{"id":2811,"date":"2025-05-17T21:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T04:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2025-05-17T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T04:19:08","slug":"retro-movie-adventures-cooley-high-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/17\/retro-movie-adventures-cooley-high-1975\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Movie Adventures: Cooley High (1975)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cooley-high.jpg\" alt=\"Sherman Smith, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, and Glynn Turman freaking out while riding in a car in Cooley High.\" class=\"wp-image-2812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cooley-high.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cooley-high-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cooley-high-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cooley-high-1.jpg\" alt=\"Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Glynn Turman as Cochise and Preach in Cooley High.\" class=\"wp-image-2813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cooley-high-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cooley-high-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cooley-high-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Why wasn&#8217;t Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs ten times as active as an actor? I wouldn&#8217;t have minded if we got less Boom Boom Washington if it meant more big movie roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was good to see a pre-SNL Garrett Morris in a more serious role. Another guy who should have had a much larger career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and Robert Townsend is in this (uncredited) for about ten seconds!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first thought for today&#8217;s fake poster was a riff on Vanilla Ice&#8217;s &#8220;Cool As Ice,&#8221; but copying the title design would have meant writing it like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">COOL<br>EY<br>HIGH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and that looked dumb. Then I thought about using a different high school movie like Fast Times at Ridgemont High, but that seemed too similar. So I went with a movie that takes place in the same city, but in a different decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cooley-high-2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for Cooley High mimicking the poster for Chicago.\" class=\"wp-image-2814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cooley-high-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cooley-high-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cooley-high-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cooley-high-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Posters that use the &#8220;the name on the left is lower than the name on the right so everybody can claim they got top billing&#8221; thing crack me up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why wasn&#8217;t Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs ten times as active as an actor? 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