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'Cooter' Urges Fans to Skip 'Dukes' Movie

By DOUG GROSS, Associated Press Writer Wed Jul 13, 7:55 PM ET

ATLANTA - If television's "Crazy Cooter" has his way, fans of the "Dukes of Hazzard" may be speeding away from a new movie version of the cornpone classic faster than the Duke boys running from Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane.

Ben Jones, a former Georgia congressman who played the wisecracking mechanic on the popular series from 1979-85, said profanity and sexual content in the film make a mockery of the family friendly show.

"Basically, they trashed our show," said Jones, who now lives in the mountains of Washington, Va. "It's one thing to do whatever movie they want to do, but to take a classic family show and do that is like taking "I Love Lucy" and making her a crackhead or something."

Jones said he read a script of the movie, which is scheduled to be released next month, and that it contained profanity, "constant sexual innuendo and some very clear sexual situations."

On Wednesday, Jones wrote an open letter to fans on his web site, cootersplace.com, urging them to stay away.

"From all I have seen and heard, the "Dukes" movie is a sleazy insult to all of us who have cared about the "Dukes of Hazzard" for so long ... ," Jones wrote. "Unless they clean it up before the August 5th release date I would strongly recommend that true blue Dukes fans hold their noses and pass this one up."

A spokeswoman at Warner Brothers pictures, which is releasing the movie, did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment on Wednesday.

"The Dukes of Hazzard" was a surprise hit for CBS, combining with "Dallas" to earn some of the highest Friday-night ratings in television history.

The show pitted "good-ol' boys" Bo and Luke Duke and their moonshine-running Uncle Jesse against the crooked politician Boss Hogg and his bumbling henchman, Sheriff Coltrane, in fictional Hazzard County.

Reruns of the show began airing on the CMT network this year, earning some of the best ratings ever on the country music cable channel.

In the movie, Johnny Knoxville, who made his name on MTV's controversial stuntfest "Jackass," and
Seann William Scott, who starred in the raunchy "American Pie" movies, play the main characters.

Pop star turned reality TV icon Jessica Simpson plays Daisy Duke.

Jones was elected to Congress in 1988 as a Democrat. He lost his bid for a third term in 1992 after his district was redrawn, then lost two other bids for House seats, one in Georgia and another in Virginia.

He owns Cooter's Place, a "Dukes" memorabilia shop in Gatlinburg, Tenn. and plans to open another in Nashville. He also is an organizer of "Dukesfest," an annual outdoor concert and convention celebrating the show in Bristol, Tenn.

The man nicknamed after a woman's sexual organ is telling me the Dukes movie is too racy.

Gotcha.

That's Congressman Cooter to you, boy.

He was actually really cool.

I was a page in the House of Reps when he was in his last term. Gopher from Love Boat was also in the House at the time. Gopher did NOT like you bringing up the fact that he had been Gopher. Cooter loved it.

Therefore, he was the cooler of the two.

Other notable names from when I was a page:

Some dude named J.J. Pickle, and a Member of Congress who (no lie, it was on the door to his offices) was named Dick Swett.

Parents can be so cruel... I've heard of a Dick Hurtz and then there's Dick Trickle the Nascar driver. I used to work for a guy named Richard Hunter. He insisted you call him Dick.

Ahh..names that should be retired, part XXVII

Anywho, the Dukes movie looks like crap. Not that the show wasn't, (I just caught a rerun last weekend. Ow.) but the movie looks like a new level of crap. Congressman Cooter doesn't have to worry about my dollars supporting it.

I just have to wonder if his parents named him Richard and he felt that Dick was a cooler name to go by. I never had the nerve to ask him, seeing as how pissing him off would have had me fired and expelled from the Page School.

I'm getting old I guess, but the video for Simpson's (pretty bad) remake of These Boots Are Made For Walking that goes along with the movie seems a bit, err, over the top.

Quote from: El Gallo on July 15, 2005, 07:22:46 AM

I'm getting old I guess, but the video for Simpson's (pretty bad) remake of These Boots Are Made For Walking that goes along with the movie seems a bit, err, over the top.

I just figure it's part of the "blue balls" style of female singers, where they say they're all sexually virtuous, then act like complete skanks in their videos.

I liked Super Troopers and I liked Club Dread, so I figure I'll like this. Even if Simpson is in it.

Quote from: Merusk on July 14, 2005, 04:36:25 PM

Anywho, the Dukes movie looks like crap.

How can that be, it has renowned actress Jessica Simpson and method actor Johnny Knoxville in it?

Quote from: El Gallo on July 15, 2005, 07:22:46 AM

I'm getting old I guess, but the video for Simpson's (pretty bad) remake of These Boots Are Made For Walking that goes along with the movie seems a bit, err, over the top.

I'll see the movie because I dig the Broken Lizard guys. But goddamn, that video... how can you truly fuck up a campy, shitty song that badly? And for fuck's sake, how can you possibly outwhore Christina Aguilera? This video answers both those questions. It's definitely the kind of video you watch with the sound turned off.

And your pants around your ankles.