OK, so we're thinking about what actors we might ask to help us with a DonorsChoose training and promotion video. I think it would make sense to ask actors who have played teachers. A few come to mind:
Edward James Olmos, Stand and Deliver
Lily Tomlin, The Magic School Bus
Michelle Pfeiffer, Dangerous Minds
Who else? I need your pop-culture minds on this one.
I never watched "Boston Public" -- is it still on? -- and so have no idea who was/is on it. And it looks like Gabe Kaplan is still a working actor.... Oooh! oooh! Mr. Kotter! oooh!
Update: A quick Google search turns up the "NEA's Oscars".
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I watched Boston Public for a season or two, and know that Jeri Ryan, Michael Rapaport, and Chi McBride were on there and would probably all be pretty good choices for a promo.
Jeff Daniels was in that great HBO movie Cheaters where he played a teacher at a high-poverty school in Chicago.
Maybe the Southpark guys would let Mr. Garrison do a spot?
Comment #1 :: link :: June 28, 2007 10:47 AMHow 'bout the Hogwarts staff?
Or Bill Cosby, Jim Belushi, or what's his name from Pay it Forward.
