N'Digo "Eye On Chi" Corin "Pooter" Rogers of Cooley High

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  • Опубліковано 26 лис 2024
  • N’Digo Eye On Chi had the pleasure of chatting with Corin Rogers who played “Pooter “ in the movie Cooley High. We ended up talking for an hours, sharing his role in the iconic movie. So please press play, like and share.
    #cooleyhigh #saturdaynightlive #love #Chicago #repost #art
    Video and interview by Torrance Smith of Birds Eye View Productions
    For more info email me at ndigoeyeonchi@yahoo.com

КОМЕНТАРІ • 129

  • @MAGAISKLAN
    @MAGAISKLAN 8 місяців тому +7

    This is still, to this day, one of my favorites!

  • @SidJustice1
    @SidJustice1 11 місяців тому +7

    The original “Dwayne” from What’s Happening.

  • @deewood5329
    @deewood5329 2 роки тому +13

    " your under arrest for being ugly " 🤣🤣🤣

  • @ironmike-putsallkindavideo7840
    @ironmike-putsallkindavideo7840 5 років тому +62

    before MENACE TO SOCIETY ….. before BOYZ N THE HOOD, before JUICE …….. there was a movie called - COOLEY HIGH …...

    • @wittysmitty100s
      @wittysmitty100s  5 років тому +6

      Yes that’s the truth

    • @djbhe
      @djbhe 3 роки тому +1

      before Friday

    • @brunolader8586
      @brunolader8586 3 роки тому +2

      exactly. I always said cooley high was the prototype for all these movies.Even House Party.With tweaking here and there.And you are right put Friday in there too

    • @saiyamanGXT
      @saiyamanGXT 10 місяців тому +1

      This was the black version of American Graffiti.

    • @andrewilliams4180
      @andrewilliams4180 9 місяців тому

      💯

  • @tyvillianheartthrob1856
    @tyvillianheartthrob1856 3 роки тому +30

    Pooter was such an unsung, relatable and iconic character

  • @Mcwriter1-kj1so
    @Mcwriter1-kj1so 9 місяців тому +3

    Cooley High will always be my favorite movie. I’ve watched over n over, never gets old, I really enjoy watching it. A Great Movie! ❤love all the actors 🙏🏽 God bless all the actors n all who made the movie.🏀🎬🎼📽️🦍🍿🪦

  • @ccth22
    @ccth22 4 роки тому +33

    When he starts eating that girl’s potato chips is hilarious😄

  • @Annie-zd6rn
    @Annie-zd6rn 5 років тому +54

    Hey, glad to see "Pooter" is still alive and well. Cooley High will play on forever! My favorite movie by far. Those house parties during the 60's and 70's were the best. You can't enjoy times like that now without guns blasting if you step on someone's foot.

    • @ironmike-putsallkindavideo7840
      @ironmike-putsallkindavideo7840 5 років тому +4

      WELL, it was still fighting and black on black crime in those days regardless

    • @MD-DLive
      @MD-DLive 4 роки тому +9

      Agreed! For the most part, you were able to talk about it the next day! Also, you and the person you fought were friends again by the next day if not by the end of the week. Grow up, then laugh about it as adults! Unfortunately, most of today's generation have and will not have a clue about this innocence

    • @djbhe
      @djbhe 3 роки тому +2

      @@ironmike-putsallkindavideo7840
      Nowhere close to today especially in Chicago.

    • @mickey1271
      @mickey1271 3 роки тому +2

      Pay parties!

    • @williamdrayton7352
      @williamdrayton7352 2 роки тому +1

      @@ironmike-putsallkindavideo7840 what do Black On Black crime have to do with the brother speaking on fighting back then and shooting now. . Do you mention Asian on Asian or Caucasian on Caucasian crime

  • @NomyJackson
    @NomyJackson 3 роки тому +17

    He seems really nice and down to earth!

  • @sharonjackson268
    @sharonjackson268 3 роки тому +14

    Yes, in 2021, it's still a tear jerker.

  • @BMorgan13
    @BMorgan13 4 роки тому +20

    I was born in 92, but I was put onto this movie @ an early age. This is 1 of my favorite movies till this day, & I have a DVD of it. I've always wondered what all of the actors were up to nowadays. This movie will forever be a classic in my eyes!

  • @1986SSMONTECARLO
    @1986SSMONTECARLO 7 місяців тому +3

    Rogers was GREAT as Pooter

  • @Prancer-jr6qr
    @Prancer-jr6qr 3 роки тому +17

    It’s amazing how they all aged so well.

  • @safiyaking8452
    @safiyaking8452 4 роки тому +17

    Looovvveee Cooley high. Every urban neighborhood in any city could identify. We were living or, have lived cooley high experiences...

    • @wittysmitty100s
      @wittysmitty100s  4 роки тому +2

      Cheryl King that’s true. Some movies made over the years has followed the Cooley high story line.

  • @djbhe
    @djbhe 3 роки тому +7

    Cooley High is Chicago. That's exactly how it was in Chicago back in the day. People from Chicago who grew up there in the 60's & 70's can really relate to this movie.

  • @sophiadavenport3959
    @sophiadavenport3959 5 років тому +21

    Pooter is my favorite character in this film he was so goofy/nerdy. This film is an accurate representation of teen-agers in black culture. 💕

    • @sassyd8738
      @sassyd8738 3 роки тому

      pooter was the one that out of them all I'd picked cochise was too big headed for me lol a player id stayed away from him preach maybe but he was to into the streets didnt like that but glad he made a way after all that Tyrone nope was one of the characters who id loved a backstory on as well as the bad boys in the movie till this day my mom thinks the movie was about a dusable high school basket ball player forgot his name but he was like cochise

    • @johnlewis399
      @johnlewis399 3 роки тому +3

      Are you or have you ever been a black teenager?

    • @spacekadetentertainment
      @spacekadetentertainment 3 роки тому +6

      Every group of friends had a "Pooter" lol

  • @amram1305
    @amram1305 Рік тому +2

    This is definitely a universal classic...

  • @katherinedorsey3426
    @katherinedorsey3426 5 років тому +15

    One of my very very favorite movies ever ! ❤️

  • @Annie-zd6rn
    @Annie-zd6rn 5 років тому +24

    Man do I remember those days when the Deciples and Vice Lords would break out fighting in the theaters which we called the "show" back then in Chicago. I'm South side raised in the 60's. But the 70's were the best times of my life😉

    • @wittysmitty100s
      @wittysmitty100s  5 років тому +1

      Annie I’m glad you like the video

    • @jayman3915
      @jayman3915 4 роки тому +2

      Ha. We still call it the “show” in 2020. That’s how you know someone is from the Midwest.

    • @sassyd8738
      @sassyd8738 3 роки тому +1

      shoo you I remember when the parties were a dollar to get in and they would get into fights by the time i turned 17 I was done with all that lol nice to look back on just realize cooley high came out the year I was born geez lol

    • @amram1305
      @amram1305 Рік тому

      @@sassyd8738 fights and not many shootings...

  • @leniebabe44
    @leniebabe44 9 місяців тому +3

    Pooter was my favorite character in the film..because he was like me..awkward.. Bit of a square... I.would have danced with Poorer..❤😊😊❤❤

    • @wittysmitty100s
      @wittysmitty100s  9 місяців тому

      Thanks for checking

    • @MrBronx61
      @MrBronx61 9 місяців тому +1

      I was Pooter too back in grammar/high school.

  • @derrickgreen7484
    @derrickgreen7484 Рік тому +4

    One thing I found so endearing was that the older cats let Pooter hang with them. He was part of the crew, their little brother. That's how it is with a lot of cats. This young cat wants to be down and you let him, but sometimes you have to tell him he's to young to go with you this time.

  • @melvinpruitt3907
    @melvinpruitt3907 4 роки тому +13

    Good to know that this brother is well.Cooley High 4ever.I actually lived this film in very similar fashion

    • @sassyd8738
      @sassyd8738 3 роки тому +1

      mhm the fights the men cheating on women deaths of people so real is why the movie is loved

  • @So_Cato
    @So_Cato 4 роки тому +15

    He was a cute kid

  • @kathygaither5746
    @kathygaither5746 2 роки тому +5

    He's still cute. Coolie High is a classic❣️

  • @kameshiam1674
    @kameshiam1674 7 місяців тому +2

    I just wanted to hug Pooter when he was crying in the car.🥺

  • @angelabell2650
    @angelabell2650 Рік тому +2

    💋 Cooley High was🔥🔥🔥 and still is everything to me still to this day. The whole cast was awesome. Thank you 👏🏾I am a 60's baby 🥰

  • @snazarix1055
    @snazarix1055 4 роки тому +9

    I could tell he was the youngest but at first I was like why they keep leaving him out of certain stuff lol. But great movie

  • @basilicalewiselfernandez2278
    @basilicalewiselfernandez2278 3 роки тому +2

    I am so honored to have viewed this great movie and to Finally Know How "Pooter" is and he is doing great. God bless.

  • @SpookOneMusic
    @SpookOneMusic 5 років тому +7

    This is right on! Glad to be updated on him

  • @voncilehughes1545
    @voncilehughes1545 2 роки тому +2

    One of my favorite movies I'm from the Chi south side everything in this movie is the way life was. Will never get tired of seeing Cooley High. Looking Good Pooter

  • @bornkinguniversal
    @bornkinguniversal 3 роки тому +3

    Definitely in my top 5 movie favorites! The soundtrack played a major role in the greatness of the film 💯

  • @summerlyric506
    @summerlyric506 4 роки тому +8

    This is such a great find! Love catching up with the cast especially those we don't see often. I felt so bad for Pooter. Lol

    • @tyvillianheartthrob1856
      @tyvillianheartthrob1856 3 роки тому +1

      So did I. He was always getting bullied for no reason.

    • @MisterB2eternity
      @MisterB2eternity 3 роки тому +1

      @@tyvillianheartthrob1856 He wasn't bullied he was just a target of ridicule. Also, the ladies wasn't feeling him

  • @aarmstrong110
    @aarmstrong110 8 місяців тому +1

    I still have the "Cooley High" movie on DVD!!! 😁👍🏾

  • @morganlucas9062
    @morganlucas9062 3 роки тому +6

    We are related....my mom's sister...my Aunt Buina married into the Rogers Clan.....

  • @garymayfield5995
    @garymayfield5995 2 роки тому +2

    This Movie brings back such good memories to me as when I was a kid,I was "Pooter "with the older cats that I hung around I really do missed those days

  • @mariogiresi6792
    @mariogiresi6792 7 місяців тому +1

    He’s so right. The problems were there but they’re not half as bad as they are now 50 years later. The 70s were so easy breezy and laidback. Things weren’t perfect but the quality of life was better.

  • @pinkhypehouseee4207
    @pinkhypehouseee4207 3 роки тому +8

    They are all my favorite in different ways...
    -Cooshie is the player, he had like 5 different girls in this movie 😂
    -Preach was the one that was into the streets too much and trying to fit in 🥴
    -Pooter was the one that was just trying to get a girlfriend and he is the nerdy/cringe one trying to hang with the big boys 😆
    -Tyrone was just living his best life & worrying about his girlfriend 🤣 everytime I saw him he was with his girl, lol

  • @MD-DLive
    @MD-DLive 4 роки тому +5

    Much respect to director Michael Shultz!🙏🏿💪🏿✊🏿✊🏿

  • @berleezyyy5967
    @berleezyyy5967 Рік тому +2

    Dang it says 2019 was 4 years Ago life is changing yall

  • @ahlupenya4564
    @ahlupenya4564 4 місяці тому +1

    Haywood Nelson basically played him on "What's Happening". They are both still so cute.

  • @Tokewhichu
    @Tokewhichu 4 роки тому +4

    One of my fave movies ever since I first seen it.I have the dvd now. O wow man dig,he eat just like Pooters daddy.

    • @leecosey7003
      @leecosey7003 3 роки тому

      You're under arrest for being ugly.

  • @sassyd8738
    @sassyd8738 3 роки тому +4

    The girl he asked to dance with a fool I'd danced with him not everybody was starstruck over cochise cute self lol

  • @GeminiJo
    @GeminiJo 5 років тому +5

    He was my fave 😍

  • @wandaclark5020
    @wandaclark5020 2 роки тому +4

    Hey there Pooter philadelphia loves you

  • @amram1305
    @amram1305 Рік тому +1

    Always thought that was hamburger meat. What a great movie tho. 10 thumbs up. Peace

  • @dennisbrock1435
    @dennisbrock1435 3 роки тому +4

    Man that was some bad stuff Stone & Robert had..... well it’s about time .... classic 👍

    • @muncherclay8760
      @muncherclay8760 3 роки тому +1

      Pooter would you get the Hell off the break front my mama said not to lean on the break front cause she ain’t paying for it yet. 😂😂😂😂

    • @leecosey7003
      @leecosey7003 3 роки тому

      @@muncherclay8760 you're under arrest for being ugly

    • @muncherclay8760
      @muncherclay8760 3 роки тому

      @@leecosey7003 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @adriennebraxton-oq9iu
    @adriennebraxton-oq9iu 2 місяці тому +1

    i went to see Cooley 21 times wen i was 14

  • @sharonjackson268
    @sharonjackson268 3 роки тому +2

    You were awesome 👌 in #COOLEYHIGH

  • @thomasbrown3356
    @thomasbrown3356 2 роки тому +1

    I never realized the part of Dwayne (hey-,hey-hey) on What's Happening, may have been written with Pooter in mind, but I can definitely see it, now.

  • @GarwinWayne
    @GarwinWayne 4 роки тому +4

    They need a reunion quick..I mean with all of them. RIP Norman (Robert) Gibson & Maurice (Willie) Havis

    • @wittysmitty100s
      @wittysmitty100s  4 роки тому +2

      Garwin Wayne that’s true and heard Damon died to.

    • @GarwinWayne
      @GarwinWayne 4 роки тому +1

      @@wittysmitty100s Damon? Didn't know that. I heard Tyrone was a minister. Dorothy supposedly lives outside of the ATL. Don't know about the other women... Sandra or Beverly.

    • @wittysmitty100s
      @wittysmitty100s  4 роки тому +1

      Garwin Wayne I interviewed Tyrone but the audio didn’t come out right. Yes he is a pastor and you can look up the interview on Facebook. Look up N’Digo Eye On Chi Joesph Williams Tyrone Cooley High.

  • @6time686
    @6time686 2 роки тому +5

    Who else noticed Robert Townsend in this movie?

  • @roypettigrew6453
    @roypettigrew6453 Рік тому

    He aint lying. I remember when I was made to watch cooley high. LOL Glad that happened though!

  • @davep1103
    @davep1103 3 роки тому +1

    That music is A-MAZ-ING !
    All of the vids music are Great !
    Wish I could get a copy. I’d listen to it all day.
    I’m a D.J. ! 🎧

    • @wittysmitty100s
      @wittysmitty100s  3 роки тому

      Thanks for checking bro. Man I love the love. The music I would have to check to see who it was to be honest.

    • @davep1103
      @davep1103 3 роки тому +1

      @@wittysmitty100s
      I hear ya. If you do find out, drop Me a line. Like I said, I’m a D.J. here in Chicago. I was born in ‘69. So there is NO DOUBT Cooley High is ingrained in my life. I’ve even sang
      It’s so hard to say good bye.....
      at quite a few funerals.
      ( Sorry.... Nostalgia took over. )

  • @angelrebecca9732
    @angelrebecca9732 2 роки тому +2

    Pooter is one my favorite characters.

  • @inverness662
    @inverness662 3 роки тому +3

    Pooters here and ready to jam!

  • @marcellusbearden9943
    @marcellusbearden9943 3 місяці тому +1

    Im watching it now.

  • @theoriginalskinsey
    @theoriginalskinsey 3 роки тому +2

    I love Pooter so much

  • @dereksmith6097
    @dereksmith6097 5 місяців тому +1

    For years I thought he was Haywood Nelson from What's Happening.

  • @wandaclark5020
    @wandaclark5020 2 роки тому

    My childhood was just like this movie I grew up around my 6 aunts and 4 uncles so I can relate I remember when my grandmother went to cabarets my aunts would have waistline parties I would be watching kiss 😘 and grind turn light switch on and off like a disco ball the punch 🥣 bowel they would use 😂 lol and we had a store just like that store on the corner of our house where all the teenagers would hangout and 🕺 💃 dance with the jukebox getting 🍔 burgers and fries just like that store we loved it was called Sloppy Joe's even the inside was the same happening at our story everybody says that too inmy old neighborhood glad to see your doing good contiuestaying blessed my uncle even had a bike he wished he kept till this day it rode 5 or 6 people it was so embarrassing I thought. Those wee the best times of our lives we didn't even realize it then compared to how life is now. Especially the summers playing in the water hydrants and double dutch.

  • @ccth22
    @ccth22 4 роки тому +7

    He seems to understand the business really well and chose to use it for other opportunities ...

  • @Righteous85
    @Righteous85 2 роки тому +1

    🎥 Best movie ever!!!!!!

  • @lifeworksndhenterprisesllc6597
    @lifeworksndhenterprisesllc6597 3 роки тому +1

    He's only eighteen and had a son when he played a fourteen year old boy. I saw him on Chicago live couple of weeks ago.

    • @wittysmitty100s
      @wittysmitty100s  3 роки тому

      What’s Chicago live?

    • @lifeworksndhenterprisesllc6597
      @lifeworksndhenterprisesllc6597 3 роки тому +1

      @@wittysmitty100s i guess it's on wgn- tv they come on about five or six in the afternoon. I don't care much about watch gossip so called shows. I'm from North Carolina oringinal from bronx,ny and raised in North side Chicago. I know the Cooley high scen e outside of 35th and Halstead where the diner is filmed, I was only five, I want to be I nHollywood so bad,that's why I'm hooked on the movie. I forgot the two guess o. The show. It it was the fortieth anni ersFh show a d I saw Robert, Glynn Truman everybody. I see pooter, he spoke his half.
      .

    • @lifeworksndhenterprisesllc6597
      @lifeworksndhenterprisesllc6597 3 роки тому +1

      Chicago live comes on wls-tv channel 7 five or six I'm the afternoon
      I saw the 40th anniversary of Cooley and pooter spoke through his heart

  • @BAB00215
    @BAB00215 2 роки тому +2

    Was pooter the kid that always got bad luck in the movie?

  • @elMaxx5
    @elMaxx5 4 місяці тому

    POOTER!! WHAT'S UP MAN!!!

  • @Buttapcan2
    @Buttapcan2 3 місяці тому +1

    I couldn't Figure-out why, in the Movie, Pooter was treated like an excluded little brother, BUT they were all in the same Classroom, when Coochies Character faked Pooter's Bloody Nose ❓ Did Pooty get a Double Promotion or did his friends remain a grade back ❓

  • @prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010
    @prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010 4 роки тому +2

    Dynamite 🧨!!!! 😐

  • @You-Toober
    @You-Toober 5 років тому +4

    YO!! Check out the pic @ 6:53!
    Some of the actors i recognize: Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (top center) and Cynthia Davis (near top, left).
    Nice!

  • @mikeandre9052
    @mikeandre9052 2 роки тому +3

    Don’t lean on the break front!

    • @kameshiam1674
      @kameshiam1674 7 місяців тому +2

      My mama said don't lean on the break front...she ain't paid for it yet!😂

  • @lenevee4925
    @lenevee4925 Рік тому +2

    It's so good to see Pooter! I was wondering what happened to him.

  • @funkpill
    @funkpill 4 роки тому +1

    😎

  • @ahmad.tillery.1987
    @ahmad.tillery.1987 26 днів тому

    He looks the same just older

  • @caramelkimmiekim8272
    @caramelkimmiekim8272 5 років тому +3

    🤷Damn Pooter you talked better in the movie. Yes you were 14 but You wasn't that much younger then them you 61 yrs Chochis 66 yrs as of today 10/22/2019

    • @adaniels1968
      @adaniels1968 4 роки тому +3

      exactly him getting in that stolen car and getting caught up with the consequences would have made that movie sadder

    • @cocopuff6810
      @cocopuff6810 4 роки тому

      Preach was 27 in the movie. I'm sure stone was too

    • @sassyd8738
      @sassyd8738 3 роки тому

      he looks good look well younger than his age and handsome at that

  • @cadillaccalhoun3516
    @cadillaccalhoun3516 2 роки тому +1

    What about Tyrone and Damon and stone and Robert

    • @wittysmitty100s
      @wittysmitty100s  2 роки тому

      I’ve interviewed Stone already. You can watch part 2 on this channel and part 1 on another channel. Tyrone’s audio didn’t come out right. So I took the video down on you tube. But it’s still up on Facebook. Just type I. Joseph Wilson Aka Tyrone from Cooley High and you’ll find it there.

    • @wittysmitty100s
      @wittysmitty100s  2 роки тому

      Damon pasted years ago.

    • @Radentstwo
      @Radentstwo Місяць тому

      Norman Gibson who played Robert died from a gunshot after getting robbed a year after the film.

  • @HBGoneGlobal
    @HBGoneGlobal Рік тому +1

    Too bad his career didn't last.

  • @aarmstrong110
    @aarmstrong110 8 місяців тому

    1:37 is where he fucked up 👀🤮