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Welcome Back, Kotter: The Complete First Season
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Travel back to a time when sitcoms were recorded live on tape before a studio audience and dialogue was dominated by nonsensical catch phrases, like "Up your nose with a rubber hose!" and "Off my case, potato face!" The year was 1975. Saturday Night Fever had yet to make John Travolta a star, and stand-up comedian-turned-creator Gabe Kaplan had yet to become a late-night poker mainstay. Welcome to four years at Brooklyn's Buchanan High School. Along with What's Happening, Welcome Back, Kotter was what the cool kids were watching--just as their kids would turn to Freaks and Geeks in the years to come. Unlike the teens of Happy Days, Buchanan's remedial students aren't polite preppies, but slang-slinging hooligans. Gabe Kotter (Kaplan) serves as home-room teacher to a "pack of howling baboons" led by Vinnie Barbarino (Travolta), Arnold Horshack (Ron Palillo), Freddie "Boom-Boom" Washington (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs), and self-described Puerto Rican Jew Juan Epstein (Robert Hegyes) Their adversary: Vice Principal Woodman (John Sylvester White), who lives to put a kibosh on their high jinks--just as he did when Kotter was a Sweathog in the 1960s. Other regulars include Kotter's wife, Julie (Marcia Strassman, who hosts the featurette "Only a Few Degrees from a Sweathog"), and Rosalie "Hotzy" Totzy (Mary Hartman's Debra Lee Scott). At the time, Welcome Back, Kotter was more than just a show. It was a cultural phenomenon, spawning lunch boxes, schoolyard taunts, and the like. In retrospect, the jokes are cornier than ever, but the anything-goes spirit--crazy costumes and musical numbers--is hard to resist. At least that's true of the first three seasons. By the fourth, Travolta and Kaplan became scarce, and Kotter ran out of steam. Rest assured, though, that John Sebastian's clap-happy, chart-topping theme remains as catchy as ever. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Say "welcome back" to wisecracking teacher Gabe Kotter (Gabriel Kaplan), who returned to his old inner-city Brooklyn high school to take on the remedial academics class, better known as "the Sweathogs" and led by Vinnie Barbarino (John Travolta), Juan Epstein (Robert Hegyes), Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs), and Arnold Horshack (Ron Palillo). ABC's hit 1975-79 sitcom also starred Marcia Strassman as Kotter's wife, Julie, and John Sylvester White as Vice-Principal Woodman. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; screen tests; featurette. 22 episodes on 4 discs. 9 1/4 hrs.
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Rather Be Watch Welcome Back Kotter Metal license plate frame Tag Holder
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Give your vehicle a touch of style and individuality with this high quality premium license plate frame made of polished steel. This frame has a durable metal construction and a shiny chrome finish, which gives it a unique and expensive look. The eye-catching sturdy construction of this frame puts feeble plastic frames to shame. It weights about 1 pound and measures about 12.5 x 6.5 inches outside. The distance between two holes is about 7 inches. The frame fits all standard USA and Canada 12x6 license plates and can be used for the front or the back of a car. This frame is brand new and well packaged.The lettering and artwork are done with weather and car wash resistant vinyl that is waterproof and won't fade and will last for many years. This frame also makes a great gift. Sophisticated and trendy, your frame will be the perfect finishing touch on any vehicle.
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Welcome Back Kotter Die Cut Figure with Paper Clothes - Vintage 1976
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A very desirable and hard to find collectible from the hit TV show, Welcome Back Kotter. The paper doll is 14 inches tall and comes with clothes/accessories that can be used over and over. But, if you are lucky enough to find one of these still sealed in its original wrap, you may want to just leave it sealed, since collectible toys hold their value better and increase in value faster than toys that have been removed from the packaging and played with.
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TALES FROM THE SCRIPT: THE BEHIND-THE-CAMERA ADVENTURES OF A TV COMEDY WRITER
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Two questions that people ask television comedy writers repeatedly are: "How do you guys ever think them up?" and "Is writing for a television show anything like it was on the old Dick Van Dyke Show?" Tales from the Script invites you inside the writing rooms and into the writers meetings for such legendary television shows as The Carol Burnett Show, Laugh-In, Mama's Family, Welcome Back Kotter, Three's Company, the variety shows of Bill Cosby and Tim Conway. You'll also be part of the planning, preparation, and production of almost all of the Bob Hope Specials, including his Christmas shows entertaining America's troops around the world. As a reader, you'll step onto the stage with the writing teams to accept "your" Emmy for "Outstanding writing in a Comedy-Variety Series." You'll also know what it feels like to be nominated, but have to sit in the audience and try to look gracious while another team steps up to accept the award. After reading Tales from the Script, you'll be able to answer for yourself whether it was anything like the old Dick VanDyke Show or not. As to the second question - "How do you guys ever think them up?" - you'll discover...well...you'll probably discover, as most comedy writers already have, that nobody knows the answer to that question. Foreword by Jim Nabors!Philadelphia-born Gene Perret began his comedy writing career as a hobby, entertaining his colleagues at work. Since then he's built up an impressive list of credits (Seven Emmy nominations and three Statuettes) writing for TV variety shows, sit-coms, and specials. As Head-writer for Bob Hope, Perret often traveled with the comedian to entertain American troops serving in battle zones around the world. Nowadays, he writes books on various subjects, but always featuring a generous helping of humor.
Two questions that people ask television comedy writers repeatedly are: "How do you guys ever think them up?" and "Is writing for a television show anything like it was on the old Dick Van Dyke Show?" Tales from the Script invites you inside the writing rooms and into the writers meetings for such legendary television shows as The Carol Burnett Show, Laugh-In, Mama's Family, Welcome Back Kotter, Three's Company, the variety shows of Bill Cosby and Tim Conway. You'll also be part of the planning, preparation, and production of almost all of the Bob Hope Specials, including his Christmas shows entertaining America's troops around the world. As a reader, you'll step onto the stage with the writing teams to accept "your" Emmy for "Outstanding writing in a Comedy-Variety Series." You'll also know what it feels like to be nominated, but have to sit in the audience and try to look gracious while another team steps up to accept the award. After reading Tales from the Script, you'll be able to answer for yourself whether it was anything like the old Dick VanDyke Show or not. As to the second question - "How do you guys ever think them up?" - you'll discover...well...you'll probably discover, as most comedy writers already have, that nobody knows the answer to that question. Foreword by Jim Nabors!Philadelphia-born Gene Perret began his comedy writing career as a hobby, entertaining his colleagues at work. Since then he's built up an impressive list of credits (Seven Emmy nominations and three Statuettes) writing for TV variety shows, sit-coms, and specials. As Head-writer for Bob Hope, Perret often traveled with the comedian to entertain American troops serving in battle zones around the world. Nowadays, he writes books on various subjects, but always featuring a generous helping of humor.
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Kotter's Back: E-mails from a Faded Celebrity to a Bewildered World
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When fifty-eight-year-old Gabe Kaplan, perhaps best known for his performance in the title role of the popular seventies sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, got an e-mail asking him to participate in a show called Celebrity Boxing, he couldn't resist the urge to have a little fun with the request. After exchanging a series of ludicrous e-mails with the show's talent coordinator in a mock-serious attempt at negotiation, Gabe was inspired to start a prank e-mail campaign. The result is this hilarious collection of correspondence. See how people react to Gabe Kaplan's absurd claims that he: * has slept with more women than Wilt Chamberlain * is an expert at Cossack dancing * thinks he's smart enough to become a member of MENSA * wants his image on a U.S. postage stamp * would like NASA to send him into orbit with Jimmy Carter and Dr. J * and many more! Witty, irreverent, and ridiculously comical, Gabe's e-mails and the responses he receives are sure to entertain anyone with a taste for the surreal.
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Limited Collector's Edition # C-57 "Welcome Back, Kotter"
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Treasury Editions are a large oversize (13" x 10") comic format that Marvel (and DC and Archie) experimented with in the mid 1970's to early 1980's. For most part, DC and Marvel used the format to reprint older classics, though they both produced original stories that appeared in this format only. The print quality is uniformly better than any of the more well heeled reprint formats being produced today (e.g. Archives and Masterworks).
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Leadership Vs Management
Leadership v Management
Leadership and management are distinct concepts but the words are often used as though they have the same meaning. This confusion may arise from the fact that sometimes the same person is employed to do the job of leader and manager.
A leader’s job is to decide where the team they are leading is heading. A leader will set the ultimate aim, objective and goals for the team. They will then inspire and motivate the team to achieve the objectives set. This will involve reviewing progress and ensure that the team is on course to achieve the objectives set.
A manager’s job is to set how the team will achieve the objectives set by the leader. They will overcome any problems the team encounter and decide how to deal with complexity.
A simple way of illustrating the difference between leader and manager is to use the example of a team who are set the goal of building a path from point A to point B.
The leader’s job will be to
- Set the goal of building a path.
- Decide that the path will go from A to B.
- Inspire and motivate the team so that they want to build a path for their leader.
- Review progress as the path is built and ensure that the team are building the path from A to B.
The manager’s job will be to
- Plan the project and decide things such as budgets, pay and materials used.
- Implement plans and control building of the path.
- Organise the team and delegate tasks to them.
- Overcome any problems eg trees blocking the route where the path is to be built.
Another way of differentiating a leader from a manager is to think of someone known as a world leader for example Martin Luther King and think about what they did. You will discover that each of these leaders are great visionaries, and are able to inspire and motivate their audience. They will present their ideas and dreams to the world in a way that they feel appeals to the audience. They will give them an overview of the vision and will not set the small details of how their vision will be achieved. Instead the small details will be decided by other people. Other people will plan and manage the work needed to achieve the leader’s vision. The leader’s job is to continue motivating and ensuring that project is on course to achieve it’s objectives
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP BY TOP MANAGEMENT WRITERS
Kotter (2001) argues that leadership and management involve two distinct sets of action. Management is about coping with complexity: its functions are to do with logical structure, analysis and control, and are aimed at producing order, consistency and predictability. Leadership, by contrast, is about coping with change: its activities include creating a sense of direction, communicating strategy, and energising, inspiring and motivating others to translate the vision into action.
Yukl (1998) suggests that while management is defined by a prescribed role and position in the structure of the organisation, leaders are given their roles by the perception of others, through election, choice or influence. Leadership is an interpersonal process. Managers have subordinates; leaders have followers.
Zaleznik (1992) suggests that managers are mainly concerned with order and maintaining the status quo, exercising their skills in diplomacy and focusing on decision-making processes within the organisation. Leaders, in contrast, direct their energies towards introducing new approaches and ideas. They create excitement and vision in order to arouse motivation and focus with empathy on the meanings of events and actions for people. Leaders search out opportunities for change.
Katz and Kahn (1974) point out that while management aims to secure compliance with stated organisational objectives, leadership aims to secure willingness, enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership is the influential increment over and above mechanical compliance with the routine directives of the organisation.
About the Author
Prepared by: Mohammad Faizan Farooq Qadri Attari
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Poll: Welcome Back Kotter, Good Times, All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Maude?
What's Happening? Sanford & Son?Barney Miller? What is your favorite sitcom?
JJ "Dynomite!!!" Walker was cool, but the best was "All in the Family". Archie Bunker's methods of saying it as it was when political correctness was on the horizons, then learning differently, was a study in social advancement. Not sure it was meant to be that way originally, but that is how I see it now.
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