Cosby brings positive portrayals to TV drama

Indianapolis Recorder | December 3, 1994| | Copyright

Connie Gaines Hayes
Indianapolis Recorder
12-03-1994
Cosby brings positive portrayals to TV drama.

In 1984, Bill Cosby revealed to a national magazine that he had been offered starring roles in various television detective series and he had refused them.

"You're told that within 15 minutes you've got to have a car crash through a window in slow motion," Cosby says, "and let's get a great-looking woman to put her skirt up over her waistline, and let's show seminude shots in bed...and when the story is over, nothing is ever resolved. I turned those things down. I wanted to do a detective show in ...

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