Mr. T sheds his gold chains, says he feels guilty about hurricane KatrinaPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Mr. T said he’s finished with the gold chains.
The former television action star shed the piles of gold chains that were his signature look after witnessing the destruction from hurricane Katrina.
“As a spiritual man, I felt it would be a sin against my God for me to wear all that gold again because I spent a lot of time with the less fortunate,” the actor said Thursday at the Television Critics Association’s summer meeting.
“I saw some, I call it ‘sorry celebrities.’ They’ll go down there and hook up with the people to take a photo-op.”
“I said: ‘How disgusting.’ If you’re not going to go down there with a cheque and a hammer and a nail to help the people, don’t go down there.”
Mr. T (real name Lawrence Tero) stars in I Pity the Fool debuting in October on TV Land. He dispenses advice to viewers who are struggling with life’s problems.
The former star of The A-Team said he’s about more than his image of beating people up.
“Yes, I am qualified to beat people up. But I am pretty intelligent,” he said.
“That’s what throws people off. If you’ve been through something, that gives you an authority that you can speak on certain things.”
“That’s why people relate to me. I pull no punches.”
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)
“Yes, I am qualified to beat people up..."
― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)
he can't afford gold chains anymore and is just using the Katrina-line to make himself sound good.
― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)
I'm looking forward to I Pity The Fool. Up yours, straight-talking Sir Alan Sugar!
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)
I think it was in this video:
http://www.videoflicks.com/images/1014/V1014343.jpg
Mr. T makes some statement that he wore all those chains as some commentary on slavery or something.
― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)
Now let's meet a man who's musclebound and a man who's bound not to eat mussels...Mr. T and Krusty the Clown!
― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)
A young, then unknown Ice T wrote the "Treat Your Mother Right" song on that video.
― JTS (JTS), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)
I wouldn't say unknown. Ice T's gangsta era was his 2nd wind of Hip-Hop fame...
― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)
two months pass...
ARGGH that article spends all this time ragging on the obvious auto-related puns of the episode and then ends with:
Mr. T might be able to sell autos, but he can't sell this star vehicle.
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)
four years pass...