Not content with merely playing a major television pop culture icon in “The A-Team’s” B.A. Baracus, rapper / thespian Ice Cube has his eyes on a feature-length remake of “Welcome Back Kotter.” Despite the fact that the original teacher Mr. Kotter was played by a very jew-frow-ed, Gabe Kaplan, Cube will take the role of the teach in a move he calls “totally re-vamped to suit the times. It’s like, flipped.”
The film will apparently do away with do away with the show’s many classic tropes including the Barbarino dance, as well as Epstein’s running gag of bringing in phony letters from his mother. “To me, it’s still a comedy, but it’s real,” Cube said. “It’s more of a ‘Fast Times At Ridgemont High,’ not so much ‘Up your nose with a rubber hose’.”[MTV]
