Great interview with Maron. Lots of neat stories about breaking into the business in the sixties writing for Lucy, Dick Van Dyke, and his first series as a showrunner, "Hey Landlord."
He also did a nice appearance with Seth Meyers around the same time. And in what fittingly turned out to be his last acting role, he played the father of Oscar Madison (Matthew Perry) on an April episode of "The Odd Couple." (Although I had to tune that one out after five lame minutes... yegods, what an enormous disappointment that show has turned out to be. He was credited as "Executive Consultant" on the series, so at least he got a steady check from it.) I saw him onstage in 2007 at the Paper Mill Playhouse, when he and his co-author Paul Williams introduced opening night at the musical version of "Happy Days." I'll be kind and say it was not their best work; the introduction, where he shouted at a supposedly dozing audience member "Wake up, it's Penny's brother!" was the best part of the night. But I'll always love him anyway for how happy he, his shows, and a bunch of lovable characters he created made me feel when I was young. On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 3:07:08 AM UTC-4, David Bruggeman wrote: > He sat down with Maron in May - > http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-703-garry-marshall-open-mike-eagle > > I know he was in his 80s, but what Kevin said. > David > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Kevin M. <[email protected] <javascript:>> > *To:* "[email protected] <javascript:>" <[email protected] > <javascript:>> > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 20, 2016 2:29 AM > *Subject:* Re: [TV orNotTV] TV Comedy Icon Garry Marshall Dies at 81 > > Nope. Sorry. Garry Marshall is not allowed to die this week. Or next week. > Or ever, really. > > Then again, if I was Garry and I'd just seen f-ing Chachi speak at the > RNC, I might be inclined to head towards the light, too. > > But in all seriousness... the freakin' Chicago Sun Times couldn't get the > details of his movies right? Come on. Burns and Denver starred in "Oh God" > in 1977; Greg Kinnear starred in Marshall's "Dear God" in 1996. > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Along with Aaron Spelling, Garry Marshall was the man who helped make Fred > Silverman make ABC a ratings contender in the 70s with "The Odd Couple," > "Happy Days," "Laverne and Shirley" and "Mork and Mindy"--attacked for > appealing to the lowest common denominator, he answered by saying that he > wanted everyone to watch and enjoy his shows and give them the best quality > production he knew how: > > http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/writer-director-garry-marshall-dies-81/ > > In the 80s, Mr. Marshall went on to make many hit movies from "Pretty > Woman" to "The Princess Diaries" and didn't return to television. > Nowadays, his shows are mostly on the digital subchannels, but the look and > feel of his shows is pretty much the look and feel of most multi-cam > sitcoms made today, not the more stagey Norman Lear look and feel. And of > course, with the exception of "The Carmichael Show," today's multi-cam > shows (especially on the kiddie channels) go for broad comedy, like most of > Mr. Marshall's hits, not social commentary and satire like Lear or the > sophistication of the MTM shows. > -- > -- > > > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
