the avarage movie) and the acting ensemble line-up were an unkown hungry group(except Pryor, The Pointer Sisters and Ivan Dixon).

Its great I loove that movie, its a slightly kinder blaxploitation movie. Particularly pleasing are the huge ass afros in it and those pimped out caddies they lather up and the appaearance of king Richard

Is it me or does the released DVD doesn't include all the scenes?

I remember vaguely seeing the white girl being dumbed by that cutie @ the end of the movie by an old man.

Correct me if I'm mistaken, there're other scenes there deleted from the movie.

Harlepolis said:

Yes,a bunch of scenes are missing from the DVD.When I saw this movie in theatres back in 1977,Danny Devito was in it,but he is nowhere to be found on the DVD version.There are other scenes that are missing too....the part where Marsha's date comes back to pick her up and she learns that he wants her to date his nerdy-looking friend I don't understand why all these scenes were deleted!

I wish they would do a "where are they now?" special on the 'Car Wash' cast.I miss these people! I've been going around trying to find some recent pics of everybody.Who remembers this guy? The cool Latin guy who borrowed the "pig hat" and scared Marsha while she was in the bathroom:




I know you remember this guy,lol...had the biggest Afro you ever seen

WHOA

I'm afraid to ask from you to post more pix from the others cast.

That Latino cat was one cute motherfucker. And THE FLY?

Man, those bunch really aged.
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I wish I could find a recent pic of Tracy Reed,that fine actress who played the waitress in the restaurant across the street

sittin' here,in this chair,waiting for you
awww baby...to see things my way
but not a word do you say
you don't even look my way,yeah


y'all know the scene I'm talkin' bout

Mona Lisa

I don't like niggas with no jobs

Go to sleep, heffa

Remember Antonio Fargas? He played the gay guy who had the funniest line in the whole movie: "I'm more man than you'll ever be and more woman than you'll ever get"

Remember Bill Duke,who played the black activist dude?

Bill Duke is the director for 50's movie "Get Rich Or Die trying". He played his dad in the movie too.

Antonio is still active in the comedy scene. But I wonder what happend to Ivan Dixon(he made a helluva movie back in the 60's with Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln called Nothing but a man).

Several castmembers are no longer with us...

Richard Pryor
June Pointer
Ray Vitte (died in 1983)
Sully Boyar (Mr.B,the Car Wash owner)

Ren Woods' album was released in 1982 and includes a Prince-written track called "I Don't Wanna Stop".For some reason,he later removed the song from latter pressings of her album

Great thread! Loved the movie and the soundtrack .

oh man, i haven't seen this movie in forever...the soundtrack wasn't bad, either.

you got ta be-lieeeeeve somethin'...

SoulAlive said:

Whaaaaat?

I heard about her being a singer but I didn't know nothing about an album(and a track PRODUCED by our brotha)

Ok, this is STONE serious,,,you truely learn new stuff everyday.

How's her album? Is it any good?

SoulAlive said:

Franklin Ajaye had a standup thing going for a bit.
And I believe he's still a comedy writer.
Most recently he had a role in the HBO Deadwood series.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

theAudience said:

franklin ajay had one of the best comedy lp's around.

the gentleman with the long hair I still see in movies from a few years back.

I liked the song called "water".

chewwsey said:

Franklin Ajaye was\is a crazy cat. The last time i saw him was on a Robert Townsend HBO special "Partners In Crime ". He's a Kidnapper who demands Robert Townsend character pay a ransom in nickels & dimes so it can't be traced.
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Credit Funkadelics Eddie Hazel and Billy "Bass" Nelson with laying the initial tracks.

Its a great movie like Purple Rain that actually shows the positives of beiong an African American. These people arent rich of stars, but they are working hard, makin something of their lifes and being black and beautiful. Even tho I am just a part Polynesian from New Zealand I have always empathised with the plight of African American people and the shit they have had to put up with since they were taken from Africa. Seriously man you guys rule. Prince is ultimate example of a positive African American doing well.

Sorry to wax lyrical there but I get the feeling most orgers are gay men of any race or African Americans of all genders and some European males to boot.

tane1976 said:

Harlepolis said:

I never heard her album.Would love to find a copy someday.

Harlepolis said:

REN W DS !
I saw her the first time in the Beaty & The Beast-series , including Linda Hamilton ( Terminator ) .
Had an instant crush on Woodzy azz izz .


DADDY RICH & THE P-SISTA'S !
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SoulAlive said:

Here below the following available copies .
Not shure which one has the skipped scenes



http://www.amazon.com/s/r...=7&Go.y=10

SoulAlive said:

"Hey man , let lend your ears"

SoulAlive said:

THE FLY ! ... SSS!

? ( 4got his name ) , Ray "Geronimo" Vitte , Antonio "Lindy" Fargas + Pepe "Chuco/ears" Serna

Ray Vitte also appeared as a bass-player in Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke ( 1978 )


Talking about deleted scenes ... there happen to excist skipped scenes with Danny Devito too .
And another lady with a Woods-backname was credited in the deleted scenes .

rest of cast listed alphabetically:

- Brooke Adams .... Terry (scenes deleted)
- Benny Baker .... Barney (scenes deleted)
- Danny DeVito .... Joe (scenes deleted)
- Lewis Lillian .... Bernie (scenes deleted)
- Danny Tucker .... Cop at Big Joe's (scenes deleted)
- Sunny Woods .... Kenny's Date (scenes deleted)

http://www.imdb.com/title...ullcredits
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on another site that I visit,someone explained why certain scenes are deleted.Some of this information suprised me,but I guess it makes sense...


The DVD version is the complete theatrical version that was shown in theatres in 1976/77.

The "extra scenes" with Danny Devito (playing "Joe") and Brooke Adams (playing his wife Terry) were never shown in the theatrical version.These are scenes that were added to the TV version.When the movie appeared on TV,they had to cut several scenes that featured bad words.To make up for this,and to make the film longer,they added several scenes that were previously left on the cutting room floor.Thus,those of us who saw it on TV back then were probably going "wtf?....we didn't see these scenes in the theatre!"

Not sure if this is entirely true,but it makes sense.To those of you "old schoolers" who saw it in theatres,were the Danny Devito scenes in the film that you saw? I honestly can't remember,as I was only 7 years old,lol.


A similiar situation occured when "Saturday Night Fever" was shown on network TV.They had to remove more than ten minutes of raunchy scenes,cussing,etc.They replaced these scenes with unseen footage that was left on the cutting room floor.


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