{"id":43204,"date":"2026-11-04T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43204"},"modified":"2026-11-01T14:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T19:55:54","slug":"mr-t-i-pity-the-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43204","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mr. T: I Pity the Fool&#8221; (2026) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z110426zview_mrt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Mr. T: I Pity the Fool <\/i>(2026)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Scott Weintrob<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Mr. T, Terry Crews, Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz, George Peppard, Cheri Oteri, Eddie Murphy <\/strong>and<strong> Hulk Hogan<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. T burst on the scene as Clubber Lang in <em>Rocky III<\/em>.\u00a0 He became world famous. A television show (<em>The A-Team<\/em>) was built around him. So was a cartoon. Feature films followed.\u00a0 Mr. T became a cultural icon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The world knows Mr. T, but how many know Laurence Tureaud, the man who became Mr. T?\u00a0 This is his story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From humble beginings, to a career as a bodyguard to the famous, Mr. T was a self-made man.\u00a0 When Sylvester Stallone gave Mr. T the opportunity, it was T&#8217;s preparation that made him a star.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Mr. T: I Pity the Fool<\/em> is a nice overview.\u00a0 I wish it was longer and went more in depth.\u00a0 Still it does a good job through interviews with Mr. T, celebrities who worked with him as well as friends and family of hitting the high (and low) points of Mr. T&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Mr. T: I Pity the Fool <\/i>(2026)<\/strong> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z110426zview_mrt2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. T: I Pity the Fool (2026) Director:\u00a0 Scott Weintrob Stars: Mr. T, Terry Crews, Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz, George<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43284,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43204\/revisions\/43284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}