Sonny eventually got backing from Paramount to make the movie, which he decided to call Good Times. The movie is really funny. It’s kind of stupid and corny, but it’s funny. Sonny called it a “romantic comedy with songs.” The script is full of musical numbers, skits, and silly jokes. We played ourselves with a version of Sonny as a naïve singer desperate to make the two of us movie stars. He gets tricked by a scheming producer into accepting an awful script, and he and I are then seen fantasizing about the kinds of roles we’d love to play instead, from Tarzan and Jane, to a sheriff and a
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