![]() They use what's left of the lodge's budget to place their bets with local bookmakers, Kansas City Mack and Biggie Smalls. Before the match, they sneak into Bootney's hotel room and hypnotize him, before they hilariously escape. His difficulty to impress anyone, even his coach, makes the odds of him winning lower by the day.Īfter watching Bootney struggle, Billy and Clyde are encouraged to go through with their plan. Bootney is lanky boxer that is overwhelmed in the initial sparring matches. This is where Jimmie Walker's character, Bootney Farnsworth, comes into the fold. Billy and Clyde take their talents to New Orleans along with their wives, Beth and Dee Dee to rig a boxing match. ![]() ![]() Clyde's special ability of hypnosis allows the two to set up boxing matches and then maximize profits by going all in on the underdog. ![]() After Billy convinces Clyde that it is their best and quickest option, they decide to bring back a successful money-making scheme, hence the title. It is incumbent on Billy to find the money because he is the treasurer of the struggling lodge. Two friends, Billy Foster and Clyde Williams, need to quickly find a way to raise funds for their fraternal lodge, the Sons and Daughters of Shaka. According to the American Film Institute, Let's Do It Again is not a sequel to Uptown Saturday Night. Calvin Lockhart and Lee Chamberlin also appeared in Uptown Saturday Night. Of the three, Let's Do It Again has been the most successful both critically and commercially. This was the second film pairing of Poitier and Cosby following Uptown Saturday Night, and followed by A Piece of the Action (1977). The movie was filmed in two cities, Atlanta, Georgia and New Orleans, Louisiana, where most of the plot takes place. The production companies include Verdon Productions and The First Artists Production Company, Ltd., and distributed by Warner Bros. The song of the same name by The Staple Singers was featured as the opening and ending theme of the film, and as a result, the two have become commonly associated with each other. ![]() The film, directed by Poitier, is about blue-collar workers who decide to rig a boxing match to raise money for their fraternal lodge. You can listen to "Ramblize" here and check out both Biggie's mid-90's UK TV spot and Bun B's Juan Epstein interview below.Let's Do It Again is a 1975 American action crime comedy film starring Sidney Poitier and co-starring Bill Cosby and Jimmie Walker among an all-star black cast. It features excerpts from talks with Lil Kim, Faith Evans, Junior M.A.F.I.A. and even features a cameo from a young Diddy. Then to round out our Biggie hat-trick for the night, Bun B delivered an interview with Juan Epstein in which he talks about meeting a 20-year-old Big and how he struggled to shake some of the old habits of street-life (like say, only sitting in the back of the car and making sure the door was open in case someone tried to snatch him) even in what was supposed to be a casual smoke session. In other Biggie news, an exclusive interview with the BK emcee conducted by the UK program Passengers. The interview (which is filmed entirely in BK) features Big reminiscing over his old Brooklyn block and explaining the struggles of his adolescent self, the turmoil of growing up pushing in Bed-Stuy, the transition from a hustler's life to that of a major recording artist and even how he first came to love the herbal. Biggie- Blue Eyes Meets Bed-Stuy or even the playful Miley Cyrus v. It's a novel and nobel effort from the British guitar hero, but ultimately falls short of other mash-up treatments he's received in the past (i.e Sinatra v. has gotten the Led Zeppelin treatment with Jimmy Page's remix of Biggie's smash "Hypnotize." The aptly named "Ramblize" features a mash-up of Big's verses from the track over some chops of Led Zeppelin's "Ramble On," putting the brooding BK rapper over LZ's acoustic rock riffs, with some boom-bap embellishment in the clap-happy drum track. ![]()
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