DesireeNevermind said:

He might've wore some jockeys. Who knows, because I know underwear can be colored to look as if someone was commando.

Yeah I think the joke was about someone asking a king if he could fuck his two daughters.

I didn't like that girl that came back after Duck got famous. When he was poor she didn't have the time of day and then he and JT got famous and she ends up banging both of them. The only true gentleman/family man was Dresser. I think even Choirboy was a bit of a Ho.

missfee said:

He surely did.

My favorite part in that movie was when he told Otis, "ain't nobody coming to see you, Otis! You WISH you can do it like me but you can't because there's only ONE David Ruffin and without him, the Temptations are just a group IN SEARCH of a David Ruffin."

I forgot how this movie went I haven't seen it in so long.

DesireeNevermind said:

"You can call me rock"

Timmy84 said:

Hell yeah!!! And the scene when he said YOU UNGRATEFUL SON'S OF BITCHES!!!!"

DesireeNevermind said:

Yeah Dresser was definitely the gentleman. I think he was successfully married before the others got married. And that slut, yeah, she turned him down when he was trying to wax poetic to her, then he got famous and she came back like "oh hi you remember me? " And yeah Choirboy was a ho. You saw his attempt to mack at someone?

"Anthony Stone, you can call me Rock." while smacking that gum.
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missfee said:

ahahahaha

missfee said:

Love that scene too. And him ripping the termination contract in front of them. I wonder if the Temptations really let David go like that lol if not still a great acting bit.

Why does the guy who played Eddie (Michael Wright) always play a crackhead or a drug dealer???

He did so in the following movies/TV shows:

The Principal
The Five Heartbeats
Sugar Hill
Money Talks
OZ
Bone & Blood

missfee said:

I don't get it either. It's like he always plays the bad guy. Leon was typecast too after "Heartbeats" of course. Hopefully when Cameron Crowe's biography of Marvin is made, he don't pick him.
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Timmy84 said:

Had me rolling and at his character.


Man I love that performance of "Back In The Middle" I think it was called. About the time when they were getting into a disco type feel. Duck,er uh Robert, looked fake as hell with that keyboard.

Timmy84 said:

And don't forget the scene when he was in his Rolls Royce with his "valet" drug dealer and he said "David Ruffin and the (snaps his fingers) what's their names????" Seems like something the real David Ruffin what have done or probably did do.

DesireeNevermind said:

Hell yeah with those thick fake sideburns!!!!!
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missfee said:

That's a good fuckin' question. He's either a crack head or a gang member. Maybe I've seen him play a cop like once.

DesireeNevermind said:

You know there IS something comical about that scene when they were singing the song.

The timeline had it in 1972...everyone in Afros and shit.

YET...the music sounds 1982-ish! WTF?! I just love how JT came strutting in like "this some bullshit".

missfee said:

Yeah David probably did. The Tempts DID had to stop David from "bumrushing" their early shows with Dennis. They did this right before releasing "Cloud Nine".

Well since we're adding the Temptations movie in here....this was so sad




Dude was too fucked up to know that he was fucked up.

DesireeNevermind said:

You should've seen when he did "Psychedelic Shack". They said Richard Street had a hard time singing parts for him. They had to turn the light off on Paul so people wouldn't notice how fucked up he was. While some parts of The Temptations' film was fictionalized, that really took place.
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Timmy84 said:

Hell yeah!!!!! They sold out when they hired Flash to sing lead...then acted all surprised when he announced he was going solo at that awards ceremony!!! But when Duck cursed out JT and his fiancee in the middle of the whole crowd at the ceremony that mess was priceless!!!!

"There's two people I'd like to thank, my fiancee and my brother (JT is so damn clueless that he's actually smiling but the fiancee knew what Duck was talking about)...My brother, he's still the same selfish MUTHAFUCKA SINCE WE WERE KIDS!!!"
JT: "Don't do this here, what are you talking about?"
Duck: "I hope I can get a deal like Flash because today's my last day as a Heartbeat too."
JT: "Duck don't do this!!!" (All you can hear are Duck's loud ass platform shoes walking off the stage)
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Timmy84 said:

But I bet those shows that David bumrushed were exciting as hell!!!! I would have paid for a top dollar ticket to see that!!! Hell yes!!!

missfee said:

Duck was actually snooping on the girl and saw her with JT, then he and Choirboy talked about it. His fiancee knew that Duck knew but JT was trying to keep it from him, oddly enough. He stopped talking to JT for years until Eddie told him to come see him. Ironically enough when JT and Duck reconciled, JT had married and one of his children was named after Duck.

I cried a bit when JT's daughter yelled at young Duck, "Duck you heard what Daddy said! Won't you get over here, Duck?"

missfee said:

According to fans who were there to see them, they were. There's actually a photo of Dennis and David singing along. This was when it was "allowed" so to speak.

Timmy84 said:

Eddie: "I heard what went down between you and JT."
Duck: "Naw I ain't got nothing to say to JT"
Eddie: Just listen man, everybody makes mistakes. I should know. Give him a call"

That scene alone is what made me fall in love with Eddie and the movie itself. Though Eddie had issues with insecurity (feeling like his father never really accepted him) and just flat out made bad decisions (that whole shit with Big Red was awful) he never acted like he was stuck up or was above the group (like Flash did). And remember when Dresser got his girlfriend (who later became his wife) pregnant and Big Red gave him the number to an abortion doctor..it was EDDIE who told him "didn't you just get finished saying how you loved her more than anything in the world?"...then Dresser looks pitiful and confused, Eddie then balls up that napkin with the number on it and he and Duck give him some money (probably the last dollars they had on them at the time). Now that was some real friendship there. Deep down, Eddie was really a great person who had horrible demons to conquer within himself.
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Timmy84 said:

x 1,000

Timmy84 said:

Robert can sing. He sung with Howard Hewitt on Partners in Crime.

missfee said:

Yeah Eddie was troubled. I still cry when Eddie and his father have that argument. That scene oddly enough reminds me of Marvin and his father. I can just imagine Marvin Sr. telling Marvin Jr.:

"You ain't gonna be shit 'cause I ain't shit, hmm?" And then Eddie's mother scolding his father, "why you have to say all that?! Act like you ain't ever cared for the boy!" then his dad said "I do care about that boy, I just want him to be a better man than me."

LittleBLUECorvette said:

So that was Robert singing in "Heartbeats" then. I wanted to make sure because it did sound like Robert's singing voice.

Timmy84 said:

Dang which parts can you actually hear his voice besides the scene where he sings with his sister??

missfee said:

Hilarious!!! Flash was slick with his exit though. He's just like 'I'm Out!'. Didn't Choirboy leave too? That group just fell apart. Does anybody know of a deleted scene in which girlfriend was pregnant but didn't know if either JT or Duck was the daddy?