The Odd Couple is currently running on Decades TV at 5pm eastern daily. Art Carney originated the role of Felix onstage. He was the only member of the starring cast not to make it to the film. Jack Klugman replaced Matthau in the stage production. NYC was on the verge of descending into the hellhole it became in the 70s.
Garry Marshall's birthday--Nov 13, the day Felix was asked to remove himself.
In addition to his body of work, Marshall left behind a wife he'd been married to for 53 years when he died at 81 in 2016. Perspective, humor, and commitment appear to have served him well.
Marshall was born on Nov. 13, 1934, in the Bronx in New York City and attended the borough’s DeWitt Clinton High School. He later attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he said he fell in love with the written word.
“There, I realized words mattered, and I studied journalism,” he told The Wall Street Journal earlier this year. “Though I never earned the best grades, I got the most laughs. Students wanted me to read my drafts out loud in class, since they were often funny.”
Rather than wiping his ass with others feelings, Marshall appears to have been able to use humor and emotional awareness to invite enjoyable moments of connection and release for a multitude of others.
Maybe in the long run, that all goes back to him cleaning up in a big way; however, it appears to me from notes left after his death, that people mattered if not more, than at least as much as, money, fame and power to him.
I have never really thought about Penny Marshall, figured she was a rat bastard commie due to her marriage to meathead, but what do you know - her father's name was Anthony "Tony" Masciarelli. Wops! How about that! Turns out she died years ago - something else I hadn't noticed. So there you go.
Dude, If you watch Dodger games, you see Mary Hart sitting in the 1st tow behind the plate. When she was alive, you saw Penny Marshall in the 1st row near the Dodger dugout. She was tipping the scales @ a solid 20-25 stones when she died.
I didn't know they were Wops. It can be tough to tell the difference sometimes. My old man was a Jew magnet, w/ them thinking he was a member of the Tribe. He would lay it on when he was dickering[Jewing] w/ Jew retailers. And where the fuck is ricpic?
He bailed on this site but still comments over at Instacommie, so he is still alive.
Yeah, when you read about how Ms. Marshall died you can see that there were a number of factors, including the sugar diabeetus. But since I have not made it to 75 yet I am not going to chastise her life choices.
Life is strange. While Penny Marshall's size at the end is one focus, she also had several large feats to go with her noticeably large, fat, or perhaps more kindly referred to as "big" body:
In 1988, with Big, she became the first woman in Hollywood history to direct a movie that grossed more than $100 million at the box office. Two years later, her drama Awakenings earned a Best Picture nomination. And in 1992, she topped $100 million again with A League of Their Own.
In 2009, she was diagnosed with brain and lung cancer before going into remission by 2012.
She was a very talented filmmaker. A homicide detective I had working for me grew up in Racine. He and his mom would go to those women's baseball games, depicted in League of Their Own, regularly during the war. He was in grade school and had very fond memories, the movie helping to rekindle them.
There is an Albert Brooks film called, Lost in America. There is a scene that oozes desperation where Brooks, whose wife has just gambled away their "nest egg," tries to convince Garry Marshall, playing a casino manager, to return the money. Siskel and Ebert loved the scene.
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When it was good, it was very, very good.
When it wasn't so good, it was still pretty good.
An often forgotten gem of a sitcom.
Jack Lemmon > Tony Randall. Jack Klugman was unfit to carry Walter Matthau's grease paint.
The Odd Couple is currently running on Decades TV at 5pm eastern daily.
Art Carney originated the role of Felix onstage. He was the only member of the starring cast not to make it to the film. Jack Klugman replaced Matthau in the stage production.
NYC was on the verge of descending into the hellhole it became in the 70s.
The Dude said...
Jack Lemmon > Tony Randall. Jack Klugman was unfit to carry Walter Matthau's grease paint.
Oh, God, no. Matthau hammed it up, as he so often did. Randall, Commie that he was, was Felix Unger.
I loved this show! Used to watch it in reruns on the UHF channel.
Garry Marshall's birthday--Nov 13, the day Felix was asked to remove himself.
In addition to his body of work, Marshall left behind a wife he'd been married to for 53 years when he died at 81 in 2016. Perspective, humor, and commitment appear to have served him well.
Marshall was born on Nov. 13, 1934, in the Bronx in New York City and attended the borough’s DeWitt Clinton High School. He later attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he said he fell in love with the written word.
“There, I realized words mattered, and I studied journalism,” he told The Wall Street Journal earlier this year. “Though I never earned the best grades, I got the most laughs. Students wanted me to read my drafts out loud in class, since they were often funny.”
Rather than wiping his ass with others feelings, Marshall appears to have been able to use humor and emotional awareness to invite enjoyable moments of connection and release for a multitude of others.
Maybe in the long run, that all goes back to him cleaning up in a big way; however, it appears to me from notes left after his death, that people mattered if not more, than at least as much as, money, fame and power to him.
Garry gave his sister, Penny, her start in the Odd Couple.
I have never really thought about Penny Marshall, figured she was a rat bastard commie due to her marriage to meathead, but what do you know - her father's name was Anthony "Tony" Masciarelli. Wops! How about that! Turns out she died years ago - something else I hadn't noticed. So there you go.
Dude, If you watch Dodger games, you see Mary Hart sitting in the 1st tow behind the plate. When she was alive, you saw Penny Marshall in the 1st row near the Dodger dugout. She was tipping the scales @ a solid 20-25 stones when she died.
I didn't know they were Wops. It can be tough to tell the difference sometimes. My old man was a Jew magnet, w/ them thinking he was a member of the Tribe. He would lay it on when he was dickering[Jewing] w/ Jew retailers. And where the fuck is ricpic?
He bailed on this site but still comments over at Instacommie, so he is still alive.
Yeah, when you read about how Ms. Marshall died you can see that there were a number of factors, including the sugar diabeetus. But since I have not made it to 75 yet I am not going to chastise her life choices.
Life is strange. While Penny Marshall's size at the end is one focus, she also had several large feats to go with her noticeably large, fat, or perhaps more kindly referred to as "big" body:
In 1988, with Big, she became the first woman in Hollywood history to direct a movie that grossed more than $100 million at the box office. Two years later, her drama Awakenings earned a Best Picture nomination. And in 1992, she topped $100 million again with A League of Their Own.
In 2009, she was diagnosed with brain and lung cancer before going into remission by 2012.
She was a very talented filmmaker. A homicide detective I had working for me grew up in Racine. He and his mom would go to those women's baseball games, depicted in League of Their Own, regularly during the war. He was in grade school and had very fond memories, the movie helping to rekindle them.
There is an Albert Brooks film called, Lost in America. There is a scene that oozes desperation where Brooks, whose wife has just gambled away their "nest egg," tries to convince Garry Marshall, playing a casino manager, to return the money. Siskel and Ebert loved the scene.
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