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Mr. T aspires to be Dr. Phil -- without the tears
Rob McKenzie
National Post
Saturday, July 15, 2006
PASADENA, Cal. - "Father, bless this food I'm about to eat and give me strength to grow stronger in love. Father, bless the people who don't have food on their table and bless the people who are less fortunate than myself."
That is what Mr. T says when he prays. He has other prayers for other occasions, but that's the one for mealtime.
Two decades ago, Mr. T fulminated his way to fame as Clubber Lang in Rocky III and subsequently as mohawked mercenary B.A. Baracus on The A-Team. Now 54 years old, he is returning to the airwaves as a self-help guru in I Pity the Fool, that being his catchphrase as Baracus.
He aspires to give Dr. Phil a run for his money, and on that subject observed: "My show ain't no Dr. Phil where people sit around crying [at this point, Mr. T affected a whiny voice], 'What's wrong with me, Dr. Phil? What's wrong with me, Dr. Phil?' You are a fool. That's what's wrong with you."
Similarly, when asked how he would counsel Tony Kornheiser, the Washington Post sportswriter who is afraid of flying but has taken a travel-intensive job in the Monday Night Football broadcast booth, Mr. T said: "Straighten up and stop being a coward. Don't be no fool. Get on that plane and fly, fool, fly."
Perhaps the best question of Mr. T's appearance this week before the Television Critics Association, a question admirable both for its cheek and succinctness, was: "Mr. T, why do you pity the fool?"
"That is a good question. That is a good question and a legitimate question," Mr. T replied. "And I'm the man to answer it. You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool. You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better."
Mr. T blusters and improvises -- at various points during Thursday's session, he said the T in his name stands for Tender, Tough, On Time, and Temperature (because he brings the heat); he also opined that "Every superhero is supposed to have a fear. Superman feared kryptonite. Batman feared [pause] Batwoman" - but he also hews to an unreconstructed morality. He worships his mother, and time and again cited her teachings to him. He is grateful to God. He wants people to, in brief, "Do good. Be nice."
After Hurricane Katrina he rid himself of his gold chains because they felt like a sin. Anyway, he said, "The gold is in my heart."
In the snippets of I Pity the Fool shown to critics, Mr. T visits a car dealership in New York where the work atmosphere is poisoned. There is tension between the gruff and ungiving man who runs the place and the son desperate to please him. Mr. T exhorts them to listen to one another, and in the end the son cries as the father says how highly he thinks of him.
And so here is another of Mr. T's favourite prayers: "Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you."
- I Pity the Fool premieres on TV Land in the United States on Oct. 11. A TV Land official said the show will run in Canada but details are still being worked out.
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E-Rizzle will be taking over the So You Think You Can Dance Duties for tonight. Make her feel at home, y'all!
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